AICP CERTIFICATION MAINTENANCE
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2012 TPD CM Webinar Series - All Free! (Updated on 3/6/2012)
Earn 1.5 CM credits by attending a TPD webinar, in partnership with the APA Utah Chapter.
Planning for the movement of goods through local communities depends upon a complex set of interactions involving public stakeholders at different levels of government and private stakeholders with both local and global interests. This webinar provides an overview of logistics, the supply chain,and the various components and functions involved in getting goods from origin to the final customer. We’ll show how freight enters the port complex, and the processes involved getting goods the point of consumption. The discussion includes key trends in the goods movement arena and the challengesthat these trends pose to the planner. These challenges include capacity constraints, environmental pressures, system security, and lack of financing for needed improvements. View the presentation:
- Planning for Goods Movement: Players, Trends and Challenges (Part I)
- Planning for Goods Movement: Players, Trends and Challenges (Part II)
- Planning for Ports
(*** Please note, CM credit is only available for attending the live webinar ***)
Genentech's employee transportation program, gRide, provides employees with flexible and convenient services and incentives designed to support commuting by other modes than driving alone. The multifaceted program includes cash incentives, a BikeShare program and a fleet of over 50 motor coach and intra-campus shuttles. Last year the gRide program eliminated over 20 million vehicle miles traveled on San Francisco Bay Area's roadways and over 14 million pounds of CO2 from the atmosphere. In addition to reducing VMT and GHG emissions, the program has significantly reduced employees' time, money and stress spent on commuting. This session will inform the APA community of how the program has progressed from its initiation with the Master Plan approval in 2006 to today's success in reducing the employee drive-alone rate.
Please register here: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/424543610
Date & Time June 15, 2012 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM EST
The purpose of the webinar will be to orient planners to the issues of environmental justice as they relate specifically to freight operations and freight infrastructure, including air and sea ports, railroads, intermodal facilities, inland warehouse and distribution centers, and the roads and bridges that serve them. To help planners understand and address community concerns, presenters will discuss the origins and current status of federal environmental justice policy and offer infrastructure case studies from the Chicago area and Southern California.
Speaker Bios
Kate Quinn, FHWA – Overview of EJ and freight issues, federal EJ policy and current directives
David Chandler, Principal Business Analyst, Center for Neighborhood Technology
David Chandler joined the Center for Neighborhood Technology (CNT) in 1994. Previously he had been the Director of Research and Planning and a senior consultant for Francorp, Inc., a firm specializing in franchise development and consulting. During eleven years at Francorp, Mr. Chandler supervised or executed the planning of 150 franchise companies’ expansion programs. Among his clients were Hershey Foods, Southwest Bell, Hercules Tire and Rubber, and Presbyterian/St. Luke’s Hospital. At Francorp Mr. Chandler also hired and mentored the consultants who became the founders of the Ifranchise Group. Before entering business, Mr. Chandler was the first Executive Director of the Greater Chicago Food Depository, the Second Harvest Food Bank for the Chicago metropolitan area. Since coming to CNT, Mr. Chandler has been the organization's senior analyst for projects that involve private business development. As CNT’s representative he has advised community organizations and municipalities on transit oriented development projects and contributed to research in this field, managed the Chicago area’s Location Efficient Mortgage program, conceived and launched the Connections for Community Ownership program that helped aspiring minority entrepreneurs become business owners, managed CNT’s Freight Transportation Initiative, conceived and launched the Smart Growth in Industrial and Community Development program. He holds a BA in Anthropology from the University of Chicago. He and his family have lived in the Pilsen community for 25 years.
Nancy Pfeffer, President of Network Public Affairs
Nancy provides public policy analysis and communications services to public and private sector clients, focusing on environmental and transportation issues. Her clients include the Gateway Cities Council of Governments, the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, and the Transportation Research Board. Her current work focuses on regional planning and land use issues, including greenhouse gas emissions reduction, and environmental justice analyses for major regional transportation projects. Before founding NPA, she spent seven years working for the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG), and previously worked in environmental policy and compliance for ARCO, an integrated oil company, and Martin Marietta, an aerospace company that is now part of Lockheed Martin. She has a Master’s degree in Public Policy from the University of Southern California School of Policy, Planning & Development and a Bachelor’s degree from Harvard.
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As the nation’s aging population continues to grow, communities are grappling with a range of planning issues to accommodate the expanding and diversifying needs of older adults. In study after study, transportation ranks first among the concerns of older adults, their caregivers, and the institutions that support them. This webcast will examine several trends gaining traction with transit and paratransit agencies as well as with governmental agencies that focus on senior needs. Case studies will be presented from rural, suburban, and urban communities, including one of the first suburban NORCs (naturally-occurring retirement community) in the nation.
Please register here: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/690519002
Date & Time September 7, 2012 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM EST
The Car Future Group will conduct an interactive session about how trends in vehicle design and technology will play out on the roadways and policy context of the future. We will present important information about the future of cars design: Shape, weight, size, fuel types and degrees of automation. We will then discuss the future of our infrastructure and how the new vehicles will be used, exploring issues such as roadway and lane design, pricing, insurance and public policy. The audience will see that we are facing a future characterized by opposing trends, and not monolithic solutions. The next part of our presentation will be a discussion where participants will be asked to discuss their own examples and case-studies. We will allow time for discussion and conversation about the design-logic of the car industry and other aspects of our research.
Speaker Bios
Christopher J. Gray, AICP, is a Senior Associate with Fehr & Peers Transportation Consultants working out of their Irvine and Riverside offices. He has 15 years of experience in multi-modal transportation planning, corridor studies, travel demand forecasting, parking studies, transit studies, and Smart Growth. His work includes projects in California, other states in the US, and even international locations. He is a member of many professional organizations related to land use and transportation planning including APA, CNU, ULI, and AEP. Chris enjoys planning and using all modes of transportation ranging from automobiles to trains to cruise ships and underwater modes such as scuba diving.
Eric Noble is the founder and president of The CarLab, an advanced automotive consulting firm which helps manufacturers and suppliers plan and design new vehicles. Founded in 1999, it remains the most influential automotive development consultancy in North America. The Carlab’s clients include General Motors, Honda, Subaru, Toyota, and Hyundai/KIA among others. Eric has a BS from Calstate Fullerton in business economics and accreditation in automotive technology from Saddleback College. Eric is a faculty member of the transportation design program at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, one of the most influential and internationally respected programs in vehicle design.
Kati Rubinyi is the founder of the Car Future Group and Executive Director of the Civic Projects Foundation an organization dedicated to developing and implementing innovation and creativity in planning and urban design. Kati works for The Planning Center, an Orange County based urban planning firm. Prior to joining The Planning Center, Kati was an instructor in architectural history and design. This followed ten years as an architect and architectural intern working primarily on institutional buildings. Originally from Montreal, Canada, Kati has a B.A. in philosophy and a B.Arch. degree in professional architecture. She received architectural registration in 1998 upon which Kati moved to Southern California to attend the Art Center College of Design’s graduate fine art program, receiving an MFA in 2002.
Marco Anderson is a regional planner with the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG). He currently works in the Comprehensive Planning division integrating land use and transportation policy. Mr. Anderson is currently the project manager for over ten SCAG-funded local land use plans and studies, and the Toolbox Tuesdays program of training sessions for planners from the SCAG region. Marco lived car-lite in the OC for eight months, but was tempted back into two-car ownership with the arrival of the 2011 Kia Soul and the commuting needs of a toddler in suburbia. He still can be seen riding to the train station on his modified 1988 Schwinn Circuit with steel-lugged frame.
A native of South Los Angles, Terry Hayes grew up with a strong affinity to cars encouraged by both his parents. Terry's excitement about cars lead to an epic drive in a small Fiat from LA to Boston as he began his professional planning studies at the Harvard GSD. With a Masters in City Planning, Terry continued his interest in cars and his training in community impact in work with Alan Voorhees, Skidmore Owings and Merrill, and Gruen Associates. This focus has continued with Terry's own firm (founded in 1984) where his interest has broadened to include the assessment of the community and environmental justice impacts of most forms of transportation infrastructure (highways, railroads, as well as bus and rail transit. Outside of work, Terry has restored a classic 1967 mini. And for fun he races his Ferrari P3 in a computer simulation of the historic 400-mile Sicilian Targa Florio.
Registration https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/519664362
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Advanced Certification is here for Transportation!
Advanced Specialty Certification enables AICP–credentialed planners to be recognized for their knowledge, experience, and leadership skills in specialized areas of planning, including transportation. TPD supports this effort and wants to help qualified TPD’ers prepare and pass the exam.
Please see the exam details on the APA’s website: http://planning.org/asc/transportation/index.htm
TPD’s is preparing the CTP prep materials and will continuing posting the latest available materials on this our website. Please visit our site regularly to get the most up-to-date information:
Prep material by CTP exam outline:
I. Integrating Transportation into Community Planning [30%]
A. Land Use/Urban Form and Transportation Interaction [10%]
B. Environment and Transportation Interaction [7%]
C. Economy and Transportation Interaction [7%]
D. Distributional Effects Including Socio-Cultural, Economic, and Geographic [6%]
II. Transportation Demand Analysis [12%]
A. Concepts relevant to travel demand (e.g., latent demand, triple convergence, peak/off-peak, mode choice, impedance factors)
B. Applications and limitations of four-step modeling (trip generation, allocation, mode choice, distribution and assignment, network development)
C. Application and limitations of alternative models of estimating passenger and freight demand (e.g., simulation model, activity-based model, pivot point techniques)
D. Land use scenario planning tools (e.g., visualization)
E. Input data (e.g., assumptions, sources [e.g., Census Bureau, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Transportation Research Board], reasonableness, comparability)
F. Data collection methods (e.g., traffic counts, travel behavior surveys)
G. Traffic impact analysis
III. Performance Measurement [15%]
A. Mobility measures (e.g., level of service, travel time, delay, reliability, VMT, passengers per mile)
B. Accessibility measures
C. Safety measures
D. Convenience measures (e.g., quality of service, crowding, reliability, on-time performance)
E. Connectivity measures
F. Efficiency, effectiveness, and productivity measures (e.g., cost per transit rider)
G. Measures of transportation effects (e.g., on land use, air quality, social equity, economic, environment, health)
H. Evaluation and weighting techniques (e.g., benefit cost analysis, cost effectiveness, matrix display, goals achievement matrix, multi-attribute utility analysis)
IV. Modal and Intermodal Planning [25%]
A. Pedestrian and Bicycle Planning [4%]
B. Streets and Highway Planning [4%]
C. Transit Planning [4%]
D. Rail Planning [2%]
E. Maritime Planning [2%]
F. Aviation Planning [2%]
G. Parking [2%]
H. Intermodal and Multimodal Systems [5%]
V. Professional Practice [18%]
A. Transport Economics [4%]
B. Transportation Finance [5%]
C. Transportation Policy Programs and Regulation [5%]
D. Program and Project Management [4%]