Calling all young professionals and students! George Mason University's School of Public Policy is pleased to announce the 2nd Annual Cameron Rian Hays Competition for Outside-the-Box Transportation Business and Policy Innovations! If you are 35 or under, submit a proposal outlining your creative way to address a significant transportation challenge and you could win $10,000! Get your [...]
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Bikeshare leaders share their paths to transit-focused careers
Eric Gilliland, General Manager of DC's Capital Bikeshare, and Emily Stapleton, the general manager of Boston's bikeshare program shared their paths to transit-focused careers in a recent profile on GOOD. Check it out! As you go about your day, you’re often faced with the decision of how to get from Point A to Point B [...]
YPT Event Discount: Smart Growth Social
Hey DC-area YPTers! The Coalition for Smarter Growth, the DC region's leading organization advocating for transit, pedestrian, and bicycling infrastructure, has invited YPT members and friends to attend its Smart Growth Social with special guest and author Jeff Speck on Wednesday, October 2. We've worked with the Coalition for Smarter Growth to offer YPT members and friends a special [...]
TRB Call for Posters: FRESH IDEAS for Statewide Transportation Planning
Transportation planning is evolving due to demographics and economic changes, new technologies and data, and shifting policy priorities. Buzzwords like “performance-based”, “operations”, “fiscally constrained”, “sustainability”, or “livability” illustrate the new frontiers for planning. How can transportation planners adjust methods and messages as they prepare statewide transportation plans? The TRB Statewide Multimodal Transportation Planning Committee (ADA10) [...]
TRB Emerging Professionals Call For Abstracts
The TRB Young Members Council welcomes submissions of abstracts by graduate student authors and young member (35 years or younger) for consideration of presentation at the 93rd Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board (TRB). The intent of this session is to get exposure for transportation research or projects and to provide students and young [...]