Innovators and Startups – Pitch Your Next Big Idea in Transportation at TRB’s Six Minute Pitch Applications are now being accepted for the Six Minute Pitch: A Transportation Startup Challenge, a special Young Member Council (YMC) session at the Transportation Research Board (TRB) 94th Annual Meeting during which selected presenters pitch their cutting-edge, research-based concept [...]
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DC Area Event Alert: Transportation Techies Meetup
This is a Transportation Techies meetup group event in the DC Area and their next meeting is about 'Cool Mobility Apps'. It's on Thursday, October 2 @6pm. More details here. What's on the agenda: For October, we'll be discussing four tech projects and their impact on local transportation issues. Doors open at 6:00 with pizza and [...]
Public Transportation Innovation Challenge@ APTA’s Annual Meeting & Expo 2014
Have an inventive idea for the public transportation industry? As part of APTA’s breadth of Workforce Development initiatives, we invite forward thinkers to get in front of an audience of public transportation professionals at APTA’s EXPO 2014 and present your innovative idea that offers an “out of the box” solution to complicated public transportation challenges. [...]
Nominations sought for 2015 TRB Outstanding Young Member Award
Nomination packages due October 17, 2014. The Transportation Research Board Young Members Council is pleased to announce the 2015 Outstanding Young Member Award. This award was created in 2012 to recognize exceptional young member service to TRB and achievements in transportation research, policy, or practice. The award is sponsored by Stantec, Inc. Details of the [...]
DC/Baltimore Area Event Alert: UMD’s Advanced Transportation Technologies Event – Thursday, August 28
UMD’s upcoming Advanced Transportation Technologies event is taking place in College Park, Md. on the morning of Aug. 28. This event will feature UMD's first-ever Labor Day weekend traffic forecast (issued by their Center of Advanced Transportation Technology Lab). Even more, each of their three labs will speak to their specific capabilities and major projects, [...]