Kelly Clifton on WYPR’s Maryland Morning. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act–better known as the stimulus bill–turns 6 months old on Monday. Nationally so far, $73billion out of nearly $581 billion has been spent, according to the public interest news site Pro Publica (there’s an additional $212 billion in estimated tax cuts). Some analysts contend the stimulus spending is part of why the recession seems to be ending; others say that’s far from clear. Maryland is slated to receive about $4 billion all told, and we want to see how the state has been spending it. We’re joined by Kelly Clifton, an associate professor of Urban Studies and Planning at the University of Maryland at College Park; and Neil Bergsman, director of the Maryland Budget and Tax Policy Institute.
The Purple Line: A Rail Solution? July 21, 2009 6:30 – 8:00 pm @ The National Building Museum
Hear a panel of experts, including Maryland Transit Administration’s Michael Madden and Kelly Clifton, Ph. D. University of Maryland School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, discuss the Purple Line’s potential to relieve congestion, spur economic development, and connect people to jobs in the rapidly growing Maryland suburbs. Robert Thomson, Washington Post’s Dr. Gridlock, moderates.  For information, go to: http://www.nbm.org/programs-lectures/programs/july-2009/the-purple-line-a-rail.html.
The Joy of the Journey: Celebrating the Life and Work of Ryuichi Kitamura
Listen to Kelly Clifton discuss Baltimore’s proposed Red Line on WYPR’s Maryland Morning (June 3, 2009)
Upcoming Talk at the Carolina Transportation Program – March 16, 2009
Professor Kelly Clifton from the National Center for Smart Growth at the University of Maryland will give a talk entitled “Activity and Travel Choice Models – Extensions for Evaluating Energy Consumption.” Details included below.
Time: March 16, 2009 at 12:30 pm
Location: New East Building, Room 102 on the campus of UNC-Chapel Hill
Directions: Visit
http://www.planning.unc.edu/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=75&Itemid=23
for directions to New East.
This talk focuses on some recent research into activity and transportation choice models and the potential extension of these models to understand of household energy consumption to meet residential and transportation needs. The first part of the talk examines the decision to engage in an activity in the home or outside of the home using an individual-level, binary choice model that estimates the choice of activity location as a function of personal characteristics, activity attributes and the land use and transportation system characteristics. Many models of human activity only focus on out-of-home activities because the travel incurred to reach the activity is the primary interest. However, it is important to consider the full complement of daily activities and their location in order to understand the phenomena influencing these choices and the potential for substitution. The second
part of the talk will discuss how these models and results might fit into a larger framework to understand the direct energy consumption patterns of households and implications for policy.
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This lecture is part of a Brownbag Seminar Series sponsored by the Carolina Transportation Program (CTP). CTP is an  interdisciplinary research and education program affiliated with the Department of City and Regional Planning and the Center for Urban and Regional Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Please visit http://ctp.unc.edu for more information on this program.
Three papers accepted for publication
Clifton, Kelly, Burnier, Carolina, and Akar, Gulsah, in press, Severity of injury resulting from pedestrian-vehicle crashes: What can we learn from examining the built environment?, Transportation Research D.
Akar, Gulsah, Clifton, Kelly, and Doherty, Sean. in press. How Do Travel Attributes Affect Planning Time Horizon of Activities?, Transportation Research Record
Akar, Gulsah and Clifton, Kelly. in press. The influence of individual perceptions and bicycle infrastructure on the decision to bike, Transportation Research Record
Transportation spending in the stimulous package
Dr. Kelly J. Clifton discusses the transportation projects funded under the stimulous package on Maryland Morning, WYPR, Baltimore, MD on Wednesday, February 27, 2009
Active Living Research Conference – February 18-20, 2009
The 2009 Active Living Research Annual Conference is being held February 18 – 20, 2009 in downtown San Diego, CA. The theme for the 2009 conference is Active Communities for Youth and Families: Creating Momentum for Change.
Friday, Feb. 20: Adolescent Travel to School: Exploring the Links with Physical Activity and Health – Kelly Clifton
Transportation Research Board
The 88th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board was held in Washington, DC from January 11-15, 2009. Dr. Clifton presented three papers highlighing recent work:
Influence of Social Support of Family and Friends for Adolescent Walking, Physical Activity, and Health – Kelly J. Clifton,
Gulsah Akar, Alice Fang Yan, Gerrit Knaap, Carolyn C. Voorhees
The influence of individual perceptions and bicycle infrastructure on the decision to bike – Gulsah Akar, Kelly J. Clifton
How Do Travel Attributes Affect Planning Time Horizon of Activities? – Gulsah Akar, Kelly J. Clifton, Sean T. Doherty
NCSG, DC Office of Planning, VaTech awarded grant from US GSA
The US General Services Administration awarded the DC Office of Planning, in conjunction with the National Center for Smart Growth, and Virginia Tech to examine the transportation and housing needs of the future federal workforce. The NCSG effort will be led by Dr. Kelly J. Clifton.