Miami, Florida
August 4-6, 2008
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New Technology for Scheduling and Service Planning
How are you as scheduling professionals adapting to new technologies that can improve schedules and assist service planners? What is the “state of the art” in scheduling? What are your best practices and innovations in scheduling that are improving customer service, improving productivity, or reducing cost? How are your enhanced scheduling software packages using AVL and GIS? How are planners and schedulers using new technologies such as Intelligent Transportation Systems, scheduling and planning software, modeling tools and the like, to improve our ability to plan and schedule or improve efficiency or effectiveness of services?
Current and Innovative Practices in Service Planning
What is the state of your practice in bus and rail service planning processes including improved decision-making, stakeholder consultation, and methods to generate and integrate innovation methods to learn from past experiences? What techniques are you as service planning practitioners using that could benefit other service planners?
Fare Collection for Intermodal Systems
What is your experience with the increased focus on smart media for fare collection? To what extent are planners and schedulers seeing the benefits these systems promised? What are the effects on service planning and scheduling, such as a reduction on dwell time?
Customer Services and Community Outreach
How are planners and schedulers reaching out to customers about services? What innovations are you employing to develop two-way communication about your services and to receive customer input about your services?
Fleet Planning
What role are planners and schedulers playing in ensuring customer-oriented fleet decisions? What is the fleet industry doing to bring innovation to their fleet offerings as it affects scheduling and service planning? What are the fleet trends to watch in North America and worldwide? What types of equipment are transit agencies introducing to achieve better efficiencies or meet the needs of specific travel markets?
Facility Planning
What types of intermodal or bus transfer facilities are currently in the planning, design, or implementation stages? What is the “state of the art” in planning intermodal facilities? What is the role of signage and wayfinding, both electronic and non-electronic in enhancing the customer experience? How can wayfinding and signage enhance scheduling and service planning at intermodal facilities? How can good wayfinding improve passenger throughput at a facility? What are your innovative new processes, partnerships and design concepts to ensure transit facilities are developed to their optimum, integrating with communities, making best use of shared resources and providing excellent customer and operating environments?
Transportation for Changing Demographics
How have changing markets affected your planning? There are different demographic groups that are more likely to use transit than in the past. How are planners and schedulers identifying university campuses, migrant populations, and citizens looking to escape high gas prices as candidates for increased transit ridership, and developing transit applications to serve those markets?
Developing Partnerships for Mitigation or Emergency Situations
How prepared is your agency for an unforeseen event? With highways and bridges along major corridors aging, replacement or refurbishment projects often require transit agencies to provide congestion relief during construction. And under emergency conditions, such as the failure of a key component of the travel network, transit agencies must provide mitigation services on very short notice. How are transit agencies planning for expected construction projects or responding to emergency situations?
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