A Transportation Agenda for the Global Era

Martin Wachs Lecture || March 17, 2016 || UC Berkeley

Presented by: Catherine Ross, Georgia Tech University

The 9th annual Martin Wachs Distinguished Lecture, hosted at Berkeley, featured Catherine Ross, Professor of City and Regional Planning at Georgia Tech and an internationally recognized expert on transportation and urban planning solutions, who spoke about the challenges in maintaining and growing economic well-being in an era of new transportation modes. Ross discussed with increased capacity and greater mobility undergirding economic viability and quality of life comes congestion, increased energy consumption, air pollution, environmental damage, urban sprawl, compromised safety, damage to natural habitats, climate change and health impacts. This current dilemma and hypermobility demands a transport agenda for this global era to be set. The talk also addressed several tools and frameworks that can help meet challenges, including megaregions, which are the urban and connected areas that produce innovation and power the economy, autonomous and connected vehicles, sustainable energy sources, greater connectivity, disruptive innovation on steroids, new technology, financing critical infrastructure and sustaining our quality of life.

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