Mr. Todd Litman was welcomed to campus the week of October 26 and 27 to share his work with a civil engineering class, partake in the Transportation Engineering Seminar Series, and host a Complete Streets Workshop. As founder and executive director of the Victoria Transport Policy Institute, his work helps expand the range of impacts and options considered in transportation decision-making, improve evaluation methods, and make specialized technical concepts accessible to a larger audience. The Victoria Transport Policy Institute is an independent research organization dedicated to developing innovative solutions to transport problems.
Over the class, seminar, and workshop, Mr. Litman covered his current research on evaluating transportation equity, including the fair and efficient share of investments in non-auto modes. He also covered active mode (walking, bicycling and e-bikes) demands and investments, smart growth policy reforms that create more compact, multimodal neighborhoods, including parking policy reforms and incentives for more compact infill development, and transportation demand management (TDM) success stories with how communities can encourage shifts from driving to non-auto modes.
He was chaperoned by Dr. Jason Hawkins, Assistant Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering, and met with Drs. Libby Jones, Aemal Khattak, Nathan Huynh, and Yunwoo Nam from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Litman, Hawkins, and Jones also met with Carlos Morales from the Metropolitan Area Planning Agency (MAPA) and Kevin Carder from the City of Omaha for an Omaha planning discussion.
