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GIS in Transit - Wednesday, November 18, 2009
| 8:30am - 10:00am | General Session |
| 10:00am - 10:30am | Networking Break in Exhibit Hall |
| 10:30am - 12:00pm | Breakout Sessions |
| 12:00pm - 1:30pm | Lunch on own |
| 1:30pm - 3:00pm | Breakout Sessions |
| 3:00pm - 3:30pm | Beverage Break |
| 3:30pm - 5:00pm | Closing General Session |
8:30 - 10:30 AM
General Session
Google Transit - GTFS Data Standards with Open Innovation
The Google Transit Web Based Trip planner has excited many within the transit community. Equally exciting is the open source data format which drives the Google Transit application. This open source format encourages innovative uses of transit data to communicate with transit passengers in many ways. This session will address the open data format and illustrate innovative approaches to using this data to better communicate with the transit customer. It will feature Joe Hughes from Google Transit and three software innovators using the Google Transit data format to create alternative web and mobile trip planning applications.
- Developer 1: In Search of Simpler Schedules
Jehiah Czebotar, theNextTrain, New York, NY - Developer 2: OneBusAway: An Open-Source Transit Traveler Information System
Brian Ferris, University of Washington, Seattle, WA - Developer 3: Five Points: An Open-Source Framework for Transit System Simulation
David D. Emory, Atlanta, GA
10:30am - 12:00 Noon
Breakout Sessions
Better Transit Maps
If your customers can't understand your transit maps, they won't use them. This presentation discusses guidelines and recommendations for producing effective and consistent printed transit information materials like system maps, route maps, and schedules.
- Designing Printed Transit Information Materials
Alasdair Cain, CUTR/USF, Tampa, FL - Development of Innovative Bus Schedule Format That Reduces Printing Costs
Judith M. Lavelle, MPH, Lavelle Consulting Group, Greely, CO - The Psychology of Passenger Information and Wayfinding
Rick Wood, CHK America, Inc. Santa Barbara, CA
Put Your Best Data Forward
American Community Survey provides transportation planners with improvements in Census data timeliness, frequency, and data quality. This session will discuss guidelines, disclosure rules, and feasibility issues with using ACS Data for transportation planning.
- On The Map Update
Matthew Graham, U.S. Census Bureau, Suitland, MD - ACS and Transit Planning
Krishnan Viswanathan, Cambridge Systematics, Inc., Cambridge, MA
Brad Thompson, Regional Transportation Authority, Chicago, IL
- An Online Journey to Work Data Application
Brad Thompson, Regional Transportation Authority, Chicago, IL
Models to Success
This presentation session will focus on GIS models developed to analyze transit ridership, pedestrian crashes, and transit stop locations. These analytical models observed ridership data, traffic volume, facilities (such as sidewalks and crosswalks), and geographic data. The models that will be discussed were implemented to develop new plans for future transit systems and to improve existing ones.
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Using GIS and CTPP Data for Transit Ridership Forecasting in Central Florida
Xiaobo Liu and Jeffrey Stiles, Jacob Engineering Group, Morristown, NJ -
Using GIS to Study the Role of Transit Ridership on Pedestrian Crashes
Srinivas Pulugurtha, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, NC -
Transit Stop Location Optimization Using Geographic Analysis
Maaza Mekuria and Peter Furth, Northeastern University, Boston, MA
12:00 Noon - 1:30 pm
Break for Lunch on your own
1:30pm - 3:00pm
Breakout Sessions
New Technologies to Support Transit Infrastructure Management and Assessment
The emergence of new technologies to support Transit infrastructure condition assessment and analyses has proliferated in the last five years.
Mobile and Aerial Lidar, GPS, and GIS tools are becoming more common and available to support accurate and efficient transit asset assessment. Come see the latest and greatest in new technologies to support transit infrastructure management and assessment.
- Mobile Mapping, Lidar, GPS, GIS
Allen Ibaugh, GISP and Jason Amadori,GISP,Data Transfer Solutions, Orlando, FL - GPS Asset and Condition Assessment Collection for FDOT District 5 Park & Ride
Doug Lynch, GISP, Transystems, Maitland, FL
Enterprise Data Models
This session will focus on recent developments in the implementation of Enterprise Data Models and their impacts on current enterprise data management. Additionally, this session with illustrate the impact that such robust GIS systems have had on the ability to integrate all available data resources and improve the accuracy of advanced modeling and analysis methods.
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Enterprise Data Model for Public Transit Planning and Accessibility Analysis
Minhua Wang, Citilabs Inc, Alameda, CA -
Advances in Transit GIS Analysis and Modeling
Jim Lam and Andres Rabinowicz, Caliper Corporation, Newton, MA -
An Integrated Enterprise GIS Architecture for a Large Multimodal Transit Agency
Ed Wells, GISP, Washington Metro Area Transit Authority, University Park, MD
Anurag Mehta, Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA), Washington DC
GIS Professional Certification
Find out about the GIS Certification Institute’s credentialing program for GIS professionals, now numbering over 4,500.
3:30pm - 5:00pm
Closing General Session
What Open Source, Open Data, and Open APIs Mean for Tomorrow's Transit Agencies
Agencies across the US are embracing an open approach to transit data and technology. The Open Planning Project will share its experiences working with TriMet to develop open platform solutions. Find out what this means for agency operations, how it enables greater inter-agencycollaboration, and most importantly, how it can save money and foster ongoing innovation.
Chris Holmes & Nick Grossman, OpenGeo, New York, NY
