Registration

Plenary

Registration and Lunch

Transportation Innovation Day: Keynote

Plenary

Keynote Remarks from Jennifer Pahlka, Code for America, and Gabe Klein, Former Commissioner of Chicago Department of Transportation.

Blurring lines: Public/Private Discourse to Plan for Transportation’s Future

Breakout Session

New transport services are filling niches that are both public and private. What are the key partnerships for the future?

Innovation in City Transportation Practices

Breakout Session

What strategies are cities employing to improve upon their existing processes? City transportation officials will share ideas to accelerate project delivery and coordinate across departments for a results-oriented city government.

Creating an Environment for Innovation

Breakout Session

How can cities create an environment where innovation (whether technology, internal practices, or otherwise) can thrive? Speakers will share lessons from outside and within the public sector.

Transportation Innovation Day: Ignite Presentations

Breakout Session

10 fast-paced presentations on innovations in transportation.

Designing Cities Opening Reception

NACTO Events

The Opening Reception will honor Caltrans Director Malcolm Dougherty.

Breakfast

Plenary

Breakfast.

Welcome

Plenary

Welcome remarks from San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee and NACTO President Ed Reiskin.

Commissioners' Panel

Plenary

Commissioners' Panel featuring Transportation Directors from 5 major US cities.

We Have Vision, Leadership and Plans. But How to Make Change?

Breakout Session

Many cities now have the vision and leadership to re-imagine and redesign their streets and public spaces. But they must still overcome a variety of obstacles and points of resistance to bring plans to fruition.

From Protected Bike Lanes to Robust Bikeway Networks

Breakout Session

Experts in leading cities discuss developing protected bike lanes as part of robust bikeway networks, which hold enormous potential for attracting new riders and enticing people to switch travel mode.

Modernizing Large Urban Arterials for Increased Mobility

Breakout Session

Practitioners will present techniques for designing our arterial roadways for community livability, while retaining reliable mobility along our most important travel corridors.

Leveraging Bike Share for Transportation Equity

Breakout Session

This session explores how cities are pushing bikeshare systems to increase transportation equity, engage new users, and complement other transit systems and infrastructure.

Activating Public Space and Prioritizing Pedestrians

Breakout Session

Explore community-based strategies for transforming the urban landscape with application-based programs and interim designs like parklets and public plazas, which support local business and neighborhood livability.

Lunch & Keynote

Plenary

Keynote speaker: Janette Sadik-Khan

“Home Zone” Traffic Calming Project (Thursday)

Walkshop

Tour the Minna-Natoma Home Zone, an innovative neighborhood-wide approach to traffic calming and school safety in one of San Francisco's most rapidly changing neighborhoods, The Mission.

Pavement to Parks–Yerba Buena

Walkshop

Increasingly, interim urban design projects are proposed alongside permanent capital projects in district public space plans. This tour will showcase Annie Alley Plaza, which was created by closing a small street to automobile traffic.

Parklets of the Mission/North Beach

Walkshop

The Mission District of San Francisco is the most parklet-dense neighborhood of any in the country. This tour surveys parklets exemplifying a wide range of design strategies and sponsor types, and finishes at the Mission Community Market.

Central Waterfront Tour: Land Use and Transportation Planning

Walkshop

A mixed transit-walking tour that explores the rich land use and transit history of several San Francisco locations. Begin downtown and make stops in the Embarcadero and the Dog Patch, while passing through South Beach and Mission Bay.

San Francisco Bike Share Tour (Thursday)

Walkshop

Staff who spearheaded bike sharing’s implementation in San Francisco will lead this bike tour of key stations and bike facilities in the Civic Center and South of Market neighborhoods.

Northeast Waterfront: Embarcadero Bike Tour (Thursday)

Walkshop

This bike tour will look at some of that history and the forces and politics that shaped the Embarcadero and preview the future of this remarkable roadway-space-place.

Mission Neighborhood Bike Tour (Thursday)

Walkshop

Explore San Francisco's —use a new signal-protected bike bay form Market Street, ride the first two-way green wave on Valencia, and experience an innovative road diet and stormwater management on Cesar Chavez Street.

Chinatown Alleys (Thursday)

Walkshop

Turning “Fish heads into Fillets”: join us for a walking tour of historic Chinatown alleyways, and see how the community is transforming them into neighborhood assets.

Technology’s Role in Collecting and Crowdsourcing Pedestrian Facility and Accessibility Data (Thursday)

Walkshop

Join us for an interactive tour of San Francisco’s innovative pedestrian infrastructure and accessibility & safety treatments. We’ll play with new App technologies for collecting inventory and quality data using tablets and smartphones while exploring the city.

Vision Zero: Pedestrian Safety Innovations (Thursday)

Walkshop

This Vision Zero-focused tour highlights examples of quick, cost effective treatments to prevent deaths and serious injuries along dangerous streets, visiting infrastructure projects in the bustling streets of the Tenderloin and SoMA.

San Francisco’s Bicycle “Wiggle” Tour (Thursday)

Walkshop

Tour by bike one of San Francisco’s most utilized routes and innovative designs, the Wiggle. Explore some of the challenges around implementing a bike boulevard design in a dense urban context.

Fisherman’s Wharf Public Realm Improvements (Thursday)

Walkshop

Visit the newly redesigned Jefferson Street in historic Fisherman’s Wharf. Learn about the Public Realm Plan that was developed with merchants and neighbors to build on the Wharf’s historic roots and support a diverse and active public life.

Red Transit-only Lanes (Thursday)

Walkshop

In 2014, the SFMTA expanded red transit-only lanes to several high-ridership bus corridors, including a portion of the Geary Street corridor. Staff will discuss lessons learned from the project.

South of Market Neighborhood and Bike Pilot Tour (Thursday)

Walkshop

Tour SoMa, the fastest growing area in the City. Experience the latest innovations in interim bicycle pilot projects, like converting travel lanes to buffered bike lanes to address difficult street conditions.

Bicycle Innovations (Thursday)

Walkshop

Tour San Francisco’s greatest examples of bicycle design, including buffered bike lanes, contra-flow, greenwaves, bike boxes, and spot improvements.

Transbay Transit Center Site/Transit District Tour

Walkshop

This tour has two parts: a tour of the transit center construction, followed by a tour of the larger area and the transit center district plan (including bikes, parks, pedestrian improvements, and sites for affordable and market rate housing).

Multimodal, Multistreet Corridor (Thursday)

Walkshop

Tour Van Ness Avenue, future home to the city’s first BRT project, and Polk Street, a major bicycle route that recently added a contra-flow lane. See how the City has taken the attributes of these two streets to optimize mobility.

Castro Streetscape Project and Jane Warner Plaza (Thursday)

Walkshop

Tour the recent Castro Streetscape Improvement Project, including widened sidewalks, new street trees, lighting, and public realm enhancements such as rainbow crosswalks, historic engravings, and bronze Rainbow Honor Walk plaques.

Historic Cable Car Tour (Thursday)

Walkshop

Ride a San Francisco icon and go behind the scenes of the world’s last operating cable car system! Enjoy a guided tour of the powerhouse, car barn, and museum. Learn how this pioneering urban transit system changed city planning.

Central Subway Tour (Thursday)

Walkshop

Take a walking tour of key sites of the SFMTA’s Central Subway Project. Learn about the design, permitting, execution, and outreach challenges associated with major construction adjacent to some of the densest, most valuable real estate in North America.

The Sharing Economy: Transportation's Future

Breakout Session

Today, people are trading car ownership for shared mobility options that promise convenient, affordable mobility without the hassles of car ownership. However, these disruptions require policy leaders to consider new strategies for managing street space, providing customer service, and funding

CEQA Reform: Supplanting Auto Level of Service in California

Breakout Session

Hear from experts about alternative performance metrics that can supplant or supplement auto LOS to meet environmental goals, encourage urban development, and promote multi-modal systems.

Green Streets, Places, and Spaces

Breakout Session

Green Streets reduce stormwater runoff and improve a street's ecological performance, as well as beautify the streetscape and calm traffic. How are cities leveraging funding for stormwater management?

Workshop: From Protected Bike Lanes to Robust Bikeway Networks

Breakout Session

Designed to complement the morning panel on protected bike lanes, the workshop will apply the latest developments in bikeway research and practice through hands-on exercises.

Workshop: Modernizing Large Urban Arterials for Increased Mobility

Breakout Session

This session presents innovative approaches from Alameda County, provides thinking on how next-generation vehicles and demographic trends affect design consideration, and culminates in a design challenge.

Meet the Cities

Breakout Session

Project presentations from NACTO Member Cities, and networking opportunity.

Happy Hour

Impact Hub, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco Co-hosted by YPT San Francisco Bay and NACTO. Sponsored by Kittelson & Associates.

Affiliate Members Breakfast Meeting

Breakout Session

Affiliate Members Breakfast Meeting

Breakfast

Plenary

Breakfast

Keynote Address

Plenary

Keynote Address: Peter Rogoff, Under Secretary for Policy, USDOT.

NACTO Camp

Breakout Session

A participant-driven “unconference,” where topics and activities are proposed by attendees, providing an opportunity for each participant to shape and lead the event.

Central Subway Tour (Friday)

Walkshop

Take a walking tour of key sites of the SFMTA’s Central Subway Project. Learn about the design, permitting, execution, and outreach challenges associated with major construction adjacent to some of the densest, most valuable real estate in North America.

Historic Cable Car Tour (Friday)

Walkshop

Ride a San Francisco icon and go behind the scenes of the world’s last operating cable car system! Enjoy a guided tour of the powerhouse, car barn, and museum. Learn how this pioneering urban transit system changed city planning.

Castro Streetscape Project and Jane Warner Plaza (Friday)

Walkshop

Tour the recent Castro Streetscape Improvement Project, including widened sidewalks, new street trees, lighting, and public realm enhancements such as rainbow crosswalks, historic engravings, and bronze Rainbow Honor Walk plaques.

Multimodal, Multistreet Corridor (Friday)

Walkshop

Tour Van Ness Avenue, future home to the city’s first BRT project, and Polk Street, a major bicycle route that recently added a contra-flow lane. See how the City has taken the attributes of these two streets to optimize mobility.

Bicycle Innovations (Friday)

Walkshop

Tour San Francisco's greatest examples of bicycle design, including buffered bike lanes, contra-flow, greenwaves, bike boxes, and spot improvements.

South of Market Neighborhood and Bike Pilot Tour (Friday)

Walkshop

Tour SoMa, the fastest growing area in the City. Experience the latest innovations in interim bicycle pilot projects, like converting travel lanes to buffered bike lanes to address difficult street conditions.

Red Transit-only Lanes (Friday)

Walkshop

In 2014, the SFMTA expanded red transit-only lanes to several high-ridership bus corridors, including a portion of the Geary Street corridor. Staff will discuss lessons learned from the project.

Fisherman’s Wharf Public Realm Improvements (Friday)

Walkshop

Visit the newly redesigned Jefferson Street in historic Fisherman’s Wharf. Learn about the Public Realm Plan that was developed with merchants and neighbors to build on the Wharf’s historic roots and support a diverse and active public life.

San Francisco’s Bicycle “Wiggle” Tour (Friday)

Walkshop

Tour by bike one of San Francisco’s most utilized routes and innovative designs, the Wiggle. Explore some of the challenges around implementing a bike boulevard design in a dense urban context.

Vision Zero: Pedestrian Safety Innovations (Friday)

Walkshop

This Vision Zero-focused tour highlights examples of quick, cost effective treatments to prevent deaths and serious injuries along dangerous streets, visiting infrastructure projects in the bustling streets of the Tenderloin and SoMA.

Technology’s Role in Collecting and Crowdsourcing Pedestrian Facility and Accessibility Data (Friday)

Walkshop

Join us for an interactive tour of San Francisco’s innovative pedestrian infrastructure and accessibility & safety treatments. We’ll play with new App technologies for collecting inventory and quality data using tablets and smartphones while exploring the city.

Chinatown Alleys (Friday)

Walkshop

Turning “Fish heads into Fillets”: join us for a walking tour of historic Chinatown alleyways, and see how the community is transforming them into neighborhood assets.

Mission Neighborhood Bike Tour (Friday)

Walkshop

Explore San Francisco's —use a new signal-protected bike bay form Market Street, ride the first two-way green wave on Valencia, and experience an innovative road diet and stormwater management on Cesar Chavez Street.

Northeast Waterfront: Embarcadero Bike Tour (Friday)

Walkshop

This bike tour will look at some of that history and the forces and politics that shaped the Embarcadero and preview the future of this remarkable roadway-space-place.

San Francisco Bike Share Tour (Friday)

Walkshop

Staff who spearheaded bike sharing’s implementation in San Francisco will lead this bike tour of key stations and bike facilities in the Civic Center and South of Market neighborhoods.

“Home Zone” Traffic Calming Project (Friday)

Walkshop

Tour the Minna-Natoma Home Zone, an innovative neighborhood-wide approach to traffic calming and school safety in one of San Francisco's most rapidly changing neighborhoods, The Mission.

Pavement to Parks–Excelsior/Oceanview

Walkshop

Plaza Projects involve intense community engagement and long-term commitment of a local steward. This tour highlights the work of the Excelsior Action Group, the driving force behind both Persia Triangle Plaza and a youth-designed parklet nearby.

Parklets of the Outer Sunset/Richmond

Walkshop

Parklets have wide adaptability to varying neighborhood contexts; this tour will highlight projects in San Francisco’s Outer Sunset, a neighborhood of relative low density and high proportion of residential uses.

Freeway Removed: The Central Freeway debate, Octavia Boulevard, and Parking Policy in Hayes Valley

Walkshop

This walking tour will view the remaining elevated freeway, review the 1960s ‘freeway revolts” and the 1990s politics of freeway removal, discuss off-street parking policies and reform, and touch on some ongoing issues and concerns.

Here Be Dragons: Addressing Legal Liability in California Street Design

Breakout Session

How can your community lead the way on innovative design solutions that are proven elsewhere, but not yet encoded in California law and regulations?

Intuitive Intersection Design

Breakout Session

For city streets to meet the demands of everyone using them, intersections need to function as safely and efficiently as possible. This session will untangle complex intersections, presenting strategies to facilitate visibility and predictability for all users.

Complete Streets in Constrained Corridors: Resolving Conflicts and Balancing Users

Breakout Session

The 20th century objective of urban streets -- moving large volumes of motor vehicles as quickly as possible -- is under revision.

Designing Streets and Signals for Transit

Breakout Session

Hear from experts working to improve transit service and rider experience through thoughtful street design, including strategies such as bus-only lanes, transit signal priority, and bus bulbs that create a reliable, fast service.

Investing in Infrastructure: Funding Local Transportation

Breakout Session

How are cities leveraging local, state, and the federal funds to invest in walking, bicycling and transit? This session showcases funding models that could work in your community.

Workshop: Intuitive Intersection Design

Breakout Session

This interactive workshop will provide attendees an opportunity to investigate options and opportunities to improve the intersection of McAllister and Larkin Streets in San Francisco's Civic Center neighborhood.

Workshop: Complete Streets in Constrained Corridors: Resolving Conflicts and Balancing Users

Breakout Session

Participants will put the strategies they've learned from Los Angeles, Vancouver, and Seattle into practice in a hands-on design exercise on Post Street, a constrained multi-functional arterial corridor steps from the conference venue.

Workshop: Designing Streets and Signals for Transit

Breakout Session

This workshop examines several common challenges encountered in the modern design of transit street improvement projects. Taking lessons from the preceding panel, participants will apply important transit oriented design principles.

Public Engagement and Community Visioning

Breakout Session

This session will highlight outreach tools and techniques to reach new audiences, share information, collect feedback, and improve the public’s perception of an agency’s transparency and effectiveness in urban design projects.

Great Streets Make Great Cities

Breakout Session

This panel will discuss the impacts cities have seen to businesses, neighborhoods, and even whole regions from streetscape improvements, addressing measuring benefits, building stakeholder support, and public-private partnerships.

VIP Reception

VIP Reception

Neighborhood Dine-Arounds

Plenary

Neighborhood Dine-Arounds

Breakfast

Plenary

Keynote Address

Plenary

Remarks from Phil Ting, California State Assembly.

Partnerships for Progress: State and Local Collaboration for Better City Transportation

Plenary

A panel conversation with State DOT Directors about building partnerships for better local transportation.

Vision Zero and the three E’s: Engineering, Enforcement, Education

Breakout Session

How are cities collecting and analyzing data, forging successful partnerships between DOTs and local police, and crafting effective tools for public education? Hear from experts in safe street design about Vision Zero.

Articulating Transportation: Shaping Mobility in the Press

Breakout Session

How can cities collaborate with local media to disseminate information and raise public awareness, especially on potentially controversial topics? This panel features a dynamic discussion about articulating transportation publicly.

Building the Street of the Future

Breakout Session

High-quality design and a full permanent reconstruction can fundamentally transform a city street and neighborhood. Hear from cities that are seizing opportunities to boldly envision and build the streets of the future.

Illustrating Transportation: The Power of Visual Communication

Breakout Session

When done right, diagrams, renderings, and other graphics can be powerful tools for communicating complex proposals. This session will discuss techniques for making visual communication most effective to win and retain project support.

Lunch and Closing Remarks

Plenary

Closing Remarks from Scott Wiener, San Francisco Board of Supervisors, District 8.