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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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Drew Dara-Abrams

Mapzen
Head of Mobility Products
San Francisco, CA
Websitehttps://mapzen.com
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 and operators of transportation systems with global coverage: Open Traffic, a collaboration with the World Bank to collect roadway speeds. Transitland, an open data service that aggregates schedules from public-transit agencies. Valhalla, a multimodal routing engine for journey planning, logistics optimization, and accessibility analysis.

Dara-Abrams holds a Ph.D. in computational geography from University of California, Santa Barbara.

My Moderators Sessions

Thursday, September 7
 

10:30am EDT

Leveraging Data: Modeling and Planning for Transit Mobility - AICP/CM Approved 1.5 Oval Office - Sphinx on K (formerly known as the Almas Conference Center)Drew Dara-Abrams • Nilesh Deshpande, AICP • Peter Hadley • Rik Williams
 
Friday, September 8
 

8:30am EDT

A Thorough Tour of GTFS: Creating, Improving, Sharing, Finding - AICP/CM Approved 1.5 Oval Office - Sphinx on K (formerly known as the Almas Conference Center)Drew Dara-Abrams • Aaron Antrim • Holly Krambeck • Sean Barbeau, Ph.D. • Tatiana Peralta Quiros • Ian Rees