Paul SUPAWANICH

Biographical note
Paul Supawanich is the Director of Customer Success at Remix. He leads a team of transportation planners working with over 200 transportation agencies across the country to provide better technology to plan better transit. Over the past decade, the goal of his work is to use a cross-disciplinary and creative approach to tackle transportation challenges, helping cities, transit agencies, and private companies improve their transportation systems through transit, biking and walking. Formerly, Paul worked at Nelson\Nygaard Consulting Associates with a focus on transit and complete streets projects around the US. His research and work has been featured in publications such as Next City, the Los Angeles Times, Citylab, and the Washington Post. Paul holds his bachelors in Industrial Engineering from Georgia Tech and masters in City Planning and Transportation Engineering from University of California-Berkeley.

Presentation: How to sell the big picture: making transport easy for anyone to understand
Communicating changes for future plans is often a challenge. Too often transport networks, routes, frequencies, and maps exist at such a complex level that is opaque to the rider and elected officials. Thus, it’s often difficult for communities to fully understand and support to its full potential. How can technology help break down barriers to understanding transport planning so that people can get behind it?