Decision Making under Deep Uncertainty: Workshop

September 16, 2025

08:30 AM – 10:00 AM at Johnson Great Room

Uncertain On Which Workshop to Attend? We have a Workshop for that.

Ready to move beyond traditional forecasts? This session is for you. We'll start by challenging the "Predict-Then-Act" approach that dominates transportation planning and discuss why it falls short in our deeply uncertain world.

Next, you'll put your decision-making skills to the test in an interactive game. This isn't about predicting a single future; it's about making robust choices in the face of the unknown.

We'll then introduce the principles of Decision Making Under Deep Uncertainty (DMDU) and explore how your agency's travel demand model—often seen as a predictive tool—can be transformed to support exploratory analysis.

Finally, we'll open the floor for a conversation on how these concepts can be applied to real-world transportation challenges, helping you develop strategies that are resilient no matter what the future holds. You'll leave with a new perspective on how to use models to inform better, more robust decisions.