Dr. Brian J. Morton of University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and Dr. John Poros of Michigan State University will be co-teaching a technical workshop related to their STRIDE-funded project “A Regional Land-Use Transportation Decision Support Tool for Mississippi” (project #2012-003S) during the National Regional Transportation Conference on June 13-15, 2016 in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The three-hour workshop will provide an introduction to a suite of tools for rural transportation planning and is scheduled for Tuesday, June 14.

First, Dr. Morton will relate the project to current planning initiatives in small towns and rural areas, including heritage and active tourism, livability, and sustainability. Dr. Poros will then describe the Community Viz®-based build-out analyses and the bicycle suitability assessments, and he will show photo-realistic visualizations of reimagined streetscapes. In the last hour of the workshop, Dr. Morton will discuss the integrated land-use/travel-demand model and an application that investigates how to coordinate growth for an area with both automobile manufacturing and heritage tourism.

What subjects will this workshop touch on?

• How higher density, pedestrian/bike friendly development can be achieved in small towns
• How the land-use/travel-demand model works and how different tools can work together
• And much, much more!

Information on the conference and workshop is available at the Web site of the National Association of Development Organizations: http://www.nado.org/events/rpo2016/.