Ian Lockwood: Livable Traffic Engineering

Fresh off his stint as a Loeb Fellow at the Harvard's Graduate School of Design, Mr. Lockwood will share a lecture on the inherent conflict within and the future of city transportation. Frustrated? Tired of the word "no" from your traffic engineer? Mayors, transit agencies, planners, economic development officials, park designers, ... and traffic engineers are all pulling in the same direction to improve cities. Or are they? Ian Lockwood traces the origins of the two, broad, and often competing transportation paradigms that currently exist in North American cities, which he calls the "modernist" and "traditional" paradigms. He then demonstrates, through a few case studies, the application of the accompanying values on cities. Lastly, he describes the benefits of aligning the values of the city's staff and the city's policies with the "vision" of the city. Ian Lockwood P.E. is a Livable Transportation Engineer with AECOM, a Harvard University Loeb Fellow, and the former City Transportation Planner for the City of West Palm Beach. He has a Bachelor Degree and a Masters Degree in Civil Engineering from Carleton University. For 25 years, Ian has worked at the intersection of community design and social and economic health, doing traffic calming, road diets, context-sensitive solutions, and highway removals. He has guest lectured at several universities and is occasionally interviewed on NPR. For fun, he does photography, cartooning, and road cycling. This is a joint event with CNU Orlando (  / cnuorlando  ) Producer/Reporter: Stephen Matheny