Category Archive: Webinars

Transit GIS Clearinghouse Webinar – OTP and Its Deployment at TriMet

Webinar Date: Thursday, May 31, 2012, 1:00 PM ET   Webinar Description: This free, Transit GIS Clearinghouse webinar will tell the story of the Portland Regional Trip Planner, the first fully open-source, multimodal trip itinerary planning application to be released by a U.S. transit agency. Officially unveiled by TriMet in October 2011, the launch followed …

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A Webinar on Smartphones and Travel Behavior

Webinar Date: Thursday, April 19, 2012  2:30 PM ET Webinar Description: Smartphones with built-in GPS provide an opportunity for major changes in travel surveys. GPS or combinations with other location-based technologies such as Wi-Fi, cell tower triangulation, and Bluetooth offer opportunities to experiment with approaches to collect  travel and activity behavior over longer periods of …

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Data to Go: Mobile Devices Serve Up Real-Time Transit Data

Webinar Date: Tuesday, April 10, 2012, 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM ET Webinar Description: The result of demographic changes and the growing use of mobile phones has compelled transit agencies to disseminate information through new media. The emergence of new technologies has also prompted the provision of real-time data, providing customer’s with valuable information on …

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Creating Partnerships through Online Trip Planning and More with National RTAP’s GTFS Builder Web App

Webinar Date: Wednesday, February 29, 2012, 1:00 PM EDT Webinar Description: National Rural Transit Assistance Program’s (RTAP) General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) Builder web app is a set of tools—simple Excel spreadsheets, checklists, and videos—that will help transit agencies prepare bus route and schedule data files to support the integrated Google Transit trip planner, customizable …

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First Quarterly Webinar a Success

On November 16, 2011, the Transit GIS Clearinghouse webinar series got off to a successful start through Michael Frumin’s presentation of MTA’s real-time bus tracking and customer information system, which hosted 140 attendees. The MTA presentation is the first in a series of quarterly webinars that will be hosted by NCTR’s Transit GIS Clearinghouse. In …

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