TheCityFix Guide to Communication & Mobility @ TRB’s Annual Meeting
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This trend of using innovative communication for sustainable transportation is especially evident by the large number of sessions on the topic at this year’s Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, one of the world’s biggest gatherings of experts in the transportation and urban planning fields.
We at TheCityFix and EMBARQ are especially excited about all of the activity around this topic of communication and sustainable mobility and for anyone attending this year’s TRB Annual Meeting we have put together a list of sessions that should not be missed…
- Everything You Need to Know About Web 2.0: Using Communication and Collaboration to Improve Transportation
- Social Networks and Information and Communication Technology: Implications for Activities in Real and Virtual Spaces
- Electronic Participation: Changing Face of Public Involvement?
- Can Social Marketing Techniques Be Applied to Promoting Bicycling? What Research and Past Campaigns Tell Us
- Award-Winning Examples of Communication from 2010 Competition on Communications with John and Jane Public
- Public Involvement in Transportation
- New Media Communications in Transportation
- Innovative Applications of Social Media and Web 2.0 Technologies in Transportation Research and Communication
- Innovations in Communication: Better Engagement of Customers
- Electronic Participation: Changing Face of Public Involvement?
- Cloud Computing for Transportation Agencies
The same week, EMBARQ and partners are also hosting Transforming Transportation which will feature a half-day session on Communications and Public Involvement in Public Transport with an emphasis on experiences in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Unfortunately, that session is already full and registration has closed but we will be posting presentations online, so stay tuned.
[...] The Transportation Research Board, a part of the operating arm of the National Academies, is now having its annual meeting in Washington, DC, an event which attracts 10,000 transportation professionals from around the world to 3,000 presentations on topics from the effectiveness of concrete pavement design features to the role of transit-oriented development in livable communities. I’ll be posting a few notes from the conference. [...]