TRB Data Viz Roundup - December 2019
Brittany Gernhard
Visualization in Transportation Roundup
Brought to You by the TRB Standing Committee on Visualization in Transportation (ABJ95)
Upcoming Events
The Transportation Research Board (TRB) 99th Annual Meeting will be held January 12–16, 2020, at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, in Washington, D.C. The ABJ95 Visualization in Transportation Committee meeting will be on Tuesday from 1:30 – 5:30. The Visualization Lightning Talks will be on Monday from 3:45 – 5:30 . These are a series of short presentations covering innovations and new technologies for Visualization in Transportation. The session will include talks on all aspects of visualization including System Performance, BIM for Infrastructure, Data Visualization and Visual Analytics, Simulators and Real-time interactive tools like Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality. The Talks will be limited to 3-5 minutes to keep the session fast paced and lively.
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Transportation Visualization in the News
Multimodal ‘big data’ transportation network map in development
A team from the University of Arkansas will make use of ‘big data’ taken from the Internet of Things to create real-time, interactive maps and other geospatial information that will help government agencies and industry plan, build and maintain the USA’s transportation infrastructure.
Data collection project mapping 28,000 miles of Barcelona’s roads daily
Spain’s road safety authority, the Directorate-General for Traffic (DGT), and the City of Barcelona together with Mobileye have presented data from the first two months of a project that is collecting street information to improve their performance, now and into the future.
Seattle Builds Benchmark Dashboard
Seattle has launched Performance Seattle, a new centralized dashboard where visitors can see what Seattle is doing to improve the quality of life in the city.
Click here to view the dashboard, including progress toward an Electric Vehicle Charging in the right-of-way pilot.
Other News
Visualizations highlight gaps in incident response preparedness
New York State Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services (NYS DHSES) is now using visualizations to highlight gaps in incident response preparedness.
Tech Trends 2020: Moving From Disruption To Transformation
As the 2010s come to a close, the big question for enterprises is how to start leveraging all of this disruptive technology to create true transformation.
New Tool Helps Bring Health Evidence to Policy Decisions
Government and business decisions about policies, programs, and projects related to housing, transportation, and education can affect the health of people and communities. Using health impact assessments and the Health Impact Project, communities, policymakers, and others can identify the potential health impact of decisions.
Visualization tools a 'game changer' for Smart Columbus
Visualization tools in the open-source Smart Columbus Operating System (SCOS) tool are helping improve response times and "more rapidly correlate need in the community".
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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