January 6, 2009 (Park Ridge, IL) – URISA and the National Center for Transit Research (NCTR) have announced a new partnership to present the Fifth National GIS in Transit Conference, taking place in St. Petersburg, Florida, November 10-12, 2009. This biennial conference will focus on the growing role of GIS in supporting planning, service delivery, and decision making in public transit.
The Programme Committee will organise an educational programme based upon the abstracts submitted through the Call for Participation. All abstract submissions, received by February 27, 2009, will be reviewed and considered for this conference. The Program Committee encourages abstract submissions in one or more of these four general categories – Applications, Tools, Data, and Management & Policy.
