BTR5 Headline Speakers

Please join us each each day to kick off BTR sessions with…

Lebanon’s Maya Abou-Zeid,  Australia’s Graham Currie, Switzerland’s Kay Axhausen, & the US’s Patricia Mokhtarian.

Eastern track: Aug. 9th: 12:00 CST (13:00 JST, 14:00 AEST)

Dr. Maya Abou-Zeid – American University of Beirut

SUBJECTIVE WELL-BEING & TRAVEL: Behavioral Insights & Integration with Choice Models

Dr. Abou-Zeid’s Presentation Slides and Recording

ABSTRACT: This seminar presents three applications of subjective well-being (SWB) or happiness day in transportation to illustrate certain behavioral insights & the benefits of including SWB measures with choice models. The applications are (1) differences in satisfaction across commute modes (as well as potential underestimation of satisfaction with infrequently used modes), (2) the presence of a hedonic treadmill effect in activity happiness using remembered & real-time measures, & (3) how SWB indicators can be integrated with activity pattern choice models to improve model efficiency.

Eastern track: Aug. 10, 10:00 CST (11:00 JST, 12:00 AEST)

Dr. Graham Currie – Monash University

PRAGMATIC STRATEGIES TO LEGITIMISE IMPLEMENTATION OF SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT IN CITIES

Dr. Currie’s Presentation Slides and Recording

ABSTRACT: The benefits of on-road public transit priority are now clear, but on-road implementation faces considerable barriers, via both political & stakeholder resistance to change, limiting sustainable transport progress in cities. This presentation presents the results of a research project to discover how to overcome these barriers, exploring where big changes were actually achieved & how they addressed barriers to change. Results provide a framework of 9 Pragmatic Strategies that planners can adopt to achieve change.  Each are detailed & success factors explained.

Western track: Aug. 9, 10:00 CDT (11:00 EDT, 17:00 CEST)

Dr. Kay W. Axhausen – ETH Zürich

COULD AN E-BIKE (+ WALKING, TRANSIT & SCOOTER) CITY WORK?

Dr. Axhausen’s Presentation Slides and Recording

ABSTRACT: Transport policy is in a dilemma to improve accessibilities while lowering emissions & costs. For dense urban areas it is worth thinking & checking whether a transport system relying on (e-)cycles could be a positive vision. The talk will outline the dilemma & present first results of our work: in particular, design support of the required network reconstruction; detailed analysis of current e-bike use & behaviour via a large-scale Swiss study.

Western track: Aug. 10, 10:00 CDT (11:00 EDT, 17:00 CEST)

Dr. Patricia Mokhtarian – Georgia Tech

DOES TELEWORKING INCREASE OR DECREASE TRAVEL? Using Selection Models to Obtain (Counterfactual) Longitudinal Results from Cross-Sectional Data

Dr. Mokhtarian’s Presentation Slides and Recording

ABSTRACT: Mixed findings exist on whether teleworking reduces or increases travel.  This talk presents a portfolio of selection model methods to provide a more convincing answer, particularly when only cross-sectional data are available.  Selectivity bias, its correction, & treatment effects estimation are described, & then applied. Results confirm that teleworking reduces vehicle-miles driven (VMD), on average, but that for a non-trivial subset of cases (particularly those who are not travel-stressed), teleworking increases VMD.

Regarding Time Zones:
• CST = China Standard Time; JST = Japan Standard Time; AEST = Australia Eastern Standard.  10 am CST (Eastern tracks) = 3 am in London, 4 am in Munich, Madrid & Stockholm, 5 am in Nairobi, 6:30 am in Tehran, 7:30 am in Delhi, 11 am in Tokyo, noon in Sydney, 2pm in Auckland, 7 pm in San Francisco (the day before), 9 pm in Austin (the day before), & 10 pm in New York & Toronto (the day before).

• CDT = US Central Daylight Time Time; EDT = US Eastern Daylight Daylight; CEST = Central Europe Summer Time. And 10 am CDT
(Western tracks) = 1 am in Sydney, 3 am in Auckland, 9 am in San Francisco, 11 am in New York & Toronto, 4 pm in London, 5 pm in Munich, Madrid & Stockholm, 6 pm in Nairobi, 7:30 pm in Tehran, 8:30 pm in Delhi, 11 pm in Beijing & Singapore, & midnight in Tokyo (0 am of the next day).

➔ Eastern sessions start a “half-day” before Western, because both begin on Wed. August 9. ➔ Since time zones confuse us all, please check exact times at https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock. Thanks!