The annual meeting of the American Association of Geographers (AAG) is just around the corner and I’m counting the days. I’m particularly excited this year for a few reasons:

• the program this year includes a mini-conference on transportation justice, key-note presentations by Harvey Miller, Antonio Paez, and Song Gao, and several interesting-looking sessions including ‘The Interesting Data and Methods Session’ and GeoAI topics.
• the AAG is a great opportunity to meet old friends and connect with new people
• this year, I’ll be making a road trip from Toronto to Detroit with colleagues from the Uni of Toronto.
• My schedule is almost ready. Here are a few sessions I’m more directly or indirectly involved:

1. Session - Transportation Justice 1: Theory, politics and democratic planning

   • Alex Karner will be presenting our work in progress on ‘New Directions for Assessing Transportation Inequality and Poverty’

2. Session - Transportation Justice 4: Dimensions of inequitable accessibility

   • I’ll be presenting our paper on talking about the elephant in the room (that very few people look at monetary costs in accessibility analysis) and how the trade-off between time and money can significantly shape accessibility conditions and equity

3. Panel - Driving Change: Community Perspectives on Transportation Justice in Detroit

   • Alex Karner and Steven Farber will be leading a panel discussion on Detroit’s journey toward transportation equity from community-centered lens

4. Session - Transportation & Environmental Exposure

   • Luyu Liu will be presenting our paper on ‘Measuring Extreme Heat Exposure in Public Transit Systems’. Preprint here

ps. If you’re around the AAG this year, feel free reach out ! I’d love to connect.