YPT is happy to announce that the latest installment of our magazine, Mobility Matters, is online. A sample of the topics of the top articles inside include: two young transportation entrepreneurs and their new firm, a how-to on harnessing the growing use of consumer-driven mobile data in transportation demand management, and a great highlight of the YPT Chicago [...]
Category: YPT National Chapter (DC)
YPT Mentor Interviews – TRB Executive Director, Robert E. Skinner, Jr.
Most of our YPT friends and members should be familiar with the Transportation Research Board (TRB) of the National Academies. Our guest today, Robert Skinner, has been the Executive Director of TRB since 1994. Mr. Skinner graciously gave us his time and insights into the challenges of championing transportation research for twenty years in a [...]
YPT DC Event Recap: EU Leadership Seminar
On March 19, approximately 70 YPT members and friends gathered at the Delegation of the European Union in Washington, DC for a lively discussion with Dr. Felix Leinemann on the latest transportation initiatives in the European Union, and transatlantic cooperation in transportation. The discussion focused on the European Union's transportation policies and initiatives, followed by [...]
DC Event: Transportation Planning Board Community Leadership Institute
What is the Community Leadership Institute (CLI)? CLI is an education program that encourages successful community leaders to get involved in transportation-related decision making at all levels What do participants learn? Over the course of three interconnected workshops, participants learn how, where, and when transportation decisions are made in the Washington re-gion. Sessions include information [...]
Submit Nominations for White House/USDOT Transportation “Champions of Change”
The White House Champions of Change program highlights the stories and examples of citizens across the country who are “Building an America to Last” with projects and initiatives that move their communities forward. All across the country, ordinary Americans are doing extraordinary things in their communities to out-innovate, out-educate, and out-build the rest of the world. Each [...]