Speaker(s): Michael Johnson, ASLA | Melissa L. Ruhl | Bruce Appleyard

Autonomous technology will become increasingly prevalent in our communities. Despite optimism about the technology, there is a high degree of uncertainty about how it will manifest in urban environs and streetscapes. This session builds frameworks for best practice based on the concepts of autonomy, livability, and human scale design.

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Speaker(s): Mary Lydecker, ASLA, LEED AP | Chris Bongorno, LEED AP | Paula Meijerink, ASLA

This session will explore how streets can be designed to signal a “pedestrian-first” environment, creating a more cohesive public realm identity and expanding flexible programming opportunities while also prioritizing safety. “Resilient” streets can accommodate existing modes of transportation, while also being poised to strategically adapt to emerging mobility trends.

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Speaker(s): Kevin R. Perry, FASLA | Nicole Holmes, Affil. ASLA, LEED AP, PE | Seth Charde, LEED AP

Five years ago, we introduced the concept design for the NW Kennedy Green Street, DC Water’s pilot green infrastructure streetscape project. This two-block commercial green street has now been constructed. A landscape architecture firm, engineering firm, and water utility authority will reflect on the design/construction lessons learned for this showcase project.

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Speaker(s): Daniel Ashworth, ASLA, AICP | Susannah Barton | Cat Peña

Today's cities are often strapped for budget dollars and desire to provide more amenities in streetscapes and public spaces. Interim design solutions as used on the Manassas Street streetscape show how this can be accomplished quickly and more affordably, but doing so in an artful way.

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Speaker(s): Therese McMillan
Moderator(s): Jean Senechal Biggs, ASLA | Matthew Romero, ASLA

At its core, inequality exists when there are fundamental differences in access to opportunity. Taking the first steps to address it can be difficult and fraught, with a need to recognize power and fully acknowledge its reality and consequences. In this presentation, learn about developing and implementing a comprehensive agency equity framework based on LA Metro’s Equity Platform. From this discussion, we hope to convey a blueprint for incorporating equity into your own agency’s work as we all work as transportation professionals to undo decades of barriers to mobility. Let’s not just talk about equity - let's define and address it.

Learning Objectives:

• Assess how equity concerns should be identified at an agency wide level.
• Develop a framework for addressing those concerns.
• Anticipate resources and other considerations for implementing change to better achieve equity.

Co-hosted by the Environmental Justice and Transportation Professional Practice Networks (PPNs)

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Speaker(s): Jacob S. Tobias, ASLA, LEED AP | Alyson Fletcher | Matthew Ridgway, AICP

Landscape architects who understand traffic engineering principles and innovations can apply these tools to make streets into better places. The presenters will discuss technical roadway-design concepts and cutting-edge approaches, and present case-studies in which innovative solutions emerged from a deep knowledge of the relationship between traffic engineering and placemaking.

Learning Objectives: 

• Understand basic street design/traffic engineering principles and standards such as lane widths, turn-lanes, bus-stop configurations, bike lane classes, and signalization concepts.
• Understand traffic data types describing traffic volumes and roadway performance, such as average daily traffic, peak volumes, level of service, and how these are measured.
• Describe innovations in multi-modal facilities including "next-generation bikeways" and bus facilities, and potential future concerns such as accommodating ride-share.
• Describe innovations in community engagement, including temporary prototyping and "tactical urbanism."

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Speaker(s): Ron Henderson, FASLA | Raymond W. Gastil, AICP, LEED AP | Nilay Mistry, ASLA | Chris Landau, Affil. ASLA

Expanding driverless vehicle use will force crucial recalibrations to streets, public spaces, and urban form. How can designers maintain human interests in increasingly autonomous cities? This panel of landscape architects and planning authorities will discuss initiatives to promote physical, ecological, and social sustainability through driverless technologies.

Learning Objectives:

• Learn about case studies of current design research and experiments in design regarding autonomous vehicles.
• Learn public engagement strategies and scenario based approaches to design.
• Understand development of planning policies in various cities due to autonomous vehicle growth.
• Examine the role of partnerships with local industries and academic institutions in designing for autonomous vehicles.

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Speaker(s): Yadan Luo, ASLA | Zixu Qiao, Associate ASLA

Sea level rise has had a significant impact on coastal ecosystems resulting in wetland loss, increased coastal erosion/inundation, and increases in the duration and frequency of flooding from storm surge. The first presentation introduces a collection of adaptive flood attenuation mechanisms (both structural and non-structural) for protecting newly designed communities from flood events and the eventual impacts of sea level rise.

The second presentation examines how the autonomous vehicle will redefine the streetscape in the coming future. For one possibility, street space could shift towards more pedestrian-oriented urban neighborhoods. Driverless cars may use space more efficiently and potentially relinquish some of this space, particularly street parking in downtown areas to public space. For another possibility, these saved spaces might simply be packed with more driverless cars based on increasing ride demands. The critical question becomes how to reassign the authority between the pedestrians and riders on the street.

Learning Objectives:

• Gain insight on implementable climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies
  
• Explore economic, ecological, cultural and social benefits from the practice of green infrastructure
  
• Identify impacts that driverless car will brings to our city
  
• Examine concepts and strategies for implementing infrastructure flexibility and how this will change urban corridor aesthetics and programming

PPN Mentors:

Hunter Beckham, FASLA, Sustainable Design & Development PPN
Eric Gilbey, ASLA, Digital Technology PPN
Emily O’Mahoney, FASLA, Women in Landscape Architecture PPN

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Speaker(s): Marieke Lacasse, ASLA, LEED AP | Gerhard W. Mayer, AIA, LEED AP | Woodie Tescher

In the 20th century, our society gradually dedicated ever-increasing amounts of land to the exclusive use of automobiles. However, the pushback against this trend has begun. This session examines international, national, and regional methodologies to recapture land for recreation and ecological replenishment and to promote sustainable urban growth.

Learning Objectives:

• Gain awareness of land use balance in an urban fabric, and discuss ideal proportions of land for transportation, housing, office, retail, open space, and institutions.
• Use case studies to understand different mechanisms used by converted sites for community use and leveraged as open space, multimodal connectors, and tactical interventions to reclaim street space.
• Become familiar with policy and regulatory legislative initiatives influencing the reshaping of our cities’ urban form, shifting from our auto-dominated traditions to more walkable and sustainable communities.
• Learn about the legislative difficulties that are the result of pushing cars in the background and people in the foreground, and methods or tools to overcome those impediments.

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Speaker(s): Wendy Miller, FASLA | Adrian Pearmine | Hermanus Steyn, PE | Gerry Tierney, LEED AP

Autonomous vehicles are coming. Will they bring utopia or a nightmare of zombie cars? How will they reshape our communities and roadside environments? Can we create policies to build Smart Cities and design our roadways to manage this new technology while providing active transportation and attractive streetscapes?

Learning Objectives:

• Discover the status and timeline for the implementation of autonomous vehicles and what it means for roadside development.
• Learn about the Smart Cities pilot projects and how autonomous and connected vehicles are being incorporated into existing urban infrastructure.
• Examine concepts and strategies for implementing a new surface transportation paradigm and learn how policies on autonomous vehicles will change highways and urban corridor aesthetics.
• Understand the challenges and opportunities associated with the implementation of green and Complete Streets with autonomous vehicles.

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