ITS Berkeley is excited to present a panel discussion on Friday Dec. 2, 2022 in 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building at 3 p.m. Join us for coffee and cookies at 2:30 p.m.
Panel: Aligning the transportation system to climate and equity goals: Panel to discuss next steps for the California Transportation Assessment (AB 285)
With:
Egon Terplan, Robert S. Cornish Endowed Chair of Regional Planning and Lecturer in City & Regional Planning at UC Berkeley
Elisa Barbour, Professional Researcher at the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California, Davis
Elizabeth Deakin, Professor Emerita of City and Regional Planning at UC Berkeley
Egon Terplan is the Robert S. Cornish Endowed Chair of Regional Planning and Lecturer in City & Regional Planning at UC Berkeley. He is a specialist in regional economic development, land use, transportation, government reform and regional policy and currently writes about and advises on infrastructure, urban revitalization, economic development, region policy, and other topics. From 2019 to 2022, he was a Governor appointee serving as the Senior Advisor for Economic Development and Transportation within the Governor’s Office of Planning and Research and the California Strategic Growth Council while also supporting the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development and the California High Speed Rail Authority. He was also the project director for the California Transportation Assessment (AB 285), a review of the state transportation planning and funding system developed, working in collaboration with UC ITS, and also relaunched and coordinated a working group of the 18 metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs) with senior staff across eight state agencies. Egon received a Master of City Planning from UC Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design and graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania. In addition to teaching at UC Berkeley, he has also been an instructor at Stanford University, the University of San Francisco, and San Jose State University.
Elisa Barbour is a Professional Researcher at the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California, Davis, where she conducts research for state agencies on topics related to sustainable transportation and land use, in connection to state climate policy. Elisa received her PhD in 2015, and her Masters in 1998, from the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research and publications have focused on sustainability planning for transportation, land use, and the environment at the state, regional, and local levels in California. Before getting her PhD, she worked for ten years as a Policy Analyst at the Public Policy Institute of California, conducting research on topics related to infrastructure, regional planning, land use, fiscal policy, and environmental planning and policy in the state.
Elizabeth Deakin is Professor of City and Regional Planning Emerita at UC Berkeley, where she also is an affiliated faculty member of the Energy and Resources Group and the Master of Urban Design group. She formerly served as Director of the University of California Transportation Research Center (1998-2008) and co-director of the UC Berkeley Global Metropolitan Studies Initiative (2005-2008). Deakin's research focuses on transportation and land use policy and the environmental impacts of transportation. She has published over 200 articles, book chapters, and reports on topics ranging from environmental justice to transportation pricing to development exactions and impact fees. She currently is carrying out a series of studies on urban development and transportation in China, Latin America, and India as well as in California. Deakin has testified on several occasions for committees of the US Congress and for the California Legislature. She chaired the Congressionally-mandated National Academy of Sciences advisory board that led to the enactment of the federal transportation-environmental research program. She also has served as an appointed member of a number of government posts including city and county transportation commissions and a state advisory board. She is frequently called upon to advise mayors and city council members as well as transit board members. She is a member of a number of committees and panels of the Transportation Research Board and is editor of the journal Transportation Policy, serving as well on the editorial board of four other journals. She also is an Urban Land Institute Fellow. Deakin holds degrees in transportation systems analysis and political science from MIT as well as a law degree from Boston College.