 Greener Ottawa: Seven Free and Low-Cost Steps Ottawa Can Take to Leverage Rail Investments and Grow Healthier and Wiser
by Jeffrey Tumlin
Ottawa Planning Summit, April 2012
Typical city planning policies have contributed to car-oriented cities that threaten our health but do not eliminate the congestion problems they were designed to solve. Nelson/Nygaard presents seven steps that Ottawa, or any city, can take to grow better and smarter.
- Measure what matters. The success of a transportation network is usually thought of in terms of congestion and vehicle delay, but other measures can take into account larger goals such as economic development and health outputs. For example, Ottawa could measure person delay rather than vehicle delay, and quality of service for all modes rather than level of service for vehicles.
- Make traffic analysis work. For example, rather than relying on ITE trip generation rates, consider higher density around transit to reduce regional congestion rather than focusing on localized congestion.
- Fix the travel demand models. Consider how land use affects travel demand.
- Adopt good street design manuals such as ITE’s Context Sensitive Solutions.
- Plant trees for shade, beauty, and enjoyment. Make walking a pleasure.
- Recognize that investing in bicycle infrastructure contributes to economic development.
- Manage and price parking. Recognize that parking costs money and creates incentives to drive more. Allow market-based parking supply (eliminate minimum parking requirements) and pricing.
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 Getting Parking Right
by Jeffrey Tumlin
Metropolitan Transportation Commission, June 2012
Parking costs money, takes up space, isolates land uses, makes housing less affordable, and produces more traffic congestion by encouraging people to drive more. This presentation outlines sixteen ways to tailor parking policies to meet parking demand while reducing some of these negative effects of current policies. It also presents the case study of SF Park, a new parking policy in San Francisco that is trying to get parking right.
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 Retrofitting Streets for Transit: Rapid Bus and Light Rail Systems Experience from Santa Monica
by Jeffrey Tumlin
American Planning Association National Conference, Los Angeles, April 2012
As cities start to focus on complete streets re-design, transit is becoming an increasingly important mode to hinge together multi-modal systems. How can streets be re-designed to integrate transit? Santa Monica’s experience in planning for a new downtown transit mall, bus re-branding, and a new take on flexible street transit furniture demonstrates how this can be done efficiently, elegantly, and without costly elevated platforms.
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 Green Mobility Seven Steps: Seven Easy Steps for a Healthier, Wealthier and Sexier Future
by Jeffrey Tumlin
Urban Land Institute Daniel Rose Fellowship Conference, Chicago, April 2012
Typical city planning policies have contributed to car-oriented cities that threaten our health but do not eliminate the congestion problems they were designed to solve. Our car-orientated cities have contributed to a public health crisis with obesity, unsafe walking environments, isolation and mental health disorders amongst the most notable symptoms. How did we get here; how do we solve these problems? Nelson/Nygaard presents seven steps that cities can take to grow towards a healthier, safer, wealthier and sexier future. Do try this at home:
- Measure what matters, not just vehicle delay.
- Make traffic analysis work.
- Fix the travel demand models.
- Adopt good street design manuals.
- Plant trees for shade, beauty, and enjoyment; make walking a pleasure.
- Recognize that investing in bicycle infrastructure contributes to economic development.
- Manage and price parking.
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 From Freeways to Boulevards: Lessons from the San Francisco and Other World Cities’ Experience
by Jeffrey Tumlin
Tulane University, New Orleans, April 2012
Cities are naturally nervous about tearing down infrastructure they spent public money to build. Freeways are also thought of as major drivers of economic productivity. But what happens when freeways extend into cities? Are freeways a good use of limited urban space? The “Save us from the Freeway” San Francisco Revolt of the 1950’s and 1960’s is a case in point, offering an alternative future for developing cities. The resulting impacts of freeway removal on roadway capacity, housing availability, jobs, transit use, property values,
and social equity are unequivocal. This presentation compares major North American and Middle Eastern cities and their freeway networks to understand what transformations we can continue to make here and abroad.
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 Alive Transportation: Fitness, Safety, Community and Trust
by Jeffrey Tumlin
Gaining Ground Conference, October 2010
The science is clear: Automobile dependency makes us fat, sick, poor, angry and mistrustful, while daily walking and biking makes us fitter, smarter, more loving and more trustful. How would we design our cities if public health – physical and mental – really mattered? What can you do in your city to remove the transportation obstacles to better health?
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Campus Parking Solutions: Proven Strategies to Handle Demand
by Patrick Siegman
Presented at the Higher Education Heroes Web Conference, February 2, 2010
Campus TDM Assessing the Most Cost Effective Mix - Siegman - Download
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Parking and Transportation Cost Data for Campus TDM Course
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Legalizing Transit-Oriented Development: A 7-Point Checklist for Transit-Oriented Developers
by Patrick Siegman
Presented at the International Builders Show, Las Vegas, Nevada, January 19, 2010
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