Workshops

Public- and Private-Sector Collaboration for Regional Data-Collection Programs
Sunday, January 05 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM ET • Convention Center 151A
Agencies spend significant time and resources to budget for, plan for, and administer data-collection programs. This is becoming more onerous for three reasons: (1) agencies have shrinking budgets (2) the data requirements are ever-increasing, and (3) response rates are on the decline. This impacts both the way data are collected and also the number of private sector firms conducting data collection.

Doctoral Research in Transportation Modeling and Travel Behavior Analysis
Sunday, January 05 1:30 PM- 4:30 PM ET • Convention Center 151B
This workshop aims to provide a platform for younger TRB attendees to present their newest research on transportation modeling and travel behavior analysis. Doctoral researchers or recent doctoral graduates present their research in 5-minute presentations. Presentations are grouped into four blocks, and a debater will ask the presenters questions after each block of four presentations. The audience will also have the opportunity to add questions. The discussion with and between doctoral researchers helps to shed light on current research issues. 

Meetings

Committee Meeting
Monday, January 06 10:15 AM- 12:00 PM ET • Marriott Liberty L (M4)

Stated Response Surveys Subcommittee • Marriott Mount Vernon Square (M3)
Monday, January 06 3:45 PM- 5:30 PM ET

Bicycle and Pedestrian Data Joint Subcommittee
Monday, January 06 6:00 PM- 7:30 PM ET • Marriott Marquis 7&8 (M2)

Transit Surveys Subcommittee
Tuesday, January 07 8:00 AM- 9:45 AM ET • Marriott Liberty K (M4)

Household Surveys Subcommittee
Wednesday, January 08 8:00 AM- 9:45 AM ET • Marriott Liberty I (M4)

Poster Sessions

All poster sessions are Tuesday, January 07 10:15 AM- 12:00 PM ET in the Convention Center Hall A

Travel Survey Experiences in the Post-Pandemic Era
This is an invitation-only poster session sponsored by the Standing Committee on Travel Survey Methods AEP25 that focuses on post-pandemic travel survey experiences. The session includes presentations of synthesized findings from completed research efforts showcasing regional or national household travel surveys, activity surveys, transit surveys, freight surveys, stated preference surveys and establishment surveys.

How Smartphones Are Continuing to Take Their Place in Data Collection
This poster session brings together a series of cutting edge papers demonstrating how smartphones continue to take their place in travel-related data collection.

Recruiting, Retaining, and Asking New Questions
This poster session assembles a series of papers concerned with the latest methods in recruiting and retaining respondents as well as asking new questions to travel survey respondents. You won’t want to miss this one!

Transportation Research Board Minority Student Fellows
This session showcases the student scholars selected for the TRB Minority Student Fellows Program—a program that supports students from Minority-Serving Institutions to attend the Annual Meeting and present their research.

Lectern Sessions

Smart Card, Smartphone, and Data Fusion in Travel Data Collection
Tuesday, January 07 1:30 PM- 3:15 PM ET • Convention Center 150A
This lectern session brings together a series of papers demonstrating cutting edge methods in the use of smartphone data, smart card data, and fusion with other data sources in travel-related data collection and analysis. If you come to any lectern session, make sure it’s this one!

Generative Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Travel Surveys
Tuesday, January 07 3:45 PM- 5:30 PM ET • Convention Center 150A
In recent years, the field of travel surveys has rapidly evolved by taking advantage of advancements in digital technologies such as smartphone apps, virtual reality, and multi-modal big data. Another new technology, Generative AI, has shown great progress in creating new multi-modal content. Several LLMs are now commercially available and can generate human-like content, based on input prompts. The session will explore the potential of Generative AI in the context of survey design, generation of new data, augmentation of existing stated and revealed preference data, and spatiotemporal transferability of existing surveys. Potential challenges, pitfalls, sustainable adoption strategies, and key future directions will be identified.