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Growing Cooler workshop
Energy-Efficient Land Use
and Transportation Planning
Workshop materials
PowerPoint presentations (Caution, very large file sizes)
Reid Ewing, University of Utah, College of Architecture + Planning
Growing Cooler, The Evidence on Urban Development and Climate Change (117 pgs, 5 MB)
Clark Anderson, Sonoran Institute
Connecting Land Use and Transportation Planning (58 pgs, 7.4 MB)
Jacob Riger, Charlier Associates
Linking Land Use and Transit (27 pgs, 2.4 MB)
Jeremy Klop, Fehr & Peers Transportation Consultants
Design for Walkable and Bikable Communities (26 pgs, 1.6 MB)
Ralph Trapani, Parsons Transportation Group
Implementing RFTA's Bus Rapid Transit (20 pgs, 1.3 MB)
Workshop summary
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Speaker biographies
 Reid Ewing is a professor of city and metropolitan planning at the University of Utah, associate editor of the Journal of the American Planning Association, columnist for Planning magazine, and fellow of the Urban Land Institute.
Early in his career, he served two terms in the Arizona legislature, worked on urban policy issues at the Congressional Budget Office, and taught city planning in Iran and Ghana. He holds masters degrees in engineering and city planning from Harvard University, and a Ph.D. in urban planning and transportation systems from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
His research and writing are aimed at planning practitioners. He authored Developing Successful New Communities for the Urban Land Institute; Best Development Practices and Transportation and Land Use Innovations for the American Planning Association; and Traffic Calming State-of-the-Practice for the Institute of Transportation Engineers. The two books for the American Planning Association made him APA’s top selling author for many years.
 His most recent book, written for EPA and published by the Urban Land Institute, is Growing Cooler: The Evidence on Urban Development and Climate Change. Due out later this year, and co-published by the American Planning Association and American Society of Civil Engineers, is U.S. Traffic Calming Manual.
Ewing's study of sprawl and obesity, sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, received more national media coverage than any planning study before or since, reaching an estimated 41 million Americans. It was the most widely cited academic paper in the social sciences as of late 2005, according to Essential Science Indicators.
His 1997 point-counterpoint on urban sprawl is listed as a classic by the American Planning Association. Additional research is published in the Journal of the American Planning Association, Journal of Planning Literature, Journal of Urban Design, Urban Design International, Journal of Urbanism, Housing Policy Debate, Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, Transportation Research Record, and ITE Journal.
 Jacob Riger is a senior transportation planner and project manager with Charlier Associates, Inc., in Boulder. Jacob’s expertise includes community multimodal transportation plans, transit system routing and operations, and smart growth-based mobility plans. Mr. Riger helps his clients create, fund and implement balanced transportation networks that increase personal travel choices through integration with land use and community character objectives. He has advised local governments, transit agencies and private sector companies for resorts and urban areas from Florida to Hawai’i.
His recent projects on the Western Slope include the transportation elements for comprehensive plan work for the city of Glenwood Springs, city of Grand Junction and town of Snowmass Village, a multimodal transportation analysis for the town of Basalt, and a transportation plan update for Gunnison County.
Jeremy Klop is an associate with Fehr & Peers, a transportation planning and engineering consulting firm, in Denver. His professional experience includes multimodal transportation planning and forecasting, comprehensive and transportation plan development, transportation impact analysis, and micro-simulation. With a strong technical background in travel demand modeling and traffic operations analysis, he has helped communities translate their vision for long range travel patterns into near term actions with an immediate impact on the transportation system.
His project management experience includes large scale, multimodal transportation projects such as the Downtown Multimodal Access Plan in Denver, the Urban Street Standards for TODs and Urban Centers in Aurora, and the Walkability Plan for Kansas City, Mo. He is also managing all of the travel demand forecasting activities at Stapleton in Denver, the largest urban redevelopment project in the country.
In addition to project experience, Mr. Klop has published and presented nationally on bicycle safety issues, modeling transportation and land use interactions, and simulation of transportation alternatives. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP) and the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) and currently serves as the vice president of communications for Colorado APA.
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Growing Cooler
June 19, 2009
8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Hotel Colorado, Glenwood Springs, Colorado
Hosted by
Sponsored by
Clean Energy Economy for the Region, CLEER, works to accelerate the transition to a clean energy economy, increase energy independence and reduce impacts of climate change.
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