2nd Annual Martin Wachs Distinguished Lecture in Transportation
"Keeping the City: A 40-Year Quest for Sustainable Urban Transport" November 29, 2007
Faculty Center, California Room
University of California, Los Angeles
Presented by Professor Tony May
Institute of Transport Studies
University of Leeds, England
After a year at the Yale Bureau of Highway Traffic, Tony May started his professional career with the Greater London Council in September 1967, where he spent ten years leading studies of motorway traffic control, parking policy, road pricing and land use policy. In September 1977 he was appointed to the Chair in Transport Engineering at the University of Leeds. In his thirty years in that post his research focus has been on urban transport policy, and has included work on the design of specific policies, including driver information systems, travel awareness, land use planning, parking management, road pricing and new technologies; on the development of integrated transport strategies; and, latterly, on ways of overcoming the barriers to policy implementation. From 1986 to 2001 he was a director of the MVA Consultancy, a specialist transport planning consultancy for whom he helped develop transport strategies for many of the leading UK cities. In addition he has provided advice to the European Commission, the European Conference of Ministers of Transport, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development and the governments of Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and Thailand.
In his lecture, Tony May drew on his 40 years’ academic and professional experience to chart the changing goals of urban transport policy over that period and, in particular, the way in which the concept of sustainable urban transport is now being interpreted. He reviewed the growing range of policy instruments available to urban transport planners, and stress the importance of gaining a better understanding of how they perform in different contexts. He outlined recent research which indicates how these policy instruments can best be combined into effective integrated strategies. He then discussed the barriers to the implementation of such strategies, the role of the urban transport planner in helping to overcome these barriers, and the continuing contribution which academic research can make. While his talk drew principally on European experience, he encouraged discussion of the transferability of that experience and of the need for an enhanced international dialogue on the challenge of seeking sustainability in urban transport.
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