The Transportation Research Board’s 91st Annual Meeting is over, and like many of the conference’s record-breaking 11,000 attendees, I returned home brimming with enthusiasm and new ideas for The Transit Wire and my consulting work. It’s impossible to summarize the meeting with a handful of tweets, but here are ten that touch upon TRB’s combination of research, collaboration, and — as Ray LaHood tweets — magic.
6 US Secretaries of #Transportation at 1 table; that's the magic of TRB! bit.ly/zOKLCD #TRBAM
— Ray LaHood (@RayLaHood) January 26, 2012
"With the right context, ppl are natural planners." Crowdsourcing of #bikenyc share by @fitnr #TRBAM #CPlan MT @lesterhead @civichack
— transportdata (@transportdata) January 26, 2012
Must accept responsibility of Twitter. As soon as agency is on #sm, people will have expectations, so fully commit to responsiveness #TRBAM
— Erik Weber (@vebah) January 22, 2012
No, social media will never replace personal contact. Even with video, etc. that's my opinion.. #TRBAM
— Aimee Custis (@AimeeCustis) January 24, 2012
8 things I learned during the #trbam Twitter/brand building session ow.ly/1EMCas
— lloydbrown (@LloydBrown) January 25, 2012
.@Georgiatech researchrs want #bus drivers able 2 put route delays etc. into app so info goes immediately to riders.Presented @ #TRBAM #tech
— Jenifer Joy Madden(@JJmaddn) January 24, 2012
willing to bet that more than 50% of #TRBAM tweets were from Younger Members @TRBofNA
— Peter Koonce (@pkoonce) January 26, 2012
Researchers mine Twitter data to assess mood of transit riders (via @AtlanticCITIES)ow.ly/8H3u3 #TRBAM
— Susan Bregman (@TheTransitWire) January 26, 2012
In Boston, 1/3 of transit riders are using transit-related mobile apps #trbam #publictransportation
— aptapolicylab (@aptapolicylab) January 25, 2012
Benefit of #TRBAM -- following (and being followed by) lots of new #transpo twerps. Thanks to #TRBAM and @My1stTRB for twitter-focus.
— Geoff Green (@geoff_green) January 26, 2012
