Conference Presentations

Moderator:  Judy Dellert-O'Keef, Charlotte Regional TPO

1.  Tailoring Public Involvement Strategies to Maximize Engagement in Your Transportation Project
2. Wake County Transit Plan Implementation
3. Regional Transit Engagement Series

Moderator:  Ryan Purtle, Greenville MPO

1. Recessions, Lapsing Funds, Obligation Limitations - A Guide to Understanding & Communicating the Federal Highway Program to Stakeholders
2. Goat Trails & Other Clues You Need to Build a Sidewalk - Ideas to Stretch Your Sidewalk Budget
3. Implementing NCDOT Project Prioritization within the Planning Process

Moderator:  Sherry Ashley, CRTPO TCC Chair/City of Statesville

1. MPO Staffing and Resources
2. The Role of Social Media in Planning
3. Effective Communication with Elected Officials

Moderator:  Kathy Cornett, Charlotte Planning, Design & Development Department

1. Can Transportation Planners Get Ahead of Gentrification?  Considering Equity in Several Transportation Case Studies
2. Impact of Public Transportation Investments on Residential Mobility & Neighborhood Socioeconomic Change

Moderator:  Lorretta Barren, Federal Highway Administration

1.  The Benefits of Utilizing a Public Private Partnership Project Delivery Method
2. Performance-Based Bonus Allocation Methodology for Capital Area MPO
3. Project Prioritization Through Data Driven Performance Measures

Moderator:  Eric Howell, Eastern Carolina Council

1.  The Intersection of Rural Transportation Planning, Land Use & Economic Development
2. Modeling Land Use for a Rural CTP
3. Charlotte Road/Main Street Complete Streets Charrette Process from SPR Application to Results

Moderator:  Monica Holmes, Charlotte Planning, Design & Development Department

1.  Tactical Urbanism & Placemaking in Charlotte
2. The Smarter Gate City - Tactical Urbanism Corridor Project
3. A Prototype for Place - Using Tactical Urbanism to Create Design Changes with Lasting Effects

Moderator:  Tracy Newsome, Charlotte Department of Transportation

1. Charlotte Moves Toward Vision Zero
2. City of Greensboro's Vision Zero Plan
3. Vision Zero Durham - Challenges and Opportunities

Moderator:  Anna Gallup, Charlotte Department of Transportation

1. Traceability & Transparency in Transportation Planning with GIS
2. Simplifying Census Data Analysis
3. Multimodal Planning & Travel Demand Management with Big Data

Moderator:  Candice Langston, Lee Institute

1.  Foundations of Public Engagement Planning for MPOs
2. Public Engagement - Who, What, When, Where, Why and How to #Nailit

Moderator:  Jason Wager, Centralina Council of Governments

1. Planning for Emerging Technologies in Transportation
2. Small Vehicles, Big Impacts - Evaluating, Designing, and Managing for Shared Micro-Mobility
3. CAV & First Responders Impacts

Moderator:  Robert Cerrato, City of Charlotte Office of Data and Analytics

1. Enterprise GIS for Title VI, EJ Compliance & Reporting
2. Mapping Transportation Inequity in Charlotte
3. Advancing Transportation Through Linkages Automation & Screening (ATLAS)

Moderator:  Laura Thomason, Mecklenburg County Health Department

1.  Public Involvement Strategies for Managed Lane Projects
2. Public Health & Planning
3. Suburbanization of Poverty and Changes in Transportation Access

Moderator:  Lakisha Hull, Charlotte Department of Transportation

1. The Ins & Outs of Collector Street Planning - A Case Study in Charlotte Metro Area
2. Investigating the Spatial Distribution of Casual Impacts of Beltway Development on Property Prices in North Carolina
3. Updating TIA Requirements to Address Neighborhood Transportation Impacts

Moderator:  David Harrison, Charlotte Department of Transportation

1. Building on CONNECT Our Future - Implementation of a Regional Growth Framework in the Charlotte Region
2. Planning for Uncertainty - Exploratory Scenario Planning
3. MTP Lessons Learned & Strategies for Improvement

1. Kerry Morrow, Statewide Transportation Plan Engineer - NCDOT & Nastasha Earle-Young, Statewide Planning Initiatives Engineer - NCDOT TPD

1. Bobby Walston, Director of Aviation - NCDOT Division of Aviation

1.  Jason Orthner, Director, Rail Division - NCDOT; Rachel Vandenberg, Senior Vice President - Dewberry; and Beth Smyre, Senior Planning Engineer - Dewberry