What is a BitCity? From Travel Surveys to Crowd Sourcing



9:00AM – 6:00PM
WOOD AUDITORIUM, AVERY HALL
BitCity 2011: Transportation, Data, and Technology in Cities
The Sigurd Grava Symposium on Infrastructure

9am Opening Remarks
Elliot Sclar, Columbia University GSAPP and SIPA

9:30am Keynote Address
Janette Sadik-Khan, Commissioner, New York City Department of Transportation

10:45am-12:15pm “Start-Up” Transportation Planning: Entrepreneurial Approaches to Transport Problems
Candace Brakewood & Michael Frumin
Engineering Systems Division, MIT; MTA Bus Customer Information Systems
Di-Ann Eisnor, Waze
Rachel Sterne, New York City Media
moderated by Benjamin de la Pea, Rockefeller Foundation

1:15-2:45pm From Travel Surveys to Crowd Sourcing: New Forms of Data in Transportation Planning
Michael Batty, Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London
David Levinson, NeXus: Networks, Economics and Urban Systems Research Group, University of Minnesota
Mitchell Moss, Rudin Center for Transportation, NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service
moderated by David King, Columbia University GSAPP

3-4:30pm Private Data, Public Good: Issues of Copyright, Contract, and Content
Matthew Daus, University Transportation Research Center, City College of New York
Francisca Rojas, Transparency Policy Project; Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard Kennedy School of Government
Bibiana McHugh, Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District of Oregon (TriMet)
moderated by Kenneth Crews, Columbia Law School; Munich Intellectual Property Law Center

4:30-5pm Concluding Remarks and Future Directions
Anthony Townsend, Institute for the Future
Sarah Williams, Spatial Information Design Lab, Columbia University GSAPP

5-7pm Conference Reception at Here Now, 200 Level, Avery Hall
An exhibition by the Spatial Information Design Lab at Columbia University GSAPP that maps the geographic densities of Foursquare and Facebook check-ins in New York City.

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With support from:
Columbia University GSAPP
Rockefeller Foundation
Spatial Information Design Lab, Columbia University GSAPP
University Transportation Research Center, City College of New York

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