Cities21 Presentations / Events / Advocacy

2010

• FutureCars Conference, May - date TBD, San Jose. Topic: PRT.

• Technology and Society Committee (TASC) luncheon, Feb. 9. Topic: "PRT for Mountain View." 11:45 AM to 1:00 PM at the Hangen Szechuan restaurant at 134 Castro Street in Downtown Mountain View.

• Transportation Research Board Conference, Washington DC, Jan 12. Topic: "San Francisco to Silicon Valley Instant Ridesharing with Transfer Hub," paper link.

• Transportation Research Board Conference, Washington DC, Jan 12. Topic: "Efficient Edge Cities of the Future," paper link. PPT: http://www.cities21.org/cms/TRB_eff_Cities21_small.ppt (1.7MB).

2009

• Minnesota Department of Transportation, PRT Symposium, Rochester, MN. November 17, 2009

• State of the San Francisco Bay Estuary Environmental Conference (http://sfep.abag.ca.gov/soe/soe_index.html), Oakland, September 29. Poster Session: "Overcoming the Tragedy of the Commons via Persuasive, Educational Surveys," Description. PowerPoint (2.6MB)

• City of Mountain View Council Transportation Commission Meeting, September 16. Topic: PRT for Mountain View. http://www.ultraprt.com/mvprtgoogle.htm

• SPUR Panel/Forum: San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association, San Francisco. Sept. 1, 12:30PM. Topic: Fixing the Burbs, Job Sprawl, office parks, greener commuting, and individual behavior change. Description , PowerPoint (2.6MB)

• PRT for Perimeter Center Luncheon, Atlanta. June 3. http://www.ultraprt.com/PRT_PerimeterEvent.htm.

• APM 2009 (http://content.asce.org/conferences/apm2009/index.html), Atlanta. June 1-3. Topic: Hacienda Biz Park PRT.

• Stanford Urban Studies Urban Professions Seminar. April 22 (Earth Day) 9:00 to 10:30 am.

• UC Davis Institute for Transportation Studies, April 17. Topics: "Less Draconian Driving Pricing" and "Instant Ridesharing: Hope Amidst 15 Failed Pilots." http://www.its.ucdavis.edu/events/seminarseries/index.php

• Green Technology Conference, Sacramento, March 17, http://www.green-technology.org/gcsummit/index.html. Conference track: Transportation in the Era of Climate Change. Topic: 200 MPG Electric PRT Transit.

• Carbon Free PRT Mobility Conference, Oakland, March 6. http://www.advancedtransit.net/content/carbon-free-mobility. Topic: "PRT Last Mile Solutions for Alameda Point, San Jose Airport, and Pleasanton's Hacienda Business Park."

• Transportation Research Board Conference, Committee on Emerging and Innovative Public Transport and Technologies (AP020), Washington DC, Jan 12. Topic: Instant/Dynamic Ridesharing Industry Status Report. PPT:  http://www.cities21.org/instant_carpooling_TRB.ppt.

• Transportation Research Board Conference, Transportation Demand Management Committee (trip reduction), Washington DC, Jan 14. Topic: $2 Daily Workplace Parking Charge + $4 Cashout. Paper: http://www.cities21.org/TRB_Paid_Parking.pdf.

2008

• U.C. Berkeley, Guest Lecture, Robert Cervero's (author: The Transit Metropolis) City Planning 213 Transportation & Land Use Planning Course, Nov 26. Topics: Efficient Cities of the Future, Instant Ridesharing. 

• Carnegie-Mellon University West (Mountain View, CA). Guest Lecture, graduate Project Management Class (class project was Dynamic Ridesharing), Nov 25. Topic: Instant Ridesharing.

• Rochester, Michigan, Peak Oil Conference entitled Plan C: Individual and Community Survival Strategies for the Energy Crisis. Conference is organized by the Community Solutions non-profit: http://www.communitysolution.org/conference.html. Given that this was a Peak Oil conference, it was only fitting that Cities21 presented remotely from Palo Alto, using GoToMeeting webcast technology to save four tons of CO2 compared to presenting in person. Topic: Instant Ridesharing.

• Carnegie-Mellon University West (Mountain View, CA) Dynamic Ridesharing Symposium. July 2. Topic: Instant Ridesharing.

• Palo Alto Kiwanis: (http://div34pakc.thewebsecretary.net/).  Thurs May 8, 12 noon. Topic: Efficient Cities of the Future

• TransitCamp Bay Area Bar Camp: http://barcamp.org/TransitCampBayArea .  Sat Feb 23, 3PM. Topic: Efficient Palo Alto of the Future

• Transportation Research Board Conference, Advanced Transit Association Meeting, Washington DC, Jan 12. Topic: ULTra PRT Update.  See http://www.ultraprt.com/heathrow.htm . 

2007

• U.C. Berkeley, November 7, Guest Lecture, Robert Cervero's CP213 Transportation & Land Use Planning Course. Topic: Efficient Cities of the Future

• State of the SF Bay Estuary Conference, October 18. http://sfep.abag.ca.gov/sfep.html.  Topic: "Efficient Cities: Easy on the C02 and H20."  PowerPoint

• Housing California Conference, Sacramento, April 23-25.  http://www.housingca.org/events/annual-conference.  Topic: Traffic Reducing Housing 

• TALC Summit.  March 24.  "Make your cool city Super Cool (unlike Palo Alto)."  PowerPoint.  Guest Opinion on Housing - Warming . 

• Transportation Research Board Conference, Washington D.C., Jan 23.  Paper: Major Activity Center PRT Circulator Design: Hacienda Business Park - 4.4MB.  TRB PPT, 7MB.

2006

• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Pacific Southwest Regional Science Council, Tues Dec 19, 11AM, EPA Region 9, 75 Hawthorne Street, San Francisco.  Topic: EPA Collaborative Sustainability Transforming Office Parks into Transit Villages Study.  5MB PPT: http://www.cities21.org/Region9scienceCities21.ppt  

• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Collaborative Science and Technology Network for Sustainability (CNS) - Progress Review Workshop, December 5-6, Washington, DC.  Topic: EPA CNS Transforming Office Parks into Transit Villages Study.  

• Advanced Transit Association's Stepping to Smarter Mobility Conference, Nov 17-18, Santa Cruz. Topic: EPA Collaborative Sustainability Transforming Office Parks into Transit Villages Study.  

• U.S. Green Building Council's Greenbuild Expo, Denver, November 16, Session #405 10:30AM, "What's Next." Cities21 is the "invited visionary speaker on transit innovations and technologies of the future." Topic: Efficient Suburbs of the Future, 2.6MB PPT: http://www.cities21.org/R1030aS.Raney.ppt

• Pasadena Art Center College of Design, Advanced Mobility Research Center, October 24, 7PM, Ahmanson Auditorium, Topic: Efficient Cities of the Future 

• California Chapter American Planning Association Annual Conference, October 23, Orange County.  Topic: Traffic Reducing Housing And Upward Mobility 

• Sierra Club, Loma Prieta Chapter, Land Use Committee meeting, July 19, Palo Alto.  Topic: Traffic Reducing Housing And Upward Mobility 

• California State University, East Bay, China America Business and Education Center, Tianjin Municipal Government City Planning Program, March 14-20.

• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Seattle Region 10, Feb 16, Event Page: Efficient Suburbs of the Future.

• U.C. Davis Institute of Transportation Studies Seminar Series, Feb 3, Topic: "Efficient Cities of the Future." PowerPoints and fact checking: presentation.

2005

• U.C. Berkeley, November 28, Guest Lecture, Robert Cervero's Transportation & Land Use Planning course. Topic: "Efficient Cities of the Future." PowerPoints and fact checking: presentation.

• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, San Francisco Region 9, Socio-Economic Causes and Consequences of Future Environmental Changes, November 16.

• ITS (Intelligent Transportation Systems) World Congress, November 8, San Francisco. Topic: "Paid Automated Smart Parking Design for a Large Office Park." Paper (MS Word).

• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Collaborative Science and Technology Network for Sustainability (CNS) - Progress Review Workshop, October 18, Arlington, VA.

• Engineers for a Sustainable World Annual Conference, October 5-9, 2005 Austin, TX. Topic: "Efficient Cities of the Future."

• USC School of Policy, Planning, and Development, September 19, Guest Lecture in Course on Institutional and Policy Issues in Transportation, taught by Genevieve Giuliano, Director, METRANS Transportation Center. Topic: "Efficient Cities of the Future." PowerPoints and fact checking: presentation.

• Association for Commuter Transportation (ACT) International Conference, Anaheim, CA. September 19-20. Two papers: "Paid Automated Smart Parking Design for a Large Office Park (paper)," and "Digital Hitchhiking (paper)."

• Rail~Volution, September 8-11, Salt Lake City, Utah. "Topic: Local Workforce Housing Preference."

• Association for Commuter Transportation (ACT) TMA Summit, Minneapolis, MN. May 16. Topic: "Network Transit for Edina, MN" (10MB Word doc: paper).

• Cascadia Center's Personal Rapid Transit Symposium, May 11, Seattle, 4PM. Speaker: David Maymudes.

• APM Conference, Jeral Poskey, multiple presentations on PRT.

• Cascadia Center's Breaking Gridlock with Technology Conference, Feb 24, Seattle. Paper: PRT for Bellevue & Redmond. Paper: Digital Hitchhiking.

• Seattle Public Radio, "The Conversation," KUOW, 1/27/05. David Maymudes on PRT, Steve Raney on Digital Hitchhiking..

• Transportation Research Board Conference, Washington D.C., January. (Papers: Silver Bullet methodology, Morgantown)

2004

• Seattle, WA: Nov 18, AM Radio 710, ABC affiliate KIRO, The Dori Monson Show. Topic: Digital Hitchhiking.

• Bellevue, WA: Nov. 18, Eastside Transportation Choices Coalition meeting, Bellevue Library, 6PM. Topic: Digital Hitchhiking.

• U. WA, Seattle: Nov. 18, Noon, Praxis Lecture Series (architecture, urban design, and planning). Architecture Hall 202. Click to view the event flier. Topic: Silver Bullet.

• U.C. Berkeley, October 6, Guest Lecture, Robert Cervero's Transportation & Land Use Planning course. 10MB PowerPoint Pres. Topics: Silver Bullet & Digital Hitchhiking.

• City of Palo Alto Planning Commission, September 29 (Was originally scheduled for June 30). City of Palo Alto meeting calendar / agendas. Our background memo to the Commission. Make your grass roots voice heard!. Topic: Silver Bullet.

• Going Conference, September 10, Boulder, CO. http://www.goingconference.com Topics: Digital Hitchhiking, Silver Bullet.

• WS DOT Public Transportation Conference, Yakima, WA, August 23-25. http://www.wstip.org/wsdot2004/pt_2004.htm. Topics: Digital Hitchhiking, Silver Bullet.

• Advanced Transit Association (ATRA) Seattle Mid-Year Conference. May 14. www.advancedtransit.org Topic: Silver Bullet.

• Association for Commuter Transportation Western Regional Conference. April 22. http://tmi.cob.fsu.edu/act/ Topic: Silver Bullet.

• Bay Area Clean Air Partnership (BayCap) Shuttle Group, March. Topic: Silver Bullet.

• Transportation Research Board Conference, Washington D.C., January. (Silver Bullet concept paper: Link.)

2003

• U.C. Davis IGERT National Science Foundation Transporation Conference, June. Topic: Silver Bullet.

• Palo Alto Planning and Transportation Committee, March. (Commute shed only).

• Transporation Research Board Conference, Washington D.C., January. Cities21 made seven presentations.

2002

• U.C. Davis Transportation Seminar, March.

2001:

• U.C. Berkeley American Society of Civil Engineers presentation, October. Topic: Silver Bullet.

• Mid-Peninsula Commute Forum, July.

• Technology and Society Committee (TASC) luncheon speaker series. Feb 20. For more information about TASC, contact: Robert.Kirby@add.ssw.abbott.com. Topic: Silver Bullet.

• Transportation and Land Use Coalition, Jan 23. http://www.transcoalition.org Topic: Silver Bullet.

• City of Palo Alto Transportation Division Brown Bag Presentation, Jan 12. Topic: Silver Bullet.

• Citizens for Personal Rapid Transit / Modern Transit Society, Santa Cruz, Jan 11. For more information, contact CPRT: davndors@mail.cruzio.com. Topic: Silver Bullet.

Small group presentations were made from 2001-2004 to the following:

• Constituents: Barron Park (Will Beckett), Bern Beecham (Palo Alto Mayor), Yoriko Kishimoto (Palo Alto City Council), College Terrace (Pria Graves, John Ciccarelli), Gary Fazzino, Joe Simitian's staff, Joint Venture Silicon Valley, Ken Bukowski (Emeryville City Council), Stanford, SVMG, Stanford Research Park companies (Roche, EPRI, SAP, Loral, HP, Daimler Chrysler).

• Agencies: Bay Area Clean Air Partnership (BayCap) Clean Air Shuttle Group, BART, Caltrans, City of Bellevue staff, City of Emeryville staff, City of Palo Alto staff, Emeryville Transportation Management Association, Environmental Protection Agency's Best Workplaces for Commuters, Mineta Transportation Institute, MTC, Peninsula Traffic Congestion Relief Alliance, RIDES, San Jose Redevelopment Agency, University of California PATH & CCIT, University of California Transportation Center, VTA.

• Consultants: Calthorpe Associates, Cambridge Systematics, Lea+Elliott, McGann Parking Software, Mogavero Notestine Associates,
  Nelson Nygaard Associates.

• Advocates: California Affordable Housing Law Project, TALC, BayRail Alliance, SaveSFBay, California Futures Network, STIR project

• Real-estate interests: Hacienda Business Park Owners Association, Mission West real-estate development, Palo Alto Housing Corporation, Stanford Management Company, ULI.

• Other: Buspool.org, Irvine Foundation, NextBus, Packard Foundation