Year: 2020
Commercial drone technology is here to stay, with many US companies currently operating delivery drones in urban airspaces. In response, cities need to begin thinking about how they can proactively plan for commercial drone operations in their neighborhoods and downtown areas.
On Wednesday, December 16 at 1:00 p.m. ET, RSG Director Eddie Duncan and RSG Senior Director Ken Kaliski will discuss commercial drone noise and local noise ordinances during a webinar sponsored by the National League of Cities (NLC).
The event, titled “Planning for Drones: How Cities Can Get Ahead on Urban Air Mobility,” will also feature unique insights from several elected officials along with a groundbreaking announcement on the future of urban air from one of NLC's member cities.
New mobility technologies and COVID-19 have dramatically accelerated the pace of personal travel behavior changes. This makes it increasingly important for practitioners to understand how and why people travel.
On Tuesday, December 15 at 1:00 p.m. ET, RSG Senior Director Mark Bradley will present tips on how to account for age-cohort-related differences in travel behavior in applied travel demand models. The presentation is part of a panel event sponsored by Zephyr.
Attendees will hear from several experts on how mobility technologies, along with shifts driven by the COVID-19 pandemic, have affected many of the behavioral dynamics that go into modeling individual travel behavior.
RSG's Eddie Duncan and Ken Kaliski will present at the Aerial Mobility: Noise Issues and Technology workshop on Wednesday, December 2 at 2:10 p.m. ET. They will lead a discussion on reducing community noise from delivery drones through route optimization.
Noise will become an increasingly important issue facing communities as more companies begin drone delivery operations. Our latest white paper, “Three Considerations Around Drone Noise and Strategies for Mitigation,” explores some of these issues and offers proactive solutions for policymakers and industry leaders. You can read our white paper here.
The Technology for a Quieter America virtual workshop, which is being hosted by the National Academy of Engineering, was organized by the INCE Foundation in cooperation with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the Federal Aviation Administration.
RSG’s Mark Bradley will present at the Big Data Meets Survey Science Conference (BigSurv20) on Friday, November 13 at 11:45 a.m. ET.
Mark's presentation, titled Smartphone-based travel surveys: An example of controlled data fusion, discusses findings from work done with RSG's Jeff Doyle. Their research offers unique insights into “controlled” data fusion methods that can be used to impute trip purposes and modes in cases where the reported data from household travel surveys are suspect. The presentation gives background on the smartphone-based survey approach and experiences, describes the fusion/imputation methods developed and applied thus far, and discusses future directions for development.
This second edition of BigSurv20 is being held virtually this year on Fridays throughout the months of November and December. BigSurv2020 gathers a diverse group of practitioners who discuss how big data and data science can improve the quality of statistics production and use.
BigSurv20 registration is free and required to attend. Attendees receive access to the full event program and can view the prerecorded presentations and ask questions of the presenters during the last 15 minutes of each prerecorded session. Click here to view a recording of Mark's presentation.
Working with data requires a unique skill set to ensure accurate processing and handling while delivering the greatest benefit to users. On Thursday, November 12 at 2:00 p.m. ET, join a group of experienced transportation data scientists for a Data Workflow Tools + Tricks learning session sponsored by Zephyr and organized by RSG Data Scientist Leah Flake.
Attendees will learn from experts in the field as they share how their workflows help them extract knowledge from data and model output, the tools they rely on, and lessons they’ve learned from working with data.
RSG's Eddie Duncan will present at this week's Quiet Drones e-symposium in Paris, France on Tuesday, October 20. The event has been organized by INCE/Europe in association with CidB and with support from the International Institute of Noise Control Engineering.
As drone technology takes off, this first-of-its-kind event gathers acousticians, governments, and industry experts to discuss drone noise issues and solutions. Eddie will present the findings from his paper, “Commercial Delivery Drone Routing: A Case Study of Noise Impacts.” The paper was co-authored by RSG's Ken Kaliski, Isaac Old, Erica Wygonik, and Justin Culp.
Noise will become an increasingly important issue facing communities as more companies begin drone delivery operations. Our latest white paper, “Three Considerations Around Drone Noise and Strategies for Mitigation,” explores some of these issues and offers proactive solutions for policymakers and industry leaders. You can read our white paper here.
RSG Vice President Maren Outwater and Senior Consultant Stephen Tuttle to present today at the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT)’s 35th Annual Fall Planning Conference on the effects of COVID-19 on transportation and planning. As Illinois develops its first-ever Statewide Travel Demand Model, IDOT has used the Phase 1 Model to perform various analyses and simulations. Their presentation will share how big data and the model were used to measure changes in vehicle miles traveled and other travel metrics due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
As pandemic-related travel changes vary by person, community, and region, we’re continuing to collect valuable data through our COVID-19 Transportation Insights Panel to help clients better understand and forecast them.
Data standards empower collaboration and help provide the infrastructure for building community tools. Tune in today from 2-3:30 PM ET for a Panel on Industry Data Standards, hosted by Zephyr and led by RSG Director Ben Stabler.
The discussion will introduce standards such as Open Matrix (OMX), General Model Network Specification (GMNS), Open Street Map (OSM), General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS), and Project Card Standard
We're looking forward to sharing some of our work and learning from others at the 2020 Transportation Research Board (TRB) Annual Meeting in Washington, DC next week. We’ll be moderating and giving several presentations at the event, covering a range of topics— from quantifying the health impacts of transportation investments to understanding new mobility services through visualization.
The TRB Annual 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. The program is expected to attract over 13,000 transportation professionals from around the world. We are proud to be a sponsor of the event.