Creating the TDM City
ACT's 2024 TDM Forum - November 12
Track description
What is a TDM City, and how can we create one? In this track, we will dive into the concept of a TDM city–urban (and peri-urban) communities that maximize mobility and minimize SOV trips through the deployment of sustainable, equitable, and resilience policies, programs, and infrastructure investments. After establishing a common framework, we will move quickly from the theoretical to the real world, exploring examples of successes (and failures) from home and abroad.
Over the past several decades, European cities have led the way in building TDM into their urban fabric, with notable examples including Copenhagen (cycling infrastructure), Amsterdam (auto restrictions, public transport, and cycling), Paris (car-free zones, public transportation, and cycling infrastructure), and Vienna (public transportation, pedestrian-friendly areas, parking limitations, and congestion charges). Some common concepts found in their successes include car-free zones and other limitations on private care, and investments in expanding and enhancing public transportation, pedestrian-friendly zones, cycling infrastructure, zero-emission mobility, and polycentric development.
Cities in the United States have begun following suit with similar and new strategies housed within city policies, plans, and goals including climate action plans, Vision Zero, Complete Streets, development plans and regulations, and TDM policies and programs.
We will dive into these concepts over the course of three sessions with an indepth look at several approaches along with important processes cities may follow and challenges they often face. You will learn about a foundational framework that has contributed to European successes and which is now beginning to gain traction in the US. You will learn from municipal representatives about their approaches and experiences in pursuing these goals in their metropolitan regions. You will cap off your day in a hands-on workshop applying these concepts in plans for use in your own community.
Key Learning Objectives:
- Learn what a TDM City looks like and identify several options cities may use to integrate TDM into their policies, programs, and infrastructure investments for creating liveable, equitable, and sustainable communities.
- Learn about shifting the focus of how we plan for mobility and development in cities from the historic “predict and provide” perspective to one of envisioning and influencing a better future (“vision and validate”).
- Brainstorm, collect, and plan key strategies your city can employ to create an environment for greater TDM adoption including policies, infrastructure, programs, development strategies, and implementation steps.
Featured speakers
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- Paul Curtis, Director – Transport and Mobility Planning, SLR Consulting, (London, England)
- Brian Ruscher (invited), Deputy Director of Multimodal Transportation, Palm Beach Transportation Planning Agency, West Palm Beach, Florida
- Matt Moss (invited), Manager of Strategic Planning Initiatives, City of Cleveland Planning Commission
View other tracks:
The Great Micromobility Experiment
Ensuring TDM for Everyone
Filling the Gaps