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 SIS
will welcome Bob Firth to present a lecture on Wednesday,
February 21, 2007 at 3:30 pm in Room 501 IS Building. The
title of Mr. Firth’s lecture is "The Long Squiggly
Line That's Killing Our Transit System and an Information
Science Solution." The recent proposed cuts to
funding of the Pittsburgh Authority of Allegheny County’s
transit system have led Bob Firth and his company, Informing
Design, to consider a radical redesign of bus routes
based on efficient transportation systems currently being
used in Washington, DC; Los Angeles, CA; Cleveland, OH;
and even Curitiba, Brazil. In this talk, Bob Firth will
present his ideas for developing a cost-effective and
efficient bus system, based on years of experience in
studying transportation flows in Pittsburgh and applying
basic information science principles to solving problems
of navigation and way finding.
Bob Firth is founder and president of Informing Design,
which is an innovative company that has designed a number
of novel wayfinding tools including the colorful Pittsburgh
Wayfinder signs and the www.bigburg.com collection
of print-on-demand maps. The talk is sponsored by the
Spatial Information Science Research Interest Group of
the School of Information Sciences and will be followed
by a reception in Room 522.
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