Webinar Archive 2025
Wednesday, May 14th, 2025 at Noon MDT / 2pm EDT
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When Driving Is Not an Option: Community Access for Nondrivers​
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One-third of people living in the United States do not have a driver license. The majority of involuntary nondrivers are disabled, lower income, unhoused, formerly incarcerated, undocumented immigrants, kids, young people, and the elderly. They are also largely invisible due to a mobility system designed almost exclusively for drivers. When Driving is Not an Option shines a light on the reality for nondrivers and explains how improving our transportation system with nondrivers in mind will create a better quality of life for everyone.
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2025 at Noon MDT / 2pm EDT
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What's New in the NACTO and AASHTO Bike Guide Updates?​
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Earlier this year, NACTO released the Urban Bikeway Design Guide, Third Edition. This new edition includes more detailed technical guidance than previous editions and adds new guidance on policy, planning, and project development to ensure connected bikeable streets become standard practice. In this webinar, Cary Bearn, Senior Manager of Multimodal Design and Programs at NACTO, will share highlights from the guide demonstrating how the principles of All Ages & Abilities design translate into technical facility and intersection guidance.
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The 2024 AASHTO Guide for the Development of Bicycle Facilities (AASHTO Bike Guide) presents a significant shift in designing streets for bicyclists of all ages and abilities. It emphasizes the need to plan connected bicycle networks and provides the design tools needed to implement those plans. Jeremy Chrzan from Toole Design (authors of the guide) will discuss key differences from the previous 2012 edition, and provide a high level overview of the guide's content, including the design of separated bike lanes and intersection design principles.
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AASHTO Slides (pdf)
NACTO Slides (pdf)
Wednesday, March 26th, 2025 at Noon MDT / 2pm EDT
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Edge Lane Roads – U.S. Experience and Future Directions​
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With decades of use in many other countries, the U.S. and Canada are new to the edge lane road (ELR) treatment. Despite proven safety in the U.S., discussions of ELRs are still dominated by concern and questions about the treatment. These questions center on perceived and actual safety, the new crash modification factor for ELRs, the new AASHTO guidance, traffic calming impact, etc. Little known is the safety benefit of ELRs for drivers even where no VRUs are expected – indeed, this use may save more lives than its use as a facility for vulnerable road users.
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Michael Williams will present on safety benefits, the regulatory status of ELRs, ongoing U.S. research, non-intuitive research findings, best practices, and future directions for the treatment.
Slides are not available for this webinar.
Tuesday, March 18th, 2025 at Noon MDT / 2pm EDT
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The Human Case for Fewer Cars in Our Lives​​
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In the planning field, little attention is given to the effects a “low-car” city can have on the human experience at a psychological and sociological level. Studies are beginning to surface that indicate the impact that external factors—such as sound—can have on our stress and anxiety levels, or how the systematic dismantling of freedom and autonomy for children and the elderly to travel through their cities is causing isolation and dependency.
Learn from Melissa and Chris Bruntlett why these investments in improving the built environment are about more than just getting from place to place more easily and comfortably. It also involves helping decision makers and advocates better understand and communicate the human impacts of low-car cities: lower anxiety and stress, increased independence, social autonomy, inclusion, and improved mental and physical wellbeing.
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Bruntlett Slides (pdf)
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Wednesday, February 5th, 2025 at Noon MST / 2pm EST
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Vehicle Design and Pedestrian Safety
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Pedestrian fatalities in the U.S. have surged by 83% since 2009, far outpacing other traffic fatalities and coinciding with the rise of larger vehicle sales. How much of this harm can be attributed to these vehicles?
Join Dr. Chris Cherry (Associate Director of CPBS), Saurav Parajuli (PhD candidate at University of Tennessee Knoxville), and Dr. Nick Ferenchak (Center Director of CPBS) for an in-depth exploration of how vehicle attributes like weight, size, and age influence pedestrian injury outcomes. Drawing on their analyses of single-vehicle pedestrian crashes in Tennessee and Texas from 2009 to 2024, they’ll discuss key trends and insights. Explore the future of pedestrian safety as vehicle weight and size continue to grow, with considerations for the influence of vehicle age.
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Vehicle Design UNM (pdf)
Vehicle Design UTK (pdf)
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