2023 Urbanism Next Conference

Portland, Oregon, USA

April 26-28, 2023

March 17, 2021

8:00 am

March 19, 2021

5:43 pm

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Schedule & presentations

CE Credits for APA, AIA, and ASLA, should be available for many sessions and workshops. More information on this will be available shortly.

Wednesday, Apr 26, 2023

Thursday, Apr 27, 2023

Friday, Apr 28, 2023

Registration

Location: White Stag Building outside Room 142/144

Workshop

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Infrastructure Readiness to Support Smarter Cities and Emerging Mobility Solutions (WA1)

Location: White Stag Building Room 152

Mobility Hub Experiences and Lessons Learnt – Planning, Design, Community, Mobility, and Digitization (WA2)

Location: White Stag Building Room 142/144

Workshop

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Accelerating climate action in US cities (WP1)

Location: White Stag Building Room 142/144

Data for curb management: how to get it and how to use it (WP2)

Location: White Stag Building Room 152

Finding the optimal mix of modes (WP3)

Location: White Stag Building Room 150

Reception
(a 21+ event)

Location: DLR Group: 110 SW Yamhill St., Ste. 105, Portland, OR 97204

Registration

Location: Ballroom Lobby

Welcome

Location: Ballroom (202-203)

Sucharita Kodali
Plenary Speaker
What Happened to the eCommerce Hockey Stick?

Sucharita Kodali, Analyst - Forrester

Location: Ballroom (202-203)

Break

Julia Friedlander
Plenary Speaker
Driverless Vehicle Vision & Reality: A View from San Francisco Streets

Julia Friedlander, Senior Manager: Automated Driving Policy - San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA)

Location: Ballroom (202-203)

Allanté Whitmore
Plenary Speaker
Closing the Gap: Achieving More Equitable Mobility with Autonomous Vehicles

Allanté Whitmore, Director of Autonomous Vehicle Initiative - SAFE

Location: Ballroom (202-203)

Break

90-Minute Session

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Advancing Complete Trips and Mobility Payment Integration – Findings from Research and Practice

Location: C-120

Breaking through the hype: What the future holds for autonomous vehicles in cities

Location: C-124

How to Plan a Zero Emission Delivery Zone in 60 Days

Location: C-121

Sustainable and equitable policies on emerging technologies

Location: C-122

The evolution of micromobility: building on - or what comes after - shared systems?

Location: C-125/6

Zones, Zones, and More Zones: Getting to Universal Basic Mobility and Climate Action through Zero-Emission Zones

Location: C-123

Lunch

Location: Ballroom (202-203)

David Vega-Barachowitz
Lunch Speaker
Future Proofing Design: Five Models for the Future of City Building

David Vega-Barachowitz, Associate Principal & Director of Urban Design - WXY Architecture + Urban Design

Location: Ballroom (202-203)

Break

90-Minute Session

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Community Carsharing: Advancing Equitable Access to Electric Transportation

Location: C-122

Fixed Route and Microtransit - New Data Shows What Works Where

Location: C-121

Got Change for The Bus? Mobility Wallets and the Future of Transit Fare Payment Equity

Location: C-123

Moving forward with MDS 2.0

Location: C-125/6

The Future is Now: Working Together to Integrate Autonomous Vehicles

Location: C-124

The only constant is change: Planning for an unstable future

Location: C-120

Break

90-Minute Session

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Centering equity in tech-enabled mobility pilots

Location: C-121

Do you know what this camera is doing? A panel discussion on the need for transparency on the use of digital technology in the public realm.

Location: C-125/6

Getting Real: Involving Innovation Teams in Deployments

Location: C-123

Safer Communities with Commercial Loading Zones

Location: C-120

Smart Mobility Platform for Smarter Mobility - Findings from the TriMet FTA IMI Demonstration Program

Location: C-124

Using Open Data Governance to Responsibly Scale Emerging Transportation Technologies

Location: C-122

Reception

Location: Ballroom Lobby

Registration

Location: Ballroom Lobby

Day Intro and Welcome

Nico Larco, Director - Urbanism Next Center / University of Oregon

Location: Ballroom (202-203)

Gabe Klein
Plenary Speaker
Electrifying a Multi-Modal America

Gabe Klein, Executive Director - U.S. Joint Office of Energy and Transportation

Location: Ballroom (202-203)

Ben Levine
Plenary Speaker
People-Centered Transportation Innovation

Benjamin Levine, Senior Advisor for Research and Technology - U.S. Department of Transportation

Location: Ballroom (202-203)

Break

Lucas Grindley
Plenary Speaker
Communicating Change: How the Narrative Shapes Policy

Lucas Gridley, Executive Director - Next City

Location: Ballroom (202-203)

Kim Lucas
Plenary Speaker
MaaS or Menos? The Pittsburgh Mobility as a Service Experiment

Kim Lucas, Assistant Director, Department of Mobility and Infrastructure - City of Pittsburgh

Location: Ballroom (202-203)

Break

90-Minute Session

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A New Suburbia in a post-COVID World?

Location: C-120

Freight Supply Chain Is Transforming Metro Land Use From The Inside Out

Location: C-125/6

Innovation Capacity in Cities – how cities prepare for societal challenges and uptake of emerging technologies

Location: C-121

Move Culver City: Designing and Implementing Tactical Mobility Lanes

Location: C-122

Parking Lots to Building Lots? - AVs, Parking Demand, and Impacts on Development

Location: C-124

The App-Less MaaS: Building the System of Transportation Alternatives

Location: C-123

Lunch

Location: Ballroom (202-203)

Lian Plass, Tom Sanchez and Emily Schwartz -- Lunch Discussion
ChatGPT Impacts on Planning and Development

Lian Plass, Senior Manager, Urban Resilience - Urban Land Institute, Tom Sanchez, Professor of Urban Affairs and Planning - Virginia Tech

Location: Ballroom (202-203)

Break

90-Minute Session

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HANDSHAKE: Roadblocks and successes as three agencies took a Mobility-as-a-Service project from back-of-the-napkin to first-phase production in a pandemic

Location: C-122

Next Steps for State and Local Automated Vehicle Policy: From Standards to Roadways

Location: C-124

North Bayshore in Mountain View, California – Creating a New Mixed Use, Multi-Modal Neighborhood

Location: C-120

Overcoming the data gap and building knowledge about urban freight patterns

Location: C-125/6

Structural Support for Strong Pilots

Location: C-121

The Go Hub: A Community Mobility Center

Location: C-123

Break

90-Minute Session

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Autonomy in Transit: A working model for accessible, autonomous microtransit informed by live programs in Arlington, TX and Miami, FL

Location: C-122

Cities, interrupted: harnessing the unexpected success of micromobility to help cities return from COVID-19 stronger than ever

Location: C-124

From Infrastructure To Placemaking: Making Way for Communities and Nature with Emerging Mobility Technologies

Location: C-120

Growing green transport across the delivery sector

Location: C-121

Increasing Access to Shared Mobility with Public/Private Partnerships

Location: C-123

Using gig worker data to learn about pandemic-era transportation choices.

Location: C-125/6

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