Mpact Transit + Community
October 22, 2024 | 4:00 pm
The Power of Community: Case Studies for Building a Sustained Action Base
Theresa Carr, Panelist
Transportation project timelines and cycles present challenges for authentic community engagement. How do you build the sustained relationships necessary to really hear and understand community needs and views, especially those of under-represented, low income, non-English-speaking or BIPOC segments of the population? Three case studies offer different pathways.
October 23, 2024 | 8:30 am
Equitable Transit-Oriented Communities: Let’s Share Best Practices
Clayton Lane, Panelist
More transit agencies are taking up the framework of Equitable Transit-Oriented Communities (ETOC) as an approach to centering equity in their practices, meeting the needs of a diversity of residents and integrating economic, climate and relationship-building goals. What best practices are emerging from agencies and community-based organizations? Let’s workshop both the processes and the tools, focusing on specific elements such as community engagement, funding mechanisms, anti-displacement efforts, zoning, affordable housing, small business retention, and mode shift, among others. The goal: share actionable insights to lead future equitable development initiatives.
Theresa helps clients make effective transportation investment decisions. Theresa is an economist, planner, and project manager, bringing 20 years of experience in transportation planning. She serves as the leader of Nelson\Nygaard’s Boston office. Theresa’s extensive project management experience spans from long-range transportation planning and public involvement to alternatives analyses, environmental documentation under the National Environmental Policy Act, and conceptual design.
Clayton is a sustainable transport leader and city planner with 25 years of international experience implementing innovative approaches to address climate change and promote inclusive communities. Clayton has led numerous bus rapid transit (BRT), rail, TOD, shared mobility, and zero-emission bus projects and catalyzed innovative solutions internationally. Previously, he led two of world's top environmental and mobility think-tanks to shape best practice and implement precedent-setting projects in over 100 cities on 4 continents. He founded highly successful PhillyCarShare from start-up to market leader, earning an EPA Environmental Achievement Award and Harvard Innovation finalist. Clayton has also successfully led global policy, sustainability, and strategic initiatives for micro-mobility pioneer Bird. He also developed mobility consulting and tech start-up GoAscendal.