Date and Time: Tuesday, July 11, 2023: 1:30 PM - 5:00 PM
William Riggs
Program Director / Associate Professor, University of San Francisco
Presentation Description
Speaker Biography
William (Billy) Riggs, PhD, AICP, LEED AP is a global expert and thought leader in the areas of autonomy and smart transportation, housing, economics and urban development. He has over 100 publications in these areas and has had his work featured in multiple national media outlets — including the Economist, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and the Atlantic. He is currently a professor at the University of San Francisco School of Management, director of strategy and research at Sustinere Consulting. He has held additional academic appointments in city planning and transportation engineering from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, UC Berkeley, San Jose State University, and the University of Louisville.
In addition to his academic roles, Riggs also has almost two decades of experience working as an urban planner, policy maker, economist, and engineer. This includes work as director of research at Sustinere Consulting, the transportation program manager and principal planner for UC Berkeley, an asset manager and engineering technician for the US Coast Guard, and a planning commissioner for the City of San Luis Obispo. He has been both a National Science Foundation Fellow and a UC Transportation Center Fellow and is the founder of ReStreet.com — an online tool for democratizing street design.
Riggs currently sits on the City of Palo Alto’s Planning and Transportation Commission, is a member of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) Committee on Transportation Economics, and provides strategy and consulting to multiple companies on smart mobility and urban development.
