Webinars

This “Coffee with a Researcher” webinar will focus on Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s work to collect critical data, develop specific performance metrics, and model curb space management scenarios to help municipalities and curb space managers optimize their space. The session will highlight ways municipalities can leverage the data and performance metrics to effectively assess their curb space allocation and enact appropriate technologies and policies. Clean Cities coalitions will also learn about ways to enable and support this work. 

As the mobility landscape evolves, researchers and municipalities are increasingly interested in curb planning and management. As demand for curb space grows, it is crucial that municipalities successfully define curb usage to support commercial vehicles, paid parking, bus transit, and transportation network companies (TNCs), to maximize efficiency, economic utility, and other performance metrics. Today’s technologies for data collection, such as digital payments and sensors, make curb modeling, testing, and policy design increasingly effective.  

This “Coffee with a Researcher” webinar series is open to coalitions and their stakeholders, and you are encouraged to invite local government partners, city planners, curb users (e.g., TNC companies), or others in your community that may be interested. To attend, register for this webinar with Zoom.

For more information, contact Lauren Reichelt.

ATRAVEL, a new web-based tool for individuals and transportation project planners, is designed to help users examine the cost, travel time, and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions impacts of various mobility options. In this “Coffee with a Researcher” session, Clean Cities coalition directors will provide feedback to Argonne’s Andrew Burnham on the types of data that would be valuable to Clean Cities coalitions and how future iterations of ATRAVEL could better serve their needs.

ATRAVEL offers a Trip Tool for individuals and a Metric Tool for transportation project planners. Trip Tool users input their location and recurring travel patterns to compare cost, travel time, and environmental impact for vehicle ownership versus transit, ride sharing, and ride-hailing. The Metric Tool provides census tract level mapping and summary data for several transportation-related parameters, including vehicle cost, travel time, and GHG emissions, as well as several demographic and air quality metrics.

This webinar series is open to coalitions and their stakeholders, and participants are encouraged to invite local and regional government and transportation planners that may be interested in comparing impacts of travel modes. To attend, register for this webinar with Zoom.

For more information, contact Lauren Reichelt.

Micromobility, a term that covers a variety of human-powered and/or electric-assisted small vehicles, has emerged as a useful mode for augmenting existing transportation options and enabling right-size vehicle choices, primarily for short or multimodal trips. E-scooters are common in many urban areas, and e-bikes have rapidly increased in popularity as users discover their convenience and utility as quick and inexpensive transport. Some micromobility vehicles, such as e-cargo bikes, are capable of meeting delivery or family use needs. A DOE VTO-funded project titled Micromobility Integrated Transit and Infrastructure for Efficiency (MITIE) is working to expand understanding of how micromobility options are used and how they may help to shift people toward more energy-efficient mobility.

In this “Coffee with a Researcher” webinar, Clean Cities coalitions will learn how micromobility options may be integrated in transportation plans at different scales to reduce barriers to mobility access and transportation energy use. The session will provide an opportunity for the MITIE team to receive real-time input about micromobility issues and concerns that are most important for Clean Cities coalitions and their stakeholders.

This webinar series is open to coalitions and their stakeholders, and participants are encouraged to invite local and regional government or nonprofit partners that are interested in shifting and tracking travel patterns. To attend, register for this webinar with Zoom.

For more information, contact Lauren Reichelt.