TRB Data Viz Roundup - April
Brittany Gernhard
Visualization in Transportation Roundup
Brought to You by the TRB Standing Committee on Visualization in Transportation (ABJ95)
Upcoming Events
ESRI Transportation Webinar Series
The ESRI transportation team hosts webinars for various audiences including DOTs, public transit agencies, airports, ports, and railway organizations. Upcoming in the next month are webinars on Airport Responses to COVID-19, Developing Geospatial Data to Support Your Airport, Manage Port Berths and Channels with GIS, and Safety Management System and GIS.
https://www.esri.com/en-us/industries/transportation/webinars
Transportation Visualization in the News
Then and Now: Visualizing COVID-19’s Impact on Air Traffic
‘Before and after’ images showing the impact on air traffic in various places around the world.
https://www.flightradar24.com/blog/then-and-now-visualizing-covid-19s-impact-on-air-traffic/
The Mystery of the Missing Bus Riders
Charting transit ridership among the largest 15 transit agencies in the U.S.
AASHTO Innovation Initiative: Best Practices in Interactive Visualization
Last month’s webinar on best practices in interactive visualization is available here: http://aii.transportation.org/Pages/Virtual-Immersive-Visualization.aspx
Other News
Weather Integration with BIM on the Horizon
UK-based software developer MetSwift believes its weather prediction programs based on AI can integrate new levels of weather analysis into business processes spanning several industries.
Mapzen Project Adopted by Urban Computing Foundation
Mapzen, an open source driving, walking, biking, and transit navigator was such down in 2018 and revived by the Linux Foundation. Mapzen now has a new home with developers under the umbrella of the UCF.
https://www.govtech.com/biz/Mapzen-Project-Adopted-by-Urban-Computing-Foundation.html
Uber Open-Sources Manifold, a Visual Tool for Debugging AI Models
Uber internally developed Manifold, a model-agnostic visual tool that surfaces the differences in distributions of features (i.e., the measurable properties of the phenomena being observed). And now it’s available in GitHub.
https://venturebeat.com/2020/01/07/uber-open-sources-manifold-a-visual-tool-for-debugging-ai-models/
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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