Event: April 2025 with MobilityData (#152)

Author: AnthonyRollins

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   photo: "../images/barbara-andres.jpg"
   title: "Customer Experience & Innovation Administrator"
   org: "City of Santa Monica Department of Transportation"
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+Eric Plosky:
+  name: "Eric Plosky"
+  photo: "../images/eric-plosky.jpg"
+  title: "Executive Director"
+  org: "MobilityData"

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+#event information
+title: "Public Transit Ecosystem"
+date: 2025-04-24 08:00
+start_time: "08:00am"
+end_time: "10:00am"
+
+location: LACI
+cover: ../images/la-kretz-campus.jpeg
+
+#event speaker details
+speakers:
+  - "Eric Plosky"
+eventbrite: "1292770765159"
+slides: ""
+video: ""
+---
+
+## Public Transit Ecosystem
+
+MobilityData, a Montreal based nonprofit organization, stewards key transportation data standards – including the General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) the de facto standard for representing transit passenger information. Executive Director Eric Plosky will speak about MobilityData’s role in the public transit ecosystem, his vision for the future, and our roles in facing the challenges before us.
+
+### About Eric Plosky
+
+Eric Plosky leads MobilityData, the international nonprofit organization dedicated to “better transportation through data” by developing data standards, including the General Transit Feed Specification and the General Bikeshare Feed Specification, that enable access to safe, reliable, sustainable, empowering transportation options. Eric also teaches a Harvard course, "Transportation and Sustainability," and just taught a new course, "Transportation Data and Applications," at MIT, where he earned undergraduate and master's degrees in planning. He previously worked for nearly 24 years at the U.S. DOT Volpe Center, including 12 years as the chief of transportation planning.