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Transportation’s Best of 2013: Communicating with the Public

Posted on January 28, 2014 by Lloyd Brown
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The Transportation Research Board held its annual meeting earlier this month in Washington DC. More than 11,000 people descended on the three hotels that host the series of discussions, workshops, poster sessions and committee meetings. In the broader transportation world, TRB’s annual meeting is the ultimate place to catch up with industry leaders and hear the latest in research trends and successful tactics.

For the transportation communicator, TRB’s annual meeting includes many important sessions, and one that I always enjoy is the 90 minutes dedicated to the winners of the “Communicating Concepts with John and Jane Q. Public” competition. The TRB Planning and Environment Group each year asks transportation organizations to nominate their best work at communicating a particular aspect of transportation to the public.

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Posted in Communications | Tagged animation, communications, intersection, public engagement, state department of transportation, State DOTs, strategic communications, traffic, transportation, Transportation Research Board, TRB, UDOT, Utah Department of Transportation, video, YouTube | Leave a reply

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