TransitGIS2017: Full Schedule

Tenth National GIS in Transit Conference
September 6-8, 2017 (Note that Labor Day is Sept 4)
Washington, DC

The National Center for Transit Research, Urban and Regional Information Systems Association and the Transportation Research Board are pleased to announce the 10th National GIS in Transit Conference, taking place September 6-8, 2017 in Washington, DC! Join us for comprehensive education, networking, and professional development. The conference counts toward GISP Education Points and was approved for 46.5 AICP-CM credits. Take advantage of this outstanding continuing education opportunity.

Creating an attendee profile within Sched DOES NOT REGISTER you for the conference or specific workshops. You must register for the conference here.

Details about exhibiting or sponsoring this conference: Exhibitor & Sponsor Invitation

8:00am EDT

Conference Registration Hours - Hamilton Crown Plaza

Pick up your registration packets, name badge and program and workshop tickets (if you registered for a workshop).

Wednesday September 6, 2017 8:00am - 5:00pm EDT
Hamilton Foyer, Lower Level - Hamilton Crowne Plaza 1001 14th St NW (14th & K), Washington DC 20005

Registration Hours

8:30am EDT

Asset Management: Planning, Strategy and Implementation (Full Day) - AICP/CM Approved 8.5

Asset Management: Planning, Strategy and Implementation
Wednesday, September 6, 2017 - 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Instructor: Allen Ibaugh, AICP, GISP, Data Transfer Solutions, Orlando, FL

Attendance at this workshop will offer: 8.5 AICP credits

Public and private agencies face continuous challenges to accomplish more with less as increases in demand, regulatory requirements, infrastructure deterioration, and political and economic forces have significantly outpaced increases in capital and operating budgets. Many of these agencies are turning to Asset Management to cope with these challenges and improve business performance and effectiveness. This workshop will focus on several aspects of developing an asset management system that could help improve performance, reduce long-term costs, and maximize return on investment in infrastructure assets.

Specific topics include:

Strategy and Planning
Data Collection Methods
Fleet, Equipment, and Warehouses: Assets of special interest
Software Solutions
Information Management and Decision Support Tools
Evaluation and Performance Measures
GASB34 Reporting
Life Cycle Costs

Target Audience: This workshop is intended for utility, transportation, engineering, planning, and environmental managers and analysts of the public and private sectors.

Class Size: A limited number of individuals may register for this workshop.

Cost: There is an additional fee of $125 to attend this course.

Workshop Instructors

Allen Ibaugh, AICP, GISP

President, Data Transfer Solutions

Will submit at later date

Wednesday September 6, 2017 8:30am - 5:00pm EDT
Farragut Square, Lower Level - Hamilton Crowne Plaza 1001 14th St NW (14th & K), Washington DC 20005

AICP/CM Approved Workshop

8:30am EDT

Using GTFS Data in ArcGIS (Full Day) - AICP/CM Approved 8.5

Using GTFS Data in ArcGIS (Full Day)
Wednesday, September 6, 2017 - 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Instructor: Melinda Morang, Product Engineer, Esri

Attendance at this workshop will offer: 8.5 AICP credits

Who does my transit system serve, and how well are these people served? How easily can people access important destinations by transit? This workshop will help you answer these questions using ArcGIS and your GTFS public transit data.

We will cover:

How to display stops and routes in the map
How to determine the coverage of your transit system and enrich the coverage area with demographic information
How to calculate the frequency of transit service available to different areas of town and points of interest
How to create a GTFS-enabled network dataset for use with ArcGIS Network Analyst
How to use Network Analyst and your network dataset to calculate measures of transit accessibility
[Optional] How to generate a shapes.txt file for your GTFS dataset

By the end of the workshop, you will have created most of the components shown in this Story Map: http://arcg.is/2fSTomS.

Pre-requisites:

Experience using ArcMap
Basic knowledge of the Network Analyst extension is a plus, but not required

Requirements:

Laptop and software: Attendees must bring their own laptops to use for this workshop.

Permissions to install something on your laptop
ArcMap 10.1 or higher (10.3 or higher is recommended)
Network Analyst license
A Desktop Standard (ArcEditor) or Desktop Advanced (ArcInfo) level license is recommended. You will be able to do most of the workflows with a Desktop Basic (ArcView) license, but not all.
Optional: ArcGIS Pro
Optional: An ArcGIS Online account (you can create a temporary free trial account if you don’t have one)

Data:

A GTFS dataset for the transit agency (or agencies) of your choice (or you can download one the day of)
A feature class of streets covering the area served by your GTFS dataset
Optional, but very helpful: A network dataset covering the area served by your GTFS dataset

Class Size: A limited number of individuals may register for this workshop.

Cost: There is an additional fee of $125 to attend this course.

Speakers

Melinda Morang

Product Engineer, Esri

As a Product Engineer at Esri, Melinda Morang does software design and testing for Network Analyst in ArcGIS. She has developed a suite of python script tools for working with GTFS public transit data in ArcGIS.

Wednesday September 6, 2017 8:30am - 5:00pm EDT
Franklin Park, Lobby Level - Hamilton Crowne Plaza 1001 14th St NW (14th & K), Washington DC 20005

AICP/CM Approved Workshop

1:00pm EDT

GTFS & GIS 101: Introduction to GTFS Data Feeds and How to Use Them (Half-Day) - AICP/CM Approved 4.0

GTFS & GIS 101: Introduction to GTFS Data Feeds and How to Use Them
Wednesday, September 6, 2017 - 1:00 - 5:00 PM (Half-Day)
Instructor: Sandy Davis, Foursquare Integrated Transportation Planning, Rockville, MD

Attendance at this workshop will offer: 4.0 AICP credits

Need to summarize, aggregate, or disaggregate transit data at the route, stop, or geographic level? This workshop will show you how to use General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) data to conduct region-wide analyses for summarizing levels of service by day, time period, route, stop or geographic area. Seasoned transit professionals from Foursquare Integrated Transportation Planning will guide participants through the process of using GTFS data for basic geographic transit analysis. Participants will learn how to extract stop, route, schedule data from GTFS feeds in Microsoft Excel and/or Microsoft Access; create relationships between feed components to summarize information at different levels; and display the information spatially in GIS software. Presenters will also provide a brief primer on GTFS data for new users: What is GTFS? What is included in a GTFS feed? How do all of the feed components relate to one another and to the source agency’s schedule data?

Target Audience: Transit Agency Planners, Engineers, or Data Analysts; Transit/Transportation Planner Consultants; MPO Staff; Transit Agency Staff responsible for Title VI Reporting (transit service monitoring); Transit Agency Staff responsible for general transit monitoring or performance monitoring (non-FTA requirements); Transit Advocates; Transportation Researchers/Scholars

Pre-requisites: Basic understanding of transit data and transit terminology; basic understanding of MS Excel; basic understanding of ESRI ArcMap

Requirement: Each registered attendee should bring a laptop equipped with Excel and ArcGIS software.

Class Size: A limited number of individuals may register for this workshop.

Cost: There is an additional fee of $75 to attend this course.

Workshop Instructors

Sandy Davis

Senior Transportation Planner, Foursquare ITP

Sandy is a Senior Transportation Planner with solid experience in regional transportation operations, research and policy development with a specific focus on transit service planning and implementation, geographic information systems (GIS), community outreach, and qualitative and... Read More →

Wednesday September 6, 2017 1:00pm - 5:00pm EDT
McPherson Square, Lower Level - Hamilton Crowne Plaza 1001 14th St NW (14th & K), Washington DC 20005

AICP/CM Approved Workshop

8:00am EDT

Conference Registration Hours - Sphinx on K

Pick up your name badge and conference materials.

Thursday September 7, 2017 8:00am - 5:00pm EDT
Sphinx on K - Mezzanine Foyer 1315 K Street, NW, Washington DC 20005

Registration Hours

9:00am EDT

Welcome & Keynote Address: New Directions for Census Bureau Data Dissemination and Products

Welcome: Martin Catala, 2017 Conference Chair

Opening Keynote Address: New Directions for Census Bureau Data Dissemination and Products
A key innovation area for the Census Bureau is improving and enhancing access to statistical and geospatial data, including the ability to combine data from a variety of demographic, economic, and geospatial data sets. In this presentation, I will discuss several relatively new products that combine data to improve access to and utility of statistical and geospatial data as well as what is on the horizon for data access and dissemination. Combining data across datasets, however, has presented challenges due to different geographic concepts and definitions, different universes, and different vintages. I will discuss some of the challenges we have encountered as well as efforts to address those challenges.

Moderators

Martin Catala

Program Director, Transit Management & Innovation, CUTR

I have a lot of experience using GIS and database solutions to improve how public transportation operates. I use these tools to analyze patterns and trends within the public transportation field and work to develop innovative performance measures for public transportation. I frequently... Read More →

Speakers

Michael Ratcliffe

Asst. Division Chief, Geographic Standards, Criteria, Research, and Quality, Geography Division - U.S. Census Bureau

Michael Ratcliffe is Assistant Division Chief for Geographic Standards, Criteria, Research, and Quality in the Census Bureau’s Geography Division, where he is responsible for geographic area concepts and criteria, address and geospatial data quality, and research activities. During... Read More →

Thursday September 7, 2017 9:00am - 10:00am EDT
Grand Ballroom - Sphinx on K (formerly known as the Almas Conference Center) 1315 K Street, NW, Washington DC 20005

Keynote

10:00am EDT

Break with Exhibitors

Grab a cup of coffee and mingle with Transit GIS exhibitors!

Thursday September 7, 2017 10:00am - 10:30am EDT
Grand Ballroom - Sphinx on K (formerly known as the Almas Conference Center) 1315 K Street, NW, Washington DC 20005

Break

10:30am EDT

Advanced Development: TOD Real Estate, Analysis-Visualization, and GIS-Train Control - AICP/CM Approved 1.5

Learn about advanced techniques for modernizing real estate management and TODs, methods for data analysis and visualization during development review, and WMATA’s linking GIS with train control systems.

Attendance at this session will offer: 1.5 AICP credits

Is That My Parcel? Modernizing Real Estate and Transit Oriented Development using GIS
Scott Sugar, Geospatial Technology Team Lead, HNTB, Atlanta, GA
Amy Perez, GIS Analyst, HNTB, Atlanta, GA
Emrys Scott-Murrell, HNTB, Cumming, GA
Development Review - Data Storage, Analysis, and Visualization with PostgreSQL, ESRI Server, and Geocortex Essentials
Krystal Phaneuf, GIS Specialist, Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority, San Jose, CA
Development of Live Train Map – An Integration of GIS and Train Control System
Minhua Wang, GIS Enterprise Architect, WMATA , Washington DC

Moderators

Terry Bills

Speakers

Amy Perez

GIS Analyst, HNTB

Amy is a GIS Analyst at HNTB in Atlanta with experience in various geospatial technologies. She focuses on performing data collection and creating/managing transportation and environmental databases. She earned her Master’s in Geographic Information Science from Georgia Tech.

Krystal Phaneuf

GIS Specialist, AECOM / Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority

Krystal Phaneuf is a full time, onsite contractor at Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority. She manages multiple servers with both ESRI and Geoserver, PostgreSQL databases, and Geocortex web services. Her background is mostly environmental, but has enjoyed working with and... Read More →

Emrys Scott-Murrell

Developer, HNTB

Emrys Scott-Murrell is a Software Developer focused in the field of GIS at the HNTB Atlanta office. With over 6 years of experience in the IT industry, he performed work with both software and hardware. Emrys also has experience working directly with customers, making technical tranings... Read More →

Scott Sugar

Geospatial Technology Solutions Team Lead, HNTB

Scott is a Project Manager and the Geospatial Technology Solutions team lead with HNTB in Atlanta. After graduating from Appalachian State University with degrees in Community and Regional Planning and Physical Geography (GIS), he split his time managing an array of geospatial, technical... Read More →

Minhua Wang

GIS Enterprise Architect, WMATA

Minhua Wang currently serves as Enterprise GIS Architect at the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority and has overall responsibility for all WMATA GIS enterprise architectures. Dr. Whang ensures that GIS is deployed enterprise-wide in conformance with the overall WMATA IT... Read More →

Advanced Development TOD Real Estate, Analysis Visualization, and GIS Train Control pdf

Thursday September 7, 2017 10:30am - 12:00pm EDT
Hamilton/Madison - Sphinx on K (formerly known as the Almas Conference Center) 1315 K Street, NW, Washington DC 20005

10:30AM Breakout Session AICP/CM Approved

10:30am EDT

Leveraging Data: Modeling and Planning for Transit Mobility - AICP/CM Approved 1.5

Learn how to make sense of transit rider flows from origin-destination surveys, how open data from public/private entities enables better planning, and how to use travel demand models to make sense of large datasets during transit expansion project planning.

Attendance at this session will offer: 1.5 AICP credits

Uber Movement: Open Data for Better Urban Planning
Rik Williams, Research Scientist, Uber Technologies Inc., San Francisco, CA
Travel Demand Modeling for Transit Expansion Projects: Making Sense of Large Data using GIS
Nilesh Deshpande, AICP, Transportation Planner, WSP Parsons Brinckerhoff, Atlanta, GA
Using Data Driven Pages to Produce Route Sheets for Bus Transit Service
Peter Hadley, Transportation Planner, Foursquare ITP, Rockville, MD

Moderators

Drew Dara-Abrams

Head of Mobility Products, Mapzen

Drew Dara-Abrams is head of mobility products for Mapzen, an open, sustainable, and accessible mapping platform with offices in New York City, San Francisco, and Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Dara-Abrams and his colleagues are responsible for a suite of open-source solutions for riders... Read More →

Speakers

Nilesh Deshpande, AICP

Transportation Planner, WSP USA

Nilesh is a transportation planner with WSP USA in Atlanta, Georgia. He has worked on projects related to systems expansion and system level analysis for transit agencies, and has also worked on various transportation planning studies, area and regional level transportation plans... Read More →

Peter Hadley

Transportation Planner, Foursquare ITP

Peter Hadley is a Transportation Planner with eight years of experience in transportation planning, project management, urban redevelopment, and real estate consulting. He is interested in how new technologies will change the way we travel, especially with respect to public transit... Read More →

Rik Williams

Data Scientist, Uber Technologies Inc.

Rik is a data scientist on Uber's Policy, Research & Economics Team, based in San Francisco. He is interested in how ride-hailing services interface with public transportation and serve lower-density areas, and is always on the lookout for collaborations around these and other topics... Read More →

Leveraging Data Modeling and Planning for Transit Mobility pdf

Thursday September 7, 2017 10:30am - 12:00pm EDT
Oval Office - Sphinx on K (formerly known as the Almas Conference Center) 1315 K Street, NW, Washington DC 20005

10:30AM Breakout Session AICP/CM Approved

10:30am EDT

Transit’s Impact on Property: Value, Use, and Opportunity - AICP/CM Approved 1.5

Learn how to assess transit’s impact on land use and rider/resident opportunity, hear a case study of BRT’s impact on residential property value in Eugene, Oregon, and learn how you can use story map tools to present success stories on the impacts of transit-oriented-development planning.

Attendance at this session will offer: 1.5 AICP credits

Assessing Transit Land Use Impacts and Opportunities
Ian Carlton, Ph.D, Co-Founder, MapCraft.io, Portland, OR
Impacts of BRT Station Access on Residential Property Values: Case Study of the Eugene EmX
Victoria Perk, Ph.D, Senior Research Associate, Center for Urban Transportation Research/University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
Transit-Oriented Transformation: Sharing TOD Success Stories Using ArcGIS Online
Will Gillespie, Principal Analyst – Strategic Planning, Regional Transportation Authority, Chicago, IL

Moderators

Melinda Morang

Product Engineer, Esri

Speakers

Will Gillespie

Principal Analyst, Strategic Planning, Chicago Regional Transportation Authority

Will is Principal Analyst for Strategic Planning at the Chicago Regional Transportation Authority (RTA), where he leads the agency’s project modeling efforts. Before joining the RTA, Will created the interim service and traffic plans for major transit renewal projects at the Chicago... Read More →

Victoria Perk, Ph.D

Senior Research Associte, CUTR

Senior Research Associate at the Center for Urban Transportation Research (CUTR) at the University of South Florida, and current Vice-Chair of TRB’s Transit Capacity & Quality of Service Committee. She has over 20 years’ experience in the field of public transit, consisting of... Read More →

Ian Carlton, Ph.D

Co-Founder, MapCraft.io

Ian Carlton is co-founder of MapCraft.io and an urban development researcher whose work considers the context-specific relationships between real estate and transportation investments, especially transit-oriented development. MapCraft.io develops multi-user web apps for running interactive... Read More →

Transit’s Impact on Property Value, Use, and Opportunity pdf

Thursday September 7, 2017 10:30am - 12:00pm EDT
Grand Ballroom - Sphinx on K (formerly known as the Almas Conference Center) 1315 K Street, NW, Washington DC 20005

10:30AM Breakout Session AICP/CM Approved

12:00pm EDT

Sponsor Spark and Hosted Lunch

Enjoy a hosted luncheon and hear highlights from each sponsor of the 2017 Transit GIS Conference. What sets one company apart from another? Why should you stop by their booth to learn more or see a demo? You won’t hear long-winded sales pitches during this session. Short but sweet is the name of the game!

Then enjoy dessert with our great exhibitors!

Thursday September 7, 2017 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT
Grand Ballroom - Sphinx on K (formerly known as the Almas Conference Center) 1315 K Street, NW, Washington DC 20005

Lunch

1:00pm EDT

Dessert Break with Exhibitors

Thursday September 7, 2017 1:00pm - 1:30pm EDT
Grand Ballroom - Sphinx on K (formerly known as the Almas Conference Center) 1315 K Street, NW, Washington DC 20005

Break

1:30pm EDT

Safe Transit? Accident Hot Spots, Youth, and Safe Stops - AICP/CM Approved 1.5

Learn about MTA’s mapping of accident hot spots, the relationship between transit and youths in Worcester, and how to measure the correlation between bus stop location and pedestrian safety.

Attendance at this session will offer: 1.5 AICP credits

Mapping Transit Accident Hot Spots using MTA Accident Mapping System
Leo Fothergill, Maryland Transit Administration, Baltimore, MD
Woon Kim, AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety, Washington, DC
The Impact of Public Transportation on Youth in Worcester
Madilyn Jacobsen, Clark University, Claremont, CA
Using GIS to Measure the Impact of Bus Stop Location on Pedestrian Safety
Brian Pessaro, Senior Research Associate, Center for Urban Transportation Research, Tampa, FL

Moderators

Jonathan P. Brooks

Assistant Research Scientist, Texas A&M Transportation Institute

Jonathan Brooks is an Assistant Research Scientist with Texas A&M Transportation Institute’s Transit Mobility Program and offices in Houston, Texas. He is an active young professional researcher with a diverse background including driving Motorcoach in the private sector. He concentrates... Read More →

Speakers

Leo Fothergill, GISP

GIS Project Manager, Maryland Transit Administration / AECOM

Mr. Leo Fothergill has over 15 years of experience in supporting safety, environmental, and transportation projects using geographic information systems (GIS) and database technology. He is experienced in providing applications, maps, spatial analysis, databases, data services and... Read More →

Madilyn Jacobsen

Student

Recent graduate of Clark University ('17), continuing at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo in the fall for Masters of City and Regional Planning ('19). Areas of interest: youth mobility, effective public participation, applications of GIS for understanding social anxieties of transit.

Woon Kim

Senior Analyst, AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety

Woon Kim joined the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety in April 2017 as a Senior Analyst responsible for key and complicated data analysis efforts. Previously, she was a Safety Data Manager and Analyst in the Maryland Transit Administration (MTA) managing daily accident reports and... Read More →

Brian Pessaro

Senior Research Associate, CUTR

Brian Pessaro has been a senior research associate at the Center for Urban Transportation Research since 2009. His areas of research include bus rapid transit, vehicle assist and automation technology in transit, and transit performance monitoring. He is currently working on a research... Read More →

Safe Transit Accident Hot Spots, Youth, and Safe Stops pdf

Thursday September 7, 2017 1:30pm - 3:00pm EDT
Oval Office - Sphinx on K (formerly known as the Almas Conference Center) 1315 K Street, NW, Washington DC 20005

1:30PM Breakout Session AICP/CM Approved

1:30pm EDT

Tough Cookies? Accessibility, Simplifying Data, TNC vs Paratransit - AICP/CM Approved 1.5

Learn how Metrolinx uses an accessibility toolkit, how DC makes complex information available to people, and explore juxtaposed data for TNC and paratransit.

Attendance at this session will offer: 1.5 AICP credits

Metrolinx Accessibility Toolkit
Christopher Livett, Transportation Planning Analyst, Metrolinx, Toronto, ON - Canada
Access all Areas: Measuring Accessibility to Jobs by Public Transit for Individuals with Physical Disability in Three Major Canadian Cities
Emily Grise, Phd Student, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec Canada

Moderators

Robert Marsters, PMP

Senior Project Manager, GeoDecisions a division of Gannett Fleming, Inc.

Speakers

Emily Grise

PhD Student, McGill University

My main research focuses on urban public transit planning and operations. Specifically, I am interested in enhancing customer satisfaction and the provision of public transit service for an aging population. My other research interests include public transit operations and reliability... Read More →

Chris Livett

Transportation Planning Analyst, Metrolinx/GO Transit

Focussed on using data and spatial analysis to support transportation planning. Identifying the right metrics and tools while understanding the pitfalls of each. My presentation will be focussed on the TransCAD-based transit accessibility/connectivity toolkit we developed, how we... Read More →

Tough Cookies Accessibility, Simplifying Data, TNC vs Paratransit pdf

Thursday September 7, 2017 1:30pm - 3:00pm EDT
Hamilton/Madison - Sphinx on K (formerly known as the Almas Conference Center) 1315 K Street, NW, Washington DC 20005

1:30PM Breakout Session AICP/CM Approved

1:30pm EDT

Visualization and Communication of Real-Time Travel Information, Travel Patterns and Performance Information - AICP/CM Approved 1.5

Learn about mobile app development for real-time information, NYC’s analysis of a transit app, and a technique to visualize and explore travel corridors using GPS trace data.

Attendance at this session will offer: 1.5 AICP credits

GoTime Mobile Application Development: A Solution for Accessible Real Time Travel Information
Mark Haberle, GISP, PMP, Senior Project Manager, VHB, Watertown, MA
Making Complex City Transportation Performance Information Available and Useful for Residents and Commuters
Stephanie Dock, AICP, Research Program Coordinator, District Department of Transportation, Washington, DC
Visualization of Travel Corridors using Large-Scale GPS Traces
Nikola Ivanov, PMP, Deputy Director, CATT Laboratory, College Park, MD

Moderators

M. Nazrul Islam, PhD, PE

Transportation Specialist, Federal Transit Administration

Dr. Nazrul Islam is a transportation specialist for the Federal Transit Administration. He is working at FTA’s Office of Planning and Environment for the last nine years. Prior to joining FTA, Dr. Islam worked for a consulting firm for more than thirteen years, specializing in... Read More →

Speakers

Stephanie Dock, AICP

Research Program Coordinator, District Department of Transportation

Stephanie Dock leads the District Department of Transportation’s Research, Development, and Technology Transfer Program. The program helps the agency to be more innovative in everything from safety and development review to pervious pavements, traffic signals, and agency management... Read More →

Mark Haberle

Senior Project Manager, VHB

Mark is a Senior Project Manager at VHB working primarily on geospatial application development efforts within the Applied Technology group. He is tasked with managing full life cycle of enterprise GIS and applied technology deployments utilizing cutting-edge application technology... Read More →

Nikola Ivanov

Deputy Director, CATT Laboratory

Nikola Ivanov manages operations and technical development, and oversees every aspect of software implementation from conception to deployment at the Center for Advanced Transportation Technology Laboratory (CATT Lab). Nikola has extensive experience with big data and information... Read More →

Visualization and Communication pdf

Thursday September 7, 2017 1:30pm - 3:00pm EDT
Grand Ballroom - Sphinx on K (formerly known as the Almas Conference Center) 1315 K Street, NW, Washington DC 20005

1:30PM Breakout Session AICP/CM Approved

3:00pm EDT

Break with Exhibitors

Have you tested out the latest and greatest products yet?

Thursday September 7, 2017 3:00pm - 3:30pm EDT
Grand Ballroom - Sphinx on K (formerly known as the Almas Conference Center) 1315 K Street, NW, Washington DC 20005

Break

3:30pm EDT

Better Links: Improving Services for Riders On-and-Off Transit - AICP/CM Approved 1.5

Learn about how to improve the rider experience via bus stop evaluation without sacrificing operational performance and how to use readily available data to link transit and trails, and lessons learned for using crowd sourced and third party data.

Attendance at this session will offer: 1.5 AICP credits

Improving Rider Experience and System Performance through Bus Stop Evaluation in York, Pennsylvania
Mike Pritchard, Senior Transportation Planner, York County Planning Commission, York, PA
Using GIS and Widely Available Data to Link Public Trails with Public Transportation
Sara Hendricks, AICP, Senior Research Associate, Center for Urban Transportation Research, Tampa, FL
Practical Advice for Working with 3rd Party Data Providers
Nikola Ivanov, PMP, Deputy Director, CATT Laboratory, College Park, MD

Moderators

Victoria Perk, Ph.D

Senior Research Associte, CUTR

Speakers

Sara Hendricks, AICP

Senior Research Associate, Center for Urban Transportation Research

Ms. Hendricks conducts research at the University of South Florida, Center for Urban Transportation Research in the areas of transportation demand management; bicycle, pedestrian and transit infrastructure; and growth management policy. She holds a Master of Regional Planning degree... Read More →

Nikola Ivanov

Deputy Director, CATT Laboratory

Mike Pritchard

Senior Transportation Planner, York County Planning Commission

Mike Pritchard is a Senior Transportation Planner with the York County Planning Commission in York, Pennsylvania. As the staff for the York Area Metropolitan Planning Organization, YCPC’s work includes all transportation topics including TIP investments, corridor studies, long range... Read More →

Better Links pdf

Thursday September 7, 2017 3:30pm - 5:00pm EDT
Oval Office - Sphinx on K (formerly known as the Almas Conference Center) 1315 K Street, NW, Washington DC 20005

3:30PM Breakout Session AICP/CM Approved

3:30pm EDT

Putting Transit on the Map: New Agencies Entering the World of GTFS, Multi-Model Performance Measurement, GTFS Implementation in Small/Rural Areas - AICP/CM Approved 1.5

Learn about the backend development of the National Transit Map using standards and open data, efforts to create effective multi-modal performance measures, and how small urban and rural areas can implement and then plan using GTFS.

Attendance at this session will offer: 1.5 AICP credits

An AADT for Transit? Modeling Ridership and Generating Multimodal Performance Measures from the U.S. DOT National Transit Map (GTFS) and Other Nationally-Available Data
Alexander Oberg, Geospatial Specialist, US Department of Transportation Volpe Center, Cambridge, MA
Small Urban and Rural GTFS: From Zero to a Service Planning
Shuman Tan, Associate Transportation Researcher, Texas A&M Transportation Institute, College Station, TX
Beyond Google Maps: Easily Build, Edit, & Analyze GTFS To Impact Planning Decisions
Stuart Powell, Account Executive, TransLoc, Durham, NC
Rodney Bunner, Solutions Manager/TBEST Developer, TBEST/ServiceEdge Solutions, Tampa, FL
Melinda Morang, Product Engineer, Esri, Redlands, CA

Moderators

Emily Grise

PhD Student, McGill University

Speakers

Shuman Tan, AICP

Associate Transportation Researcher, Texas A&M Transportation Institute

Shuman Tan is an associate transportation researcher with the Transit Mobility Program at the Texas A&M Transportation Institute. She earned her Master’s of Urban Planning from Texas A&M University in 2013. Shuman’s research interests are in the areas of transit system performance... Read More →

Rodney Bunner

President/Solutions Manager, ServiceEdge Solutions

Rodney is a Geospatial Technology Specialist who over the past twenty years has worked a consultant to local, regional, state and federal agencies in developing spatially-enabled and GIS-T applications. Mr. Bunner has contributed to the development of a variety of software products... Read More →

Melinda Morang

Product Engineer, Esri

Alexander Oberg

Geospatial Analyst, Volpe, The National Transportation Systems Center - US Department of Transportation

Alex Oberg is a geospatial analyst at the USDOT Volpe Center. His work at Volpe focuses on developing, maintaining, and analyzing multimodal transportation networks and has supported a variety of agencies, including DOT Office of Policy, Department of Energy, Federal Aviation Administration... Read More →

Stuart Powell

Account Executive, TransLoc

Stuart leads the growth of TransLoc Architect, a free web-based application designed to help transit agencies efficiently build or manage GTFS. Since the public launch of the Architect in Spring 2017, Architect has been utilized by over 140 agencies and universities. Hailed by... Read More →

Putting Transit on the Map pdf

Thursday September 7, 2017 3:30pm - 5:00pm EDT
Grand Ballroom - Sphinx on K (formerly known as the Almas Conference Center) 1315 K Street, NW, Washington DC 20005

3:30PM Breakout Session AICP/CM Approved

3:30pm EDT

Use Your Data: Applying Big Data, O-D Survey Data for Service Improvements and Title VI Equity Analysis - AICP/CM Approved 1.5

Learn to leverage big data to improve transit (performance, reliability, efficiency), hear about opportunities to use Origin-Destination Survey data, and using GIS for Title VI Equity Analysis.

Attendance at this session will offer: 1.5 AICP credits

Transit Origin-Destination Survey Flow Analysis
Jeremy Strauss, Transportation Planner, Foursquare Integrated Transportation PlanningRockville, MD
Leveraging Big Data to Improve Operational Performance, Reliability, and Efficiency
Marshall Ballard, GISP, Senior Transportation Planner - GIS Manager, Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA), San Jose, CA
Jonny Simkin, CEO, Swiftly, Inc, San Francisco, CA
Title VI Service Equity Analysis
Nazrul Islam, Community Planner, Federal Transit Administration, Washington, DC

Moderators

Carl Anderson, GISP

Senior Solutions Architect, New Light Technologies

Carl Anderson, GISP supports Federal, State, Local and Private partners with geospatial needs. he is a former URISA President and has 30+ years of geospatial experience.

Speakers

Marshall Ballard, GISP

Transportation Informatics Architect, Fehr & Peers

Marshall is an interdisciplinary Geographer, who has diverse experience with Environmental remediation projects, Transit Studies, Community Development projects, Express Lanes studies and implementations, Transportation software development projects, and he has authored public policies... Read More →

M. Nazrul Islam, PhD, PE

Transportation Specialist, Federal Transit Administration

Jonny Simkin

CEO, Swiftly, Inc.

Jonny Simkin is the Co-founder and CEO of Swiftly, a big data platform that helps public transit agencies improve their operational performance, service reliability, and real-time passenger information. Swiftly currently works with more than 35 cities and impacts the lives of over... Read More →

Jeremy Strauss

Transportation Planner, Foursquare Integrated Transportation Planning

Jeremy Strauss is a Transportation Planner at Foursquare Integrated Transportation Planning in Rockville, Maryland. Foursquare provides innovative transportation solutions that are practical, focused, and implementable. Our work areas include regional planning, transit service planning... Read More →

Use Your Data pdf

Thursday September 7, 2017 3:30pm - 5:00pm EDT
Hamilton/Madison - Sphinx on K (formerly known as the Almas Conference Center) 1315 K Street, NW, Washington DC 20005

3:30PM Breakout Session AICP/CM Approved

8:00am EDT

Break with Exhibitors

Grab your coffee and chat with our exhibitors before the day's education kicks off!

Friday September 8, 2017 8:00am - 8:30am EDT
Grand Ballroom - Sphinx on K (formerly known as the Almas Conference Center) 1315 K Street, NW, Washington DC 20005

Break

8:00am EDT

Conference Registration Hours - Sphinx on K

Pick up your name badge and conference materials if you haven't yet done so!

Friday September 8, 2017 8:00am - 2:00pm EDT
Sphinx on K - Mezzanine Foyer 1315 K Street, NW, Washington DC 20005

Registration Hours

8:30am EDT

A Thorough Tour of GTFS: Creating, Improving, Sharing, Finding - AICP/CM Approved 1.5

For over 10 years, public transit agencies have been sharing their schedules with Google and others using the General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS). This common format has enabled a wide range of apps, services, and businesses to be built around such data. Attendees will take a soup to nuts tour through the basics of GTFS, best practices, the mechanics of publishing, and how to work with other agencies’ feeds.

Attendance at this session will offer: 1.5 AICP credits

Session Lead: Drew Dara-Abrams, Ph.D., Head of Mobility Products, Mapzen, San Francisco, CA

Learning to Use GTFS: World Bank's Online Course for Developing Regions
Holly Krambeck, Senior Transport Specialist, World Bank IBRD, Washington, DC
Tatiana Peralta-Quiros, Transport Economist, World Bank IBRD, Washington, DC
GTFS Best Practices: A New Guide Created Collaboratively by Data Consumers, Producers, and the Rocky Mountain Institute
Aaron Antrim, Principal, Trillium Solutions, Inc., Portland, OR
Sean Barbeau, Principal Mobile Software Architect for R&D, University of South Florida, Center for Urban Transportation Research, Tampa, FL
Publishing, Consuming, and Improving GTFS with the Transitland Platform
Drew Dara-Abrams, Ph.D., Head of Mobility Products, Mapzen, San Francisco, CA
Ian Rees, Software Engineer, Mapzen, San Francisco, CA

Moderators

Drew Dara-Abrams

Head of Mobility Products, Mapzen

Speakers

Aaron Antrim

Principal, Trillium Solutions, Inc.

I work on supporting transport data interoperability broadly -- developing and improving data specifications for multimodal transportation and infrastructure.

Holly Krambeck

Senior Economist, The World Bank

Holly Krambeck leads a diverse investment portfolio of urban and rural transport projects, as well as a series of initiatives for integrating innovative, low cost technologies for transport data collection and analysis into Bank operations. She has led the creation of the world's... Read More →

Sean Barbeau, Ph.D.

Principal Mobile Software Architect for R&D, University of South Florida

Dr. Sean J. Barbeau (barbeau@cutr.usf.edu) is the Principal Mobile Software Architect for R&D at the Center for Urban Transportation Research at the University of South Florida. Dr. Barbeau has served as the PI for many projects researching and developing apps for mobile phones... Read More →

Tatiana Peralta Quiros

Transport & Technology - Economist, World Bank

Tatiana Peralta-Quiros is Transport Economist working on the collection and use of innovative data & technology. She works with different teams to operationalize and pilot the use of digital data, data analytics, and innovative technology in transport projects. Tatiana works with... Read More →

Ian Rees

Software Engineer, Mapzen

Ian Rees is a software engineer on the Mobility Team at Mapzen, where he helps build software for aggregating open transit data from around the world. Ian holds a Ph.D. in computational biology from Baylor College of Medicine.

OMG, it’s GTFS! Sharing Transit Schedules and More Using the New Standard pdf

Friday September 8, 2017 8:30am - 10:00am EDT
Oval Office - Sphinx on K (formerly known as the Almas Conference Center) 1315 K Street, NW, Washington DC 20005

8:30AM Breakout Session AICP/CM Approved

8:30am EDT

America’s Next Stop Model: Better Ridership Forecasting Using GIS, GTFS, and Public Data - AICP/CM Approved 1.5

On the heels of FTA’s STOPS Transit Ridership Model come new techniques to further improve transit project modeling by using commonly available resources. Presentations explore the use of GTFS to code transit model networks, Census and GPS data to develop trip patterns, and Open Trip Planner to generate travel paths. Detail will also be presented on how to incorporate transit network data into a full, state-wide transportation model and options for analyzing service and fare equity.

Attendance at this session will offer: 1.5 AICP credits

Using GTFS, Big Data
Alex Rixey, AICP, Senior Transportation Planner, Fehr & Peers, Washington, DC
Data Science Approach to Forecasting Bus Ridership
Catherine Lawson, Associate Professor, University at Albany, Albany, NY
Incorporating Transit into a Statewide Model Using a Multi-resolution GIS Network Database
Jonathan Avner, Senior Project Planner, Whitman Requardt & Associates, LLP, Austin, TX

Moderators

M. Nazrul Islam, PhD, PE

Transportation Specialist, Federal Transit Administration

Speakers

Alex Rixey, AICP

Senior Transportation Planner, Fehr & Peers

Alex Rixey, AICP, is a Senior Transportation Planner with Fehr & Peers DC. He has diverse, multimodal transportation and land use project experience at a variety of geographic scales, ranging from single development sites to citywide master plans. Mr. Rixey has served as project... Read More →

Jonathan Avner

Senior Project Planner, Whitman Requardt & Associates, LLP

Jonathan Avner has been involved in the development and application of travel demand models at both the urban and statewide scale for almost 20 years. His experience has included projects across the United States from Hawaii to Washington DC and points further east helping clients... Read More →

Catherine Lawson

Associate Professor, University at Albany

Dr. Catherine T. Lawson is Chair of the Department of Geography and Planning, Director of the Masters in Urban and Regional Planning, and an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Planning. In addition, she is an Affiliated Faculty member of the Department of Informatics... Read More →

America's Nest Stop Model pdf

Friday September 8, 2017 8:30am - 10:00am EDT
Grand Ballroom - Sphinx on K (formerly known as the Almas Conference Center) 1315 K Street, NW, Washington DC 20005

8:30AM Breakout Session AICP/CM Approved

8:30am EDT

There’s an Index for that: Developing Effective Transit Using Geoanalytical Insights - AICP/CM Approved 1.5

There are a number of factors at play in designing the most effective and efficient transit projects and networks. This session discusses indexes and measures of transit directness, competitiveness, and market area development. It explores how these analytical techniques can help transit agencies better plan future network changes for the communities they serve.

Attendance at this session will offer: 1.5 AICP credits

Making the Case for Transit: The Transit Competitiveness Index
William Walter, GISP, Director/Geospatial Consulting, Cambridge Systematics, Inc., Austin, TX
Using GIS Analysis to Develop Transit Market Areas
Kyle Burrows, Transit Planner, Metro Transit, Minneapolis, MN
Evaluation and Application of Transit Network Directness Using Geographic Information Systems
Young-Jae Lee, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Morgan State University, Department of Transportation and Urban Infrastructure Studies (TUIS), Baltimore, MD

Moderators

Nikola Ivanov

Deputy Director, CATT Laboratory

Speakers

Kyle Burrows

Transit Planner, Metro Transit

Kyle has been a Transit Planner with Metro Transit since 2013. In addition to his regular route planning portfolio, his focus is on regional transit policy, long range network planning, and applying new planning and analysis tools to policy and decision-making.

William Walter, GISP

Director, Geospatial Consulting, Cambridge Systematics, Inc

With more than 20 years providing GIS consulting services, I like to help clients make the most of their investments in spatial technology by making the information actionable. The most successful mapping system is not truly leveraged until it is Integrated with other business systems... Read More →

Young-Jae Lee, Ph.D

Associate Professor, Morgan State University

Dr. Young-Jae Lee is an Associate Professor in the Department of Transportation and Urban Infrastructure Studies at Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland. He received his BS and MS at Seoul National University in Seoul, Korea, and another MS and a Ph.D. from the University... Read More →

There's an Index for that pdf

Friday September 8, 2017 8:30am - 10:00am EDT
Hamilton/Madison - Sphinx on K (formerly known as the Almas Conference Center) 1315 K Street, NW, Washington DC 20005

8:30AM Breakout Session AICP/CM Approved

10:00am EDT

Break with Exhibitors

Mid-morning coffee break with exhibitors!

Friday September 8, 2017 10:00am - 10:30am EDT
Grand Ballroom - Sphinx on K (formerly known as the Almas Conference Center) 1315 K Street, NW, Washington DC 20005

Break

10:30am EDT

Minding the Gap? Designing Transit Services to Fill Gaps and Enhance Access - AICP/CM Approved 1.5

Learn analytical methods for alleviating first mile/last mile access gaps using GIS and complementary software and how to use interactive isochrones to facilitate a conversation to design better transit systems, engaging riders to document factors that affect getting from point A to B and modeling service area vulnerability.

Attendance at this session will offer: 1.5 AICP credits

Solving the First Mile/Last Mile Knowledge Gap with GIS & Remix
Jacob Labutka, MCRP, Transit Planner, Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority, St. Petersburg, FL
Interactive Isochrone Mapping and Conversations about Transit System Design
Scudder Wagg, AICP, Senior Associate, Jarrett Walker & Associates, Richmond, VA
Spatial Tools for Understanding Transit Capacity Constraints
Jieping Li, Senior Transportation Planner, Boston Region Metropolitan Planning Organization, Central Transportation Planning Staff, Boston, MA

Moderators

Sara Hendricks, AICP

Senior Research Associate, Center for Urban Transportation Research

Speakers

Scudder Wagg, AICP

Senior Associate, Jarrett Walker & Associates

Scudder Wagg is a consultant in public transit and multimodal transportation planning. His focus is on transit network redesign, facilitating conversations about multimodal planning issues, and applying innovative mapping tools to enrich conversations about planning issues. He has... Read More →

Jacob Labutka, MCRP

Project Planner, Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority

Jacob Labutka is a recent graduate of Rutgers University where he earned a Master's in City and Regional Planning (MCRP) with a concentration in Transportation Policy and Planning. As a Transit Planner at PSTA, he works with a dedicated Planning team on a variety of transit projects... Read More →

Jieping Li, PhD

Senior Transportation Planner, Boston Region Metropolitan Planning Organization

Jieping Li is a senior transportation planner at the Central Transportation Planning Staff for the Boston Region MPO. She utilizes the regional travel demand model and GIS techniques to assess the impacts of regionally significant transportation projects and land-use changes on travel... Read More →

Minding the Gap pdf

Friday September 8, 2017 10:30am - 12:00pm EDT
Hamilton/Madison - Sphinx on K (formerly known as the Almas Conference Center) 1315 K Street, NW, Washington DC 20005

10:30AM Breakout Session AICP/CM Approved

10:30am EDT

Planning to Plan? Various Techniques for GIS-Enhanced Planning - AICP/CM Approved 1.5

Learn how to use Open Trip Planner to enable riders to plan inter-modal trips, how to get down to planning stops in a deviated fixed route operating environment, how to mine cellphone data to analyze feeder routes, and how to apply GIS spatial tools to understand system capacity constraints.

Attendance at this session will offer: 1.5 AICP credits

Inter-modal Trip Planning using Open Trip Planner
Marshall Ballard, GISP, Senior Transportation Planner/GIS Manager, Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA), San Jose, CA
Stop-Level Planning Analysis in a Deviated Fixed Route Flag-Stop System
Jill Cahoon, GISP, Senior Transit Planner/GIS Professional, AECOM, Hooksett, NH

Moderators

Will Gillespie

Principal Analyst, Strategic Planning, Chicago Regional Transportation Authority

Speakers

Marshall Ballard, GISP

Transportation Informatics Architect, Fehr & Peers

Jill Cahoon, GISP

Senior Transit Planner, AECOM

I'm a Senior Transit Planner and GIS Analyst with AECOM. I split my time between doing transit studies for rural, tribal, and small urban communities (as well as the occasional large city) and serving as a GIS Analyst for larger rail projects. I've worked as a consultant on transit... Read More →

Planning to Plan pdf

Friday September 8, 2017 10:30am - 12:00pm EDT
Grand Ballroom - Sphinx on K (formerly known as the Almas Conference Center) 1315 K Street, NW, Washington DC 20005

10:30AM Breakout Session AICP/CM Approved

10:30am EDT

Staying on Track? State of Good Repair and Railroad/Project Management - AICP/CM Approved 1.5

Learn about the role of GIS in managing transit state of good repair by integrating with enterprise systems, how DelDOT uses their railroad program management system, the application of enterprise project management tools in transit and the use of multi-agency collaborative decision making tools.

Attendance at this session will offer: 1.5 AICP credits

Roles That GIS Plays in Transit State of Good Repair – GIS Integrations with Enterprise Asset Management System
Minhua Wang, GIS Enterprise Architect, WMATA , Washington DC
Delaware Department of Transportation (DelDOT) Railroad Program Management System (RPM)
Jason Wheatley, GISP, Geospatial Technologies Manager, Century Engineering, Inc., Hunt Valley, MD
ProTrack Plus An Enterprise Project Management Solution
Jose Colon, PMP, CPM, Chief Information Officer, District Department of Transportation, Washington, DC
Multiagency Collaboration Success Stories
Nikola Ivanov, PMP, Deputy Director, CATT Lab, College Park, MD

Moderators

Ed Wells

Retired/URISA Past President, Retired

Ed Wells has been active in the GIS field for almost 40 years. He retired in 2017 after nine years as GIS Manager for the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority. He is a Past President of URISA. He was one the four principal co-authors of the FGDC address standard. He served... Read More →

Speakers

Jose Colon, PMP, CPM

Chief Information Officer, DC Department of Transportation

José Colón, CIO, has played an integral role in developing IT solutions to assist the District Department of Transportation in its wide range of responsibilities for the last 13 years. He brings over 20 years of state and local government experience and has served in many capacities... Read More →

Nikola Ivanov

Deputy Director, CATT Laboratory

Minhua Wang

GIS Enterprise Architect, WMATA

Jason Wheatley

Assoc. VP - Information & Spatial Solutions, Century Engineering, Inc.

Assoc. VP - Information & Spatial Solutions

Staying on Track pdf

Friday September 8, 2017 10:30am - 12:00pm EDT
Oval Office - Sphinx on K (formerly known as the Almas Conference Center) 1315 K Street, NW, Washington DC 20005

10:30AM Breakout Session AICP/CM Approved

12:00pm EDT

Food Truck-a-Palooza (non-hosted lunch)

Lunch is on your own today... you should head out the front door for your choice of food truck fare. Easy and inexpensive. Then head back in for dessert with our exhibitors before they tear down for the day.

Friday September 8, 2017 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT
TBA

Lunch

1:00pm EDT

Dessert Break with Exhibitors

Enjoy some sweets before heading in to the closing session. Thanks to our exhibitors and sponsors for their generous support!

Friday September 8, 2017 1:00pm - 1:30pm EDT
Grand Ballroom - Sphinx on K (formerly known as the Almas Conference Center) 1315 K Street, NW, Washington DC 20005

Break

1:30pm EDT

Closing Keynote Address: Creating the National Transit Map How we are Leveraging Standards and Open Data for a New National Geospatial Asset

Creating the National Transit Map How we are Leveraging Standards and Open Data for a New National Geospatial Asset
Keynote Speaker: Derald Dudley, Geographer, US Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Washington, DC

A perfect wrap-up for the GIS in Transit Conference!

The creation of the GTFS data standard and technological advances, that now allow local transit agencies to electronically publish this detailed information on bus and rail routes, stops and time tables in a machine readable format, provided a new opportunity for USDOT.

The National Transit Map takes advantage of this by leveraging data that transit agencies already make available to the public and combining this voluntarily provided GTFS data into one data set.

Transit agencies that are already providing this information as open data are able to participate with little effort by registering their data and granting the USDOT a Creative Commons license to access and use the agency's transit data periodically. The result puts accurate data about the nation transportation system, such as the location of transit stops, frequency of transit service, and transit routes into the hands of stakeholders. This project will also help educate transit agencies who do not currently use GTFS about its benefits to researchers, private software developers, and the riding public.

Moderators

Martin Catala

Program Director, Transit Management & Innovation, CUTR

Speakers

Derald Dudley

Geographer, US Department of Transportation/Bureau of Transportation Statistics

Friday September 8, 2017 1:30pm - 2:30pm EDT
Grand Ballroom - Sphinx on K (formerly known as the Almas Conference Center) 1315 K Street, NW, Washington DC 20005

Keynote