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Submit your pitch by Wednesday October 19th! The Six Minute Pitch: A Transportation Startup Challenge has become one of the most well-attended sessions at the Transportation Research Board (TRB) Annual Meeting. In this unique session, four transportation entrepreneurs pitch their new transportation technology product or service in six minutes, and are judged on commercial viability [...]

YPT is thrilled to announce that we are partnering with GreaterPlaces on a transportation-themed expansion deck to the card game Cards Against Urbanity!! This is an exciting opportunity and we need your help coming up with card ideas!! If you are not familiar, it is a hilarious and educational urban planning-themed version of the hit card [...]

Announcing the 2nd Annual YPT Award Winners! First, we want to congratulate Jaime McKay and her team for winning the Young Professionals Transportation Project of the Year Award. Ms. McKay submitted the Central Maryland Regional Transit’s Transportation Resource Information Point (TRIP) Team's project. It is a long-overdue solution and development for public transit in rural and suburban Maryland. The [...]

TransportationCamp DC 2016 is close to selling out. If you want to join us, be sure to register as soon as possible, at transportationcamp2016dc.eventbrite.com. Our fifth-annual TransportationCamp DC is Saturday, January 9, 2016 the day before TRB begins. We'll provide breakfast, lunch, and an evening reception; but it is the attendees themselves who provide the [...]

Young Professionals Reception Sunday, January 10, 9:00 p.m. - 10:30 p.m. Convention Center Co-hosted by the TRB Young Members Council (YMC) and Young Professionals in Transportation (YPT), this networking reception is open to all young professionals and supporters to discuss career development and to meet peers from around the country. Light refreshments will be served, and [...]