About Zephyr


The Zephyr Foundation’s mission is to advance rigorous transportation and land use decision-making for the public good by advocating for and supporting improved travel analysis, and facilitating its implementation.



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 these improved methods and tools to support decision-making that is inclusive and promotes equitable outcomes, shared prosperity, and sustainability.


Goals

The Foundation’s goals are to advance the field through flexible and efficient support, education, guidance, encouragement, and incubation as outlined below in support of the Mission:

Community

Fostering a community of practice

Education

Maintaining a knowledge center comprised of a variety of resources and channels that are useful to a range of practitioners and agencies

Standards

Establishing community accepted standards and elevating best practices


Principles

The Foundation is guided by the following principles:

Respectful, honest, technical-based interaction;
Collegial and collaborative;
Driven by useful innovation that leverages our unique position;
Acting in support of the public good, specifically inclusion, equitable outcomes, and shared prosperity;
User-friendly packaging and licensing;
Consistently high-quality work products;
Faithful implementation of standards;
Respectful of time and resources;
Diversity of opinions and backgrounds are proactively sought out and welcomed; and,
Lawfulness as mandatory.

Leadership

Zephyr is governed by a Board of Directors elected by the membership and supported by the Founding Stakeholders and a team of Instigators.

Support

Individuals, public agencies, corporations, and institutions can support Zephyr by:

Membership, general donations and subscriptions support our core programs. Zephyr seeks specific grants to support larger projects.

Finer Print


Why a Foundation?

A Foundation offers us the needed flexibility, agility, stability [ of staffing and funding ], and ability to contribute funding from public and private sources on multiple levels.