INTERMODAL FACILITIES AND STATE-OF-THE ART IN OPERATIONS PLANNING
MONDAY, AUGUST 14
7:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon REGISTRATION
9:00 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.
OPENING
John F. Tucker III, Chair, APTA Intermodal Operations Planning Technical Forum;
Vice President, Operations Planning, MTA New York City Transit, Brooklyn, NY
Ronald J. Tober, First Vice Chair, APTA, and Chief Executive Officer, Charlotte
Area Transit System (CATS), Charlotte, NC
Portland Officials
9:30 a.m. to 12:00 noon
SESSION 1: OPERATIONS PLANNING IN THE PORTLAND AREA
Moderator: John F. Tucker III, Chair, APTA Intermodal Operations Planning Technical
Forum; Vice President, Operations Planning, MTA New York City Transit, Brooklyn, NY
Overview of Portland Transit
Rick Gerhart, Director, Planning and Analysis and Ken Zatarain, Director, Transportation
Planning, Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District of Oregon (Tri-Met), Portland,
OR
Portland Five-Year ITS Plan
Ken Turner, Senior Manager, Operations Project Development, Tri-County Metropolitan
Transportation District of Oregon (Tri-Met), Portland, OR
Bus Dispatch System Data for Operations Planning
Steve Callas, Coordinator, Service Performance and Analysis, Tri-County Metropolitan
Transportation District of Oregon (Tri-Met), Portland, OR
Transit Priority Treatments
Young Park, Manager Capital Project, Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District of
Oregon (Tri-Met), Portland, OR
Portland Streetcar and Washington County Commuter Rail Projects
Vicky Diede, Project Manager, City of Portland and John R. Post, Vice President, BRW,
Inc., Portland, OR, (Invited)
Special Event Service Planning
Bill Coffel, Director, Transportation Services, Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation
District of Oregon (Tri-Met), Portland, OR
12:00 noon to 1:00 p.m.
LUNCH
1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
SESSION 2: USING TRANSIT FOR HIGHWAY MAINTENANCE OF SERVICE
Moderator: Steven Silkunas, Director, Business Development, Southeastern
Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA), Philadelphia, PA
Maintaining Service During I-95 Construction
Stephen E. McCarthy, Service Development Planner, Delaware Transit Corporation,
Wilmington, DE
Impacts of Highway and Rail Construction on DART’s Ridership
Jennifer Jones, Project Manager, Dallas Area Rapid Transit, Dallas, TX
Maintaining Service and Increasing Ridership During Highway Construction
Craig R. Gaskill, Senior Project Manager, MK Centennial, Littleton, CO
Making NJ Transit "The Way to Go" Through Major Construction
James M. Gilligan, Manager, Bus Service Planning, New Jersey Transit Corporation (NJ
Transit), Newark, NJ
3:15 p.m. to 5:15 p.m.
SESSION 3: SERVICE PLANNING AND SCHEDULING
Moderator: Dana Woodbury, Vice Chair, APTA Intermodal Operations Planning Technical
Forum; Deputy Executive Officer, Operations Planning & Scheduling, Los Angeles County
Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LACMTA), Los Angeles, CA
Serving and Managing Off-Peak Ridership Growth at CTA
Peter R. Godard, Transit Research Analyst, Chicago Transit Authority, Chicago, IL
Coping with Success: Greensboro Transit Authority’s Career Express Reverse-Commute
Service
Daniel Boyle, Vice President, Transportation Management & Design, Inc., Solana Beach,
CA
Restructuring a Bus Transit System by Corridor: Case Study Northeast Twin Cities Metro
Transit
Adam Harrington and Randy Rosvold, Project Managers, Metro Transit, Minneapolis, MN
Evaluating the Quality of Services
Kenneth E. Dallmeyer, Manager Service Development, Chicago Transit Authority, Chicago, IL
5:15 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
RECEPTION—EQUIPMENT AND COMPUTER SOFTWARE DEMONSTRATIONS
TUESDAY, AUGUST 15
8:00 a.m. to 8:30 a.m.
CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
8:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.
SESSION 4: SPECIAL EVENTS PLANNING
Moderator: Stephen T. Parry, Director, Service Development, AC Transit
(Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District), Oakland, CA
Special Event Service for the City of Los Angeles Marathon
Martha Butler, Transportation Planning Manager III, Los Angeles County Metropolitan
Transportation Authority (LACMTA), Los Angeles, CA
Planning Service for Milwaukee’s Summerfest
Kelly A. Jaynes, Manager of Research and Planning, Milwaukee County Transit System (MCTS),
Milwaukee, WI
Golden Gate Ferry Service to PAC Bell Park
Maurice Palumbo, Principal Planner, Golden Gate Bridge, Highway & Transportation
District, San Francisco, CA
Service Planning for Millennium Events in New York City
Larry Gould, Senior Director, Operations Analysis (Acting), MTA NYC Transit, Brooklyn, NY
Planning Special Event Services in Chicago
David Bollinger, Coordinator Special Events Planning, Chicago Transit Authority, Chicago,
IL
10:45 a.m. to 11:45 a.m.
APTA INTERMODAL OPERATIONS PLANNING TECHNICAL FORUM MEETING
12:00 noon to 1:00 p.m.
LUNCH
Software - A Blessing or a Curse?
Leonard (Rodney) Tashman, Superintendent of Scheduling, Broward County Transit, Pompano
Beach, FL
1:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
SESSION 5: BUS RAPID TRANSIT PLANNING
Moderator: David Fialkoff, Chief, Service & Mobility Planning, Scheduling
Division, Miami-Dade Transit Agency, Miami, FL
On-Street Priority Transitways: Operational Issues
Mark C. Walker, AICP, Supervising Planner, Parsons Brinckerhoff Quade & Douglas, Inc.,
New York, NY
Bus Rapid Transit: An Innovative Transit Strategy for Medium-Sized Cities
Dan Tutt, Planning and Development, Lane Transit District, Eugene, OR
Leveraging Bus Rapid Transit Applications to Improve Bus Service
Roderick Diaz, Senior Consultant, Booz, Allen & Hamilton, Inc., McLean, VA
Bus Lane Operations: Working in the Red Band
Kevin St. Jacques, P.E., Associate-in-Charge, Dallas, Wilbur Smith Associates, Dallas, TX
Los Angeles Metro Rapid Bus – The First Thirty Days
Russell Chisholm (Co-Presenter), President, Transportation Management & Design, Inc.,
Solana Beach, CA
Rex Gephart (Co-Presenter), Project Manager, Los Angeles County Metropolitan
Transportation Authority (LCMTA), Los Angeles, CA
Simulation for Planning Bus Rapid Transit Routes: Critical Issues
James "Buck" Marks, Associate and Larry Englisher, Principal, Transit Planning,
Multisystems, Inc., Cambridge, MA
Implementing Zurich’s Transit Preferential Program
Andrew Nash, Manager of Transportation Planning, San Francisco County Transportation
Authority, San Francisco, CA
Application of Bus Rapid Transit at GO Transit
Michael S. Wolczyk, Manager, Marketing & Planning, GO Transit, Toronto, ON
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16
8:00 a.m. to 8:30 a.m.
CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
8:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.
SESSION 6: INTERMODAL FACILITIES PLANNING
Moderator: Howard Benn, Assistant General Manager, Customer & Operations
Support, Montgomery County, Rockville, MD
Surface Transportation Center – Site Selection for Grand Rapids, Michigan
Laird Pylkas, Associate, Duchscherer Oberst Design PC, Buffalo, NY
Applying "Street Smarts" to National Parks: Special Visitor Transportation
Systems
Thomas R. Hickey, Senior Professional Associate, and Tod Rosinbum, Associate, Parsons
Brinckerhoff Quade & Douglas, Inc., Portland, OR
Two Case Studies: Intermodal Transit, Rhode Island Public Transit Authority and MBTA
Logan Airport Intermodal Station
Leonard J. Bertaux, AIA, Principal, Wallace Floyd Design Group, Boston, MA
Maintaining Commercial Enterprises During Construction: Sound Transit’s Tacoma
Dome Station
Wendy Riggs-Smith, Wallace Floyd Design Group Project Manager and John Hubbard, Sound
Transit Project Manager, Wallace Floyd Design Group, Boston, MA
10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
SESSION 7: MAINTENANCE OF TRANSIT SERVICE DURING CONSTRUCTION
Moderator: Thomas R. Hickey, Senior Professional Associate, Parsons Brinckerhoff
Quade & Douglas, Inc., Portland, OR
Maintaining Service During Construction
Robert S. Takagi, General Manager, Chicago Transit Authority, Chicago, IL
Creative Solutions to Century-Old Problems
Bruce Nelson, Manager, Rail Transportation, Chicago Transit Authority, Chicago, IL
The Tortoise and the Hare: A Contrast in Reconstruction Philosophy
John McGee, Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA), Philadelphia, PA
(Invited)
Alternative Track Access Scenarios for Capital Construction
John F. Tucker III, Chair, APTA Intermodal Operations Planning Technical Forum; Vice
President, Operations Planning, MTA New York City Transit, Brooklyn, NY
1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16
TECHNICAL TOURS OF TRI-MET FACILITIES
Intermodal Facilities (Beaverton, Sunset and Rose Quarter Transit Centers, Portland
Transit Mall, Central City Streetcar), Bus Dispatch Center, Light Rail Control Center and
Airport MAX Extension.
This workshop is sponsored by the APTA Intermodal Operations Planning Technical
Forum. Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District of Oregon (Tri-Met) is the host
property.
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