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Shining a Light Inside the Black Box:
Motivations and Data

You are cordially invited to attend another in a series of free TMIP Web Knowledge and Information Exchanges. Registration required and limited to 80, first come, first served. Note that only one person per location needs to reserve a connection for the webinar. Please coordinate with your colleagues to avoid duplicate registrations. Your cooperation is appreciated.

Date: Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Time: 2:30 PM-4:30 PM (EST) / 11:30 AM-1:30 PM (PST)
Location: Online

We are no longer accepting registrations at this time.

Intended Audience

Travel forecasting modelers.

Topic

Shining a Light Inside the Black Box Series: Truly effective travel forecasting models don't just happen; they are the final outcome of long process of collecting data, analyzing travel patterns, and testing alternative model structures. The ultimate goal is to find the modeling procedures that both explain today's travel patterns and describe how travel will evolve under a variety of growth, policy, and infrastructure development scenarios. Too often, however, data on travel behavior is lacking and insufficient attention is given to fully understanding the details of how forecasting models represent that behavior. Since travel forecasting models are often seen as "Black Boxes," the solution is to shine a light inside these boxes to expose the inner workings and learn what works and what still needs to be improved. This Webinar series is intended to describe the experience, both good and bad, in looking into the Black Box.

Presenters

Partial Webinar Recording
Webinar Transcript
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Due to unexpected technical difficulties, the audio portion of the meeting was only recorded for the first 19 minutes of the webinar. We apologize for the inconvenience. We are working on a written transcript to be posted here at a future time.

Bill Woodford, AECOM Consult
Bill Davidson, PB Americas

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Mr. Woodford is president of AECOM Consult in Arlington, Virginia. Mr. Davidson is with PB Americas in San Francisco. Between the two of them they have over 50 years of modeling experience.

Attendance

We are no longer accepting registrations at this time.

Future Session Dates

All sessions will be from 2:30-4:30 p.m. Eastern time. Registration for each will begin approximately one week prior to the webinar.