F. Alan Smith Distinguished Lecture Series To Host International Public Transit Expert Jarrett Walker

By  //  March 23, 2018

April 3 at Denius Student Center on the Campus of Florida Institution of Technology

The F. Alan Smith Distinguished Lecture Series will host Jarrett Walker, an international consultant in public transit network design and policy, based in Portland, Oregon.

BREVARD COUNTY • MELBOURNE, FLORIDA – The F. Alan Smith Distinguished Lecture Series will host Jarrett Walker, an international consultant in public transit network design and policy, based in Portland, Oregon.

Walker’s Lecture will be held April 3, from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. in the Hartley Room, located in the Denius Student Center on the Campus of Florida Institution of Technology.

Originally established in 2007 as the F. Alan Smith Visiting Executive Program and now known as the F. Alan Smith Distinguished Lecture Series, this program was created to attract corporate executives in the transportation industry and other subject experts to speak to students, faculty and community members at  Florida Institute of Technology.

At least one executive speaker is welcomed to campus every Fall and Spring semesters. Speakers address topics such as innovation in the automotive industry, self-driving cars, the hyperloop high-speed rail, and innovations in ride-sharing and transportation.

Walker has been a full-time consultant since 1991 and has led numerous major planning projects in cities and towns of all sizes, across North America, Australia, and New Zealand.

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He is also the author of Human Transit: How clearer thinking about public transit can enrich our communities and our lives (Island Press, 2011).

Walker is President of Jarrett Walker + Associates, a consulting firm that provides advice and planning services North America.

Born in 1962, he grew up in Portland in during the revolutionary 1970s, the era when Portland first made its decisive commitment to be a city for people rather than cars.

He went on to complete a BA at Pomona College (Claremont, California) and a Ph.D. in theatre arts and humanities at Stanford University.

Passionately interested in an impractical number of fields, he is probably the only person with peer-reviewed publications in both the Journal of Transport Geography and Shakespeare Quarterly.

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