Transit’s Path to Recovery

October 23, 2020 @ 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm PDT

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Transit’s Path to Recovery

Transit thrives on density. It’s most effective in serving mobility needs in corridors where a concentration of places to live, work, and play means higher trip demand and densely packed vehicles. This density is the antithesis of public health measures to control the spread of COVID-19. The pandemic has affected transit demand, supply, funding, management, and politics. What is transit’s path forward to recovery?

Speaking:

CEO

Darnell Grisby
Director and Professor

Brian D. Taylor
CEO

Phillip Washington
Deputy Director and Lecturer

Juan Matute

CEO

Darnell Grisby

Darnell is a national thought leader in transportation policy and the mobility justice movement. He is a social entrepreneur and seasoned political professional, who’s work includes campaign strategy, anti-racist initiatives, direct lobbying, and grassroots organizing. Darnell has been quoted or featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, National Public Radio, and Bloomberg. He is a former senior advisor in the California Legislature, lobbyist, Director of Policy Development for the American Public Transportation Association, and currently CEO of TransForm. He has degrees from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and UCLA.

Director and Professor

Brian D. Taylor

Professor Taylor explores how society pays for transportation systems and how these systems in turn serve the needs of people who – because of low income, disability, location, or age – have lower levels of mobility. Topically, his research examines travel behavior, transportation economics & finance, and politics & planning. A principal focus of his research is the politics of transportation economics & finance, including (1) alternative ways to evaluate the access and economic effects of traffic congestion on people, firms, and regional economies, (2) the history of freeway planning and finance, (3) emerging trends in pricing road use, (4) the equity of alternative forms of transportation pricing and finance, (5) linking of subsidies to public transit performance, and (6) measuring equity in public transit pricing and finance.

CEO

Phillip Washington

As Metro’s CEO, Washington manages a balanced budget in excess of $7 billion, is responsible for overseeing between $18-$20 billion in capital projects and provides oversight of an agency with 11,000 employees that transports 1.2 million boarding passengers daily on a fleet of 2,200 clean-air buses and six rail lines. Metro is the lead transportation planning, programming and financing agency for LA County. As such, it is a major construction agency that oversees bus, rail, highway and other mobility-related infrastructure projects – together representing the largest modern public works program in North America. Washington is also engaged and partnering in all facets of transportation and infrastructure in LA County including aviation, goods movement, freight/railroads, water, public works, housing and transit-oriented communities (TOCs).

Deputy Director and Lecturer

Juan Matute

Juan Matute is the Deputy Director of the UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies and an expert on transportation and land use and how technological innovations like driverless cars, electric vehicles and GPS mobile apps like Waze and Google Maps affect urban mobility and transportation accessibility, especially in Los Angeles. Matute also examines sustainable transportation and land use, transit systems, and local government climate planning, specifically how local governments measure and manage greenhouse gas emissions.

A panel discussion on public transportation’s current challenges and recovery scenarios. A moderator will facilitate a Q&A session among the speakers and registered participants.

This session will be simulcast on YouTube for observer access.

On-demand AICP CM credits

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