ITE Webinar: Decide and Provide: Vision-Led Planning and Trip Generation

When: September 17, 2026 | 12:00 -- 1:00 PM ET

This webinar is led by the ITE People Centered Mobility Great Ideas Group.

Webinar Description:

The world, and transportation with it, are changing in ways that are difficult to predict. However, our transportation planning and development tools rely upon forecast-led paradigm of “Predict and Provide.” In combination with car-centric performance standards, a Predict and Provide approach can result in the over-provision of highway capacity and under-provision of active transportation infrastructure, making it more difficult to meet community goals for safety and livability.

Rather than a Predict and Provide approach, this webinar showcases a “Decide and Provide” approach to transportation planning that is vision-led, access-focused, and uncertainty-savvy. While still drawing upon trip generation data associated with previous land-use developments, this vision-led approach also considers the influence of development design and the need to accommodate uncertainty in judging what transport provision is suitable for supporting access to employment, goods, services and opportunities for the communities concerned.

Joining us from the United Kingdom, where Decide and Provide is now recognized in the UK’s revised National Planning Policy Framework, are Glenn Lyons (University of the West of England), Lynn Basford (BasfordPowers), and Ian Coles (TRICS).

Learning Objectives:

• How to adapt transportation planning frameworks to be vision-led rather than forecast-led and to account for uncertainty
• How to interpret trip generation data to reflect context and historical changes over time

Moderator: Kelly Rodgers, PhD, MLA, LEED-AP, PE, Principal | Streetsmart Planning | Portland, Oregon, USA

Presenters:

• Glenn Lyons, Mott MacDonald Professor of Future Mobility| University of the West of England | Bristol, England, UK
• Ian Coles, Managing Director| TRICS Consortium Limited |London, England, UK
• Lynn Basford, Director| BasfordPowers |Crowthorne, England, UK