Smart Transportation in Las Vegas, Nevada

摘要

My name is Jacob Snow, and I'm the General Manager of the Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada in Las Vegas. I'm not exactly sure why I'm here, coming from a community that probably has represented the antithesis of smart growth in many ways, but in some ways it hasn't. If you were to ask Las Vegans what "smart growth" means, many would say that means we put the slot machines in the grocery stores so we don't have to travel as far to the casinos. They are everywhere in Las Vegas. One of the reasons we're unique is that the Regional Transportation Commission is a metropolitan planning organization (MPO), a transit agency, and a street and highway agency. So we don't have a fragmented transportation framework as do so many other areas around the country. We make the transportation plans as the MPO, and then we implement them as a street and highway agency and as a transit agency. That has been particularly beneficial for us in some respects.