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Learn from the Experts: Open Data Policy Guidelines for Transit - Maximizing Real Time and Schedule Data-Legalities, Evolutions, Customer Perspectives, Challenges, and Economic Opportunities - Part II.
Date: Thursday, August 7, 2014
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM ET
Cost: All T3 webinars are free of charge
PDH: 1.5 View PDH Policy<http://www.pcb.its.dot.gov/t3/t3_pdh_policy.asp>
http://www.pcb.its.dot.gov/t3/s140807_open_dataII.asp .
Speakers:
Dr. Larry W. Thomas, J.D., Ph.D, founder of The Thomas Law Firm in Washington, D.C., will discuss whether and to what extent there is legal protection for an agency's real-time or other data. Dr. Thomas will discuss whether data may be protected under the copyright laws and whether there are alternative means that agencies may use to protect their proprietary rights in data.
Mr. Lou Milrad, B.A., LL.B, founder of MilradLaw in Toronto, Canada, will relay an overview of the legal framework and economic development opportunities for open data. This will include open data opportunities for collaboration; differentiating open data terms' uses from commercial licensing, addressing privacy and confidentiality concerns, and economic development and community engagement.
Dr. Kari Edison Watkins, PE, PhD, Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, will share her experiences working as the interface between developers and transit agencies both locally in Atlanta and nationally. She will discuss the evolution of the presentation of transit data, how data standards enable better communication to riders, and case study findings from discussions with transit agencies about open data.
Mr. Dan Overgaard, Supervisor, Systems Development and Operations, King County Metro Transit, Seattle, WA, will address King County Metro's evolution in providing real-time information, managing customer expectations, and the data management and organizational challenges involved in improving the quality of real time information.
Mr. Martin Catala, Manager, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Informatics Group, Center for Urban Transportation Research (CUTR), University of South Florida, will give a brief overview of the project underway with the Federal Transit Administration on "Open Data Policy Guidelines for Transit." The webinar will focus on transit data relating to legal frameworks, 3rd party developers, schedules and situational status, such as passenger load, predictive arrival time, and vehicle location. The findings from this webinar will be incorporated into a guide for transit agencies interested in successfully implementing and sharing open data within the transit industry.
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Thanks to everyone who attended today's webinar, especially our terrific
speakers, Vladimir Livshits, Brian Bresolin, and Jim Hubbell. The
presentations from the webinar are now online at
http://trbcensus.com/webinar.htm.
*Mara Kaminowitz, GISP*GIS Coordinator
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Please see below for details for the upcoming "Big Data and Urban Infomatics" workshop.
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Dear Stacey, could you please post information on this workshop which we have organized in the ABJ30 list? Includes sessions on transportation. Thanks, Vonu
Program: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/35674979/CFP/Program.pdf
Registration and other details: http://urbanbigdata.uic.edu/
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Director, UK ESRC Urban Big Data Centre
European Commission Marie Curie Fellow
Halcrow Chair of Transport
Professor, Urban Studies & Affiliated Professor, School of Engineering
University of Glasgow, UK
Faculty Page URL: http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/socialpolitical/staff/vonuthakuriah/
Urban Big Data Centre: http://urbanbigdatacentre.co.uk/
Urban Transport Research Group: http://www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/urbantransportationresearch/
Email: Piyushimita.Thakuriah(a)glasgow.ac.uk<mailto:Piyushimita.Thakuriah@glasgow.ac.uk> * Phone: +44-141-330-4079<tel:%2B44-141-330-4079>
US National Science Foundation-sponsored workshop on Big Data and Urban Informatics: http://urbanbigdata.uic.edu/
The University of Glasgow, charity number SC004401
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Due to high demand, we have had to change the "location" for the CTPP Webinar THIS THURSDAY. Now you need to register IN ADVANCE at the following link:
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Date:
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Time:
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM EDT
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System Requirements
PC-based attendees
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AGENDA:
CTPP Webinar and Discussion
Thursday, July 17, 1-3pm EDT
The Census Data for Transportation Planning Subcommittee of the Urban Transportation Data and Information Systems Committee (a subcommittee of the Transportation Research Board) invites you to a webinar and discussion on the newest CTPP data release.
We will have three speakers present their work with the CTPP data followed by an open discussion on user's experiences accessing and working with the new data set. This will be a great opportunity for CTPP users to share their knowledge as well as see what others in the field are doing. For those who do not work with CTPP, this will be a chance to learn what the data set is about and how it can be used.
Agenda:
I. Jim Hubbell, Mid-America Regional Council
101 Exciting Uses of CTPP Data
II. Vladimir Livshits, Maricopa Association of Governments
Developing and validating regional travel forecasting models with CTPP data: MAG experience
III. Brian Bresolin, Santa Barbara County Association of Governments
Santa Barbara County State of the Commute: A comparison of the CTPP and LEHD Commute Flows
IV. Participant discussion on CTPP experiences
If you have any questions, please contact Clara Reschovsky at creschovsky(a)mwcog.org<mailto:creschovsky@mwcog.org> or Mara Kaminowitz at mkaminowitz(a)baltometro.org<mailto:mkaminowitz@baltometro.org>.
*Call Title*
*Applications for Small-Area ACS and CTPP Data: New Data, New Challenges*
*Sponsoring Committee*
Census Data for Transportation Planning Subcommittee of the Urban
Transportation Data and Information Systems Committee, ABJ30(1)
*Call Description*
The Census Data for Transportation Planning Subcommittee of the Urban
Transportation Data and Information Systems Committee, ABJ30(1) invites you
to submit posters for a session focusing on the innovative use of small
area ACS and CTPP geography for transportation planning and related
applications. Posters will be displayed at the TRB Annual Meeting in
Washington, DC, January 2015. Authors of the most innovative posters will
be invited to present at the subcommittee meeting.
*Background*
The American Community Survey 5-Year data and the Census Transportation
Planning Products special tabulation have given practitioners access to a
wealth of current data in geographic units as small as Census Block
Groups. Data topics include a wide range of demographic, social, economic,
and transportation data including journey-to-work ("commuter") flows. This
level of geographic detail allows for a finer level of detail in activities
such as transit planning, site selection, model validation, program
analysis, and community outreach.
While these data sets have significant potential it is not a panacea for
all programmatic and research tasks. High margins of error mean small-area
data may not be as accurate as is needed for a project and it is a
challenge to display it without giving a false sense of precision.
Aggregation and derived margins of error create further challenges to
statistical analysis. Small area data may not fit well into locally
created geographic boundaries (towns, watershed, etc.). Transferring data
from older geographies such as 2000 Census tracts to newer small area
geographic units is often needed for analysis but can be hard to accomplish
without further reducing the accuracy of the data.
*Evaluation Criteria*
A broad range of abstracts relating to the topic are welcome. Preference
will be given to posters which emphasize the following:
· Practical and applied ("real world") uses of small-area geography
· Posters that display solutions for the statistical challenges
that come from working with small-area geography
· Innovative visualization of margins of error
· Topics that address applications towards urban planning
A session-development subcommittee will review all abstracts to identify
those that most effectively demonstrate innovative analyses and
communication techniques conveying the value of small geography ACS and
CTPP data. The subcommittee hopes to identify posters representing a
diverse array of uses and applications. Applicants will be notified in
late-September of their selection.
*Poster Session Guidelines*
Those selected for this session will prepare a poster for presentation at
the 2015 Annual Meeting in January. *Participants are not required to
prepare a paper*. Each presenter will be provided with a table and a 4’ x
8’ vertical panel for displaying posters and other materials. An electrical
connection will be available at each station. Telephone and internet
connections will not be available. TRB's guidelines for poster presenters
are available at
http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/archive/Guidelines/PosterPresenters.pdf.
Presenters are expected to attend and participate in this session.
Presentation teams are welcome.
*Submission Instructions*
A special deadline for submittals has been established. Interested
candidates should submit an abstract explaining their project and poster
concept by 11:59 pm EDT on *Wednesday, September 3, 2014*. The abstract
should be no more than a single one-sided page in length (approximately 500
words) and include:
· Contact information (name, agency/organization, phone number, email
address)
· Title of your proposed poster for use in the Annual Meeting agenda
· Explanation of the project, research, or process using CTPP/ACS data
and how the data were used
· Any innovative discoveries or lessons learned about small-area use
of this data that would be useful to the transportation community
· Preliminary description of the information to be conveyed in your
poster
You are welcome to include links to on-line materials that illustrate
visualization or graphic communication concepts described in your abstract
but this will not substitute for the information requested in the abstract.
The subcommittee will not consider sales presentations on products or
services.
Abstracts should be in a PDF format and submitted to:
Mara Kaminowitz
mkaminowitz(a)baltometro.org
Include the term “*ABJ30(1) Poster Abstract*” in the subject line.
*For More Information*
Questions about the poster session or the abstract submittal process should
be directed to:
Clara Reschovsky
creschovsky(a)mwcog.org
202-962-3332
Mara Kaminowitz
mkaminowitz(a)baltometro.org
410-732-0500