Creating Resilient Transportation Systems

Dr. John L. Renne, AICP is the Director of the Center for Urban and Environmental Solutions (CUES) and an Associate Professor in the School of Urban and Regional Planning at Florida Atlantic University. He is also an Honorary Research Associate at the University of Oxford. Dr. Renne's research focuses on creating sustainable, resilient and livable cities, with a focus on land development and transportation infrastructure. Dr. Renne is an author and editor of Transit-Oriented Development: Making It Happen (Ashgate, 2009), Transport Beyond Oil: Policy Choices for a Multimodal Future (Island Press, 2013). He chairs the Transportation and Land Development Committee for the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies and he serves on many committees and boards of nonprofit and professional associations.Dr. Brian Wolshon is the Edward A. and Karen Wax Schmitt Distinguished Professor of Engineering in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Louisiana State University (LSU), where he has been a faculty member since January 1997. He is the founding Director of the US DOT-sponsored Gulf Coast Research Center for Evacuation and Transportation Resiliency. An internationally recognized expert in emergency evacuation and transportation resilience, Dr. Wolshon chaired the Transportation Research Board's Committee on Emergency Evacuation for 17 years, having founded it in 2001. He has authored hundreds of reports, book chapters, and scientific journal papers, including notable works such as the 7th Edition of the Institute of Transportation Engineers' Traffic Engineering Handbook. His research has significantly advanced the understanding of mass evacuations and is frequently cited by academics and practitioners alike. Dr. Wolshon's expertise is sought after by media organizations worldwide, leading to numerous interviews across various platforms.Dr. Anurag Pande is Associate Professor of Civil Engineering at Cal Poly State University. At Cal Poly he also holds the position of Faculty Liaison for Community based Learning. His role involves engaging the municipal leadership (e.g., City Managers, CEOs of local Air Pollution Control Districts among others) on a variety of issues ranging from resilience, sustainability, and environmental justice to facilitate the partnership between faculty and community partners for integrating community based projects into the Cal Poly curriculum. He is member of the TRB committee on Emergency Evacuation (ABR30) and Safety Data Analysis and Evaluation (ANB20).He is the Editor of the recently released 7th Edition of the Traffic Engineering Handbook for ITE (Institute of Transportation Engineers). The current edition of the handbook, for the first time, goes beyond the traditional automobile-centric solutions and provide the decision makers and professionals with the tools to integrate complete street infrastructure addressing the needs of all modes into the urban and suburban environments.