BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20260611T135723EDT-5508tZBUxv@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20260611T175723Z DESCRIPTION:\n\nWe sincerely appreciate Alstom's generous support in making this event possible.\n\n \n\nIn the 20th Century\, the automobile became the predominant mode of transport in most cities in North America. This ha s had a wide range of negative environmental and social impacts. However\, transport systems which focus on public transit and “active” transport (w alking and cycling) are uniquely situated to address a wide range of socie tal goals including reducing GHG emissions and other pollutants at the sam e time improving health and safety. While cities have begun to embrace a m ove towards a new mobility paradigm\, the path towards sustainable and inc lusive transport systems has a number of technical\, political\, economic and societal barriers.\n\nIn this 3rd Annual Sustainable Transportation Ro undtable\, following their recent book\, “Life after cars”\, Sarah Goodyea r and Doug Gordon of the podcast “War on Cars” will open the day with a ke ynote. Following this\, two panels consisting of local experts and stakeho lders will discuss issues related to transport and sustainability. As alwa ys\, the day wouldn't be complete without presentations by student researc hers from McGill University and Polytechnique Montréal on diverse topics r elated to transport and cities.\n\nDate: Thursday\, April 9\, 2026\n Time:  9:30 AM - 18:00 PM \n Location: Armstrong building\, Room 365/370\n\nRegist er here\n\n\n \n Agenda\n\n 9:30 - 10:00 | Arrival and Coffee\n\n 10:00 – 10:1 5 | Opening Remarks by Kevin Manaugh\, Associate Professor jointly appoint ed to the Department of Geography and the Bieler School of Environment\n\n 10:15 - 11:00 | Keynote Speech by Sarah Goodyear and Doug Gordon (Presenta tion in English)\n\n 11:00 - 12:15 | Panel #1 Nature and cars with Catherin e Guastavino\, Sarah Dorner and Lenore Fahrig\n\n 12:15 – 13:15 | Lunch\n\n 13:15 – 14:15 | Graduate Student Lightning Talks\n\n 14:15 – 14:45 | Coffee \n\n 14:45 – 16:00 | Panel #2 – Transport & Marginalized Groups with Alejan dro Pérez Villaseñor\, Marie-Soleil Cloutier\, Meredith Alousi-Jones\, E. Owen Waygood\n\n 16:00 - 18:00 | Closing Reception at Faculty Club (3450 Ru e McTavish\, Montréal\, QC H3A 1X9)\n\n\n\n \n Meet the keynote speakers\n \n Sarah Goodyear is a journalist and author whose work has appeared in CityL ab\, Streetsblog\, Grist\, The New York Daily News\, The Village Voice\, M s. Magazine\, Psychology Today\, and many other venues. She is the coautho r of Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile \, out on October 21st from Thesis\, a Penguin Random House imprint. She i s also cofounder and cohost of The War on Cars\, a podcast that looks at t he effects of automobile dependence on our society. She is the author of a novel\, View from a Burning Bridge\, published by Red Hen Press. She hold s a BA from the University of California\, Berkeley\, and an MA in Biograp hy and Memoir from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Sarah lives in Brooklyn.\n\n  \n \n Doug Gordon is a writer\, media producer \, public speaker\, safe streets advocate and passionate believer in citie s for people. He's also one of the hosts of The War on Cars podcast. Their book\, Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves From the Tyranny of the Automob ile\, was published by Penguin Random House in Fall 2025.\n\n His writing h as appeared in The Guardian\, The New Republic\, Salon\, Jalopnik\, The Ne w York Daily News and Streetsblog. He's frequently quoted in the press abo ut New York's livable streets revolution.\n\n As a TV producer with credits for PBS\, ABC\, Discovery\, History\, Travel\, and NatGeo\, Doug knows ho w to tell a good story. Using these skills\, he has advised transportation advocacy organizations\, climate groups\, and mobility companies on commu nications strategies that make the case for safer\, smarter and more susta inable cities. Doug is a tireless advocate for safe streets for cyclists a nd pedestrians\, a dedicated community volunteer\, and helped establish Ne w York's 'LPI bill\,' which makes people on bikes safer at intersections. \n\n He lives in Brooklyn with his wife Leora and their two children\, who love getting around the neighborhood by biking\, walking\, and public tran sit. He has not owned a car since 1998.\n\n Discover their Podcast\n\n → The War on Cars\n\n Meet the panelists\n \n Sarah Dorner\, Professor in the Depa rtment of Civil\, Geological and Mining Engineering at Polytechnique Montr éal\, is co-chairholder of the Industrial Chair on Drinking Water. Profess or Dorner’s research focuses on the whole urban water cycle and novel tech nologies for safe community drinking water supplies. Prof. Dorner is leadi ng projects on nature based solutions for stormwater control and climate c hange adaptation.\n\n  \n \n Catherine Guastavino is a professor at McGill Un iversity (School of Information Studies) and co-director of the Quebec-wid e network AIRS (Air\, Intersectorality\, Respiratory and Sound research). She also directs the Sounds in the City partnership\, which brings togethe r diverse academics\, professionals\, artists\, and citizens to rethink th e role of sound in cities. Her research interests include urban soundscape s\, environmental noise\, (multi)sensory experience\, spatial audio and he aring. She has extensive experience collaborating with industry partners\, cultural institutions\, municipal\, and provincial governments in Quebec and abroad.\n\n  \n \n Alejandro Pérez Villaseñor holds a Ph.D. in Transporta tion Engineering and has research interests in Bus Rapid Transit systems\, last-mile mobility\, and road safety. His research focuses on indoor air quality in transit units\, the effects of prolonged exposure to transporta tion-related pollutants on human health\, and the mechanisms that promote active mobility in urban contexts.\n\n  \n \n Marie-Soleil Cloutier is a geog rapher\, a full professor\, and director of the Centre Urbanisation Cultur e Société at the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique. She also lead the scientific activities of the Pedestrian and Urban Space Laborator y (Labo Piétons et Espace urbain). For over 15 years\, she has been conduc ting research projects on urban walkability and road risk\, including the ones faced by the most vulnerable pedestrians (children\, seniors). Her pa rtnership-based approaches lead her to collaborate with various stakeholde rs in the public and private sectors\, as well as with researchers in Queb ec\, the rest of Canada\, and France.\n\n  \n \n Meredith Alousi-Jones is a f ourth-year PhD candidate in the School of Urban Planning at McGill. Her re search examines the everyday travel of underserved populations\, focusing mainly on older adults\, and explores how transport systems and urban envi ronments shape social participation and quality of life. Using interdiscip linary and mixed-method approaches\, she works closely with communities\, practitioners\, and policy partners to co-produce research that informs mo re equitable transport and urban planning.\n\n  \n \n Lenore Fahrig is Chance llor’s Professor of Biology and Gray Merriam Chair in Landscape Ecology at Carleton University\, Ottawa. Lenore and her students research the effect s of landscape structure on biodiversity and the abundance\, distribution and persistence of wildlife populations. Study species include frogs and t oads\, turtles\, birds\, mammals\, insects\, plants and lichens. Landscape structure includes the amounts of various kinds of land cover in a landsc ape (e.g.\, forest\, wetland\, roads\, urban areas\, crop fields)\, and th e spatial arrangement of these cover types. Lenore is a Fellow of the Roya l Society of Canada (RSC) and recipient of the Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gol d Medal\, Canada’s top award in Science and Engineering.\n\n\n \n\n\n\nPro fessor Owen Waygood is a full professor at Polytechnique Montréal\, Canada . Professor Waygood is interested in how the built environment affects not just how we travel\, but its impact on our lives through social\, environ mental\, and economic impacts. Dr. Waygood has published research on child ren’s travel (Canadian\, British\, Dutch\, Japanese\, and Swedish)\, life- cycle stages\, cohort effects\, information use for more environmentally f riendly travel\, and psychological impacts on the interpretation of CO2 in formation. He was an Associate Professor at Laval University\, Canada from 2012 to 2018. Before that he held a research position at the Centre for T ransport & Society in the United Kingdom from 2009 to 2012. Professor Wayg ood completed his PhD at Kyoto University in 2009.\n DTSTART:20260409T133000Z DTEND:20260409T220000Z LOCATION:Room 365/370\, Donald E. Armstrong Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 3L1\, 3420 rue McTavish SUMMARY:3rd Annual Sustainable Transportation Roundtable URL:https://www.mcgill.ca/desautels/channels/event/3rd-annual-sustainable-t ransportation-roundtable-371188 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR