14th Annual Mineta National Transportation Policy Summit | Getting to Zero deaths on our roadways.

The United States faces a public health crisis on its roads. In 2021 alone, almost 43,000 people died in traffic crashes and millions more suffered serious injuries. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg calls the situation a preventable crisis—one for which we must take responsibility by recognizing that human lives are not a price to pay for modernity. New funding available through the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) provides a significant opportunity to reduce crashes through infrastructure redesign.

Join the Mineta Transportation Institute and a panel of national experts to discuss the role of infrastructure redesign in achieving a national goal of zero traffic fatalities.

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This program is online-only. Please pre-register to receive a link to the live-stream event.

The Commonwealth Club of California is a nonprofit public forum; we welcome donations made during registration to support the production of our online programming.

This program is supported by the Mineta Transportation Institute at San José State University.

Photos courtesy the speakers.

June 2, 2023

Speakers

Featured Speaker: Robin Hutcheson
Administrator, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration

In Conversation with Karen Philbrick
Ph.D., Executive Director, Mineta Transportation Institute

Keynote Speaker: Hon. Jennifer Homendy
15th Chair, National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB)

Keynote Speaker Moderator: Paula Hammond
Multimodal National Market Leader, WSP

MTI Safety Survey Presenter: Asha Weinstein Agrawal
Ph.D., Director, MTI National Transportation Finance Center

Panel Speakers:

Ravinder S. Bhalla
Mayor, City of Hoboken

Beth Osborne
Vice President of Transportation and Thriving Communities, Smart Growth America

Emily Schweninger
Senior Policy Advisor, Transportation Health and Safety, U.S. Department of Transportation

Tony Tavares
Director, California Department of Transportation (Caltrans)

Panel Moderator: Selika Talbott
MTI Research Associate; Founder and CEO, Autonomous Vehicle Consulting