There is a very informative transportation conference in Lansing next week called the Transportation Bonanza 2 — Creating healthy, mobile, and livable communities through innovative planning, design, and construction.

THE MICHIGAN ASSOCIATION OF PLANNING’S second annual Transportation Bonanza (TB2) is the most comprehensive, multidisciplinary training program this year and provides the curriculum necessary to integrate our land use and transportation planning policies with health and mobility agendas.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

Professional planners | Citizen planners and elected officials | School officials from principals, to administrators, to teachers | Community health professionals | Transportation planners and engineers | State agency employees with a stake in transforming the built environment (DEQ, MDOT, DELEG, MSHDA, MDA, MDE, and others) | Design professionals like landscape architects and architects | Representatives from the development community

December 8, 2010 Lansing Center
8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

A full day of national experts and local perspectives

Day 1 highlights the emerging connections between planning, health, education, engineering, and design, and provides everything you need to know about integrated, multimodal transportation systems from philosophy to planning to practice.

December 9, 2010 Radisson Hotel Lansing
8:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

High level ITE manual training with national and state authorities

Day 2 provides “how to” technical information from new ITE/CNU national engineering standards that authoritatively support walkable, bikable, community supportive streets.

The event brochure contains many more specifics.

Tags: Michigan Association of Planning, Transportation Bonanza

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