Hi CTPP listserv –

The AED20(1) Subcommittee announces its Call for Posters for the 2025 TRB Annual Meeting.  We look forward to your submissions.

Call Title

Understanding Census Data through Visualization

Sponsoring Committee

Census Data for Transportation Planning Subcommittee of the Urban Transportation Data and Information Systems Committee, AED20(1)

Call Description

The Census Data for Transportation Planning Subcommittee of the Urban Transportation Data and Information Systems Committee, AED20(1), invites you to submit posters for a session focusing on Understanding Census Data through Visualization. In keeping with the theme of our parent committee, topics focusing on transportation planning and urban data are requested. Posters will be displayed at the TRB Annual Meeting in Washington, DC, January 2025. All accepted posters will also have their work displayed on the AED20(1) website. Authors of the most innovative poster may be invited to present at the subcommittee meeting.

Background

The Subcommittee is interested in seeing the innovative ways in which people are visualizing the Census to gain a better understanding of the demographic data.

Do you have a new graphical or visual way to display traditional data to aid in analysis? Have you found a new platform to display the data? Have you been using a new method to illustrate complex statistical concepts? How can viewing the Census data in a new way help in analyzing the data? Have you run into issues or limits in using newer methods?

The goal of this poster session is to highlight new and creative ways to visualize Census data.  The poster session would also like to share any challenges and lessons learned from translating complex Census data into visual and analytical products.

Evaluation Criteria

Posters must incorporate data from at least one Census data product; Census data products include but are not limited to Decennial Census data, the American Community Survey, LEHD, Economic Census data, and AASHTO Census Transportation Solutions (ACTS, formerly CTPP). Additional non-Census data sets may be used. Note: The National Household Travel Survey (NHTS) is not a Census data product.

A broad range of abstracts relating to Understanding Census Data through Visualization are welcome. Preference will be given to posters which emphasize the following:

• Analysis to solve complex problems;
• Creative ways to visualize Census data;
• New approaches to analyzing Census data;
• Demographic data to improve transportation planning; and/or
• Topics that address applications towards urban areas.

A session-development panel will review all abstracts to identify those that most effectively meet the goals of the poster session. The subcommittee hopes to identify posters representing a diverse array of uses and applications. Applicants will be notified in late September whether their submission has been selected.

Poster Session Guidelines

Those selected for this session will prepare a poster for presentation at the 2025 Annual Meeting in January. Participants are not required to prepare a paper. Each presenter will be provided with a table and a 4’ x 8’ vertical panel for displaying posters and other materials.  An electrical connection will be available at each station. Telephone and internet connections will not be available. TRB’s guidelines for poster presenters are not yet available, but it is expected that all guidelines once available should be followed.  Presenters are expected to register for the TRB meeting and participate in this session.  Presentation teams are welcome.

Submission Instructions

A special deadline for submittals has been established. Interested candidates should submit an abstract explaining their project and poster concept by 11:59 pm EDT on Monday, September 16, 2024. The abstract should be no more than a single one-sided page in length (approximately 500 words) and include:

• Main Contact information (name, agency/organization, phone number, email address)
• List of all authors of the poster including each person’s name, agency/organization, and email address
• Title of your proposed poster for use in the Annual Meeting agenda
• Data sources that your poster will focus on
• Explanation of the project, research, or process sets
• Any innovative discoveries or lessons learned that would be useful to the transportation community
• Preliminary description of the information to be conveyed in your poster

In addition to the abstract, you are encouraged to include up to two visual(s) to demonstrate your poster concept. You are also welcome to include links to on-line materials that illustrate the analysis or results described in your abstract, but this will not substitute for the information requested in the abstract.

The subcommittee will not consider sales presentations for products or services.

Abstracts should be in a PDF format and submitted to:

Kathy Yu

kyu@nctcog.org

Include the term "AED20(1) Poster Abstract 2025" in the subject line.

For More Information

Questions about the poster session or the abstract submittal process should be directed to

Kyla Elzinga
kelzinga@aashto.org

202-624-7797

Kathy Yu

kyu@nctcog.org

817-608-2343

Kyla Elzinga

she/her

Program Manager for Planning and Data

AASHTO | American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials

(202) 624-7797 | kelzinga@aashto.org