TRB Webinar: Social and Economic Sustainability Metrics for Public Transportation

Practitioners from transit agencies are invited to a TRB webinar on Tuesday, August 6, 2019, from 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM ET. The webinar featured research from the Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP)’s Research Report 205: Social and Economic Sustainability Performance Measures for Public Transportation.

This webinar provided an overview of the report along with the American Public Transportation Association’s (APTA’s) Social and Economic Sustainability Framework for Transit Agencies document. Presenters discussed the process of identifying and selecting social and economic metrics for sustainability of public transportation projects. They also identified strategies for agencies to operationalize these metrics.

The slides are available. There is also a secondary handout available.

Webinar Presenters

• Heather Unger, Louis Berger
• Sarah Buckle, TransLink
• Ryan McAlpine, Maryland Department of Transportation
  

Moderated by: Adrienne Heller, Louis Berger


 
American Institute of Certified Planners Certification Maintenance Credits

This webinar is approved by the American Institute of Certified Planners for 1.5 Certification Maintenance Credits. Please make sure that you register for this session and log-in using the link that TRB provides to your email account. We use this as your record that you attended this session. TRB only maintains the records of attendees who use their email address to log into the webinar, and cannot verify attendance of individuals who view the webinar without personally logging into the session.

Please visit the Certification Maintenance section of APA’s website, Certification Maintenance, to claim your credits. You may use the following steps:

1. Log in using your ID# and password.
2. Select View my CM log.
3. Select Add CM-Registered Credits.
4. Using the CM Search option, type in the name of the event or event number (e.g. 21064) and click "Go".
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6. Please rate the event, add a comment (optional), and click on the Ethics statement and check the box to confirm. Note: you should see a message indicating the CM reporting period year that you are logging.
7. Click submit and the CM credits should appear in your CM log.

If you have problems reporting your CM credits or have general questions about the CM program, please contact AICPCM@planning.org.

Registration questions? Contact Reggie Gillum at RGillum@nas.edu.