New mobility and cities: Exploring a research network of urban sustainability observatories via data-enabled university-community partnerships
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Overview
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Welcome
We are delighted that you are able to join us for this event. In preparation for the lab, we would like you to do a few things:
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- Learn about your fellow participants.
We look forward to seeing you soon.
What to wear?
This workshop will be a completely informal event. So, we encourage you to wear whatever makes you comfortable, and creative. We won't be doing anything messy, but you might find yourself sitting on the floor, drawing a complex diagram, so haute coture is probably best avoided. There again, if designer clothes fire your imagination, we fully support your choice.
Logistics
Dates: July 15 & 16
Venue: The STEAM Factory
Workshop Vision
Urban growth in the face of social inequities, climate change, and limited land and resources makes sustainable mobility one of the most pressing challenges major sustainability problems facing civilization in the 21st century. A crowded urban planet must determine how to move people through cities and provide access to opportunities in an environmentally-friendly, socially-just and economically efficient manner. The introduction of new mobility technologies and services holds much promise, but researchers and community stakeholders are struggling to keep up with these innovations and understand how to leverage these potentially disruptive mobility technologies - and the cities they impact - towards more sustainable outcomes.
We are organizing an invitation-only workshop to explore the possibilities of a research network that focuses on the following question:
How should we build partnerships between universities and communities that leverage new sources of urban data to improve understanding and generate actionable knowledge about the social, environmental and economic benefits and impacts of emerging mobility technologies that can advance sustainable urban systems?
We are specifically interested in the concept of an urban observatory – ongoing, open-ended and holistic data collection and management. Urban data observatories can leverage new persistent data sources and the natural mobility experiments occurring in many cities to create new types of opportunistic science and evidence-based policy that can help address social, environmental and economic sustainability issues surrounding urban mobility and accessibility.
University researchers The Ohio State University and Portland State University are organizing and leading this workshop due to their active involvement in developing data-enabled partnerships to understand new mobility and urban sustainability in their local communities. The outcome of the workshop is to develop the foundation for a network of urban observatories with common concepts, measures and processes that can be implemented more widely, and to improve our understanding of how best to develop the partnerships that are essential for advancing our knowledge and management of mobility in urban sustainability.
Organizers
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Harvey Miller Department of Geography and Center for Urban and Regional Analysis (CURA), The Ohio State University |
Kelly Clifton Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Maseeh College of Engineering and Computer Science, Portland State University kclifton@pdx.edu; 503-725-2871 |
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Gulsah Akar Program in City and Regional Planning, Knowlton School, The Ohio State University akar.3@osu.edu; 614-292-6426 |
Kristen Tufte Department of Computer Science tufte@cs.pdx.edu; 503-725-2419 |
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Sathya Gopalakrishnan Department of Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economic and the STEAM Factory, The Ohio State University gopalakrishnan.27@osu.edu; 614-292-2853 |
Charlene Brenner The STEAM Factory, The Ohio State University brenner.17@osu.edu; 614 292-0249 |
Steering Committee
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Organization |
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Institute |
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The Ohio State University |
Darrick Hamilton |
Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity |
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Elena Irwin |
Sustainability Institute |
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Marcello Canova |
Center for Automotive Research |
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Kerry Ard |
School of Environment and Natural Resources |
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Columbus stakeholders |
Aaron Schill |
Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission |
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Mike Stevens |
Smart Columbus |
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Duane Detwiler |
Honda Research & Development Americas, Inc. |
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Andrew Neutzling |
Central Ohio Transit Authority |
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Portland State University |
John MacArthur |
Transportation Research and Education Center |
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Wu-Chi Feng |
Department of Computer Science |
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Antonie Jetter |
Department of Engineering and Technology Management |
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Sirisha Kothuri |
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering |
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Portland stakeholders |
Michael Kerr |
Portland Bureau of Transportation |
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Kevin Martin |
Portland Bureau of Planning and Sustainability |
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Tim McHugh |
TriMet |
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Jeff Frkonja |
Portland Metro. |
This workshop is supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation: Grant number 1929927