TransportationCamp West, which took place in San Francisco on March 19 and 20, was the second in a series of unconferences focusing on the transportation and technology spaces. Much like TransportationCamp East, the west coast version brought together an assortment of technologists, advocates and public officials from across the Bay Area. Check out some of the keynote speeches here. Also, check out a report from Streetsblog SF's Aaron Bialick here. Transportation Camp is a project of Streetfilms' parent organization, OpenPlans.
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<p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><i>Frank Hebbert:</i>
[00:11] So we’re here in San Francisco for Transportation Camp West.
We’re here for two days. We’ve brought together a couple of
hundred transportation enthusiasts, advocates, tech people, city officials,
to talk about transportation and technology. It’s an unconference,
so people propose sessions that they’d like to lead, or they’d like
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<p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><i>Emily Peckenham:</i>
[00:33] I was just working on a session called Public/Private Partnership
for Liveable Streets. We looked at different ways that the public
and private sector can collaborate. And also what some of the
challenges were, such as environmental standards and regulations that
can prevent change and how policy is very slow to evolve. </font></p>
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<p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><i>Tim Papandreou:</i>
[00:48] Our session just right now is on peer to peer car sharing, which
is basically growing the existing car sharing model and really connecting
neighbours with neighbours. One of the big things was how do we
get this message out to people, how do we get people connected, and
then how do we get around some of the issues of insurance, keeping the
cars clean, being a good neighbour. </font></p>
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<p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><i>Damien Newton:</i>
[01:07] A couple of us made the trip up from Los Angeles, and it’s
been really interesting as we go into these different sessions.
I mean you know Los Angeles and San Francisco are really different places,
but when you talk about them now and you talk about them in the conference,
San Francisco faces a lot of the same challenges Los Angeles faces,
just everything’s just sort of in different degrees and different
varieties of issues.</font></p>
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<p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><i>Jennifer Pahlka:</i>
[01:28] Right now in government pretty much each municipality or agency
or whatever jurisdiction it is, is solving their technology problems
individually. So they’re building or buying a solution to their
problems but, for instance, at the local level there’s 18,000 municipalities
in the country. They could be building at once and then sharing
it amongst all those municipalities. So not only would that save
the taxpayers an enormous amount of money, but they’d also be able
to learn from each other about how to use the software best and share
the learnings about the mistakes that they’ve made, or great ways
they’ve used technology to make life better for citizens.</font></p>
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<p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><i>Melissa Jordan:</i>
[02:05] I just… I helped co-lead a session on using social media to
engage customers in public transportation.</font></p>
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<p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><i>Jake Avidon:</i> [02:13]
The name of the session was Clipper, Love it or Hate it, and I was very
excited to come to the event today to meet with people in the industry
to get their feedback about their experiences with the Clipper Programme,
and in particular how Clipper has met their expectations or not met
their expectations. And so today’s ideas were terrific in nurturing
some thinking for me that I’ll bring back to our office and work on
as we consider next year’s budget. </font></p>
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<p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><i>Chris Smith:</i> [02:40]
We just had a great session here at Transportation Camp West.
We had some software developers, my co-developer in the project, Matt
Conway was able to join us, first time I met him in person, we’ve
been developing for several months together and Transportation Camp
West was our first opportunity to meet face to face. </font></p>
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<p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><i>Jay Nath:</i> [02:53]
I’ve already got half a dozen ideas that I want to follow up with
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<p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><i>Speaker:</i> [02:57]
We’re seeing conversations where people can go back to their desks
tomorrow and start working on something new that’s going to help these
people that they met this weekend. </font></p>
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<p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><i>Tim Papandreou:</i>
[03:05] Go Transportation Camp. </font> <br></p>
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