2023 Urbanism Next Conference

Portland, OR

April 26-28, 2023

The 2023 Urbanism Next Conference was a great success! We are grateful to our plenary speakers, presenters, partners, and sponsors for helping put on an excellent conference this year! Plenary presentations and slides will soon be available online.

Stay tuned for future conferences and events to learn more about how emerging technologies are changing land use, urban design, building design, transportation, and real estate and what these changes mean for equity, health and safety, the economy, and the environment.

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Conference Venues

April 26 - Workshops
White Stag Building, 70 NW Couch Street, Portland

April 27-28 - Plenaries and Sessions
Oregon Convention Center, 777 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Portland

Wednesday, April 26, 2023

9:00 am

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12:00 pm

Infrastructure Readiness to Support Smarter Cities and Emerging Mobility Solutions (WA1)

9:00 am

Mobility Hub Experiences and Lessons Learnt – Planning, Design, Community, Mobility, and Digitization (WA2)

9:00 am

1:30 pm

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4:30 pm

Accelerating climate action in US cities (WP1)

1:30 pm

Data for curb management: how to get it and how to use it (WP2)

1:30 pm

Finding the optimal mix of modes (WP3)

1:30 pm

Thursday, April 27, 2023

8:30 am

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9:00 am

Keynote: Nico Larco (Urbanism Next Center/UO) – Where Are We Now? - And Welcome

9:00 am

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9:30 am

Keynote: Sucharita Kodali (VP and Principal Analyst, Forrester) - What Happened to the Ecommerce Hockey Stick?

9:45 am

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10:15 am

Keynote: Julia Friedlander (San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA)) - Driverless Vehicle Vision & Reality: A View from San Francisco Streets

10:15 am

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10:45 am

Keynote: Allanté Whitmore (SAFE) - Closing the Gap: Achieving More Equitable Mobility with Autonomous Vehicles

11:00 am

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12:30 pm

90-Minute Session

Advancing Complete Trips and Mobility Payment Integration – Findings from Research and Practice

11:00 am

Breaking through the hype: What the future holds for autonomous vehicles in cities

11:00 am

How to Plan a Zero Emission Delivery Zone in 60 Days

11:00 am

Sustainable and equitable policies on emerging technologies

11:00 am

The evolution of micromobility: building on - or what comes after - shared systems?

11:00 am

Zones, Zones, and More Zones: Getting to Universal Basic Mobility and Climate Action through Zero-Emission Zones

11:00 am

1:00 pm

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1:30 pm

Keynote: David Vega-Barachowitz (WXY Architecture + Urban Design) - Future Proofing Design: Five Models for the Future of City Building

1:45 pm

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3:15 pm

90-Minute Session

Community Carsharing: Advancing Equitable Access to Electric Transportation

1:45 pm

Fixed Route and Microtransit - New Data Shows What Works Where

1:45 pm

Moving forward with MDS 2.0

1:45 pm

The Future is Now: Working Together to Integrate Autonomous Vehicles

1:45 pm

The only constant is change: Planning for an unstable future

1:45 pm

Got Change for The Bus? Mobility Wallets and the Future of Transit Fare Payment Equity

1:45 pm

3:30 pm

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5:00 pm

90-Minute Session

Centering equity in tech-enabled mobility pilots

3:30 pm

Do you know what this camera is doing? A panel discussion on the need for transparency on the use of digital technology in the public realm.

3:30 pm

Getting Real: Involving Innovation Teams in Deployments

3:30 pm

Safer Communities with Commercial Loading Zones

3:30 pm

Smart Mobility Platform for Smarter Mobility - Findings from the TriMet FTA IMI Demonstration Program

3:30 pm

Using Open Data Governance to Responsibly Scale Emerging Transportation Technologies

3:30 pm

Friday, April 28, 2023

8:40 am

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9:05 am

Keynote: Gabe Klein (U.S. Joint Office of Energy and Transportation) - Electrifying a Multi-Modal America

9:05 am

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9:30 am

Keynote: Ben Levine (U.S. Department of Transportation) - People-Centered Transportation Innovation

9:45 am

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10:15 am

Keynote: Lucas Grindley (Next City) - Communicating Change: How the Narrative Shapes Policy

10:15 am

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10:45 am

Keynote: Kim Lucas (City of Pittsburgh) - MaaS or Menos? The Pittsburgh Mobility as a Service Experiment

11:00 am

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12:30 pm

90-Minute Session

A New Suburbia in a post-COVID World?

11:00 am

Freight Supply Chain Is Transforming Metro Land Use From The Inside Out

11:00 am

Innovation Capacity in Cities – how cities prepare for societal challenges and uptake of emerging technologies

11:00 am

Move Culver City: Designing and Implementing Tactical Mobility Lanes

11:00 am

Parking Lots to Building Lots? - AVs, Parking Demand, and Impacts on Development

11:00 am

The App-Less MaaS: Building the System of Transportation Alternatives

11:00 am

1:00 pm

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1:30 pm

Keynote: Lian Plass, Tom Sanchez and Emily Schwartz - ChatGPT Impacts on Planning and Development

1:45 pm

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3:15 pm

90-Minute Session

HANDSHAKE: Roadblocks and successes as three agencies took a Mobility-as-a-Service project from back-of-the-napkin to first-phase production in a pandemic

1:45 pm

Next Steps for State and Local Automated Vehicle Policy: From Standards to Roadways

1:45 pm

North Bayshore in Mountain View, California – Creating a New Mixed Use, Multi-Modal Neighborhood

1:45 pm

Overcoming the data gap and building knowledge about urban freight patterns

1:45 pm

Structural Support for Strong Pilots

1:45 pm

The Go Hub: A Community Mobility Center

1:45 pm

3:30 pm

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5:00 pm

90-Minute Session

Autonomy in Transit: A working model for accessible, autonomous microtransit informed by live programs in Arlington, TX and Miami, FL

3:30 pm

Cities, interrupted: harnessing the unexpected success of micromobility to help cities return from COVID-19 stronger than ever

3:30 pm

From Infrastructure To Placemaking: Making Way for Communities and Nature with Emerging Mobility Technologies

3:30 pm

Growing green transport across the delivery sector

3:30 pm

Increasing Access to Shared Mobility with Public/Private Partnerships

3:30 pm

Using gig worker data to learn about pandemic-era transportation choices.

3:30 pm

Plenary Speakers

Kim Lucas

Director of Pittsburgh's Department of Mobility and Infrastructure
City of Pittsburgh

Julia Friedlander

Senior Manager
Automated Driving Policy at San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA)

Ben Levine

Senior Advisor of Research & Technology
U.S. Department of Transportation

Allanté Whitmore

Director of Autonomous Vehicle Initiative
SAFE

Lucas Grindley

Executive Director
Next City

Sucharita Kodali

Vice President and Principal Analyst
Forrester Research

David Vega-Barachowitz

Associate Principal & Director of Urban Design
WXY Architecture + Urban Design

Lian Plass

Senior Manager, Urban Resilience
Urban Land Institute

Tom Sanchez

Professor of Urban Affairs and Planning
Virginia Tech

Emily Schwartz

Vice President
Bryson Gillette

Gabe Klein

Executive Director
U.S. Joint Office of Energy and Transportation

Nico Larco

Director
Urbanism Next Center, University of Oregon

Thank you to our partners

Thank you to our sponsors

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