Tammer Al-Turk

Moderated by: M. Nazrul Islam America’s Next Stop Model: Better Ridership Forecasting Using GIS, GTFS, and Public Data 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 …

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Moderated by: Carl Anderson Use Your Data: Applying Big Data, O-D Survey Data for Service Improvements and Title VI Equity Analysis 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. Transit Origin-Destination Survey Flow Analysis Jeremy Strauss, …

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Moderated by: Ed Wells Staying on Track? State of Good Repair and Railroad/Project Management 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 …

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Sessions Thursday, September 7th Advanced Development: TOD Real Estate, Analysis-Visualization, and GIS-Train Control Leveraging Data: Modeling and Planning for Transit Mobility Transit’s Impact on Property: Value, Use, and Opportunity Safe Transit? Accident Hot Spots, Youth, and Safe Stops Tough Cookies? Accessibility, Simplifying Data, TNC vs Paratransit Visualization and Communication of Real-Time Travel Information, Travel Patterns …

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Moderated by: Will Gillespie Planning to Plan? Various Techniques for GIS-Enhanced Planning 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 …

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