The National Transportation Safety Board will hold a public meeting on the use of the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in transportation safety on December 4 and 5, 2012. GIS is a rapidly expanding group of technologies and analytical techniques that uses geographically referenced data to support complex data integration, advanced statistical analysis, precise investigation, and effective visualization of data. The meeting will bring researchers and practitioners in transportation safety and GIS together to discuss how GIS data, technologies, and techniques are applied to improve transportation safety. They will identify emerging themes, current challenges, and potential solutions in using GIS in transportation safety. The meeting will include eight panels, with experts from government agencies, research institutes, non-profit organizations, and industry covering all modes of transportation.
Preliminary Program:
- Day 1 (December 4, 2012, Tuesday)
- Opening Panel:
- advances in GIS data, technologies, and techniques critical to improving transportation safety
- data limitation and challenges facing efficient application
- geospatial initiatives and activities across all agencies at the US DOT
- GIS Data and Technology Panel:
- data standard, requirement, and sources critical to transportation safety
- technological innovation in navigation and safety products
- Focus on Highway Safety Panel:
- integration of vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communication and recognition
- leveraging GIS data and technologies in traffic safety and law enforcement activities
- use of GIS data in naturalistic and other highway safety research
- error consideration in georeferencing police-reported crash data and identification of safety countermeasures
- Focus on Aviation Safety Panel:
- development in airport mapping standards and procedures
- innovation in building a threaded data set of gate-to-gate aircraft activities
- application of geospatial technologies in world-wide terrain databases and airport moving maps
- using remote sensing and GIS technologies in developing flight obstruction databases
- Day 2 (December 5, 2012, Wednesday)
- GIS Application and Analysis Panel:
- international efforts in using spatial statistics in aviation safety analyses
- applying GIS technologies in the development of collision avoidance technologies
- understanding crash characteristics and risks of commercial vehicles
- Focus on Marine Safety Panel:
- innovation in marine navigation chart production and dissemination
- integration of digital navigation information and automated identification systems
- GIS technologies in marine accident investigation and search and rescue efforts
- using GIS data and spatial analytics in identifying marine accident hotspots
- Focus on Rail, Pipeline, and HazMat Safety Panel:
- emergence of geospatial data and technologies in integrity management systems for pipeline safety
- developing high quality GIS data in improving rail safety
- leveraging investment in enterprise GIS to improve multi-modal transportation safety for transit authority
- integrating geospatial technologies into safe transportation of hazardous materials through the rail network
- Closing Panel:
- emerging needs of GIS data standards and requirements in transportation safety
- relating the transportation safety community to the National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI)
- identification of research needs
Preliminary list of participating organizations:
- American Transportation Research Institute
- Association of American Railroads
- Baltimore County Police Department
- Census Bureau
- Coast Guard
- Federal Aviation Administration
- Federal Highway Administration
- Federal Railroad Administration
- Geoeye
- Department of Interior
- International Civil Aviation Organization
- Jeppesen
- MITRE
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- National Emergency Number Association
- National Geospatial Advisory Committee
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
- Research and Innovative Technology Administration
- Transportation Research Board
- University of California, Berkeley
- University of California, Riverside
- University of Kentucky
- University of Michigan
- University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
- University of Tennessee
- University of Vanderbilt
- Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority
There is also a poster exhibit opportunity. Please contact Dr. Ivan Cheung [202-314-6570] if you are interested in submitting your poster exhibit.
NTSB public events are also streamed live via webcast. Webcasts are archived for a period of three months from the time of the meeting. Webcast archives are generally available by the end of the day following the Event. |
