UTFS Financial Management Committee Meeting Minutes

Chung-Chung Tam, Chicago Transit Authority (Chair)

Rick Barrett, Quattran Associates (Vice Chair)

Karim Aboud, Chicago Transit Authority

Jennifer Cheng, Metro. Transportation Com.

David deKozan, Cubic Transportation Systems

David Faust, Chicago Transit Authority

Barnie Louie, BART

Craig Maxey, WMATA

David McIlwraith, Booz-Allen, Hamilton

Bob Murray, BART

Olatunji Nowlin, Chicago Transit Authority

Darshana Patel, Chicago Transit Authority

Polly Okunieff, Systems & Solutions, Inc.

Margaret Walker, ERG Transit Systems

Gary Yamamura, Three Point Consulting

Meeting Goals & Objectives:

• Upcoming Revenue Management Committee Activities
• Report-out on CEN Meeting, Vancouver
• Work group leaders report-out

• Upcoming Revenue Management Activities
• Email letter of invitation was distributed by APTA last week soliciting volunteers for future RMC activities.
• Tam, as chair has established five (5) subcommittees:
  Policy;
  Outreach & Training;
  Standards Oversight;
  Technologies;
  Electronic Payment Strategies

APTA sent out a letter of invitation soliciting volunteers to participate in upcoming activities of the Revenue Management Committee. If you did not receive the email and are interested in volunteering or learning more about the RMC, please contact Tam directly.

The first formal meeting of the RMC will be at the APTA Annual Meeting in Atlanta in October 10-13th.

Discussion of CEN Meeting in Vancouver, BC: Polly Okunieff:

• ISO/TC204 meeting in Vancouver, May 17-21^st

The presentation to the group was well received. The group is looking forward to moving ahead and working with UTFS in the future. Two requests came out of the meeting:

• Hold a workshop that can assess the IFM architecture requirements and map to the physical requirements being generated by the UTFS work teams. The output of this workshop would be a document that identifies what is covered by each of the groups, what is not covered and identify gaps where work needs to be done.
• To develop US delegation interest that has public transit agency and vendor/supplier community participation. How this is done is yet to be determined. Perhaps FTA can provide some financial support for public agency participation. Upcoming meetings in Vienna and Beijing.

Work Group Leaders Report-out:

Business Process Work Group, Rick Barrett

• Business Issue document discussion

Systems Work Group, David deKozan and Bob Murray

Work Package #1 Update, David deKozan:

Work Package #3 Update, Gary Yamamura:

Work Package #4 Update, David deKozan, Bob Murray:

Work Package #2, David deKozan:

Rick has reviewed the APTA edited version of the Business Issue document. While APTA was careful not to change the technical content of the document, they did change the format from a Q&A to a more standards-type document format. Rick has provided his comments to the APTA editor, Gabrielle Bayme. A discussion between Gabrielle and Rick should occur to reconcile any outstanding issues and then Rick will distribute the document to the BPWG for final review. These activities should occur within the next two (2) weeks.

Work continues to progress within WP#1. Currently WP#1 is scheduling a face-to-face meeting in Washington, D.C. during the week of July 5^th.

Gary indicated that progress is being made on the remaining section of the document. Gary is working directly with section leaders. The key management section should be 75% complete at the end of June. Gary has had extensive discussion with Walt Bonneau to ensure the broad guidelines being developed under WP#3 cover elements of security covered in WP#1. Gary has also spoke with David McIlwraith regarding WP#4, and come to an understanding that WP#4 will address security issues at the completion of WP#3 activities.

WP#3 will not meet face-to-face again until just before the document is submitted to APTA.

Schedule for Interface Specification is still TBD

BAH Interim report was received and distributed to the group for comments on Thursday, June 3^rd. Comments are due back by COB, Thursday, June 17^th.

The Interim report does not include information relative to TransLink or WMATA. Craig Maxey, WMATA indicated that a contractor filed an objection to the release of the document (requested under a FOIA) to APTA UTFS contract team. WMATA legal counsel is following up on the issue.

WP#2 has yet to be mobilized. First action will be to define the level of issues and scope of the group. David will select some reps from various work packages to help identify gaps, scope etc.

Once this activity is completed. A scope description will be distributed via email to the Financial Management Committee list soliciting volunteer members and leadership nominees.

The scope definition work should occur within the next couple of weeks.