Over the last two years, traffic deaths across the United States increased 14%. In 2016, nearly 6,000 pedestrians died – the highest number in more than two decades.
JOIN US to share your ideas + skills through a series of community problem-solving sessions, data faires, hackathons, and demos across the nation.
What is the National Transportation Data Challenge?
The Challenge is a series of community problem-solving sessions, hackathons, and other events over the course of 6 months -- designed to spark collaborations, improve the accessibility and utilization of transportation data, and help save lives.
From May through October 2017, the Big Data Innovation Hubs and our growing network of partners are facilitating unique opportunities to work on projects aiming to reduce traffic fatalities and improve transportation safety. We are particularly excited to help connect innovators across industry, academia, nonprofits, and government and build partnerships drawing from a diverse community.
How do I participate?
- Sign up to Join the Challenge Community: get email updates about upcoming events (in person and online), new datasets released, and ways to connect with other participants. Share these with your network!
Attend an event, in person or online
Share your demo/analysis/expertise: contact any or all of the Category Chairs to share your work and input
Join a Competitive Team if you are interested in competing for awards/prizes by the end of the Challenge period. More details soon!
UPCOMING EVENTS:
- Big Data for Transportation and Mobility Workshop: Ann Arbor, MI
- June 22-23. Some travel support is available for students, fellows, and postdocs; more information is on the registration form and on the conference website.
- Smart Cities Connect Conference & Expo: Austin, TX
- June 26. Learn about the National Transportation Data Challenge and Connect with BDHubs at the Austin Convention Center session on "Using Data Science and Fog Computing to Accelerate Smarter Cities Use Cases Panel" 1:00pm
- Please note the Austin Hackathon has been rescheduled from July to September. More details from the organizers will be posted soon.
- A Northeast event, demos in Atlanta in September, and more cities to be announced!
- National Transportation Data Challenge Hackathon Session: Lincoln, NE
- Oct. 1. More details will be posted here closer to the date
- Stay tuned here and through our email updates for additional online / remote opportunities to participate.
PAST EVENTS:
- Launch Event: Seattle | Eventbrite VIEW THE FIRST FLYER
- May 2: Small Group Demos/Training with Amazon and Microsoft + Reception featuring a Fireside Chat with Dan Morgan, Chief Data Officer, U.S. Department of Transportation
- May 3: Data Faire, Demos, Livestreamed Speakers, Hackathon Team Formation, and Shared Reception with the Northwest Institute for Advanced Computing (NIAC) Smart Mobility / Transportation Workshop
- Overviews from Category Chairs + Pitches/ Mentoring Session: Boulder (Denver area), CO
- June 5-6 as part of the West Hub Annual All Hands Meeting open to all
- The Challenge will be mentioned during the Livestream June 5, 9am-12:30pm MT
- Category Chairs will host a dedicated session June 6, 11am-12:30pm MT via Zoom videoconferencing / Dial: +1 408 638 0968 with Meeting ID: 533 456 4408
- Transportation discussions /panels, Washington DC
- June 9 as part of the South Hub Annual All-Hands Meeting. Watch the morning panels 8:30am-12:30pm EDT, via WebEx: Event Number: 647 177 383; Event Password: southhub; Dial-In Number: +1-415-655-0003
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