Monday, 25 June: 8:30 - 10:00
Putting the Pieces Together: The Art and Science of Data Storytelling
Putting the Pieces Together: The Art and Science of Data Storytelling
The Odyssey. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The Fast and the Furious. Many compelling stories involve epic feats of transportation. How can we tell great stories about transportation data? It’s difficult to tell a story with a spreadsheet.
Effective data communication involves turning that raw data into charts and maps that reveal trends and insights. These visualizations must be supported by a contextual framework that guides readers and encourages engagement. During this workshop, we will begin the journey with an overview of data analysis and storytelling, complemented by exploring indicators related to health and transportation. Bring your laptop for hands on activities and data exploration as we embark on the creation of a data story for your community.
Learning Objectives:
Effective data communication involves turning that raw data into charts and maps that reveal trends and insights. These visualizations must be supported by a contextual framework that guides readers and encourages engagement. During this workshop, we will begin the journey with an overview of data analysis and storytelling, complemented by exploring indicators related to health and transportation. Bring your laptop for hands on activities and data exploration as we embark on the creation of a data story for your community.
Learning Objectives:
- Describe the fundamentals of data stories
- Identify different types of charts and popular uses
- Develop headlines and calls-to-action
Adnan Mahmud is passionate about using data and technology to tackle the world’s biggest challenges. Adnan is Founder and CEO of LiveStories, an online data communication platform with a civic data library. LiveStories customers span public and private sectors, including the Gates Foundation, RTC of Southern Nevada, California Health and Human Services Agency, UCLA, and ShotSpotter. Prior to founding LiveStories, Adnan worked for over 8 years at Microsoft, where he managed their largest data pipelines and received multiple patents in data analysis and visualization. Additionally, he has presented around the world as an Envoy for the U.S. State Department. Adnan is also Co-founder of Jolkona, a non-profit that provides mentorship and training for social entrepreneurs.
“Since 1947, the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety has been dedicated to saving lives through research and education.”
Monday, 25 June: 13:45 - 15:15
Healthy Aging is a Fun Ride on the LongROAD
Sponsored by AAA Foundation
One in five licensed drivers in the United States are 65 years and older making them the fastest growing licensing group of any age. Older adults make up 18% of all traffic fatalities and 10% of all injuries. Although driving is the preferred mode of transportation for older adults to meet their mobility needs and remain independent, a number of age-related functional impairments, medical conditions, and medication side effects can compromise driving abilities.
The LongROAD study (Longitudinal Research on Aging Drivers) is a multi-site prospective cohort study now in its second year with almost 3000 participants (ages 65 and older) designed to collect data on the medical, behavioral, environmental, and vehicle technological factors influencing older adults’ driving. One of the major strengths and unique contributions of the LongROAD study is the collection of naturalistic driving data from this large cohort over several years, coupled with a comprehensive set of questionnaire data on various aspects of driving. Further, actual medical data are compiled regularly from participants’ physician reports and standardized behavioral assessments (assessing cognitive, motor, and perceptual levels of functioning) conducted by trained technicians on participants every alternating year of the study.
Preliminary findings highlight the unique challenges faced by this cohort and begin to provide insights into potential countermeasures to assist in ensuring safe mobility and well-being. AAA website material for older drivers, their families, and others who are interested, will be presented to provide participants with an understanding of how to navigate the site and utilize the resources available including the LongROAD website, and AAA’s CarFit program). The older driver story has many moving parts. LongROAD contributes greatly to our understanding of how those parts fit together.
Tara Kelley-Baker, PhD, is the Data and Information Group Leader at the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety. As a scientist in the field of public health and transportation, Dr. Kelley-Baker has developed, evaluated, and directed a multitude of research projects in the field of traffic safety. She has a particular interest in vulnerable population’s including issues affecting senior and young drivers, as well as women and young passengers. She also has significant expertise in the area of impaired driving and is currently Chair to the Transportation Research Board (TRB) Alcohol, Drugs and Traffic Safety committee, a member of the International Council on Alcohol and Drugs and Traffic Safety (ICADTS), and serves as a Research Advisor on the National Board of Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD).
Dr. Kelley-Baker attended Boston University where she received her Master of Social Work in Community Organization, Management, and Planning, and the University of Maryland at College Park where she received her Doctor of Philosophy in Human Development. |
Nina M. Silverstein, PhD, is Professor of Gerontology, University of Massachusetts Boston. She is a Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America and has held leadership roles in that organization, the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education, and the Alzheimer’s Association. She has published on the impact of dementia on home, community, institutional and acute care and on a broad range of issues in gerontology. An article co-authored with students, Students Explore Livable Communities, received the 2010 David A. Peterson award from the journal, Gerontology and Geriatrics Education.She co-authored three books: Dementia and Wandering Behavior: Concern for the Lost Elder; Improving Hospital Care for Persons with Dementia(Springer Publishing: NY) and most recently, Introduction to Senior Transportation (Rutledge/Taylor & Francis).
Since 2015, Nina has been a Co-Investigator on healthy aging data reports in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire funded through the Tufts Health Plan Foundation. Her primary research interests relate to transportation and aging with a special focus on dementia. |
Tuesday, 26 June: 8:30 - 10:00
The Detroit Riverfront as Economic Driver: Vision and Partnerships to Fuel Transformation
Sponsored by Skidmore, Ownings & Merrill LLP (SOM)
The Detroit Riverfront as Economic Driver: Vision and Partnerships to Fuel Transformation
Sponsored by Skidmore, Ownings & Merrill LLP (SOM)
The Detroit Riverfront has a long and evolving history of importance to the Detroit economy. It also has illustrated its decline. The Riverfront is now playing an essential role in building toward Detroit’s future, serving as an inclusive recreational resource integrated into the fabric of Detroiters’ lives, and providing new and expanded housing opportunities and places to work. Its resurgence is an emblem of Detroit’s recovery, and an important part of citywide efforts to retain and attract residents, fuel entrepreneurship, and restore the larger economy. The panel will explore the following questions:
- How has the riverfront evolved since its industrial heyday? What has the impact been?
- What has it taken to generate this transformation?
- How does the Riverfront tie to broader efforts to grow Detroit’s economy, and neighborhoods?
- How does the City now think about the Riverfront’s role in driving Detroit’s economy, and what are plans for the future?
- How does this investment situate Detroit within the national landscape of waterfront development?
Aaron May is the Global Practice Manager of SOM’s City Design Practice: a connected network of urban design experts that work with governments, institutions, developers, and communities around the world to design and build resilient, sustainable and livable cities. As part of that practice, he is inspired by the challenges of reinventing the world’s cities, with the understanding that all things, natural and man-made, are connected. Aaron’s areas of specialization include; pos t-industrial reintegration, and master,plans that nurture urban identity and culture through the lens of responsible and mixed use development.His tenets of sustainable planning include creating transit-enabled communities, meaningful places of social exchange, and engendering a sense of identity rooted in the culture and aspirations of the place.
Tuesday, 26 June: 13:45 -15:15
Cross-Disciplinary Leadership: Developing a Shared Vision can be a Puzzling Experience
Sponsored by Parsons Corporation, Parsons Transportation Group
The importance of an organization’s vision and its relevance to strategy and objectives are well documented. This workshop will use an experiential learning activity tailored to organizational strategy/development that will emphasize the role of vision, resources, information seeking, and communication to attaining organizational objectives. Through the activity, attendees will experience how having a vision and the proper resources affect the execution of vision in terms of efficiency and effectiveness. During the activity, issues may arise such as operating without a vision, environmental “noise,” alignment of vision and resources, lack of resources, ambiguity, and communication. Not only will attendees engage in the process of executing vision, but they will also experience emotional and relational elements that have the potential to impact outcomes. Prizes awarded to the winning team. Come join the fun! This workshop will be a prelude to the IPATH/THSG Annual Meeting.
Stephen F. Mayer, PhD, PE, is a Business Development Director and Vice President of Strategy and Development for Parsons, a global infrastructure consulting firm. In addition, he is an Adjunct Professor at Niagara University where he teaches Business Strategy, Technology Commercialization, and International Management to MBA graduate students. Previously, Steve was the General Manager/Operations and American Officer of the Peace Bridge Authority for ten years and spent 17 years in senior-level positions in consulting engineering firms working on public works, transportation, land development, environmental and general building projects.
Steve is a leading program manager in the toll industry and has privately consulted with numerous engineer-architect firms throughout the United States. He has served as the President of the International Bridge, Tunnel and Turnpike Association (IBTTA) in 2005 and is an Honorary Member. He serves as an instructor in IBTTA’s Leadership Academy teaching a session entitled, “The Leader as Strategist.” Also, he has testified before congressional and New York State field hearings on both border infrastructure security and trade corridor development issues.
Steve holds Bachelor of Science degrees in photogrammetry & survey, and civil engineering; an MBA and a Doctorate in the field of Economic Geography, World Business and International Trade from Syracuse University and the State University of New York at Buffalo, respectively. He is a registered professional engineer in multiple states.
Steve is a leading program manager in the toll industry and has privately consulted with numerous engineer-architect firms throughout the United States. He has served as the President of the International Bridge, Tunnel and Turnpike Association (IBTTA) in 2005 and is an Honorary Member. He serves as an instructor in IBTTA’s Leadership Academy teaching a session entitled, “The Leader as Strategist.” Also, he has testified before congressional and New York State field hearings on both border infrastructure security and trade corridor development issues.
Steve holds Bachelor of Science degrees in photogrammetry & survey, and civil engineering; an MBA and a Doctorate in the field of Economic Geography, World Business and International Trade from Syracuse University and the State University of New York at Buffalo, respectively. He is a registered professional engineer in multiple states.
Tuesday, 26 June: 15:30 - 17:00
Autonomous Vehicle Technology & Equity
Autonomous Vehicle Technology & Equity
The promise of improving safety and providing convenience has been the mantra of highly automated vehicles. In addition, it is said to provide significant improvements in mobility for the most vulnerable of road users such as the disabled who experience limitations due to physical, perceptual,or cognitive impairments; the elderly; and children. While the potential to realize these benefits remains significant for this broad sector of the population, the vast majority of automated vehicle developments to date have focused on technological capabilities and improved mobility for those currently able to drive themselves. With that said, this workshop will present a number of practical design and logistical considerations associated with those challenged by the current state of mobility, highlighting the need for greater consideration in future development of automated vehicles to serve this population.
James R. Sayer, PhD, is University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI) director and a research scientist in the Human Factors Group. He has conducted both basic and translational research in the areas of driver assistance and advanced safety systems development, naturalistic driving behavior, driver distraction, driver vision, and pedestrian conspicuity since 1993.
Jim currently serves as the project manager of the Connected Vehicle Safety Pilot Model Deployment, a U.S. Department of Transportation-sponsored program to demonstrate connected-vehicle technologies in a real-world, multimodal environment. The results of the Safety Pilot Model Deployment will be used by the U.S. DOT to determine driver acceptance for, and evaluate the feasibility, scalability, security and device interoperability of connected-vehicle technologies. In the area of driver assistance systems, Jim has contributed to the development, evaluation, and deployment of adaptive cruise control, collision warning, and collision avoidance systems in both passenger cars and commercial trucks (including simulator, test-track, on-road, and field-operational testing). He has overseen the conduct of four field operational tests involving several hundred drivers, accumulating over 1.2 million miles of naturalistic driving data. In the area of driver distraction. He has conducted research on the effects of cell phones and other secondary behaviors on driving performance, the frequency of secondary tasks, and driver self-regulation. His research interests related to driver vision include the effects of hydrophobic and hydrophilic glass coatings, window tinting, and defrosters/defoggers on visual performance and driving behavior. On the topic of pedestrian conspicuity. Jim has performed multiple research studies concerning the effects of retroreflective markings and safety garment design on the detection of pedestrians, emergency responders and road construction workers.
Jim currently serves as the project manager of the Connected Vehicle Safety Pilot Model Deployment, a U.S. Department of Transportation-sponsored program to demonstrate connected-vehicle technologies in a real-world, multimodal environment. The results of the Safety Pilot Model Deployment will be used by the U.S. DOT to determine driver acceptance for, and evaluate the feasibility, scalability, security and device interoperability of connected-vehicle technologies. In the area of driver assistance systems, Jim has contributed to the development, evaluation, and deployment of adaptive cruise control, collision warning, and collision avoidance systems in both passenger cars and commercial trucks (including simulator, test-track, on-road, and field-operational testing). He has overseen the conduct of four field operational tests involving several hundred drivers, accumulating over 1.2 million miles of naturalistic driving data. In the area of driver distraction. He has conducted research on the effects of cell phones and other secondary behaviors on driving performance, the frequency of secondary tasks, and driver self-regulation. His research interests related to driver vision include the effects of hydrophobic and hydrophilic glass coatings, window tinting, and defrosters/defoggers on visual performance and driving behavior. On the topic of pedestrian conspicuity. Jim has performed multiple research studies concerning the effects of retroreflective markings and safety garment design on the detection of pedestrians, emergency responders and road construction workers.
Wednesday, 27 June: 8:30 - 10:00
Small Town and Rural Multimodal Networks Guide
With the release of a new publication by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), the Small Town and Rural Multimodal Networks Guide focuses on design guidelines that aim to improve bicycling and walking in communities seeking solutions more tailored to their small town needs. This session will provide a look into this idea book for smaller communities, with visualizations and guidance for contemporary walking and biking facilities and offer ideas for correlation of engineering to health and wellness in small communities. Based in FHWA and AASHTO guidance, the Small Town and Rural guide applies a flexible design approach to creating healthy and active communities that offer more comfortable places for walking and biking. In addition to a preview of this guide, this session will include recent examples of projects from small towns across the Midwest, and interactive working exercise to show to apply design flexibility in this context.
Small Town and Rural Multimodal Networks Guide
With the release of a new publication by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), the Small Town and Rural Multimodal Networks Guide focuses on design guidelines that aim to improve bicycling and walking in communities seeking solutions more tailored to their small town needs. This session will provide a look into this idea book for smaller communities, with visualizations and guidance for contemporary walking and biking facilities and offer ideas for correlation of engineering to health and wellness in small communities. Based in FHWA and AASHTO guidance, the Small Town and Rural guide applies a flexible design approach to creating healthy and active communities that offer more comfortable places for walking and biking. In addition to a preview of this guide, this session will include recent examples of projects from small towns across the Midwest, and interactive working exercise to show to apply design flexibility in this context.
Paul Wojciechowski of Alta Planning + Design, Inc., is a transportation planner and engineer with over 28 years of experience in planning and designing innovative transportation facilities, and integrating these facilities to function with adjacent land-uses. Paul has dedicated his career to public projects that enhance communities and regional systems, and has contributed ideas for development projects that achieve community goals, including award-winning projects such as the regional Gateway Bike Plan in St. Louis and the City of Woodson Terrace Comprehensive Plan.
In a consultant role, his work has included street design, bikeway and pedestrian facility design, transit projects, land-use planning, program management, transportation planning, and utility relocation. In addition, he has served in public official roles as Director of Public Works/City Engineer for the City of Clayton, and at the Missouri Department of Transportation, where he has dealt with client responsibilities first hand. In his 17 years at MoDOT, he was involved in a variety of positions such as the Transportation Planning Manager responsible for all transportation planning activities in the St. Louis Metro District, programming of state and federal funds, and the main point of contact with the East-West Gateway Council of Governments. He also served in highway design, traffic engineering, utilities engineering, and project management capacities.
In a consultant role, his work has included street design, bikeway and pedestrian facility design, transit projects, land-use planning, program management, transportation planning, and utility relocation. In addition, he has served in public official roles as Director of Public Works/City Engineer for the City of Clayton, and at the Missouri Department of Transportation, where he has dealt with client responsibilities first hand. In his 17 years at MoDOT, he was involved in a variety of positions such as the Transportation Planning Manager responsible for all transportation planning activities in the St. Louis Metro District, programming of state and federal funds, and the main point of contact with the East-West Gateway Council of Governments. He also served in highway design, traffic engineering, utilities engineering, and project management capacities.