RSVP: 4/18 Human Transit, Book Talk by Jarrett Walker

Join us to celebrate the revised edition of Jarrett Walker's Human Transit, Revised Edition: How Clearer Thinking about Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives. The new edition will deepen its explanations about the basic principles of public transit, informed by his work as a network planning consultant. New topics include the problem with specialization; the role of flexible or “demand response” services; how to know when to redesign your network; and responding to tech-industry claims that transit will soon be obsolete.  Finally, he added a major new section exploring the idea of access to opportunity as a core measure of transit’s success.

Location: UCLA Campus, 2355 Public Affairs Building
Date & Time: April 18, 2024, 12:00–1:30 p.m.
Agenda: Jarrett Walker will discuss new editions to his book and take questions from the audience. Audience members will also have the opportunity to purchase a copy.
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About Jarrett Walker

Jarrett Walker, PhD, is an international consultant in public transit network design and policy. He has been a full-time consultant since 1991 and has led numerous major planning projects in North America, Australia, and New Zealand. He is President at Jarrett Walker + Associates, based in Portland, Oregon, and Principal Consultant with MRCagney in Australia.

He is the author of the popular public transit blog HumanTransit.org, and the book Human Transit: How Clearer Thinking about Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives (Island Press, 2011). This book is a friendly, non-technical introduction to transit’s underlying geometry, and the real value judgments that must be explored to make both transit and development policy. His background integrates an arts and humanities PhD (Stanford, 1996) with long technical experience in all aspects of transit and its role in city-building. He is a frequent keynote speaker, teacher, and facilitator of decision-making processes.


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