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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

Read up About Zephyr to find more on the nonprofit's

  • goals
  • leadership
  • membership
  • and fine print such as 501(c)3 status, governance, and bylaws.

What's On

Zephyr Stars: Projects we're watching

Zephyr Stars is a list Github Projects starred by Zephyr members.

These projects have been “starred” multiple times by the members of the Zephyr Foundation. Stars mean different things to different people, from “this is a useful tool for work” to “I want to be able to find this again” to “my buddy made a fundraising website”.

But it is expected that GitHub projects high on this list (i.e. starred by a large number of analytic transportation professionals) will tend to be in the first category. Take a look!!

Announcing the 2021 Zephie Award Winners

Congratulations to this year's Zephie Award winners! This year, four individuals or teams 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 committees for each award.

The Zephie Awards this year:

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

Opportunities, Jobs, &c.

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

Tuesday, January 11, 2022
2022 Zephyr TRB Reception

7:00 - 10:00 PM

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Learning Session - Planning with Data Driven Models

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Panel on Model Construction Techniques

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Innovations in Network Models that respond to policy questions

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Learning Session – Visualization Tools + Tricks

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.