Nagurney to speak on transport and traffic at New York Times conference in NYC

Anna Nagurney, the John F. Smith Memorial Professor of Operations Management at the Isenberg School of Management, will be an invited panelist at The New York Times 2013 Energy For Tomorrow Conference on April 25 in New York City. The theme of the conference is Building Sustainable Cities. The conference will be opened with an address by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

With more than half of the world’s population now living in cities, the conference will convene thought leaders, public policy makers, government urbanists and C-suite level executives from the energy, technology, automotive and construction industries to debate and discuss the wide range of issues that must be addressed to create an urban environment with challenges posed by global warming and the growing need for improved infrastructure, transportation, fresh food, water and clean air.

 

Nagurney will be part of the discussion on transport and traffic moderated by New York Times columnist Joe Nocera.

 

Nagurney plans to discuus the Braess paradox in which the addition of a new road may make all travelers and drivers in the network worse off in terms of an increase in travel time, as well as the milk run freight paradox, where increasing the load factor (as often used by policy makers as a means of improving freight efficiency), under certain conditions, can increase total costs and total emissions. She will also highlight the importance of supply chains and city logistics for sustainable cities.

Other speakers at the conference include: Secretary for Housing and Urban Development Shaun Donovan, former EPA administrator Carol Browner, actor Jeremy Irons, columnist Thomas L. Friedman, Daniel Smith, senior associate administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, and Arthur O. Sulzberger, Jr., chairman and publisher of the Times.