Panel: Sustainable NYC: Congestion Pricing
The Wagner Transportation Association invites you to learn about the policy and planning issues behind New York City’s proposed congestion pricing plan. Panelists represent a variety of positions and will discuss congestion pricing from the perspectives of traffic management, public transit, the economy, and the American Automobile Association. Come learn about the specifics of the proposed plan, the theory of road pricing, existing congestion pricing examples, and the challenges to transportation policy and planning for New York City.
6:37 PM EDT on October 16, 2007
The Wagner Transportation Association invites you to learn about the policy and planning issues behind New York City’s proposed congestion pricing plan. Panelists represent a variety of positions and will discuss congestion pricing from the perspectives of traffic management, public transit, the economy, and the American Automobile Association. Come learn about the specifics of the proposed plan, the theory of road pricing, existing congestion pricing examples, and the challenges to transportation policy and planning for New York City.
Lunch will be served.
Confirmed Speakers:
- Moderator: Allison de Cerreño – Director, NYU Rudin Center for Transportation Policy and Management
- Panelist: Prof. Robert Paaswell – Director, University Transportation Research Center Region 2, CUNY
- Panelist: Gene Russianoff – Staff Attorney, Straphanger’s Campaign
- Panelist: Prof. John Falcocchio – Director, Urban Intelligent Transportation Systems Center (ITS), Polytechnic University
- Panelist: Robert Sinclair – The American Automobile Association
Before he began blogging about land use and transportation, Aaron Donovan wrote The New York Times Neediest Cases Fund's annual fundraising appeal for three years and earned a master's degree in urban planning from Columbia. Since then, he has worked for nonprofit organizations devoted to New York City economic development. He lives and works in the Financial District, and sees New York's pre-automobile built form as an asset that makes New York unique in the United States, and as a strategic advantage that should be capitalized upon.
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