Sunday, August 3

Optional Intermodal Tour

See the Intermodal Operations Workshop page at www.apta.com for details.

Registration

Monday, August 4

Registration

Continental Breakfast

Welcome

Carlos Alvarez,
mayor, County of Miami-Dade, FL

Bruno Barreiro, commission chairman, Miami-Dade County, FL

George Burgess, manager, County of Miami–Dade, FL

Harpal Kapoor, director, Miami-Dade Transit, Miami, FL (all invited)

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 Fialkoff, chief, service & mobility planning division, Miami-Dade Transit, Miami, 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

Metrorail Extensions Projects
Speaker TBA

Buses on Shoulders Project
Speaker TBA

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

FEC Corridor Project
Speaker TBA

TriRail Double Tracking Project Speaker TBA

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,
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 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

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

Reception and Product Showcase

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:

Dennis Hinebaugh,
director, National Bus Rapid Transit Institute, Center for Urban Transportation Research/College of Engineering, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL

The Twin Cities Urban Partnership: Creative Intermodalism at Work
Craig A. Lamothe, manager, facilities planning, Metro Transit, Minneapolis, MN

I-95 Managed Lanes Program
Speaker TBA

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

Facility Planning: Metro-North’s Intermodal Strategies
Aruna Reddy, senior planner, MTA Metro-North Railroad,
New York, NY

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

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:

Stephen Parry, editorial director, CHK America, Santa Barbara, CA

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

Surveying South Florida Transit: Models, Applications and Techniques 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, first 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

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, 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

Open Forum

Moderator:

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

Lunch on Your Own

Technical Tours of South Florida’s Transit Facilities