Monday, May 13, 2024, 9:00–11:30 am, In Person
Join CTS for their annual all councils meeting to explore topics related to CTS’s 2024 theme of Rural Needs, Statewide Answers: Improving Transportation for All Communities.
The event is free to attend, but registration is required. Please register by Friday, April 26.
Continue reading Rural Needs, Statewide Answers: Demographics, Health Care Access, and Community EngagementTuesday, April 30, 2024
1:00–2:30 p.m. Central
This webinar will feature two presentations focused on enhancing public transit in rural communities.
Tom Fisher will describe how researchers at the U’s Minnesota Design Center worked with the leadership of Wabasha, Minnesota, to evaluate how the city could leverage its underutilized transportation assets and its underemployed transportation personnel as a community based, on-demand transit system. As part of this effort, Fisher’s team looked at how people are finding transportation through informal and social media channels, explored how the city could support and enhance that activity, and identified the regulatory and risk barriers to fully using the transportation assets that exist in small, rural communities.
Elliott McFadden will highlight MnDOT’s Mobility as a Service (MaaS) project, with a focus on how the agency is bringing MaaS technology to rural public transit agencies and their riders.
The webinar, held in conjunction with a CTS Transportation Planning and the Economy Council meeting, is part of CTS’s Rural Needs, Statewide Answers: Improving Transportation for All thematic focus in 2024.
This webinar is free to attend, but registration is required. Once you have registered, you will receive an email confirmation with a Zoom link. The link should not be shared with others; it is unique to you.
If you’re unable to join us for the live broadcast, a recording will be available on the CTS website after the event.
Attendees are eligible for Professional Development Hours (PDHs) and American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP) certification maintenance credits.
Mark your calendar for our annual conference! The event convenes researchers and practitioners from Minnesota and the Upper Midwest to highlight new learning, emerging ideas, and the latest innovations in transportation. Attendees learn about research findings, implementation efforts, and engagement activities related to a variety of transportation topics.
Continue reading 2024 CTS Transportation Research ConferenceReprinted from CTS News; March 5, 2024
—Pam Snopl, CTS senior editor
The fuel tax is the backbone of our roadway funding system, but its ability to generate revenue is under pressure: more vehicles are using less fuel—or no fuel at all. In response, many states are turning to alternative revenue mechanisms to help bridge the funding gap.
Continue reading States Explore Fee Alternatives to Fund Roadway InfrastructureTuesday, April 16, 2024
10:30 a.m.–noon Central
This interactive webinar, presented by the Center for Healthy Aging and Innovation (CHAI) in partnership with the Center for Transportation Studies (CTS), will explore the topic of transportation and aging, with special attention to the challenges and opportunities in rural areas. The event will feature a presentation by Lisa D’Ambrosio and a discussion including three panelists of diverse professional backgrounds from Minnesota who will share their experiences and recommendations regarding transportation for older adults in rural areas.
Continue reading Webinar: Transportation and Aging—Opportunities and Challenges in Rural CommunitiesRepublished from Rural Needs. Statewide Answers: Improving Transportation for All Communities, Center for Transportation Studies, January 2024.
Continue reading New CTS Initiative for 2024: Rural TransportationReprinted from CTS News, December 7, 2023
—Sophie Koch, contributing writer
Reliable transportation has a huge impact on quality of life. Many Americans, however, are unable to travel where and when they need to go, and policymakers lack tools to measure the extent of the problem.
Continue reading ‘Transportation Insecurity’: A New Metric to Evaluate Programs and Guide Decision MakingReprinted from CTS News, October 9, 2023
Patterns of movement in cities, especially office job commutes, were substantially altered in 2021 by telework, economic change, and other responses to COVID-19, according to new research from the Accessibility Observatory at the University of Minnesota. While the immediate effects of these behavioral changes, such as reduced congestion and lower transit ridership, have been well documented, new data reveals deeper impacts that differ by the three modes studied: auto, transit, and biking.
Continue reading COVID-19 pandemic substantially changed commuting patterns, job accessThe goods that continuously move through Minnesota by road, rail, air, water, and pipelines drive the state’s economy, making efficient freight transit—and excellent freight infrastructure—a high priority for the Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT).
Continue reading Researchers Identify Freight Data Sources, Create Guidance to Aid Infrastructure PlanningAn influx of electric trucks is expected on our highways, but where will they charge? Few public stations today can serve large freight vehicles. The challenge? Fast chargers are expensive, and new ones need to be placed strategically to keep pace with growing demand.
Continue reading Model Helps Identify Strategic Sites for Truck Charging Stations
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