TRB Webinar: Visualizing Transportation System Performance

Visualization is a powerful tool that can monitor performance and demonstrate progress on key transportation initiatives. TRB will host a webinar on Monday, May 17, 2021 from 1:00-3:00 PM Eastern that will illustrate effective uses of visualization techniques. Presenters will describe how these approaches can help clarify complex data sets and improve communication between technical experts and policy makers. They will also identify specific visualization tools that transportation agencies can use to monitor and improve transportation system performance.

This webinar was organized by the TRB Standing Technical Committee on Visualization in Transportation.

Some registrants will need to pay $95 to attend this webinar. Sign into MyTRB.org to view registration information.

Webinar agenda and presenters

1. Visualization of VDOT MAP-21 Target Setting: Sanhita Lahiri and Simona Babiceanu, Virginia Department of Transportation
2. Visualizing the FDOT Source Book: Jessica VanDenBogaert, Florida Department of Transportation
3. Visualizing Automated Traffic Signal Performance Measures (ATSPM): Alan Davis, Georgia Department of Transportation
4. Question and answer session: Charles Lattimer, University of Maryland

The first 60 minutes of the webinar will be for presentations and the final 30 minutes will be reserved for audience questions.

Learning Objectives

At the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:

1. Describe how visualization approaches can report transportation system performance to a broad audience
2. Identify benefits of visualization techniques

Professional Development Hour Information

Professional engineers (PEs) who register and attend the entire webinar as an individual will be awarded 2.0 Professional Development Hours (PDHs). TRB’s webinar program awards PDH credits only to the registered individual, and not to other members of a group that view the webinar together. To be eligible for the credits, individuals must remain signed in for the entire webinar, including for any question and answer session following the presentations.

Please check with your licensing board to ensure that TRB webinar PDHs are approved by your board.

TRB will report credits earned to the Registered Continuing Education Program (RCEP). Complaints about registered providers may be sent to RCEP, 1015 15th Street, NW, 8th Floor, Washington, D.C., 20005.

Pre-registration is required. Once the webinar starts, you will be unable to register. Individuals that are registered for a webinar but do not receive their confirmation emails due to their organization’s internal firewalls should contact the TRB Helpdesk for assistance in signing in.

Registration questions? Contact Elaine Ferrell.