Visualization in Transportation Roundup May 2019 No 5
Brittany Gernhard
Visualization in Transportation Roundup
Brought to You by the TRB Standing Committee on Visualization in Transportation (ABJ95)
Upcoming Events
9th International Visualization in Transportation Symposium: A Better View
The 9th International Visualization in Transportation Symposium will be held on November 5-6th at the National Academy of Sciences in DC. The theme of this Symposium is A Better View. This symposium will explore the opportunities and challenges of visualization in the diverse transportation industry while presenting examples of how visualization is giving us a better view of problems, solutions, and communication strategies with our colleagues and the public.
Transportation Visualization in the News
Hurricane Decision Support is Now Web-Based, Mobile Ready & Faster for 2019
More than 5,000 emergency managers from 19 states, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico registered for an account to access the new Web-based HURREVAC hurricane decision support system developed by DHS, FEMA, the National Hurricane Center and others.
Engaging Stakeholders With a Visual Voice
When the Washington State Department of Transportation decided to build its first diverging diamond interchange, the agency launched a virtual public involvement initiative that used unique visual communication techniques to engage stakeholders. Read more
https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/innovation/innovator/issue72/3dIssue/index.html?page=6
Canada Will Use Iteris iPeMS to Improve Nationwide Mobility
Iteris announced today that Transport Canada, Canada’s Federal Transportation Agency, has selected Iteris iPeMS to support its countrywide transportation system’s performance management program. The platform includes dynamic maps to support detailed traffic analysis; features to help identify and mitigate bottlenecks and congestion; animations to analyze events and optimize response plans; historical trend reports and congestion charts to track reliability.
https://www.apnews.com/Business%20Wire/2f4fa52111f541adb8acdfe05536d4c7
Other News
Mobile Apps Give the Blind and Visually Impaired a New Sense of Freedom
Kidkul uses ride-share apps and public transportation, and the future could hold more possibilities in cars for blind and low vision people. Last May, Ford introduced a Braille device for car windows that could help the blind and visually impaired see the world. Feel the View uses the vibrations in the vehicle's window to "show" what's outside.
https://www.cnet.com/news/mobile-apps-give-the-blind-and-visually-impaired-a-new-sense-of-freedom/
Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics – And Data Visualization
How we interpret time-series data is dependent on the designer’s chosen format. As the use of data visualization grows, so does the challenge to the public’s chart literacy.
https://www.anderson.ucla.edu/faculty-and-research/anderson-review/stock-flows
Forum Aims to Accelerate Open Source Tools for Smarter Cities
The Urban Computing Foundation enables developers to collaborate on software to make improvements in areas such as mobility, energy and road infrastructure in connected cities. The Linux Foundation has set up the Urban Computing Foundation, an industry-wide initiative to develop open source software for future and connected cities. The aim is to bring together a community of developers to collaborate on and build a common set of open source tools to improve mobility, transportation, safety and infrastructure.
The Weekly Visualization Roundup regularly covers transportation research developments in the United States and abroad. This document is not a report of the National Research Council or of the National Academies of Sciences. The opinions expressed in content highlighted in Weekly Visualization Roundup are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Transportation Research Board or the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
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