TransportationCamp is a weekend-long unconference bringing together transportation professionals, civic technologists, and others interested in the intersection of urban transportation and technology.

(main TransportationCamp website)

Why:

Transportation is a major metropolitan issue, with direct impacts on economic strength, environmental sustainability, and social equity.  Recent advances in technology (“web 2.0”, mobile computing, open source software, open data and APIs, and spatial analysis) present an opportunity to improve mobility more immediately and at a lower cost than has ever been possible in the past.

TransportationCamp will raise awareness of this opportunity and build connections between disparate innovators in public administration, transportation operations, information design, and software engineering.

What:

TransportationCamp will bring together thinkers and doers in the fields of transportation and technology for a weekend of learning, debating, connecting, and creating.

(Can't make it to TransportationCamp East?  Check out TransportationCamp West in SF, March 19-20, 2011)

This is not a traditional conference: in addition to talks and presentations from big names in transportation and technology, TransportationCamp will provide an opportunity for every attendee to be a participant in shaping and leading the event.  Be prepared to get involved, meet people, and get busy.

Session topics and activities will be suggested by attendees and organizers leading up to the event.  So far, we’ve collected suggestions for over twenty possible topics, ranging from realtime information to legal issues. Add your ideas here: http://transportationcamp.org/topics/

Support: 

Sponsor a meal or reception and support the TransportationCamp community. Simply purchase a sponsor ticket on this form.

Become a media partner. Grab a badge for your site at http://transportationcamp.org/support

Schedule:

FRIDAY

• 12:45pm - 4pm: Special off-site tours of local transit and transportation facilities.

SATURDAY

• 8am: Registration, Networking Breakfast
• 9am-5:15pm: Keynotes, unconference sessions, networking, transportation hacking!
• Open Group Dinners
• 8pm: Ignite #Transpo

SUNDAY

• 9:30am – 3:30pm: Keynotes, unconference sessions, transportation hacking!
• 4pm: Walk to Happy Hour

* Lunch will be served on both days

Keep in touch:

• Visit http://transportationcamp.org/topics/ and suggests topics and activities for TransportationCamp.
• Follow @TranspoCamp on Twitter and the TranspoCamp Event News blog to get event and community updates.
• Watch, follow and reblog opentransportation on Tumblr.
• Tag tweets, photos, blog posts, etc. with the event hashtag: #transpo

See you there!

TransportationCamp is brought to you by OpenPlans, with generous support from:

Sponsors:

3G Mobility promotes the next generation of transportation, encouraging faster, ecological, cost-effective grassroots solutions through social media publishing, strategic consulting, and innovative research.

The Institute for Information Law and Policy is New York Law School's home for the study of law, technology and civil liberties - a "do tank," where lawyers innovate, harnessing the new tools of information and communications to the goals of social justice. This mission is premised on the notion that both software code and legal code shape human relations. Like law, technology, too, determines how we communicate and share information, which, in turn, defines our culture. The Institute consciously aims to create a 'hot spot' for innovation - taking an approach unlike that of any other law school.

Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, offering choice to customers building open source IT infrastructures. Its unique business model proves open source subscriptions for its high-quality, affordable technology. Its operating system, Red Hat Enterprise Linux® (RHEL), and its virtualization solution, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV), together with applications, management, and a service-oriented architecture, including the JBoss Enterprise Middleware Suite, deliver industry-leading value. Red Hat’s mission is to be the catalyst in communities of customers, contributors, and partners creating better technology the open source way.

Supporters:

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