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Alison Conway presents “Freight and Complete Streets: Moving Goods in Shared Urban Space”
November 6, 2020 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
The Smart Freight Centre Leadership Series presents special guest speaker Professor Alison Conway of the City College of New York on Friday, November 6, 2020 at 11:00 a.m. EST.
All are welcome to attend this free webinar. Register here on Eventbrite.
Description
Often, freight operations are overlooked or explicitly de-prioritized in the early stages of Complete Streets planning and development.
When freight vehicle navigation and curbside operations are not properly accounted for, implementation of street design changes may result in counterproductive traffic and environmental effects, dangerous and unexpected conflicts – particularly with non-motorized travelers, project delays, and even expensive redesigns.
Recognizing a need for better understanding of freight activity at the planning and design stages of Complete Streets projects, researchers in the City College of New York’s Grove School of Engineering and Spitzer School of Architecture in collaboration with the New York City Department of Transportation aimed to develop a comprehensive guidebook that provides (1) an introduction to freight operations on Complete Streets and (2) a detailed summary of proactive strategies to enable safe and efficient goods movement on shared streets while minimizing negative externalities.
Results from a survey of 10 medium to very large sized US cities identified seven common challenges which can generally be classified into three categories: developing appropriate design criteria; designing streets for commercial vehicle navigation; and providing adequate access for delivery and pickup activity at the curbside and off-street.
This presentation will discuss the specific challenges identified, as well as the design, operational, regulatory, and demand-management approaches implemented in cities around the world to address these issues.
About the speaker
Alison Conway is a Herbert G. Kayser Associate Professor of Civil Engineering at the City College of New York. She is also a member of the research team for MetroFreight, a Volvo Research and Education Foundations Center of Excellence in Urban Freight.
At CCNY, Dr. Conway teaches courses is transportation planning, transportation systems engineering, urban freight and city logistics, and urban street design, and she conducts research primarily in the areas of urban freight and city logistics, freight data, and multi-modal interactions in the urban environment.
Dr. Conway currently serves as Chair of the Transportation Research Board’s (TRB’s) Freight Data Committee, Chair of the ASCE Transportation and Development Institute’s (T&DI) Freight and Logistics Committee, and as a member of TRB’s Urban Freight Committee. She is also a member of the New York City Department of Transportation’s Freight Advisory Committee and of the American Transportation Research Institute’s Research Advisory Committee.