Smart Cities: The Future of Urban Infrastructure

Martin Wachs Lecture || March 15, 2018 || UC Berkeley

Presented by: Jeff Morales, Ryan Russo, Tom Maguire, Maria Mehranian, Susan Shaheen

The 11th annual Martin Wachs Distinguished Lecture, hosted at Berkeley, featured a panel of transportation and planning experts: Jeff Morales, Ryan Russo, Tom Maguire, Maria Mehranian, Susan Shaheen. Russo, an internationally recognized expert on transportation and urban planning solutions, with extensive experience in both the public and private sectors, spoke about the challenges in maintaining and growing economic well-being in an era of new transportation modes. The talk addressed the fact that with increased capacity and greater mobility undergirding economic viability and quality of life comes congestion, increased energy consumption, air pollution, environmental damage, urban sprawl, compromised safety, damage to natural habitats, climate change and health impacts. As the panelists emphasized, this current dilemma and hypermobility demands a transport agenda for this global era to be set.

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