New Mobility & Accessibility Presentation

November 17, 2006
As part of the SMART/CARSS speaker series, this exciting panel presentation features work underway at the University of Illinois in Chicago on the dynamic interactions between Land Use Planning, Environmental Justice, and Industry and Economic Opportunities related to urban transport and accessibility in city regions of the world. Originally a closed meeting, this session has recently been opened to encourage interdisciplinary knowledge exchange on global urban transportation and accessibility.

Six brief yet diverse lectures will highlight a range of interacting dimensions related to emerging mobility and accessibility challenges in global regions, along with methodologies to address these challenges. Topics will include:

• The qualitative and quantitative relationships among land use, demand for mobility, and associated air pollution in rapidly developing cities in India and China

• Multi-agent modeling frameworks for evaluating various forms of government intervention that can help achieve balance between private and public transportation modes

• Applications of freight planning to address goods movement problems in  urban core areas

• Applications of systems management methods to facilitate the structuring of complex problems with numerous stakeholders and unclear goals.

• Environmental justice and equity issues in transportation, as well as economic development and employment opportunities

• Understanding urban sustainability from an industrial ecology perspective, along with policy implications