The 1st Annual TransportationCamp New England will be held on Saturday, April 5, 2014.

Following on the success of previous TransportationCamps, TransportationCamp New England ‘14 will continue to examine ways to build connections between disparate innovators in public administration, transportation planning, transportation operations, information design, and software engineering.

You can register here. Share your session ideas on our collaborative ideas site. Follow us on Twitter for the latest updates, @TranspoCampNE. You can also like us on Facebook.

We’re excited to be hosted by MIT and the MIT Transportation Club at the Stata Center, Main Floor, 32 Vassar St, Cambridge, MA 02139.

The location is easy to get to, the Stata Center is located two blocks west of the Kendall/MIT T-Station (Red Line).

Here’s more info including map and directions.

After wrapping up the day at 5pm we will go for drinks at Champions in Kendall Square, 50 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02142. The happy hour will be hosted by the Young Professionals in Transportation (Boston Chapter).

TransportationCamp New England ‘14 is organized by Cambridge Systematics, Young Professionals in Transportation, and MIT, and sponsored by Sponsored by Caliper, Control Group, GroupZoom, New England Section of the Institute of Transportation Engineers, Ecolane, Conveyal, Zipcar, and Nelson Nygaard.

If you are interested becoming a sponsor of TransportationCamp New England ‘14, please read our sponsorship information.

TransportationCamp New England 2014 is collaborating with the 37 Billion Mile Data Challenge. This is a month-long challenge to explore anonymous vehicle-use data and discover insights that can help the Commonwealth build a model, estimated mileage, fuel efficiency of every registered vehicle in MA, as well as vehicles per household and green house gas emissions.

Participants are encouraged to submit data-driven visualizations, infographics, maps, web tools to answer driving questions about transportation, energy, and land use. The most compelling entries will receive cash prizes, Zipcar memberships, Hubway memberships, pre-loaded Charlie Cards, and more. The submission period closes April 19,2014 and winners announced by May 1st.

For more information on the datathon go here. Groups involved in the datathon will be presenting their ideas at TransportationCamp New England.