Once in a Century
We all know 2020 was a time like no other for transportation.
At the beginning of last April, when all but seven states had issued some type of stay-at-home order, passenger transportation essentially halted. Airline travel was cleaved and traffic on toll roads sank. Transit agency chiefs found themselves begging people not to ride in order to protect their workers and the essential front lines workers who still needed to travel. Truly it was a year none of us expected.
Yet transportation does not operate in a vacuum and, in fact, is nested in the major issues that defined the tumultuous year. The complicated logistics of transporting millions of vaccines illustrate the importance of transportation and well as its role in getting people to testing and inoculation sites. The race and equity issues that the nation reckoned with highlight the role of transportation in providing inclusive access to jobs, education, and health care. Ongoing climate concerns spotlight the fact last year transportation remained the largest contributor to U.S. greenhouse gases.
In short, the last twelve months demonstrated clearly why Eno's work is more important, imperative, and impactful as ever.
In March we established a comprehensive hub on our website for COVID-19 news and information and a collection of helpful resources for transportation professionals. We also launched a Road to Recovery webinar series that focuses on how transportation organizations can strategically prepare for their post-COVID future. The series features advice from practitioners and policy experts from their real-world experiences.
While the pandemic made Eno's excellent in-person classes and courses impossible, we quickly pivoted to virtual learnings to ensure the industry's professional development needs would continue to be met. The top-notch curriculum was supplemented with content relevant to the existential challenges transit agencies, companies, and organizations were facing. We met professionals' demands for the leadership "edge" during the pandemic to advance their careers, for better sense-making on transportation's changing landscape and, ultimately, what all this means for them personally.
Our policy work remained as timely as ever as we accelerated critical projects on subjects such as the role of transportation in improving America's health and protecting transportation's front-line workforce. We also reoriented research and analysis on a range of topics from congestion pricing, to mobility-on-demand, to unmanned aerial systems to reflect not just the current moment, but the road ahead. Our work on transit costs and project delivery is proving particularly important as agencies potentially look to do more in a resource-constrained environment.
And at a time when informed facts and independent insights without the spin are at a premium, Eno Transportation Weekly was there to provide that valuable perspective. With the transportation-related news and analysis coming thick and fast all year long, ETW demonstrated why it's so indispensable.
But we do not do it alone. Everything we do reflects some kind of partnership, whether formal or informal. Our stellar Boards of Directors, Advisors, and Regents continue to lend their valuable time and expertise. And in a year filled with plenty of distractions, our members, contributors, and affiliates reaffirmed their commitment to this organization again and again, for which we are very grateful.
Like last year, we know 2021 will be far from normal. Importantly for us, it is Eno's Centenary. We look forward to working with you all as we celebrate the last 100 years of legacy, innovation, and impact. Thanks to you, we are poised, ready, and strategically set for the next 100 as well.
Robert Puentes
President and CEO
James Burnley
Board Chairman
Click Below to Explore Eno's Impact
Eno, along with the rest of the world, was impacted on every level by the COVID-19 pandemic. Everything went virtual practically overnight, causing a tsunami of change in the way we do business. But Eno leaned into the changes and in the words of our founder met “change with change” to remain impactful and relevant in unprecedented times.
Education and Training
Our leading-edge research and analysis on critical and emerging issues is rooted in our understanding of the transportation landscape now. Through our spectrum of virtual learning programs, we help ensure leaders have access to the information they need to shape solutions and inform decision-making.
Convening and Connecting
In the midst of a rapidly-changing environment and with the transportation sector in crisis, Eno provided a crucial forum for transportation professionals to connect with each other. Facing the pandemic-era reality of a newly virtual world, Eno leaned in to provide transportation professionals a chance to learn from each other and seed new ideas and solutions throughout the industry.
Inside Eno and What's Next
In the midst of a rapidly-changing environment and with the transportation sector in crisis, Eno provided a crucial forum for transportation professionals to connect with each other. Facing the pandemic-era reality of a newly virtual world, Eno leaned in to provide transportation professionals a chance to learn from each other and seed new ideas and solutions throughout the industry.
Education and Training
Congestion Pricing
In May, Eno published a research report, “Congestion Pricing in the United States: Principles for Developing a Viable Program to Advance Sustainability and Equity Goals.” The report outlines key concepts, challenges, and best practices for elected officials, civic leaders, advocates, and agency practitioners to consider as they consider the feasibility of congestion pricing for their regions. One primary takeaway of the report is that congestion pricing can yield revenues for investment in other modes, like public and active transportation, that meet community priorities for sustainability and equity.
Moving MOD Forward
Agencies continue to be interested in app-based, on-demand, shared services as a way to augment their transit networks. Eno published four in a series of policy papers covering key policy topics in partnerships between public agencies and private mobility providers using the MOD Sandbox pilot projects in Los Angeles and Puget Sound as robust case studies. The reports and webinar recordings on the subject are available on Eno's MOD webpage.
Educational Webinars
This year, Eno's webinars were more critical than ever before, as transportation professionals grappled with the impacts of COVID-19.
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Educating Leaders
Transit Senior Executive
The TSE program is tailored specifically for senior-level managers who possess a strong commitment to the public transportation industry and currently serve in a senior leadership role. The program includes opportunities to interact with industry luminaries and experts, discuss leadership challenges with peers and faculty, participate in coaching sessions, engage in challenging real-world exercises, and much more.
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The TMM-V course includes virtual classroom instruction, executive roundtables, a leadership panel with foremost industry experts, a comprehensive leadership evaluation through the 360 Leadership Assessment, and follow up webinars. In addition, it includes an individualized coaching session following the 360 Leadership Assessment that provides each participant with detailed feedback and growth opportunities.
Transportation Mid-Manager Virtual
TCRP Report: Redesigning Transit Networks for thee New Mobility Future
Eno served on a research team led by Foursquare Integrated Transportation Planning to evaluate transit network redesigns in the new mobility era for the Transportation Research Board’s Transit Cooperative Research Program. The report provides guidance for public transit officials on service planning and bus network redesign, and how new mobility options like transportation network companies, microtransit, and other app-based mobility providers may affect decisions about changing transit networks to meet rider needs. The report was recently released by TRB and can be accessed on their website.
Eno Transportation Weekly: First-In-Class News and Analysis
Eno Transportation Weekly (ETW) continued to be a source of up-tp-date information and analysis. Led by Jeff Davis, ETW makes sense of the policy impacts of federal legislation and provides insight into leading-edge practice across the country.
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Convening and Connecting
COVID-19 Resources
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to challenge transportation organizations across the United States and around the globe. Eno seeks to help them respond by providing up-to-date information, connections to others in the field, and actionable ideas to respond, collected on our COVID-19 Resources Page.
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Road to Recovery Webinars
Propel: An Alumni Publication
Inspired by our professional development motto, Propel features Learning, Leadership, and Legacy sections on timely industry topics by experts in the field, leadership advice from foremost luminaries, and spotlights to highlight alumni who are putting innovative thought and strategy into real action.
The Fall 2020 theme focused on post-recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, moving beyond what's happening now to what will happen next. The inaugural issue's articles explored how to respond to the current crisis, sharpen your focus on the most impactful areas, and plan effectively for the post-COVID future. Featured articles include:
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A Case Study in Funding: Future California Transportation Revenue in a COVID-19 Future by Asha Weinstein Agrawal, Hannah King, and Martin Wachs
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Three Areas Transit Leaders Must Focus On to Future Proof Their Agency by Paul Comfort
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Tips from the Top with Carmen Bianco
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Advancing Ethics with Carolyn Flowers
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Alumni Spotlight on Rhonda Allen
Aviation Working Group Tackles UAS
Eno's Aviation Working Group worked with industry partners to confront the ongoing crisis resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. The Working Group also continued its pressing research into integrating unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) in to the national airspace. Bridging the Gap was the first in a series of research reports evaluating the next steps in creating a safe, integrated airspace. The report was the subject of webinars and a series of podcast interviews, available on the UAS Resources Page
Members of the Aviation Working Group include:
Airlines for America | Air Line Pilots Association | Airport Minority Advisory Council | American Airlines | Boeing | National Association of Manufacturers | International Air Transport Association | Japan International Transport Institute, USA (JITI) | National Air Traffic Controllers Association | ON Semiconductor | University of North Dakota | U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Project Delivery Initiative
Eno's Aviation Working Group worked with industry partners to confront the ongoing crisis resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. The Working Group also continued its pressing research into integrating unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) in to the national airspace. Bridging the Gap was the first in a series of research reports evaluating the next steps in creating a safe, integrated airspace. The report was the subject of webinars and a series of podcast interviews, available on the UAS Resources Page
Members of the Advisory Panel include:
Adjo Amekudzi-Kennedy, Georgia Institute of Technology | Andrew Bata, North America UITP | Allison Black, American Road & Transportation Builders Association | Chantal Cantarelli, Sheffield University Management School | David Carol, American Public Transportation Association | Aileen Carrigan, Bepsoke Transit Solutions | Richard Clarke, Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation | Nuria Fernandez, Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority | Raj Srinath, Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority | Eric Goldwyn, New York University’s Marron Institute | Tracy Gordon, Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center | Hani Mahmassani, Northwestern University Transportation Center | Beth Osborne, Transportation for America | Stephanie Pollack, Massachusetts Department of Transportation | Thomas Prendergast, AECOM | Christof Spieler, Rice University | Ali Touran, Northeastern University College of Engineering | Carole Voulgaris, Harvard Graduate School of Design | Charlie Zelle, Metropolitan Council | Edwina Smallwood, Federal Transit Administration | Rabinder Bains, Federal Transit Administration | Mia Veltri, Federal Transit Administration
COVID-19 Resources
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to challenge transportation organizations across the United States and around the globe. Eno seeks to help them respond by providing up-to-date information, connections to others in the field, and actionable ideas to respond, collected on our COVID-19 Resources Page.
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People Attended Road to Recovery Webinars
