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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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 →

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

Planning Manager, 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

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 →

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, GISP

Retired/URISA Past President, Retired

Ed Wells was one the four principal co-authors of the FGDC address standard. He served as Technical Editor for the NENA workgroup that drafted the Civic Location Data Exchange Format (CLDXFv1), and is an active member of CLDXFv2 workgroup. He has been an active participant in the... 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

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 →

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