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Past events
Natural Gas Drilling: Regional Economic Opportunities and Infrastructure Challenges
August 4, 2010 - With support from the Federal Highway Administration, the NADO Research Foundation hosted a webinar to examine the natural gas drilling boom in the Marcellus shale formation in Pennsylvania from the perspective of two regional planning and development organizations that are at the heart of the drilling boom.
Speakers:
- Rick Biery, Regional Planning Program Manager, Northern Tier Regional Planning and Development Commission and RPO
- Jeff Stover, Executive Director, SEDA-Council of Governments Joint Rail Authority
The presentations provided in this webinar are available for download here as a PDF document.
A recording of the webinar is available here (WMV, large file). To view the video, Windows Media Player (available as a free download here) must be installed on your computer.
This webinar was offered through the NADO Research Foundation's Center for Transportation Advancement and Regional Development, under a cooperative agreement with the Federal Highway Administration.
This webinar has been approved for 1.5 AICP CM credits.
For more background on this topic, access the NADO Research Foundation's recent issue brief: Natural Gas Drilling in the Marcellus Shale: Regional Economic Opportunities and Infrastructure Challenges (PDF).
Addressing Transportation Safety through Road Safety Audits
June 9, 2010 - With support from the Federal Highway Administration, the NADO Research Foundation hosted a webinar on Road Safety Audits and incorporating safety into planning. A Road Safety Audit or Road Safety Assessment (RSA) is an examination of an existing or future road or intersection by a multidisciplinary team. It qualitatively estimates and reports on potential road safety issues and identifies opportunities for improvements in safety for all road users. With over half of traffic fatalities in the U.S. occurring on rural roads, rural and small metropolitan regions are positioned to benefit from RSAs in improving their transportation network and identifying projects that may qualify for federal safety funds.
Experts working in a rural regional planning commission, a metropolitan planning commission that includes both rural and urban areas, and the Federal Highway Administration explained how to identify members of an RSA team, conduct the RSA, and use the findings to recommend safety improvements.
Speakers included:
- Rosemarie Anderson, Transportation Specialist for the Federal Highway Administration Office of Safety
- Chuck Wise, Senior Transportation Planner for the Two Rivers-Ottauquechee Regional Commission, Woodstock, Vermont
- Keith Nichols, Senior Transportation Engineer for the Hampton Roads Planning District Commission, Chesapeake, Virginia
The presentations provided in this webinar are available for download here as a PDF document.
A recording of the webinar is available here (WMV, large file). To view the video, Windows Media Player (available as a free download here) must be installed on your computer.
Additional resources for conducing RSAs are available through the Federal Highway Administration's Office of Safety here.
This webinar was offered through the NADO Research Foundation's Center for Transportation Advancement and Regional Development, under a cooperative agreement with the Federal Highway Administration, and was organized with assistance from the FHWA Safety Program.
This webinar has been approved for 1.5 AICP CM credits.
Metropolitan and Rural Transportation Planning: Case Studies for Regional Collaboration
March 31, 2010 - This webinar offered case studies of metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs) and rural transportation planning organizations (RPOs) that are working together to identify creative solutions across transportation planning boundaries. The webinar was approved for 1.5 AICP CM credits.
Webinar presentations:
- Northwest Vermont Project and Regional Planning Partnerships (PDF)
Michele Boomhower, Executive Director of the Chittenden County MPO, Burlington, Vermont - Heartland Highway Corridor Study and Implementation (PDF)
DRAFT Access Management Agreement (PDF, large file)
Zach James, Transportation Planner for the Southeast Iowa Regional Planning Commission, Burlington, Iowa - Co-locating an RPO and MPO: Organizational Capacity Benefits (PDF, large file)
Shawn Seager, Senior Transportation Planner for the Mountainland Association of Governments, Orem, Utah
A recording of the webinar is available here (WMV, large file). To view the video, Windows Media Player (available as a free download here) must be installed on your computer.
For more information on planning agency collaborations, view the NADO Research Foundation and AMPO report Metropolitan and Rural Transportation Planning: Case Studies and Checklists for Regional Collaboration or view the Resource Library page on Rural and Urban Collaboration.
NADO and AMPO Offer Climate Change Webinar
May 21, 2009 - The webinar “Climate Change Is Heating Up: The Latest Information and Resources for Transportation Planning Agencies in Rural, Small- and Medium-sized Regions” was jointly sponsored by the NADO Reserach Foundation and Association of Metropolitan Planning Organizations (AMPO). The webinar was approved for 1.5 AICP Certification Maintenance credits.
- Watch the webinar
- View the presentation slides (PDF)
- Find additional climate change and transportation resources
The webinar featured a joint presentation by Cindy Burbank, National Planning and Environment Practice Leader for PB Americas, and Harrison Rue, Principal for ICF International. Burbank and Rue provided an overview of climate change information and its relationship to transportation planning, discussed potential regulatory and legislative issues, economic impacts and prospects for addressing climate change, opportunities to adapt to and mitigate climate change, and provided additional information and funding resources.
