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Zephyr

Advancing Travel Analysis to Improve Society

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Zephyr Foundation

a 501(c)3 non-profit

Zephyr’s mission: advancing rigorous transportation and land use decision-making for the public good by advocating for and supporting improved travel analysis, and facilitating its implementation.

Vision

Our vision is to become the primary venue through which leading researchers and practitioners seek to develop and implement travel analysis methods and tools that are demonstrably more valuable, credible, transparent, tractable, reproducible, and usable.

We strive for those methods and tools to support decision-making that is inclusive and promotes equitable outcomes, shared prosperity, and sustainability.

More About Zephyr

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What's On

Zephyr Board Election Results 2020

Congratulations and welcome aboard to our two newest Board members, Jeff Newman and Leta Huntsinger! Jeff and Leta were the highest vote-getters in the recently closed election by Zephyr members. Zephyr will benefit greatly from Leta's and Jeff's extensive involvement in our field and the experience they have gained in their past and current leadership roles at public, private, research and educational institutions. Welcome!

This also means two Board members have completed their terms, Billy Charlton and Leah Silen. Both Billy and Leah were founding Board members, involved with Zephyr since its inception. Thank you both for your service!

The new Board will soon convene to elect its officers and set an agenda for the coming year.

Announcing the 2020 Zephie Award Winners

Congratulations to this year's Zephie Award winners! On January 14, 2020, five individuals were recognized for their contributions to our field of travel forecasting. Zephie Award winners are nominated by Zephyr Foundation members and the winners are chosen by standing committees for each award.

The Zephie Awards this year:

A big round of applause for all of our winners this year.

Opportunities, Jobs, &c.

Now Hiring

Zephyr Program Officer

The Zephyr Board is excited to announce its search for a Program Officer.

Learn more + apply

Events

Zephyr runs a popular year-round series of learning sessions, tutorials, and panel discussions. We also have a strong presence at many transportation planning conferences. Come find us and talk to us!

Upcoming events

Mon. Sept. 14th
Learning Session – Introduction to ActivitySim

10AM-12PM PT / 1-3 PM ET

Mon. Sept. 28th
Panel on the intersection of Survey and Passive Data

2:00-4:00 ET/11:00-1:00 PT

Thurs. Nov. 5th
Panel on Behavior Dynamics – The Future...Accelerated.

12:00PM ET/ 9:00AM PT

In development

September
Learning Session – Workflow Tools + Tricks

TBD

October
Panel on Model Construction Techniques

TBD

October
Learning Session – Visualization Tools + Tricks

TBD

November
Panel on the Bridging Domains in Model Building Methods

TBD

See the event archive for a full list of all events, past and present.

Programs and Projects

This is a list of the projects and programs that comprise the Zephyr Agenda.

Workforce Development Program

Program to recruit, educate and keep a travel analysis workforce.

Network Data Standard and Management Tools

Datasets of standardized input and observed data in order to facilitate the testing of and compare the performance of various algorithms, approaches, or parameters.

Software Badging

Develop a set of badges to award software tools that meet various criteria.

Open Science

Develop a set of badges projects that meet criteria for openness and reproducibility.

GTFS-ride

A data standard for fixed-route ridership.

Fast-Trips

An open-source person-based dynamic transit assignment tool.

Count and Data Management Tool

Create an online transportation data management tool for travel analysis which tiers from several successful one-off projects that only appeared at single agencies.

Back-office Project Support and Incubation Guidance.

Setting up and maintaining a set of guidelines and resources to share amongst all projects and programs.