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Register by September 30th for Capital Ideas & enter drawing to have your registration refunded

27 Sep 2016 | Posted by | 0 Comments |

Capital Ideas, coming up on November 16-17, is the best place to hear from the local & state leaders, state DOT executives, smart cities & technology experts and others who are in the trenches in the push to make smart reforms to state transportation policies, investment decisions and funding packages.

Have you registered for our state policy conference yet? Register by September 30th to be automatically entered into a drawing to have your registration refunded.

  • Learn how to improve accountability & public trust. Hear from the state experts reforming how transportation projects are selected by assessing their potential benefits first.
  • The future of road usage charges. Hear from states experimenting with other funding mechanisms for transportation
  • Prepare for new technology. Experts will discuss how autonomous vehicles, mobility-on-demand, and the smart city movement will impact your city.
  • How can your state dump “level of service?” Veterans of California’s legislative and policy shift away from the 1950’s engineering metric will be discussing their experience.

Check out the agenda to see the updated list of newly confirmed speakers for this year’s conference, which includes some of these experts:

Darrell Steinberg

Mayor-elect Darrell Steinberg, City of Sacramento

Stacey Abrams

Minority Leader Stacey Abrams, Georgia House of Representatives

Susan Shaheen

Susan Shaheen, co-director of the Transportation Sustainability Research Center at UC Berkeley

Toks Omishakin

Toks Omishakin, Deputy Commissioner, Tennessee Department of Transportation

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Del. Brooke Lierman, Maryland House of Delegates

Registration is $350 for the two-day conference. Full T4America members pay $250 with your promo code. Find out more about T4America membership here.

Register by September 30th to be automatically entered into a drawing to have your registration refunded!


Come a day early and attend the first ever national Complete Streets conference!

The Street Lights: Illuminating Implementation and Equity in Complete Streets conference is just around the corner, taking place on the day before Capital Ideas begins. Get two great conferences out of one trip to California — register today to secure your place in the room.

Taking place on November 15, 2016 in Sacramento, CA, this day-long conference will be a chance for transportation planners and engineers, community, equity, and health advocates, local officials, and Complete Streets practitioners to share ideas, brainstorm solutions, and celebrate the success of the Complete Streets movement nationwide together.

Interactive panels and breakout discussions will be lead by speakers including:

Billy Hattaway, District One Secretary, Florida Department of Transportation (confirmed)
Aditi Kambuj, Urban Design and Planning Strategic Advisor, Seattle Department of Transportation(confirmed)
Barbara McCann, Director, Office of Safety, Energy and Environment, U.S. Department of Transportation (confirmed)
Joyce Noel Taylor, Chief Engineer, Maine Department of Transportation (confirmed)

Conference registration is $150 for National Complete Streets Coalition partners, and $195 for non-partners. Become a partner today and your registration is included.