South by Southwest
2022-03-18
South by Southwest is just around the corner and Gretchen Newcomb, our North American Partnership Director, will be hosting on March 18th a panel about «Connecting the Mobility Dots Via Open Data».
Crissy Ditmore (Optibus), Logan Nash (MBTA), Karina Ricks (USDOT – FTA) and Johanna Zmud (RSG) will discuss how standardized transportation data intersects and informs scalability across all transportation sectors as well as reveal transport data’s role in fostering social and economic benefits related to accessibility, equity, and climate change.

TRANSED: Mobility, Accessibility & Demand Response Transportation Conference
2022-09-12 - 2022-09-16 | Online
Omar Kabbani, our Transit Data Specialist, will be presenting some of his work at the conference.

Convened by Transportation Research Board, the TRANSED: Mobility, Accessibility & Demand Response Transportation Conference will be held virtually, September 12-16, 2022. This conference combines two long standing conferences with similar content: the “16th International Conference on Mobility and Transport for Older Adults and People with Disabilities (TRANSED)” and the “5th International Conference on Demand Responsive Transport (DRT)”. The theme of this combined conference is “Inclusive Accessible and Sustainable Demand Response Transportation”. The Conference aims to describe current global research, services to improve mobility and accessibility for individuals with disabilities and for older adults, and best practices in providing demand responsive transportation (paratransit).
The overarching conference theme addresses the chasm between academic research and real-world planning practice and project implementations of sustainable, inclusive and accessible mobility. Conferees will also address the disconnect between the transportation analyses that agencies conduct and conditions on the ground for providers of sustainable and accessible mobility solutions. Successful implementation of mobility concepts is reliant on inclusive design, a business and service plan to attract and retain riders and funding, staff and user training, and a comprehensive accessible technology base. Accordingly, we seek contributions from researchers, practitioners, and others, such as non-profits and charitable organizations and manufacturers. Participants will represent a wide range of lived and professional experiences and discuss how diverse perspectives are included in policy development, project selection, and mitigation to advance transportation inclusion and accessibility.
The combined TRANSED DRT conference will offer an agenda for participants to attend traditional panel and technical sessions. The conference will include sessions using accepted submissions from this Call for Abstracts that are socially interactive, engaging, and enable creative learning and sharing
Overview
The TRANSED series of conferences have, since 1978, provided the premier international forum to exchange ideas on what works and why, and to share innovations, promising practices, and technological developments, and research on accessible transportation, mobility and travel. TRB’s series of Demand Response conferences have explored the state of practices and innovations in paratransit operations and planning by leading practitioners, planners and researchers in the paratransit community from across the country and the world. This combined conference will enable a vibrant exchange of perspectives and information, offering a venue to develop future collaborations.
This combined conference will showcase international innovation and technological solutions for accessible transportation and travel through papers, posters and other media presentation formats, as well as through an exhibition of products, services, and best practices. Conferees will also have the opportunity to participate in training workshops and technical visits. Above all, attendees will study and use the concept of the Complete Trip or Trip Chain to identify elements of trips that need improvement to achieve inclusion for everyone and reduce difficulties and barriers for individual users.
Two major crises – global climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic – have highlighted the need for the provision of demand responsive services to reach healthcare, and accelerated development of new mobility options within the Transit Family of Services. New and developing technologies like microtransit, micro mobility, automated vehicles, and app-based services are also beginning to transform our transportation systems. This conference is the continuation of a long-term effort and process to understand how demand response and fixed route transit and other transportation systems are integrated while addressing accessibility and inclusion. Sustainable projects serving the entire community needs to be the product of community expertise from multiple perspectives, technical and academic research and analysis, management motivation, staff training as well as better design and new accessible technology.

ITS World Congress
2022-09-18 - 2022-09-22 | Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles, United States
MobilityData will present some of its work in 5 different panels. It will be represented by Gretchen Newcomb, Director of Partnerships North America, and Tu-Tho Thai, Director of Partnerships and Events.
ITS World Congress 2022, taking place September 18-22 (Conference: September 18 – 22 | Exhibit Hall: September 19 – 22) in Los Angeles, CA, exploring “Transformation by Transportation”, is the global event that brings together world leaders, practitioners, policy makers, researchers, and private industry to advance and unite the intelligent transportation systems (ITS) industry.
List of panels with MobilityData:

September 19 at 13:00 -Decarbonizing Transportation with Data
September 19 at 13:00 – Building a thriving ecosystem for ITS Standards
September 20 at 13:00 – The ABC’s of EXTs: How Dataset Extensions can be the Building Blocks to Better Societies
September 21 at 10:00 – Leveraging open data to create impactful policies for sustainable mobility
September 22 at 13:00 – Data Eco-system to Power Public Transit User, Operator, and Planner Decision-making: Roles, Responsibility, and Results

Ann Arbor Mobility Summit
2022-10-11 08:30 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Ann Arbour, Ann Arbour, MI, United States
Gretchen Newcomb, Director of Partnerships North America, will present some of MobilityData’s work at the event.
Where the automotive industry intersects with era-defining tech innovation, you’ll find Ann Arbor, Michigan.
A global destination for trailblazing OEMs, researchers, and entrepreneurs — the mobility ecosystem flourishes here. The city is also home to the University of Michigan which in 2020 invested more than $1.5 billion in research, making it the top-ranked public research university in the United States.
Emerging from this vibrant collection of mobility leadership is the fifth annual Ann Arbor Mobility Summit, where visionaries from across the globe gather virtually to share, learn, and inspire.
Join us as we welcome industry leaders, entrepreneurs, public sector officials, transportation leaders, groundbreaking researchers, and curious investors for a day of spirited panels, fireside chats, presentations, and networking. This summit provides a platform for mobility leaders to build connections across sectors and share visions for safeguarding the future of mobility.

POLIS Conference
2022-11-30 - 2022-12-01 | Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
Tu-Tho Thai, Director of Partnerships and Events, will host deep-dive session at the POLIS Conference
The Annual POLIS Conference provides an opportunity for cities and regions to showcase their transport achievements to a large audience of mobility experts, practitioners and decision-makers.
Across two days, the Annual POLIS Conference 2022 will offer a mix of plenaries, parallel sessions, and deep dives focused on some of the hottest topics that are high on the mobility agenda of cities and regions.
From SUMP innovation for climate mitigation to hands-on safety solutions, and from the steps ahead towards a Just Transition to unlocking the value of data, we picked practices, innovations, plans and actions marked by relevance, originality and, most importantly, an action-oriented approach. Want to know more?
Details of the session hosted by MobilityData:
Local and regional authorities,
You play an essential role in the ecosystem to build sustainable mobility for all of us. You are the ones providing much-needed infrastructure (e.g. bikeways, roads, etc.) and the ones who take the lead in making sure their citizens get the chance to go seamlessly from A to B relying on their preferred mobility services.
To accomplish this, you are often faced with data questions and have to choose which way to go when it comes to licensing, reporting, and urban planning. We know that the list of existing standards and specifications can be daunting. So, we have designed this interactive session for you.
Over the course of 90 minutes, experts representing all existing standards and specifications will tell you all about them and answer your questions. The goal of this deep dive is designed for you to walk away with clear actions to leverage data and unleash your mobility planning power.
Represented standards/specifications and initiatives:

Transmodel suite (NeTEx, SIRI) by DATA4PT
GxFS (GBFS, GTFS Schedule, GTFS Realtime) by MobilityData
TOMP-API by TOMP-WG
MDS and CDS by the Open Mobility Foundation
CDS-M by the DAT.Mobility

Outline of the discussion:

Definitions of each standards/specifications
Existing tools to leverage them
How to get involved
Open floor

TRB 102nd Annual Meeting
2023-01-08 08:00 - 2023-01-12 17:00 (America/Toronto)
MobilityData members will attend this conference, as well as host the following sessions:
Creating Public Value by Integrating Intercity Bus, Transit, and Active Transportation Data – Sunday, January 8th, 2023 | 9AM-12PM ET
—
The Transportation Research Board (TRB) 102nd Annual Meeting is being held in person, January 8–12, 2023 in Washington, D.C. Housing is now closed, but Registration will remain open through the meeting.
Expected to attract thousands of transportation professionals from around the world, the meeting program covers all transportation modes, with sessions and workshops addressing topics of interest to policy makers, administrators, practitioners, researchers, and representatives of government, industry, and academic institutions. Workshops take place on the first and last day of the meeting.
A number of sessions and workshops focus on the spotlight theme for the 2023 meeting: Rejuvenation Out of Disruption: Envisioning a Transportation System for a Dynamic Future.

SXSW 2023
2023-03-10 - 2023-03-19 | Austin, Austin, TX, United States
Meet our team at this event. Rencontrez notre équipe à cet événement.

MobilityData participation details

Date: March 16
Time: 14:30 – 15:30 CT
Title: Failing Forward, One Mobility Pilot at a Time
Moderator: Gretchen Newcomb, MobilityData

Our speakers:

Jameson Auten, Kansas City Area Transportation Authority
Kim Lucas, Pittsburgh Dept. of Mobility Innovation
Gwo-Wei Torng, USDOT Federal Transit Administration

Description: As sustainable mobility moves from ideas and blueprints inspiring the ecosystem, to pilots in real-world scenarios, failure is not only expected but a necessary outcome to move ahead. Hear how the iterative process is implemented and how it is informing projects but also impacting the communities involved in these projects. How does this process inform decision-making among public and private sector stakeholders? Hear examples from city, regional, and Federal leaders implementing mobility pilots and how FTA’s current Enhancing Mobility Innovation program builds on FTA’s existing mobility innovation investments, such as the Mobility on Demand Sandbox, the Accelerating Innovative Mobility Initiative, and the Integrated Mobility Innovation Program.

About SXSW Transportation Track
March 14-17, 2023
Recent and upcoming technological advances are radically transforming the way we get from here to there. While electrical vehicles are a major focus of this track, sessions will also examine new aviation breakthroughs, commercial space travel, and advances in shipping systems, as well as the most exciting new ideas in micro-mobility.

Autonomy Mobility World Expo 2023
2023-03-22 - 2023-03-23 | Paris Porte de Versailles, 1 Pl. de la Prte de Versailles, Paris, 75015, France
Meet our team at this event. Rencontrez notre équipe à cet événement.
MobilityData participation details
1 – Workshop

Date: March 22
Time: 10:00 – 12:00 CET
Title: Let’s unfold data specifications & standards together!
Experts:

Christophe Duquesne, DATA4PT
Edwin van den Belt, DAT.Mobility
Emmanuel de Verdalle, ITxPT
Gemma Schepers, City of Amsterdam
Ramses Madou, City of San Jose (California, USA)
Tjalle Groen, Mpact
Tu-Tho Thai, MobilityData

Description: Data standards, technical specification, standardized API… If these words are somehow familiar to you but you would like to learn more about them, we have the perfect workshop for you! During 2 hours, representatives of all existing data standards and specifications are will answer all of your questions. They will also host demos of their open-source tools for you to build standardization and data quality into your operations. Ask them the hardest questions! We promise: they will answer.

2 – Panel

Date: March 22
Time: 15:15 – 15:45 CET
Title: Integrating Shared Mobility with Public Transport to Improve Cities
Moderator: Tu-Tho Thai, MobilityData
Speakers:

Christophe Duquesne, DATA4PT
Denis Paz, Trufi Association
Edwin van den Belt, DAT.Mobility
Emmanuel de Verdalle, ITxPT
Erdem Ovacik, Donkey Republic
Gemma Schepers, City of Amsterdam
Tjalle Groen, Mpact

Description: The Future of Mobility must start with multimodality! It means that all modes must be included equally in cities’ SUMPs and their urban plans. To support their cities and their citizens, shared mobility and public transit operators create better outcomes when they work together. This panel will explore how shared mobility options and informal (or popular) transport can be leveraged by cities in combination with public transit to build healthier cities for all.

About Autonomy Mobility World Expo
The Leading Event dedicated to Sustainable Urban mobility Solution
AUTONOMY MOBILITY WORLD EXPO is the world’s largest annual gathering of international policymakers, institutions, NGOs, corporations, companies, and start-ups focused on sustainable urban mobility solutions welcoming 200+ exhibitors, 300+ speakers, and 8,000+ participants every year in March.

Expert panel - CIE Benchmarking Bike Share in 148 Cities
2023-12-12 12:00 - 13:00 (Europe/Brussels)
Join us for an insightful webinar on December 12th at 3PM CET as our Product Manager in Shared Mobility, Josée Sabourin, participates in the CIE Mobility Afternoons Series. 🌐
🔍 Topic: Benchmarking Bike Share in 148 Cities – Follow-up session with the experts
🌍 About the Session: Following the success of CIE’s benchmarking study “Shared Ambition,” dive into a Q&A format with a panel of bike-sharing experts, including Josée Sabourin. Learn more about the benchmarking analysis that ranked 148 cities based on the effectiveness of their bike-sharing schemes. Discover key performance indicators and insights to enhance your city’s bike-sharing initiatives.
🗣️ Our Expert Panel:

Marion Galan Alfonso, Donkey Republic
Mareike Rauchhaus, Tier by nextbike
Sebastian Schlebusch, Dott
Gian Carlo Crivello, PBSC
Jaron Borensztajn, Cargoroo
Caroline Van Renterghem, Fifteen
Sébastien Marteau, Fluctuo
Josée Sabourin, MobilityData
Kevin Mayne, Cycling Industries Europe

🎤 Moderator: Kristian Brink, CEO, Urban Sharing
📈 Session Highlights:

Cities that performed well and why
Key performance indicators for successful bike sharing
Strategies to improve your city’s ranking

📅 Save the Date: Tuesday, December 12th, 3PM CET
🔗 Registration: Click here to register
Don’t miss this unique opportunity to gain tailored guidance from bike-sharing experts. Let’s pedal towards a future of sustainable and effective mobility together! 🌱🚴‍♀️
