VisionEval Strategic Planning Model for Northwestern Vermont 

Date and Time: 8/30/2022
Location: North Star

Presenter: Jonathan Slason, Director, RSG

  

 

 

PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION

SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY

Jonathan Slason, PE is a Director in RSG’s Planning Applications Practice. Based in their Burlington, Vermont office he has provided professional engineering and planning consulting services to public and private clients for over fifteen years. He has worked both nationally and internationally on mixed use land use projects, the design and demand for multi-modal capacity, and has developed several fair share contribution systems to fund local transportation improvements in addition to municipal and statewide impact fee systems in Florida and the Northeast. Jonathan has combined his degrees in economics and civil engineering to assist communities and states develop comprehensive funding solutions. He currently is leading on-going multimodal impact fees designed to support shifts away from vehicular LOS and in support of reduced household VMT. That work has complemented Jonathan’s leading work on the application of strategic models to support long range planning efforts for MPOs and DOTs. Jonathan has assisted clients identify pathways toward decarbonization, effects of electrifying the transportation system, and develop innovative methods of quantified exploratory scenario planning in the face of deep uncertainty. He currently is assisting FHWA to enhance the VisionEval platform by improving its functionality and broaden the type of applications that it can support.