See what’s on the agenda for Day 1 of Summit 2022.

Carlo Ratti kicks off StreetLight Summit 2022 with insights from his experience as an architect and Director of the Senseable City Lab at MIT where he studies how new technologies are changing how cities are designed, understood, and inhabited.

Active transportation options are essential in building more sustainable and equitable cities. Panini Chowdhury, Principle Planner for the City of Pittsburgh, explores how pedestrian and bicycle travel behaviors in the city can be compared to safety data to power more equitable transportation outcomes.

Grab a snack or coffee, use the restroom, take a walk—re-energize for the rest of the day.

We know meeting fellow professionals using StreetLight is one of the best parts of attending StreetLight Summit, so we’re building in plenty of networking time. Enter our networking portal to connect one-on-one with other attendees for a series of quick five-minute video chats.

Together, users have run thousands of analyses in StreetLight InSight®. We curate the best of the best for a value-packed session of clever insights, how-tos, and tips.

Learn how StreetLight’s partnership tiers help AEC firms wow clients and win contracts with granular, validated, multimode metrics that empower truly compelling stories.

Planning professionals at Stantec and Longwood Collective share how they used StreetLight’s bus Metrics to understand ridership patterns to, from, and through the Longwood Medical and Academic Area (LMA) in Boston in order to provide better bus transit options to serve the nearly 70,000 workers, 27,000 students, and 2.8 million patients visiting LMA annually.

Thank you for joining us for Day 1! In these last few minutes, we’ll wrap up the day and fill you in on our giveaway details.

See what’s on the agenda for Day 2 of Summit 2022

As vehicle speed spiked on less congested streets and travelers avoided shared public transit options, the pandemic presented added challenges for pedestrian safety. Rayla Bellis and Chris McCahill discuss how Smart Growth America and State Smart Transportation Initiative used StreetLight to understand the top factors impacting pedestrian safety and identify why some places became more deadly for pedestrians while others did not.

Join us for another round of clever insights, how-tos, and tips from fellow industry professionals using StreetLight Insight® to power their projects.

What’s our Next Big Thing? You’ll be the first to know. Join Sid Nair, VP of Product, for an interactive sneak peek at new tools coming soon from StreetLight.

Thank you for joining us for Day 2! In these last few minutes, we’ll wrap up the day and fill you in on our giveaway details.

Michael Hare is a project manager in HNTB’s Kansas City office focused on transportation planning. His work primarily consists of corridor studies along with interstate access modification requests. Michael is a registered Professional Engineer in the state of Kansas and a Professional Traffic Operations Engineer. He lives in Overland Park with his wife and two growing kids.

Chris McCahill, PhD, is the Managing Director of the State Smart Transportation Initiative (SSTI), a program of the University of Wisconsin and Smart Growth America that supports a network of state transportation agencies from across the U.S. committed to sustainability, equity, and transparent governance. He also serves on the Transportation Commission and the Transportation Policy and Planning Board for the City of Madison.

Rayla Bellis is Smart Growth America’s Director of Thriving Communities, overseeing work at the intersection of transportation, land use, public health, resilience, community design, and Complete Streets. In previous roles at SGA, Rayla led National Complete Streets Coalition workshops, provided technical assistance to state departments of transportation, and worked with metropolitan planning organizations and other transportation agencies and stakeholders to support better transportation access for all.

Bert Granberg leads the Analytics group at Wasatch Front Regional Council, the metropolitan planning organization for the Salt Lake City – Ogden metro area. Prior experience includes directing the Utah Geospatial Resource Center and service as a member of the National Geospatial Advisory Committee and the National States Geographic Information Council board of directors.

Casey Bruno, AICP is a Senior Transportation Planner with the Longwood Collective. In this role, she assists in the implementation of various planning and development efforts related to the enhancement of Boston’s Longwood Medical and Academic (LMA) neighborhood through transportation planning and travel demand management strategies. She also serves as the lead transportation planner for technical assistance efforts designed to meet institutional needs for parking and multimodal transportation access and to identify the needs of pedestrians, bicycles, transit, and vehicles in the LMA neighborhood.

Catrina Meyer, AICP, GISP is a transportation planner in Stantec’s Urban Mobility Group. Catrina is passionate about synthesizing data to drive decision making and improve communities through safer, more equitable, and more sustainable mobility options. Catrina has been part of transit market analysis studies, regional mobility plans, transportation impact assessments, and transit evaluations.

Panini Chowdhury is a certified transportation planning & safety professional with experience in the government sectors in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and academia in Bangladesh. He likes to describe himself as a “hawker,” selling the dream of dignity in human mobility, transportation equity, and a strong public transit-dominated transportation future. His professional expertise includes traffic safety, transportation planning, transit accessibility, geospatial and statistical analysis, and travel demand modeling.

Erika Eagan designs, operates, and interprets travel and forecast models as a Transportation Data & Models Analyst for the Southwestern PA Commission (SPC) in Pittsburgh, PA. She uses her knowledge of emerging technologies to approach complex analyses and support multi-modal planning across the MPO’s 10-county region, leveraging her skills to evaluate accessibility, identify infrastructure gaps that inhibit multi-modal activity, and strategize improvements to increase access to transport options

Raven McKnight is an Associate Data Scientist on the Community Development Research Team at the Metropolitan Council of the Twin Cities. She uses location-based services data to analyze visitation to state and regional parks in Minnesota. Previously, she worked with public transit direct demand models at Metro Transit and studied statistics, geography, and creative writing at Macalester College.

Alicia Ulmes is a Traffic Engineer for GPI in New Jersey. For the past 10 plus years, she has performed traffic signal optimization, traffic modeling, signal design, traffic data collection, processing and assessment, and controller programming for NJDOT as well as other agencies. She has used StreetLight’s origin-destination data in a number of projects and is currently working with StreetLight’s AADT products.

Ken Hausman is a Senior Traffic Engineer with GPI in Lebanon, New Jersey. Prior to joining GPI in 2019, he was an independent consultant for twenty years specializing in the areas of Travel Demand Forecasting and Traffic Simulation Modeling. For the past 10 plus years, he has used StreetLight Data for multiple projects for the New Jersey Department of Transportation and the Turnpike Authority. He is also currently using StreetLight Data for the Corridor H project in West Virginia

Don Bryson is an experienced transportation engineer and planner who supports campus transportation plans, corridor studies, and transit plans providing project management, technical analysis, and public involvement support. As a consultant, he helps resolve conflicts that arise in complex, multimodal transportation studies. He has been directly involved in a number of VHB’s recent corridor studies and has been especially focused on developing and documenting effective recommendation packages and implementation strategies.