ITE Webinar: Planning for Future Transportation Outcomes: Person-Centered Performance Metrics

When: May 14, 2026 | 2:00 -- 3:00 PM ET

This webinar is led by the ITE Transit Committee.

Webinar Description:

Transportation analyses used to plan future networks often rely on vehicle counts and extensions of historic trendlines, with assumptions such as steady annual growth in traffic volumes. When forecast networks are expected to perform poorly under these assumptions, agencies may respond by investing in roadway expansion. Research in economics and travel demand modeling indicates that increased roadway capacity can induce additional driving by lowering the relative cost of auto travel, while the opposite can also be true. These relationships are reflected across many traffic and travel demand models.

Achieving sustainability targets requires planning approaches that reflect desired future outcomes rather than past travel patterns. In this session, Senior Advisor Dan Hardy, P.E., PTP (Resource Planning, Washington, DC), and Rebecca Levitsky and Jacob Elliott (City of Philadelphia) will discuss analyses used to capital?plan sustainable transportation networks based on a forecast vision. Speakers will share lessons from travel demand and intersection performance modeling that emphasize moving people and delivering outcomes.

Learning Objectives:

• Describe how traditional traffic modeling countermands sustainable policy and contributes to a cycle of poor decision making

• Recognize and describe the biases inherent in traditional transportation analyses

• Develop new tools that deliver the sustainable, policy-driven outcomes

• Articulate and improve the link between sustainable policy and daily work that supports it

Moderator: Dan Ross, P.Eng, Senior Project Manager | HDR Inc. | Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Presenters:

• Dan Hardy, Senior Advisor | Renaissance Planning | Washington, DC, USA

• Rebecca Levitsky, Transit Project Coordinator | City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

• Jacob Elliott, Vision Zero Project Coordinator | City of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA