Join the regional discussion about innovative solutions to transporation planning challenges. The latest installment of Metro's transportation speaker series welcomes Naveen Lamba, an international expert on congestion pricing. The lecture is from noon to 1 p.m. this Thursday, Sept. 10, at Metro Regional Center.
The need to reduce congestion will become more important as the region's population increases and puts more pressure on our infrastructure. One solution that has been successful in other cities is congestion pricing, which shifts the cost of peak demand for the public transport network to the users. Learning from the experiences of other cities is the first step in the discussion on how, or if, our region could use these tools to meet our future needs.
Naveen Lamba from IBM's Global Business Services will address examples of successful and unsuccessful congestion charging programs from around the world. He will also discuss the development of the next generation of congestion pricing solutions.