TRB 2020 + a Conversation with Congressmen Garcia and Takano

For more than a decade, I have served as a member of the Transportation Research Board’s (TRB’s) Transportation and Sustainability Committee (ADD40). During the TRB 2020 Annual Meeting, ADD40 will be holding its final series of conference meetings, workshops, and lectern sessions (see below for more information on these activities). The success of the ADD40 committee has meant the subject of sustainability will now be elevated to the Sustainability and Resilience Group (AM000), which will have a special Section on Transportation and Sustainability (AMS00). The new TRB structure can be accessed here.

During this conference, I will have the pleasure of hosting a conversation with Representatives Jesus “Chuy” Garcia (Fourth Congressional District of Illinois) and Mark Takano (41st Congressional District of California), who along with Representative Ayanna Pressley (Massachusetts 7th Congressional District) launched the Future of Transportation Caucus in 2019. During our session – entitled A Century of Progress? Reflecting on How Transportation Has or Has Not Promoted Sustainability Outcomes in Equity, the Economy, and the Environment – we will discuss the role of the new caucus and explore what can be done to advance environmental, social, and economic sustainability through transportation system development. We plan to dedicate over one half of our session to an open Q&A with conference participants.

https://annualmeeting.mytrb.org/interactiveprogram

Monday (Jan 13)

10:15 AM-12:00 PM – Climate Change, ADC70(2), Joint Subcommittee of ADC70, ADC80, ADD40
10:15 AM-12:00 PM – Lectern – Greener in More Ways Than One: Environmentally Sustainable Funding and Financing Opportunities
10:15 AM-12:00 PM – Lectern – A Century of Progress?: Reflecting on How Transportation Has or Has Not Promoted Sustainability Outcomes in Equity, the Economy, and the Environment
1:30 PM-3:15 PM – Sustainability Measurement Subcommittee, ADD40(1)
1:30 PM-3:15 PM – Lectern – Equity Reframed: Looking Back and Planning Ahead
3:45 PM-5:30 PM – Health and Transportation, ADD50(1), Joint Subcommittee of ADD50, ADD40, ADB10, ABJ30
6:00 PM-7:30 PM – Sustainability and New Transportation Technologies Conference 2020 Planning Committee
6:00 PM-7:30 PM – Transportation System Resilience to Natural Hazards and Extreme Weather 2019 Conference Planning Committee

Tuesday (Jan 14)

1:30 PM-3:15 PM – Transportation Equity, ADD50(2), Joint Subcommittee of ADD50, ADD20, ADD40, ABC10, ABE30, AP025
1:30 PM-3:15 PM – Lectern – More Mobility with Less Vehicle Miles Traveled: An Expert Panel on Ridematching in the Ridehailing Sector
1:30 PM-5:30 PM – Transportation and Sustainability Committee
3:45 PM-5:30 PM – Poster Session – Sustainability and Transportation
3:45 PM-5:30 PM – Poster Session – Innovation in Transportation Equity for the Development of More Robust Performance Metrics and Standards
3:45 PM-5:30 PM – Poster Session – Transportation Equity
3:45 PM-5:30 PM – Poster Session – Environmental Justice in Transportation Equity
6:00 PM-7:30 PM – Planning Committee for the Transportation Equity 2020 Conference
7:30 PM-9:00 PM – Risk and Resilience Caucus

Wednesday (Jan 15)

8:00 AM-9:45 AM – Lectern – Vehicle Miles Traveled Reduction as Climate Action
8:00 AM-9:45 AM – Poster Session – Health, Transportation, and Emerging Research
10:15 AM-12:00 PM – Cancelled – Sustainability Research Subcommittee, ADD40(2)

Thursday (Jan 16)