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"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.
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 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
- Congestion and its Extent
Robert Bertini, Associate Professor, Department of Civil and
Environmental Engineering and School of Urban Studies and
Planning, Portland State University
- Land Use Development and Decision Making
Rachel Weinberger, Assistant Professor, Department of City
and Regional Planning, University of Pennsylvania
- 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 School of Public Affairs,
University of
- Capacity, Operations, and Demand Strategies
Jonathan Gifford, Professor, Public Management and Policy,
George Mason University School of Public Policy
- 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
- 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
- Planning for Accessibility: In Theory and In Practice
Susan Handy, Associate Professor, Environmental Science and
Policy, University of California-Davis
- An Accessibility Framework for Evaluating Transport Policies
Frank Primerano, Research fellow, and Michael Taylor, Director,
Transport Systems Centre, University of South Australia
- 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
- Transport Funding and Justice
Dave Wetzel, Chair, The Labor Land Campaign, England
- The Calculus of Congestion Pricing
David King and Mike Manville, University of California-Los
Angeles
- 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
- Parcel-level Measure of Public Transit Accessibility to
Destinations
Brian Ho-Yin Lee, University of Washington
- 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
- 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
- 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
- The Effect of Accessibility on Mode Choice for Shopping
Trips
Sittha Jaensirisak, Department of Civil Engineering, Ubon Ratchathani
University, Thailand
- The Value of Trail Access on Home Purchases
Kevin Krizek, Associate Professor, and Paul Mogush, Humphrey School 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Access and Accessibility, Sustainable Development, and
Transport: How to Measure Efficiency in Transportation?
Udo Becker, Chair, Transport Ecology, Dresden University of
Technology, Germany
- 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 School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota
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