1. Clint Daniels, Board Chair zephyrtransport.org #gozephyr
Thursday May 18th, 2017
Hi, We’re Zephyr.
Clint Daniels, Board Chair
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2. Academics Developers Government Industry Planners You…
ZEPHYR: A HOME FOR…
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3. MISSION
Our mission is to advance rigorous transportation and land use decision-making for the public good by advocating for and supporting improved travel analysis and facilitating its implementation.
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4. GOALS SUPPORT >> Provide robust infrastructure
EDUCATE >> Core competencies, best practices + next-generation skills
INCUBATE >> Useful + innovative methods for deployment
GUIDE >> Rsch → useful products; + practitioners → useful implementation
ENCOURAGE >> Open standards; rigorous practices; interoperability
CONVENE >> Leading academics + practitioners to guide Zephyr
ADVANCE >> The science and field of travel analysis
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5. HOW: PROJECTS THAT SUPPORT GOALS
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6. FIRST/SECOND YEAR PRIORITIES
Provide robust infrastructure, including financial, administrative, and legal support
Admin Open Source Repos
+10
Passthru funding
Pool funding +2
Apply for grants
Guide research towards useful products and practitioners towards useful implementation.
Maintain set of “research priorities” +4
Provide financial incentives to researchers +1
Maintain a roadmap…
+14
Evaluate research on basis of applicability and usefulness
+11
Publically acknowledge useful research3 +5
Educate researchers and practitioners on core competencies and next generation travel analysis skills and travel analysis stakeholders on best practices.
Create fellowship / internship program +3
Create tutorials for useful open source tools
+14
Hold trainings + classes for useful tools and methods
Develop lesson plans for High School + Univ. +4

7. FIRST/SECOND YEAR PRIORITIES
Incubate innovative and useful planning methods in preparation for deployment by regions, cities, and neighborhoods.
Grants to contribute to existing efforts +1
Support for back-casting +5
Support for before/after studies
+10
Incubate existing or proposed method or software dev +5
Convene leading academics and practitioners to guide the Foundation’s efforts.
Sessions at App Con and Innovations +1
Two-way Peer Review: Academics review model + Practitioner's review academic’s research +2
Model for America: academic teams stand up their models in MPO +1
Summer education support for practitioners +4
Encourage the use of open data standards, rigorous development practices, interoperability, reproducible research methods, and evaluation of research.
Develop (borrow) & Maintain set of core data standards
+24
Grants to software vendors to implement standards
Grants for MPOs collaborating on model or software dev +8
Support academics seeking to reproducible important research +3

8. FIRST/SECOND YEAR PRIORITIES
Advance the science and field of travel analysis.
Write down what we think is true
+12
Catalog hypotheses +2
Document hypothesis tests
+10
Suggests tests for what we think may be true
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9. HOW: CONTINUITY + CONNECTING
Signal booster between communities.
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10. FOUNDING ZEPHYR BOARD Leah Silen NumFocus Mario Scott SDG Thomas Adler
RSG Inc.
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11. Northwestern University
FOUNDING ZEPHYR BOARD
Eric Miller
University of Toronto
Hani Mahmassani
Northwestern University
Rosella Picado
WSP
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12. FOUNDING ZEPHYR BOARD CHAIR
Clint Daniels
San Diego Association of Governments
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13. WHERE DO YOU FIT?
MEMBER.
SPONSOR.
VOLUNTEER.
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