Quick-Build Safety Countermeasures and their Impacts

Description

This webinar is led by ITE Vision Zero Committee.

To learn how to register and see more information about the webinar including PDH credit certificate fees, please view the webinar course page here.

Webinar Description:
Quick Build Safety Projects provide an early opportunity for communities to design context sensitive designs and configurations with low-cost in a short period of time. Additionally, quick build or tactical urbanism projects provide a meaningful way to engage, educate, and encourage people to try and evaluate new roadway designs, and incorporate user feedback for changes and improvements before a more permanent infrastructure project is constructed. Quick Build projects help to accelerate Complete Streets initiatives through rapid installation using less permanent, lower cost, and pre-approved materials that can be more easily removed or replaced and laying the groundwork for more streamlined processes for project delivery.

The purpose of this webinar is to broaden professional understanding of quick build and tactical urbanism demonstration projects, their impacts and the associated opportunities and challenges with implementation and maintenance. Speakers will highlight quick build and demonstration project implementation experiences including planning, implementation, and evaluation strategies and other lessons learned through their efforts.

Learning Objectives:

Gain a better understanding of a Quick Build and/or Tactical Urbanism project/installation
Gain insight into noteworthy practices of Quick Build installations in various US states/cities.
Identify potential benefits to safety and the associated challenges with respect to maintenance and implementation.

Policies: Registration closes 30 minutes prior to start. The webinar recording will be made available on-demand it will have a shelf life of 60 days to register before it is archived. Participants are able to purchase and retrieve their PDH credit certificate until their access to the content expires. After the content expires and goes into archive, the PDH credit certificate opportunity is forfeited.

Contributors

Moderator: Sandeep Aysola, PTP, Director of Transportation, Traffic and Parking | City of New Haven | New Haven, CT, United States

Mr. Aysola serves as the Director of Transportation, Traffic and Parking for the City of New Haven, CT. Prior to his position with the city, he worked for 18 years in senior consulting roles at various firms leading and directing Transportation planning and Traffic engineering projects. He has extensive Project management and delivery experience with technical expertise in planning, prioritizing, and implementing projects related to Corridor planning, Traffic Operations, Strategic highway planning, Active Transportation planning and Highway financing. Mr. Aysola holds graduate degrees in Environmental management and Civil Engineering from the Yale University and the University of Virginia, respectively. He is a certified Project Manager Professional (PMP), Professional Transportation Planner (PTP) and Roadway Safety Professional (RSP1). He is an active member of the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE), American Planning Association (APA) and Transportation Research Board (TRB). He currently serves as Chair of ITE’s Vision Zero Standing Committee and previously also served as a member of TRB’s Highway Capacity and Quality of Service (AHB 40) sub-committee.
Mike Lydon, Principal/ Co-founder | Street Plans | New York, NY, United States

Mike Lydon is a Principal and Co-Founder of Street Plans, leading the firm’s New York City office. Mike is an internationally sought after planner, author, speaker, and designer of livable cities. Mike has lead more than 100 temporary and permanent street redesign projects across the United States and delivered more than 300 keynotes, workshops, trainings, and lectures, exerting a global influence on how people think about transforming the public realm. Mike is the creator of the The Open Streets Project and the globally acclaimed Tactical Urbanism: Short-Term Action, Long-Term Change Vol. 1 – 5. With Tony Garcia, Mike is the recipient of the 2017 Seaside Prize and co-author of Tactical Urbanism (Island Press, 2015), named by Planetizen as one of the top planning books of the past decade. Mike collaborated with Andres Duany and Jeff Speck in writing The Smart Growth Manual (McGraw-Hill, 2009). A founding member of the New England Chapter of the Congress for the New Urbanism, a Board Member for CNU New York, and a steering committee member of the Next Generation of New Urbanists, he remains active in both local and national planning, design, and smart growth advocacy issues. He lectures frequently and leads workshops and trainings on the topics of smart growth, tactical urbanism, public space,and complete streets/active transportation.
Dee Neslon, Deputy Director, Geometric Standards & Design Policy | NYC DOT | New York, NY, United States

Dee is a designer/project manager/civil servant working to instill faith in government with public realm improvements that make sense, look pretty, and improve day-to-day life. He has spent the last 9 years at NYC DOT working on unique design solutions for the city's rollout of protected bike lanes, bike blvds, and shared spaces including successfully converting many pandemic-era Open Streets into permanent shared streets, plazas,and bike boulevards.

Description

Contributors

Moderator: Sandeep Aysola, PTP, Director of Transportation, Traffic and Parking | City of New Haven | New Haven, CT, United States

Mike Lydon, Principal/ Co-founder | Street Plans | New York, NY, United States

Dee Neslon, Deputy Director, Geometric Standards & Design Policy | NYC DOT | New York, NY, United States