Events

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(Updated August 21 with new registration instructions.)

I’m happy to announce that we’ve scheduled the next session of my “inexcusably fun” two-day intensive course in transit network design.  It will be October 30-31, 2025 in Portland, right after the Mpact conference. Tuition is US$495.

This course isn’t just for transit planners. It’s for any professional whose work depends on great public transit: urban planners, developers, architects, local transportation officials. It’s also good for people in transit agencies who aren’t in planning but need to understand it better, especially leaders in operations, communications, and infrastructure. Advocates have learned a lot too! For more on the course, what you’ll learn, and how it works, see here: jarrettwalker.com/courses.

Registration is open now!  The limit is 36 and we will take registrations until it’s full.

To register and pay:

PayPal has been unreliable but at the moment it’s working again.  You can register and pay through PayPal here or use this QR code:

You can also emit a check for $495 times the number of students you’re registering, made out to “Jarrett Walker + Associates” and sent to

Network Design Course
Jarrett Walker + Associates
1021 SE Caruthers St
Portland, OR 97214

In this case, please ALSO make a copy of your check (or evidence of the electronic transaction) and email it to melissa at jarrettwalker dot com.  That will get you on the list ASAP to reserve your space.

In the email, please tell us:

• Names and affiliations (employer etc) of students being registered.
• Email for each student being registered.
• How you heard about the course.

Finally, if you’d rather we send your employer an invoice, then we’ll need to add $100 to the price to cover our paperwork costs, so it’s $595 in that case.  (The additional fee covers any number of students on a single invoice.)  Just email melissa at jarrettwalker dot com if you’d like to do it that way.

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The 2024 Transit Research to Practice Symposium is a two day virtual event (October 22-24) with many interesting panels devoted to the challenge of making academic research more relevant to the daily practice of transit planning and management.  It’s many sponsors include the University of Florida Transportation Institute, the University of California at Davis Institute for Transportation Studies, and the California Department of Transportation.

I’ll be doing a keynote for them at 9:00 AM Pacific on Tuesday October 22.  My understanding is that you can attend just for that.  But you need to register here.

Thanks to Kari Watkins at the University of California at Davis for this invitation.  Kari will also be leading the Q&A after my talk.

The next webinar about the new edition of my book is tomorrow, September 12, 2024, sponsored by ITE Toronto.  Of course, you can join from anywhere in the world, but the Q&A will probably be Toronto-focused.  I’ll be introducing the new edition of my book and talking about some new ways to think about public transit planning.  Please register in advance!

I’ve just finished up a complex tour of the UK and Ireland, which took me to London, Cambridge, Cardiff, Birmingham, Belfast and Dublin.  It’s a fascinating time for public transport in these countries, and especially in the UK.  Thanks to everyone who turned out for my events!  A longer piece on the trip is coming soon.

The tide of bus reform washing over the UK (and already much further advanced in the Irish Republic) has created an urgent need for UK decisionmakers to think about bus network design.  Many private companies that have provided much of the public transport in the UK are no longer viable in the wake of ridership drops since the pandemic, and meanwhile, major cities are demanding more control over their public transport so that they can integrate public transport with their other goals, including housing and redevelopment.

On Thursday 9 May at 3 pm London time I’ll be doing a webinar on Redesigning Bus Networks pitched to a UK audience, though of course anyone can attend.  It’s sponsored by the Bus Centre of Excellence a UK Government-funded educational institution.  We’ll be talking about how bus service redesign is an essential step in regaining government control of public transport, based on my long experience with similar reforms in Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand.

Then, coming up in June, I’ll be touring the UK and Ireland in person.  Current plans include:

• London, an event TBD on the evening of 5 June.
• Cardiff, an event TBD on 6 or 7 June
• Birmingham, an event sometime in the week of 10-14 June
• Belfast, a definite event on 19 June at Queens University, details here.
• Dublin, an event TBD on the evening of 20 June.

Hope to see you at the webinar on 9 May, and at one of these in-person events!

Setting for my course  and New School lecture in New York in early February, Ben Fried did a nice interview of me in Streetsblog toay.