2023 TEXAS VISION ZERO SUMMIT – PART TWO
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2023 Texas Vision Zero Summit Schedule
We are adding additional speakers and panels here as they are confirmed.
Tuesday, November 28th
Morning Plenary
8:30-10:50 AM – Main Room
Jay Blazek Crossley, Farm&City
Dottie Watkins and Gardner Tabon, Cap Metro
How advocates think we can end traffic deaths
Joao Paulo Connolly, Austin Justice Coalition
Joe Cutrufo, BikeHouston
Chris Riley, Safe Streets Austin
Miriam Schoenfield, Rethink35
Yasmine Smith, Austin Area Urban League
moderated by Jay Blazek Crossley, Farm&City
Understanding the problem of traffic deaths:
Crash Data, High-Injury Network Mapping & Systemic & Predictive Analysis
Nan Jiang, Toole Design Group
Kara Kockelman, UT-Austin Center for Transportation Research
Joel Meyer, City of Austin Vision Zero Program
moderated by Josh Peterman, Fehr & Peers
Morning Breakout
11:00-11:50 AM – Main Room
Addressing the problem of traffic deaths:
Integrating Safe Systems into Policies, Plans, and Processes
Ed Burgos-Gomez, Federal Highway Administration
Jared Draper, Toole Design Group
Virginia Lynn, City of Houston
moderated by Alyson Vargas, Farm&City
Demo Room
eTOD: How many millions of Texans can live in walkable urban places connected by frequent transit?
Sharmila Mukherjee, Cap Metro
Lonny Stern, Movability
Awais Azhar, Project Connect Community Advisory Committee
moderated by Felicity Maxwell, AURA
Lunch Plenary
12:00-1:30 PM – Main Room
What Texas Women Are Doing to End Traffic Deaths
Mayor Pro Tem Paige Ellis, City of Austin
Kerri Butcher, CapMetro
Veronica Castro de Barrera, Austin Transit Partnership
Coleen Gentles, City of Austin
Millie Hays, Federal Highway Administration
moderated by Carly Haithcott, Nelson\Nygaard
Afternoon Breakouts
1:45-2:50 PM – Main Room
Collision Not Accident:
How we talk about traffic crashes matters
Dr. Tara Goddard, Texas A&M
Tom Devito, Families for Safe Streets (NYC)
moderated by Kathy Sokolic, Central Texas Families for Safe Streets
Demo Room
TxDOT’s Statewide Active Transportation and Multimodal Transit Planning Efforts Going On Now
Michael Dietz, TxDOT
Greg Reinenger, TxDOT
moderated by Tom Wald, Red Line Parkway
3:00-3:50 PM – Main Room
From Plans to the Streets:
Examples of Vision Zero Changing the Streets and People’s Lives
Yvonne Kaczor, PE, Toole Design Group
Coleen Gentles, City of Austin
Noah Heath, TxDOT
moderated by Tom Wald, Red Line Parkway
Demo Room
Your City, Your Voice Advocate Training: Campaign Planning 101
Tom Devito, Families for Safe Streets (NYC)
Afternoon Plenary
4:00-5:00 PM – Main Room
Houssam Ghandour, DKS
How public servants think we can end traffic deaths
Ed Burgos-Gomez, Federal Highway Administration
Lewis Leff, City of Austin
Anna Mesa-Zendt, City of El Paso
moderated by Ben Ettleman, Texas A&M Transportation Institute
Vision Zero Movie Night
TUESDAY NIGHT ONLY AT 7PM
After the program on Tuesday, please consider joining us for an easy 2-mile walk to check out some of Austin’s safety treatments, enjoy a stroll by the lake, and check out the Waymo autonomous vehicle. Meet just outside in the pedestrian plaza on E. Cesar Chavez Street.
We’ll head out at 5:15pm, but the first stop will be just across West Avenue, where you can see the Waymo vehicle. Please feel free to head over there as soon as you like to check it out.
We’ll then get to see the Pfluger Pedestrian Bridge, the Barton Springs Road Safety Pilot Project, a small street curb extension mid-block crossing, and some other safety treatments along the way.
The walk will return to Austin Central Library by 6:40pm, so that any movie-goers can walk the additional three blocks to the Violet Crown Theater in time to catch the film. – Violet Crown Cinema, 434 W 2nd St, Austin, TX 78701.
Get your tickets for Tuesday, November 28
Wednesday, November 29th
Morning Plenary
8:30-9:50 AM – Main Room
David Bemporad, RS&H
Safe Pedestrian Oriented Places
Dan Hennessey, City of Austin
Jared Draper, Toole Design Group
moderated by Jay Blazek Crossley, Farm&City
Morning Breakouts
10:00-10:50 AM – Main Room
Complete Streets Gathering:
A Team Meeting for Everyone Working to Design Streets For All
The first in our three part Complete Streets series will be a meeting place for those working on Complete Streets policies across the state, those interested in adding Complete Streets to their city, county, metropolitan, or state’s approach to meeting the ever more complicated diverse needs of our growing state, and those interested in learning more.
Demo Room
Understanding the Diverse Experiences of Our Streets:
Equity Analysis, How Women Use Transit, and Understanding the Needs of Underserved Communities
Stefanie Brodie, PH.D, Toole Design Group
Josh Peterman, Fehr & Peers
Yasmine Smith, Austin Area Urban League
moderated by Jay Blazek Crossley, Farm&City
11:00-11:50 AM – Main Room
Complete Streets Lessons from El Paso:
One of the Big Tools in the Toolbox of Vision Zero
Dave Lofye, CityHealth
Anna Mesa-Zendt, City of El Paso
Joey Pawlik, ActivateSA
Jerry Saavedra, American Heart Association
moderated by Scott White, Farm&City
Demo Room
How Automated Vehicles with Artificial Intelligence are being Optimized to Protect Vulnerable Road Users
Anne Dorsey, Waymo
Xinwei Shi, Waymo
moderated by Micah Leonard, Texas A&M Transportation Institute
Lunch Recess
Noon-1:15 PM
Afternoon Breakouts
1:30-2:35 PM – Main Room
Complete Streets Collaborative Workshop: Toward Ubiquitous Inclusive and Safe Design for Every Single Project at Every Single Level of Government
For the third and final in our three part Complete Streets series, we hope you will join us in a creative space to collaborate on the next year of progress in making every single street project in Texas optimized based on the context for people of all ages and abilities to enjoy the freedom of traveling by all modes.
Demo Room
Riding in cars without human drivers on streets optimized by machine learning: The role of Innovation and Automation in Ending Traffic Deaths
Amanda Ventura, Waymo
Darran Anderson, TxDOT
Josh Peterman, Fehr & Peers
moderated by Micah Leonard, Texas A&M Transportation Institute
2:45-3:45 PM – Main Room
The Power of Storytelling:
How we talk about traffic crashes matters
Melissa Balmer, PedalLove.org
Charlie Gandy, PedalLove.org
moderated by Scott White, Farm&City
Demo Room
Self-Enforcing Streets:
Designing for the Speeds That We Want
Millie Hays, FHWA Texas Division
Ian Hlavacek, City of Houston
Josh Peterman, Fehr&Peers
moderated by Jay Blazek Crossley, Farm&City
Closing Plenary
4:00-5:00 PM – Main Room
Abundant Safe Access Options:
An Inclusive Approach to Vision Zero for People of All Abilities
Emily Coleman, Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired
Nancy Crowther, ADAPT
Amanda Ventura, Waymo
moderated by Joan Hudson, Texas A&M Transportation Institute
Safe Streets Austin Founders Reception
Wednesday November 29th, 6-9pm
Historic Caswell House
1404 West Avenue, Austin TX 78701
Join us for a great night of food, drinks & fun to help take Austin’s nonprofit bike, walk & streets advocacy to the next level in 2024 & beyond!
This is a separate fundraiser event for the 501c3 nonprofit Safe Streets Austin with a minimum donation of $100. As an important issue in the movement to end traffic deaths, Farm&City believes Texas needs a significant increase of professional nonprofit advocacy staff working in each metropolitan region and across the state to collaborate with, cajole, and critique governments and empower the diverse people of Texas to engage more effectively in changing our transportation system so that less people die or suffer serious injuries in crashes.
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Vision Zero Texas works to prevent and end traffic deaths in Texas, and is a project of Farm&City – a 501(c)(3) think and do tank dedicated to high quality urban and rural human habitat in Texas in perpetuity.
For questions or more information please contact us at info@visionzerotexas.org