Live Schedule

11:30 - 12:30

• Room 102: Bike Plan for Georgia State Univ.
• Room 123: Better Regional Collaboration / Partnerships
• Room 125: Frequent Bus Networks: Is Atlanta Ready?
• Room 127: Transit Equity
• Room 129: Alternative Media + Alternative Transportation
• Room 131: Metrics for Transportation Planning
• Room 262: Multimodal Access to Stadiums
• Room 272: A Brief History of Atlanta Freeways

1:30 - 2:30

• Room 102: MARTA Army
• Room 123: Transportation Options for Seniors & Folks w/ Disabilities
• Room 125: Let’s Make Buses Sexy
• Room 127: Beltline / Bill Kennedy Way - How?
• Room 129: The Psychology of Transportation
• Room 131: Engaging Indian Models of Flyovers
• Room 262: Polycentrism vs. Monocentrism: How Transit Networks Should be Planned
• Room 272: Design Brand of MARTA

2:45 - 3:45

• Room 102: Bike Infrastructure Abroad
• Room 123: Let’s Advance Atlanta
• Room 125: TOD: Land for Transit Not Cars
• Room 127: Trick Out my Trip, ioby, and Rider-Led Transit Improvements
• Room 129: Using Technology to Enhance Rider Experience on MARTA
• Room 131: What do Cities Need for Freight?
• Room 262: Fare Evasion
• Room 272: Buses Across Boundaries

4:00 - 5:00

• Room 102: Atlanta Bike Conference Discussion/Planning
• Room 123: Student Activism in Transportation
• Room 125: Human Transit: Jarrett Walker Fan Club
• Room 127: Savannah State TIGER Group Research
• Room 129: atltransit: Regional Transit through Better Information

General Info

TransportationCamp South returns to Atlanta on Saturday, September 26th, 2015.

TransportationCamp is an “unconference” – where sessions are proposed and led by attendees – bringing together thinkers and doers in the fields of transportation and technology for a day of learning, debating, connecting, and creating. Created by OpenPlans in 2011, this will be the 3rd TransportationCamp South (others have been held in New York, Washington, San Francisco, Montreal, and Boston), following on the success of previous events in 2013 and 2014. For coverage of past year’s events, see the writeup in Creative Loafing (“TransportationCamp South a Wonk’s Heaven”) and the photo gallery on Facebook.

Why Transportation?

Transportation is a major metropolitan issue, with direct impacts on economic strength, environmental sustainability, and social equity. Recent advances in technology (mobile computing, open source software, open data, and spatial analysis) present an opportunity to improve mobility more immediately and at a lower cost than has ever been possible in the past. Transportation policy is no longer necessarily a top-down process. Now more than ever, there are opportunities for a bottom-up approach that focuses on the experience and needs of the citizens themselves.

What’s an “Unconference?”?

This is not a traditional conference. The organizers don’t pick a set of panels and panelists ahead of time. Instead, you organize the panels! Anyone interested in talking about an issue can organize a session, and attendees just go to the sessions they’re most interested in. For more information on how TransportationCamp works, read the Essential Guide.

Schedule & Venue

The event program will run from 9:30 AM to 5:00 PM on Saturday, September 26, 2015, with breakfast/registration from 8:30 to 9:30. A light breakfast, box lunch, and coffee breaks will be provided for all participants and are included in the $10 registration fee. There is also a Starbucks located on-site.

The venue for TransportationCamp South will be the Clough Undergraduate Learning Commons, a state-of-the-art, sustainably-designed educational facility located at the heart of the Georgia Tech campus.

For tickets and more information, see transpocampsouth2015.eventbrite.com and follow @transpocampso.