TransitScreen cofounder Matt Caywood presents at Mobility Lab’s recent Metro Hack Night.
My TransitScreen cofounder Matt Caywood (a Mobility Lab contributor) and I recently had the honor – along with three other transportation startups – of presenting our “Six Minute Pitch” at the Transportation Research Board (TRB) 93rd Annual Meeting in Washington D.C. on January 14.
We won, and the biggest benefit is that we received recognition at an event with nearly 12,000 transportation professionals from around the world. The company was put in front of many of the top decision-makers in the transportation industry, and has already received interest from many of them. We are extremely excited about the opportunity to continue the relationships we built through this contest.
The panel of judges consisted of:
- Gabe Klein, most recently Chicago Department of Transportation Commissioner
- Sean O’Sullivan, Co-founder and Managing Director of Carma, and
- Robert Rodden, Director of Technical Service and Product Development for the American Concrete Pavement Association. (He wrote about his winning entry from last year’s Pitch.)
The panel provided immediate feedback on the market potential, business model, and the incorporation of innovative technologies or techniques. Along with the honorary victory, we received invaluable insight from the judges that will help TransitScreen for the future.
The Six-Minute Pitch Transportation Start-up Challenge was hosted by Foursquare Integrated Transportation Planning. The theme of the TRB Annual Meeting this year was “Celebrating Our Legacy, Anticipating Our Future,” which is a perfect fit for what TransitScreen brings to the transportation community.
TransitScreen’s real-time, multimodal transportation information displays instantly demonstrate all transportation options, both new and old, on a single, information-rich display. The transportation options that can be displayed include rail, subway, bus, train, bikeshare, carshare and rideshare.
Photo by M.V. Jantzen