Transportation System Strategies to Reduce Greenhouse Gases (GHG) In Florida That Support Healthy Communities
May 28th in Tallahassee at the FDOT Burns Building Auditorium

 

Goal: Assist Metropolitan Planning Organizations and local governments in addressing greenhouse gas emissions and vehicle miles traveled reductions in local and regional plans.

Objectives:

• Provide an overview of climate change and the latest information on national and state transportation and land use efforts to address climate change impacts by reducing travel congestion, delay and vehicle miles traveled.
• Identify regional and local efforts and planning processes targeted toward reducing travel growth through coordinated transportation and land use actions offering public health and environmental benefits.
• Discuss challenges and opportunities in integrating climate change into local and regional plans.

10:00 Introduction - Charles Pattison, President, 1000 Friends of Florida

10:15 Presentations and Panel Discussion: Overview - National and State Perspectives and Developing Actions to Reduce Greenhouse Gases - Moderator - Tim Center, Vice President of Sustainability Initiatives, Collins Center for Public Policy

National Perspective

• Dr. Michael Meyer, Professor, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering Transportation Group, Georgia Institute of Technology - Climate Change and Transportation: Cause and Effect Challenges
• Peter Plumeau, RSG Transportation Planning & Policy Analysis , Burlington Vermont - Climate Change in Transportation Planning: Addressing the Challenges Facing States & MPOs

State Perspective

• Kathy Neill, Director, Office of Policy Planning, Florida Department of Transportation - Climate Change and Transportation
• Charles Gauthier, AICP, Director, Division of Community Planning Florida Department of Community Affairs - Transportation Strategies to Reduce Greenhouse Gas that Support Healthy Communities
  

12:25 Luncheon Speakers:

• Melanie Simmons PhD., Director, Healthy Communities Program at FSU - Community Health and Sustainability
• Dr. Tim Chapin, Department of Urban and Regional Planning at Florida State University - Planning’s Wicked Problems: The Search for Solutions to our Transportation, Land Use, Environmental, and Community Health Challenges

1:30 Florida Specific Approaches and Initiatives to Support Reductions in GHGs Moderator - Tim Center, Vice President of Sustainability Initiatives, Collins Center for Public Policy

• Harry D. Reed III, AICP - Executive Director, Capitol Regional Transportation Planning Agency - Capital Region Transportation Planning Agency Transportation System Strategies To Reduce Greenhouse Gases - Bangkok Train Slide Video - very tight land use & transportation planning

• Ron Garrison - Executive Director at StarMetro, Tallahassee - Transit Provides Green Alternatives

• Penny Wheat & Jonathan B. Paul, AICP, MA - REDUCING GREENHOUSE GAS (GHG) EMISSIONS & SUPPORT HEALTHY COMMUNITIES: TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM STRATEGIES - CIVIC ENGAGEMENT AND THE COMING ENERGY AND CLIMATE CRISIS - SELECT RECOMMENDATIONS FROM THE ALACHUA COUNTY ENERGY CONSERVATION STRATEGIES COMMISSION

 

 

Sponsors
Florida Department of Transportation
&
Florida Department of Health