Sunday, August 3

Optional Intermodal Tour

Registration

Monday, August 4

Registration

Continental Breakfast

Welcome

T. R. Hickey, chair, APTA Intermodal Operations Planning Technical Forum, and national transit planning manager, Gannett Fleming, Inc., Philadelphia, PA

Josephus Eggelletion, Jr., commissioner, Broward County, and governing board chair, South Florida Regional Transportation Authority, Pompano Beach, FL

Break

Host Forum I

Miami-Dade Transit and the South Florida Regional Transportation Authority welcome you to Miami, one of the most well-connected cities in the nation.  We will hear from our hosts how planning and scheduling is handled around Miami.  We will learn about their unique challenges and solutions based on their experience as a comprehensive transit network.

Moderator:

David R. Fialkoff, chief, service & mobility planning division, Miami-Dade Transit, Miami, FL

Using Automated Fare Collection Data for Service Planning and Scheduling
Hugh Chen, acting director, operations, Miami-Dade Transit, Miami, FL

Metrorail Expansion
Ahmed Rasheed, senior professional engineer, Miami-Dade Transit, Miami, FL

Richard Pereira, senior professional engineer, Miami-Dade Transit, Miami, FL

Ernesto Polo, principal planner, Miami-Dade Transit, Miami, FL

Planning, Scheduling and Operation of the South Miami-Dade Busway
Robert Pearsall manager, service planning, Miami-Dade Transit, Miami, FL

Shoulder Operations on Expressways
Jesus Guerra, transportation systems manager, Miami-Dade County Metropolitan Planning Organization, Miami, FL

Lunch

Host Forum II

Our spotlight on South Florida continues. Listen to more speakers outline how this region does business based on the work of its planners and schedulers.

Moderator:

William Cross, manager of planning & capital development, South Florida Regional Transportation Authority, Pompano Beach, FL

How Are We Doing? SFRTA Rail and Bus Surveys
Joseph Quinty, transportation planning manager, South Florida Regional Transportation Authority, Pompano Beach, FL

Tri-Rail Parking and Circulation Study: Improving Multimodal Access to Regional Transportation
Eric Joseph Goodman, transportation planner, South Florida Regional Transportation Authority, Pompano Beach, FL

South Florida East Coast Corridor Study Project
Scott Seaburger, special projects manager, Florida Department of Transportation, Fort Lauderdale, FL

Break

Registration

Services and Fleet Planning: Optimizing Routes

Congestion is nothing new to traffic patterns in our cities. As more people turn to transit to beat gridlock and the increasing cost of fuel, transit must adapt to these trends. Hear how agencies can make simple changes such as updating service frequencies based on periodic assessments, partnering with other services to connect riders to commuter rail, and even to buying higher capacity equipment to meet the demand.

Moderator:

Ronald Downing, 1st vice chair, APTA Intermodal Operations Planning Technical Forum, and principal planner – service development, Golden Gate Bridge, Highway & Transportation District, San Rafael, CA

The Parking Lot is Full. Now What?
Jim Moore, second vice chair, APTA Intermodal Operations Planning Technical Forum, and project manager, Sound Transit, Seattle, WA

A Guide for Implementing Bus-On-Shoulder Systems TCRP Project D-13
Peter Martin, P.E., transportation engineer, Wilbur Smith Associates, San Francisco, CA

MARTA’s Service Assessment – Separating the Great from the Not-So-Great
Glen L. Waters, manager, service planning & scheduling, Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority, Atlanta, GA

MARTA’s Bus Stop Re-Spacing and Consolidation
Tonya Saxon,transit system planning analyst, Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority, Atlanta, GA

San Francisco MTA Double Decker Bus Pilot Demonstration
Paul Bignardi, transportation planner IV, San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, San Francisco, CA

Reception and Product & Services Showcase

Renew old acquaintances and make new friends as we mingle with CEOs, executives, and guests in a relaxed atmosphere that sets the collegial tone for the seminar. See transit’s newest products and services for planners and schedulers at the one showcase dedicated to this portion of the industry.

Tuesday, August 5

Registration

Continental Breakfast

Urban Partnership Project

The Department of Transportation recently announced discretionary grants to five Urban Partnerships, given to cities to address congestion using the Four “T’s”: Tolling, Transit, Technology, and Telecommuting. This session will update us on some of the creative strategies being implemented in both transit operations and the intermodal relationship between urban highways and the transit systems operating on them.

Moderator:

Joel M. Volinski, director, National Center for  Transit Research, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL

The Twin Cities Urban Partnership: Creative Intermodalism at Work
Adam Harrington, manager of route and system planning, Metro Transit, Minneapolis, MN

I-95 Managed Lanes Program
Debora M. Rivera, district traffic operations engineer,
Florida Department of Transportation, Miami, FL

Registration

Break

Facilities Planning: Reduce, Reuse or Recycle?

Planning for long-term growth must include a discussion of facilities. Determining requirements for bus facilities must be a function of several factors, including planning for population growth. In this session, learn how some agencies are approaching their long-term facility needs, including sizing transit centers to make the best use of available space, reviewing circulation patterns at existing facilities, and even giving existing facilities an extreme facelift.

Moderator:

Howard Benn, assistant general manager, customer & operations support, Montgomery County Transit, Rockville, MD

Sound Transit East Link Light Rail Station Planning
Brant Lyerla, project development coordinator, Sound Transit, Seattle, WA

Bus Ballet
Laird Pylkas, project architect, Wendel Duchscherer Architects & Engineers PC, Buffalo, NY

Extreme Makeover: Cincinnati’s Downtown Transit Center
Timothy J. Reynolds, director, transit development, Southwest Ohio Regional Transit Authority (SORTA)/Metro, Cincinnati, OH

Catching Up – The Planning and Design of Intermodal Transit Facilities in the Big Apple
Robert J. Newhouser, senior director, bus service planning, MTA New York City Transit, New York, NY

Paul Gawkowski, director, bus service & planning, MTA New York City Transit, New York, NY

Lunch

Modeling: Optimizing Data for Planning

Can your computer tell the future? Perhaps, if you are using the latest modeling technology to collect data from several systems to predict the next 20 years of ridership. Or, if you are using these tools to identify key locations for future intermodal facilities. Perhaps you will be working with city planners to balance the size of your next facility between transit operational needs and the space needs of the community. Listen to experts using this technology today to plan for tomorrow’s growth.

Moderator:

T. R. Hickey, chair, APTA Intermodal Operations Planning Technical Forum, and national transit planning manager, Gannett Fleming, Inc., Philadelphia, PA

Comprehensive Operations Analysis and Network Extension Planning for Vancouver’s Intermodal System
Graeme Masterton, manager, transit planning, South Coast British Columbia Transportation Authority, Burnaby, BC, CANADA

Wolfgang Scherr, vice-president, PTV America, Inc., Wilmington, DE

Methodology for Determining Peak Hour Passenger Volumes Versus Capacity on Subway Routes
Allyson Bechtel, senior transportation planner, MTA New York City Transit, New York, NY

Travel Demand Modeling to Support Intermodal Facility Planning
Kimberly Slaughter, professional associate/principal planner, HDR/S.R. Beard & Associates, LLC, Houston, TX

NYC Transit’s Rail Fleet Planning
Matrix
Peter Cafiero, chief, operations planning, MTA New York City Transit, New York, NY

Glenn Lunden, director, rail systems planning, MTA New York City Transit, New York, NY

"Where Did You Begin This Trip?" – Applied Methodologies and Recent Experiences with Transit Surveys
Kasey C. Cursey, transportation planning manager, Gannett Fleming, Inc., Tampa, FL

Break

Service and Fleet Planning II: Internal Consensus and Market Research for Planning Changes

Management experts have long held that one of the keys to implementing successful changes is gathering buy-in from stakeholders. Who needs to sign on to the project for it to be successful? How does stakeholder ownership affect the outcome of a proposal? This session will focus on how to leverage the support of specific groups through internal agreements and external research to positively affect the results of your careful planning.

Moderator:

Steve Legler, assistant director of service development, Metro Transit, Minneapolis, MN

A Tourist-oriented Trolley in Southern Orange County: Will it Work?
Daniel Boyle, president, Dan Boyle & Associates, Inc., San Diego, CA

All Board! An Integrated Approach to Managing Service & Scheduling Changes
Irene McNeil, manager, service planning, York Region Transit, Richmond Hill, ON, Canada

Employee Interest Group Based Service Planning for Reconfiguring a Major Regional Corridor Service
Ronald Downing, 1st vice chair, APTA Intermodal Operations Planning Technical Forum, and principal planner - service development, Golden Gate Bridge, Highway & Transportation District, San Rafael, CA

Reaching for Ridership and Rationality: Santa Clara Valley Comprehensive Operations Analysis
Kevin Connolly, transit planning manager, Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority, San Jose, CA

Intermodal Committee Meeting

Wednesday, August 6

Continental Breakfast

Scheduling: Teaching and Implementing the Skills

What is the best way to teach scheduling skills to newcomers? How can software be used to diagnose challenges with runcutting as it relates to labor agreements? These and many more questions will be explored during this scheduling session.

Moderator:

Michael Glikin, senior director, bus schedules, MTA New York City Transit, New York, NY

How to Teach Scheduling to a New Generation
Daniel Boyle, president, Dan Boyle & Associates, Inc., San Diego, CA

CTA Crew Schedules: Implementing Significant Work Rule Changes
Joseph Rondon, senior transit planner, Wilbur Smith Associates, Chicago, IL

Hugh Muller, senior manager, Transportation Management and Design, Inc., Carlsbad, CA

Theodore Coulson, coordinator, bus schedule design and development, Chicago Transit Authority, Chicago, IL

Experience with Limited Bus-Stop Service in New York City
Paul Gawkowski, director, bus service & planning, MTA New York City Transit, New York, NY

Robert J. Newhouser, senior director, bus service planning, MTA New York City Transit, New York, NY

Mitigating Service Interruptions

Are you prepared for service interruptions? What advance work have you done for planned service outages? What about emergency situations? This session will focus on how agencies have planned around interruptions and made adjustments to their scheduling and communication strategies with customers to handle these circumstances.

Moderator:

Jim Moore, 2nd vice chair, APTA Intermodal Operations Planning Technical Forum, and project manager, Sound Transit, Seattle, WA

NYCT Moving Forward with Customer Service during Planned and Unplanned Service Diversions
James Cutolo, director, customer service coordination, MTA New York City Transit, Brooklyn, NY

Metro Transit’s Response to the I-35W Bridge Collapse
Steve Legler, assistant director of service development, Metro Transit, Minneapolis, MN

Janet Hopper, supervisor of service analysis, Metro Transit, Minneapolis, MN

Open Forum

Moderator:

David R. Fialkoff, chief, service & mobility planning division, Miami-Dade Transit, Miami, FL

Lunch on Your Own

Technical Tours of South Florida’s Transit Facilities

South Miami-Dade Busway Tour

 The South Miami-Dade Busway is a 20-mile, at-grade facility, running roughly north-south, and was built exclusively for the use of Miami-Dade Transit buses and emergency vehicles.  Stations are spaced about one-half mile apart.  The north end of the Busway is at the Dadeland South Metrorail/Busway Station, adjacent to the Miami Marriott Dadeland Hotel.

The Busway alignment passes park-and-ride lots and planned joint development sites.  At some locations the Busway is adjacent to U.S. 1, and the intersections with roads running roughly east-west are signaled as a single unit. At other locations the Busway is located as far as one-half mile west of U.S. 1 and the intersections are signaled separately from those at U.S. 1.  The stations are specially designed for the South Florida climate, with the canopies extending over the bus bays to allow protected boarding and alighting during rainy weather.

The tour will start with a ride on a regularly scheduled Metrobus Route 38, Busway MAX, leaving the Dadeland South Busway Station adjacent to the hotel at 12:50 p.m., and arriving at the Wal-Mart in Florida City at 2:06 p.m.  We will take a 20-minute break at the Wal-Mart and will start the northbound ride at 2:27 p.m., returning back to the Dadeland South at 3:45 p.m. 

Participants must bring their Miami-Dade Transit Pass that they received at APTA registration.

Metrorail/Central Control/Metromover Tour

Tour participants will ride two of the fixed-facility modes in South Florida - Metrorail and Metromover - and will visit the Central Control Room from which the vehicles for Metrorail, Metromover, and Metrobus are monitored.  While Metrorail is a conventional heavy rail line, Metromover uses people-mover technology, such as that used to serve airports near many world cities, to provide transit circulation to and through the Miami Central Business District, the Brickell Financial District, and the Park West and Omni areas.

The tour will begin by boarding the regularly scheduled northbound Metrorail train leaving the Dadeland South Station, adjacent to the hotel, at 1 p.m.  The train will pass several park-and-ride and existing and potential joint development sites.  The participants will exit the train at the Government Center Station and visit Central Control. 

After visiting Central Control, the tour group will ride the entire four-mile alignment of Metromover.  The tour will pass transfer facilities, joint developments and potential joint development sites, the Port of Miami (the largest cruise port in the world), and the new Arsht Performing Arts Center.  Participants will disembark at Omni to visit the Omni Bus Terminal, which is served by 10 bus routes. The tour will return to the hotel using Metromover via Metromover via connection to Metrorail at the Government Center Station.  The tour will end at the hotel at about 4 p.m. 

Participants must bring their Miami-Dade Transit Pass that they received at APTA registration, and government-issued identification.

Metrorail/Tri-Rail/MIC/MDX Tour

You are invited to tour the newest intermodal projects taking shape in Miami-Dade County by Metrorail and Tri- Rail.  Via Metrorail from the Dadeland South Station adjacent to the hotel, arrive at the Metrorail/Tri-Rail station and transfer to Tri-Rail for a ride to the Miami Airport Station.  Along the way, hear about the Earlington Heights Metrorail extension.  Walk across the street from the Miami Airport Station, where the Miami-Dade Expressway Authority will welcome you to their offices.  There you will hear Florida Department of Transportation project managers discuss the progress of the Miami Intermodal Center; then prepare for a short guided tour.  A quick trip with Tri-Rail’s new Diesel Multiple Unit (DMU) train will connect you with Metrorail for a ride back to the conference hotel at the Dadeland South Metrorail station. 

Note: If you need to catch a flight home, a Miami International Airport shuttle is available from the Miami Airport Tri-Rail Station.