UTFS Financial Management Committee Meeting Minutes

Chung-Chung Tam, Chicago Transit Authority (Chair)

Dave Phelps, APTA

Karim Aboud, Chicago Transit Authority

Leisa Moniz, USDOT/Volpe Center

Jennifer Cheng, MTC

Cynthia Chin, LA MTA

David deKozan, Cubic Transportation Systems

Kevin Krest, G&D

David McIlwraith, ERG Transit Systems

Bob Murray, BART

Olatunji Nowlin, Chicago Transit Authority

Alexander Pi, Scheidt & Bachmann USA

Bob Murray, BART

Dave Phelps, APTA

Alexander Pi, Scheidt & Bachmann

Gary Yamamura, Three Point Consulting

Meeting Goals & Objectives:

• Update on the status of the APTA UTFS Intellectual Property Policy
• Program re-organization
• Work Group report-outs

APTA UTFS Intellectual Property Policy Update:

• Ballot submissions are still being received by APTA
• Those entities who have not submitted their ballots are encouraged to do so
• Rail CEO’s approved Interim IP Policy in SLC in late September.
• One negative vote with comments has been received. APTA has provided a response.

Dave Phelps, Senior Program Manager, APTA provided an update on the status of the UTFS Intellectual Property Policy.

Ballots are still being received by APTA. APTA may send out a letter co-signed by Tom Margro, BART and Bill Millar, APTA to encourage entities to finalize their review and submit their ballot.

One negative vote with comments has been received by APTA. APTA has responded to the entity and is hopeful for a resolution soon.

IP Training Materials are being developed for Committee, Work Group and Tiger Team leadership. Once an internal review is completed. Materials will be sent to the appropriate individuals for comment and review.

Program Re-organization

• The Systems Work Group will have the addition of Bob Murray, BART as co-leader with David deKozan, Cubic.
• Two (2) Special Industry Liaison Positions have been created.
• Discussion among the leadership of the Fare Media and Operations Committee has begun regarding future collaboration

The Systems Work Group will have the addition of a co-leader, Bob Murray, BART. David deKozan, Cubic will continue as a co-leader.

Two (2) industry liaison positions have been established. Bob Bernard, Port Authority of New York/New Jersey, and Greg Garback, Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority will serve in these positions.

Discussion among the leadership of the Fare Media Committee and Operations Committee has begun. A meeting has been scheduled on December 1 and 2^nd in the Chicago area to meet face-to-face. Focus of the meeting will be on re-assessing the Operations Committee Work Plan and discussing potential opportunities to collaborate on work.

Some discussion ensued regarding the viability and need for the Systems Work Group. After some discussion, the idea of eliminating the Systems Work Group from the organization was not needed at this time.

Updated version of the Port Authority New York/New Jersey Regional Interoperability Specification (RIS) document, dated 9/10/03:

Tam mentioned that he received an updated version of the PANYNJ RIS document, dated September 10, 2003.

Tim Weisenberger, Volpe has a copy and will provide to APTA for posting on the web site. A email notification will be distributed to the membership notifying them of the posting.

Work Group Report-outs:
Systems Work Group:

David deKozan, co-leader of the Systems Work Group provided an overview:

Work Package #1 – Ticketing PICC Platform:

Walt Bonneau, Leader

Goal of the group is to develop and release to APTA a document containing the necessary guidelines and standards to support an interoperable transit (PICC) proximity smart card environment including the communications to and from the PCD (reader).

Definitions document being developed. The group is currently working on functional requirements and purse definitions.

Group will be holding a face-to-face meeting on November 19^th @ BART.

Some discussion ensued on the potential impact of the Patriot Act and other regulatory activities (Reg E) on E-Purse.

Work Package #2 – not yet initiated

Work Package #3 – PICC/PCD/CID Security:

Gary Yamamura, Leader

Draft underway – "Automated Fare Collection System Security Planning Guidelines and Best Practices" white paper scheduled for an April, 27, 2004 delivery date. Gary is in the processing of assigning tasks to various members of his group.

Work Package #4 – Applications and Backend Functionality:

David McIlwraith, Leader

Focus of the group is to detail the management and control systems of distributed electronic fare collection systems. 3 deliverables are proposed, the first deliverable due in April, 2004.

The group has decided to meet face-to-face on November 20^th @ BART. The focus of this meeting will be to further develop functional descriptions document.

The RFP for technical assistance has been issued. It is anticipated that a notice to proceed will occur around December 3, 2003. This puts the group about 3-4 weeks behind schedule with Task 1. A draft of the Task 2 deliverable will be completed at the end of February.

Next meeting of the Full committee will be Wednesday, December 10th, at 12 noon, EASTERN STANDARD TIME.