"Access to Destinations: Rethinking the Transportation Future of Our Region"

Proceedings of the November 2004 Access to Destinations Conference are available in PDF document format, and include coverage of all public sessions as well as the technical presentations.

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In November, 2004, CTS sponsored "Access to Destinations: Rethinking the Transportation Future of our Region." The conference featured a half-day of public sessions, followed by a day and a half of technical sessions for invited participants.

Several University of Minnesota colleges and organizaitons cooperated with CTS in sponsoring this conference:

• The Center for Urban and Regional Affairs
• College of Continuing Education
• Hubert Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs
• Institute of Technology

The conference was part of the University of Minnesota President's 21st Century Interdisciplinary Conference Series.

General Sessions

Welcome and Opening Remarks

Robert Johns, Director, Center for Transportation Studies, University of Minnesota
Robert Jones, Senior Vice President for System Administration, University of Minnesota

Defining the Issues

Moderator: David Levinson, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Minnesota

1. Congestion and its Extent
   Robert Bertini, Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and School of Urban Studies and Planning, Portland State University
2. Land Use Development and Decision Making
   Rachel Weinberger, Assistant Professor, Department of City and Regional Planning, University of Pennsylvania
3. Place-based versus People-based Accessibility
   Harvey J. Miller, Professor, Department of Geography, University of Utah

Policy Alternatives and Their Effectiveness

Moderator: Kevin Krizek, Associate Professor, Urban and Regional Planning, Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of

1. Capacity, Operations, and Demand Strategies
   Jonathan Gifford, Professor, Public Management and Policy, George Mason University School of Public Policy
2. The Transportation–Land Use Policy Connection
   Gerrit-Jan Knaap, Professor, Urban Studies and Planning, and Executive Director, National Center for Smart Growth Research and Education, University of Maryland
3. Accessibility Strategies
   Randall Crane, Director, Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California-Los Angeles

Implications for Practice

Moderator: Robert Johns, Director, Center for Transportation Studies

Panelists: Lance Neumann, President, Cambridge Systematics; Steve Lockwood, Vice President, PB Consult; Alan Pisarski, independent consultant

Technical Sessions

Frameworks

Moderator: Tom Scott, Director, Center for Urban and Regional Affairs, University of Minnesota

1. Planning for Accessibility: In Theory and In Practice
   Susan Handy, Associate Professor, Environmental Science and Policy, University of California-Davis
2. An Accessibility Framework for Evaluating Transport Policies
   Frank Primerano, Research fellow, and Michael Taylor, Director, Transport Systems Centre, University of South Australia
3. Accessibility and Freight:
   Transportation and Land Use–Exploring Spatial-Temporal Dimensions
   Clarence Woudsma, Associate Professor, School of Planning, University of Waterloo, Canada, and John F. Jensen, University of Calgary, Canada

Discussion: Frameworks
Ann Forsyth, Director, Metropolitan Design Center, University of Minnesota, and Jonathan Gifford, Professor, Public Management and Policy, George Mason University School of Public Policy

Finance

Moderator: Peggy Reichert, Director, Statewide Planning and Analysis, Minnesota Department of Transportation

1. Transport Funding and Justice
   Dave Wetzel, Chair, The Labor Land Campaign, England
2. The Calculus of Congestion Pricing
   David King and Mike Manville, University of California-Los Angeles
3. Potential for Rail Infrastructure Funding from Associated Land Value Uplifts in Dublin, Ireland
   James Muldowney, Legal Planning Advisor, Dublin Transportation Office, Ireland

Discussion: Finance
Randall Crane, Director, Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California-Los Angeles, and Steve Lockwood, Vice President, PB Consult

Measurements

Moderator: Gary Erickson, Assistant County Administrator, Hennepin County, Minnesota

1. Parcel-level Measure of Public Transit Accessibility to Destinations
   Brian Ho-Yin Lee, University of Washington
2. Evaluating Measures of Job-Housing Balance: Boston and Atlanta, 1980–2000
   Joseph Ferreira, Professor, and Jiawen Yang, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
3. Exploring Institutional Effects on Accessibility:
   A Qualitative Examination of Transit Planning
   Jessica Mefford, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Ohio State University, and Mark Horner, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Florida State University
4. Paving New Ground: A Markov Chain Model of the Change in Transportation Networks and Land Use
   David Levinson, Assistant Professor, and Wei Chen, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Minnesota

Discussion: Measurements
Harvey Miller, Professor, Department of Geography, University of Utah, and Lance Neumann, President, Cambridge Systematics

Behavior

Moderator: Connie Kozlak, Manager, Transportation Systems Planning, Metropolitan Council

1. The Effect of Accessibility on Mode Choice for Shopping Trips
   Sittha Jaensirisak, Department of Civil Engineering, Ubon Ratchathani University, Thailand
2. The Value of Trail Access on Home Purchases
   Kevin Krizek, Associate Professor, and Paul Mogush, Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs; David Levinson, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Minnesota

Discussion: Behavior
Gerrit-Jan Knaap, Executive Director, National Center for Smart Growth Research and Education, University of Maryland, and Alan Pisarski, Independent Consultant

Models

Moderator: Mark Filipi, Transportation Forecast Analyst, Twin Cities Metropolitan Council

1. Accessibility and Spatial Development in Switzerland During the Last 50 Years
   Martin Tschopp, Philip Fršhlich, and Kay Axhausen, Professor, Institute for Transport Planning and Systems, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
2. Accessibility in the LUCI2 Urban Simulation Model and the Importance of Accessibility for Urban Development
   John Ottensmann, Associate Director, Center for Urban Policy, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis
3. Modeling Accessibility in Urban Transportation Networks: A Graph-Based Hierarchical Approach
   Ahmed Abdel-Rahim, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Idaho, and Ayman Ismail, College of Engineering, Ohio State University

Discussion: Models
Robert Bertini, Associate Professor, School of Urban Studies and Planning, Portland State University, and Susan Handy, Associate Professor, Environmental Science and Policy, University of California-Davis

Sustainability

Moderator: Lance Neckar, Associate Dean, Department of Landscape Architecture, University of Minnesota

1. A Complex Systems Approach to Sustainable Accessibility: The University of Michigan "SMART" Project
   Thomas Gladwin, Professor, School of Natural Resources and Environment, Douglas Kelbaugh, Professor, College of Architecture and Urban Planning, and Carl Simon, Professor, School of Public Policy, University of Michigan; and John Sullivan, Ford Motor Research and Advanced Engineering
2. Access and Accessibility, Sustainable Development, and Transport: How to Measure Efficiency in Transportation?
   Udo Becker, Chair, Transport Ecology, Dresden University of Technology, Germany
3. Can We Plan to Reduce Traffic Congestion? Transportation Concurrency in Florida and Washington State
   Ruth Steiner, Associate Professor, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Florida

Discussion: Sustainability
Rachel Weinberger, Assistant Professor, City and Regional Planning, University of Pennsylvania, Barbara Lukermann, Senior Fellow, Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota