May 17, 2013 at Roosevelt House, NY, NY 10065

The GPS Transportation symposium featured presentations by Mr. Matthew W.Daus, former Commissioner and Chairman of the New York City Taxi and Limousine Commissions, on public policies and regulations as well as by Drs. Hongmian Gong (Geography, Hunter College), Nicholas Maxemchuk (Electrical Engineering, Columbia University), Xuegang (Jeff) Ban (Civil and Environmental Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), and Jianting Zhang (Computer Science, City College) on GPS for person-based travel, public transit, freight transportation, and taxi industry.

The global positioning system (GPS) has been increasingly used to gather data for transportation modeling and planning. However, the potential of this emerging technology and its combined power with other technologies such as wireless telecommunications, geographical information systems (GIS), and Internet have not been fully understood and utilized. The goal of this symposium is to bring people together to discuss the use of GPS and other new geospatial technologies for transportation planning and policies. Ideas developed from this symposium will serve to facilitate future collaboration among universities, government agencies, non-for-profit organizations, and private industries.

For more information, please visit the symposium website at:
http://www.geo.hunter.cuny.edu/GPSsymp/