{"id":1356,"date":"2014-05-12T09:12:20","date_gmt":"2014-05-12T17:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/?p=1356"},"modified":"2014-05-21T10:52:11","modified_gmt":"2014-05-21T18:52:11","slug":"jeff-busby-from-translink-talks-to-transportation-graduate-seminar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/jeff-busby-from-translink-talks-to-transportation-graduate-seminar\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Busby from TransLink Talks to Transportation Graduate Seminar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On May 2, Jeff Busby,\u00a0Senior Manager, Project Development at\u00a0TransLink in Vancouver, BC, came and talked to\u00a0the University of Washington\u00a0transportation graduate students at\u00a0the graduate transportation\u00a0seminar. He gave a very interesting talk about how areas in Metro Vancouver are using transit stations to stimulate better development and the relationship between development and transportation infrastructure. This is important because Metro Vancouver is projected to grow over the next 30 years, meaning that there will be an increase in the number of trips taken. TransLink hopes that the increase in person trips won&#8217;t result in an increase in vehicle trips.\u00a0Achieving\u00a0this goal involves everything from designing transit station access to choosing which benches to put at stations. The talk was an excellent opportunity for students to learn about issues in the transportation\u00a0industry, and how those issues are being solved. One interesting thing about TransLink is that it is organized differently than many of its North American counterparts, as they\u00a0fulfill the roles of both an MPO and a transit system operator, and also fund a lot of road infrastructure. This enables a degree of coordination that would be impractical in many jurisdictions.\u00a0We would like to thank Jeff for speaking to our students, as it was a great experience for them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Busby1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-1357\" alt=\"Busby1\" src=\"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Busby1.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Busby2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-1358\" alt=\"Busby2\" src=\"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Busby2.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Busby3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-1359\" alt=\"Busby3\" src=\"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Busby3.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On May 2, Jeff Busby,\u00a0Senior Manager, Project Development at\u00a0TransLink in Vancouver, BC, came and talked to\u00a0the University of Washington\u00a0transportation graduate students at\u00a0the graduate transportation\u00a0seminar. He gave a very interesting talk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-student-activities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1356"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1377,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1356\/revisions\/1377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}