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The Crowdsourcing for Advancing Operations Exhibit Hall is open every day from 1:30 PM to 5:30 PM. Come by, catch up with friends, play games, and learn how crowdsourcing can help your agency improve operations, investment planning, and more. Our FHWA, peer, and technical experts will offer visitors demos of real-time and archived cloud-based analytics dashboards, point individuals to open source code to jumpstart data applications, and field crowdsourcing-related questions. Exhibit Hall events for Dec 10 are highlighted below. To access these events, register for the summit. It’s free!
Use the same registration link to enter the virtual summit, then (1) click on the Exhibit Hall, (2) click on “Operations,” and (3) click on the first button on Crowdsourcing for Operations “poster,” as illustrated in the image below.
Dec 10 1:45 PM “Tom Talk” Live with Thomas J. Bamonte, North Central Texas Council of Governments (NCTCOG)
Like that other phenomenon where experts speak briefly to share ideas, our own “Tom Talk” features Thomas Bamonte, Senior Program Manager for Automated Vehicles with NCTCOG. You have two opportunities to hear Tom share NCTCOG’s innovative approach for region-wide 911 integration with data from a free navigation app. Thomas will also highlight the region’s strategy for big data and “smart” car explorations. Stay on to chat with Tom after his 10-15 minute talk.
Dec 10 2:15 PM Peer Perspective with Justin Effinger, Lake County Division of
Dec 10 5:00 PM Transportation (LCDOT)
Justin Effinger, Traffic Signal Engineer at LCDOT, and his colleagues recently helped a west coast city engineer begin downloading free, streaming, crowdsourced arterial link travel times in a matter of a few email exchanges using LCDOT’s open-source code. Justin will share how LCDOT uses this free navigation app data, expecting $5M in motorist benefits over the next five years. After a 10-15 minute presentation, Justin will be available for a question and answer session.
Dec 10 3:10 PM Fireside Chat with Ashley Beuchter, Traffic Liaison Engineer, Missouri DOT
Ashley will share a story of improving employee and motorist safety, saving operating costs, and simplifying workloads for incident responders through crowdsourced technologies that notify travelers of nearby responder activity. She may weave in a few other creative big data, crowdsourced initiatives within their State.
Dec 10 3:45 PM Trivia Game with Friends
Come alone, come with friends, and bring your smartphone to join in a 10-minute trivia game that will test your knowledge. To the winner go the spoils!
Dec 10 4:15 PM Peer Perspective with John Roberts, Arizona DOT
John Roberts, Systems Technology Manager at Arizona DOT, will highlight how their agency now delivers real-time, quantitative travel times on rural roads without roadside sensors using vehicle probe data. Arizona DOT also uses this data for traffic studies and is now investigating its use for work zones. After a 10-15 minute presentation, John will be available for a question and answer session.