Moving Toward a Sustainable California: Exploring Livability, Accessibility & Prosperity

For California DOT and the UC Berkeley's Transportation Sustainability Research Center (TSRC), Glen Weisbrod of EDR Group was an invited speaker at a 2016 workshop of national experts to discuss options for transportation performance metrics that spanned the three areas of Livability, Accessibility & Prosperity. Mr. Weisbrod presented options for prosperity performance measures and discussed their interaction and correlation with livability and accessibility measures. He also co-lead discussions with Caltrans staff on these interactions:

Workshop Announcement: Moving Toward a Sustainable California

Workshop Summary: Moving Toward a Sustainable California

Weisbrod presentation: Economic Prosperity Impact Metrics for Transportation Project Scoring

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CONGESTION PRICING – AN IDEA WHOSE TIME HAS FINALLY COME (TO THE U.S.)

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The Case for Forward-Looking Energy Program Evaluations

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We need to make energy program evaluations more relevant for decision-making . Most existing energy efficiency and renewable energy programs have been concerned with confirming the reasonableness of past investments and impacts on utility rate...

Transformational Change and the Future of Public Transportation

Glen Weisbrod Transit

Emerging Changes. At the January 2019 Annual Conference of the Transportation Research Board (TRB), the role of technology change and the future of public transportation both received significant attention –in both formal sessions and informal attend...

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