Social, economic, and geopolitical events have contributed to the demand shocks and severe operational and financial consequences for supply chain and freight industries in the United States. Companies are still facing the impacts of unprecedented demand, inventory, and material supply issues. These events highlight the significant need for resilience in supply chain management, continued monitoring for potential disruption factors, and plans to ensure business continuity. This webinar will share knowledge and best practices in supply chain resilience and business continuity planning in a disruptive environment.
Bus stops that require passengers to cross a bicycle lane to access the stop present both wayfinding and safety challenges for passengers who are blind or have low vision. A recently completed evaluation of a prototype floating bus stop in Montgomery County, MD confirmed the usefulness of features to aid wayfinding, including on-vehicle announcements, visual and tactile signage, tactile walking surface indicators, and speech messages at accessible pedestrian signals. This webinar will share further details on this project that included extensive interaction with stakeholders, including people with a range of vision disabilities, people with ambulatory disabilities, local governments and transit systems, and advocacy groups.
In the early 1990s, Minnesota became the first state in the nation to prohibit discrimination based on a person’s sexual orientation and gender identity. Yet the state continues to use male-female categories when investigating the role of gender in transportation issues such as travel behavior and transportation accessibility. Since a person’s identity can have a significant influence on their own and others’ behavior and experiences, excluding gender diversity in behavior or accessibility research could result in an incomplete understanding of the issues and perceptions about quality of life. This webinar will present a study funded by the Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) that collected travel behavior data and integrated it with existing data to identify patterns based on gender identity.
Data from maintenance management systems is extremely valuable and a large amount of effort is invested in collecting it. State departments of transportation maintenance budgets can be more than a billion dollars. Managing the quality of this data is very important as it is used for planning, making business decisions, and reporting on these expenditures. This webinar will explore experiences, challenges, and solutions from North Carolina (NCDOT), Minnesota (MnDOT), and New York (NYSDOT) in optimizing data quality within their maintenance management systems.
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