What does a smart transportation project look like? I participated some time ago in a TRB-sponsored online chat room about new paradigms in public transportation. There were a lot of people going back and forth about where the profession is headed in the area of public transportation. The answer, not surprisingly, was transit-oriented development. As one of the members of the planning committee for this session, I participated in a discussion about what we wanted to do at this point in the program. The challenge was to identify and present best practices in the form of specific projects and programs, to try to bring to a culmination all the things you've heard in the past several days. I volunteered for this duty to try to figure out what a smart transportation project looks like. For me, the challenge was to move beyond the paradigm of transit-oriented development, which still has a lot of room to be implemented but represents only one aspect of smart transportation projects.
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