Renaissance Founder Talks SMART Transit on Podcast

Renaissance’s Founding Principal Chris Sinclair joined Jeffrey Wood of The Overhead Wire and Alice Bravo of Miami-Dade Department of Transportation and Public Works to talk technology, transit-oriented development (TOD), and multimodal solutions on the podcast. Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast "Episode 228: Underinfrastructurized" was recorded live from the 6th Annual Safe Streets Summit stage in Miami.

With over 37 years of experience managing a variety of land and transportation planning projects, Chris founded Renaissance in 1999 and has served as the firm’s visionary leader since its inception. He has brought a focus on integrated land use and transportation planning to a variety of planning projects, including Federal research and training, Metropolitan Planning Organization’s Long Range Transportation Plans, master plans, and local comprehensive plans, impact fees and fiscal impact studies. He is well versed in a wide range of planning tools and methods, including land use models, travel demand models, traffic operations software and fiscal impact models. Chris has helped develop unique integrated planning tools, including the multimodal accessibility (MMA) technique and the CorPlan integrated planning model.

Chris is Chairman of the Board and Practice Development Director for Renaissance, with a focus is on multimodal metrics and modeling and transit oriented development (TOD) planning and design. In addition to his work for Renaissance, Chris has taught masters level courses at the University of Virginia, the University of Florida and Rollins College.

Dan Hardy on Transportation and Sustainability at TRB

"Sustainability is in the eye of the beholder..." Renaissance Principal Dan Hardy, PE, PTP, shares some laughs in his presentation at the 2019 Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting in Washington D.C.

The “Sustainability Next Steps: Sharing Information and Trends from the 2019 Annual Meeting and Identifying Next Steps for Research” workshop opened with presentations from experts in a range of fields like equity, environment, and economics, followed by facilitated small-group discussions that were used to prepare a sustainability research agenda for TRB.

Prior to joining Renaissance eight years ago, Dan served as the Transportation Planning Chief for the Montgomery County Planning Department, managing a 15-person Transportation Planning Division responsible for transportation elements of Countywide growth policies, master plans, and development review cases. The rapidly growing County of nearly one million residents had high expectations for involvement in decision making. Dan’s expertise includes both developing and applying growth management policies and practices.