APTA: Joint International Light Rail Conference Rolls Into St. Louis

Media Advisory

March 17, 2006

The 2006 Joint International Light Rail Conference, a triennial North American and European joint conference, will convene in St. Louis on April 10-11. Sponsored by the American Public Transportation Association (APTA), the Transportation Research Board (TRB), and the International Union of Public Transport (UITP), this international conference brings together a prestigious group of public transportation industry leaders from the United States and Europe for a program covering all elements of this increasingly-popular rail transit mode.

What:	2006 Joint International Light Rail Conference
Where:	Hyatt Regency One St. Louis Union Station St. Louis, Missouri 63103
When:	Monday, April 10 and Tuesday, April 11
Events:	Some conference events are highlighted below
Monday, April 10
9 - 10:30 a.m.	Opening General Session Presiding: Paul O'Brien, chair, 2006 Joint International Light Rail Conference Planning Committee; chair, APTA Light Rail Transit Technical Forum; and general manager, rail services, Utah Transit Authority, Salt Lake City, Utah Welcomes: Mayor Francis G. Slay, City of St. Louis, Missouri Larry E. Salci, president & CEO, Metro, St. Louis, Missouri Mark R. Norman, director, technical activities, Transportation Research Board (TRB), Washington, D.C. Roberto Cavalieri, president, International Association of Public Transport (UITP), Brussels, Belgium Howard Silver, chair, American Public Transportation Association (APTA), and board member, Golden Empire Transit District, Bakersfield, California Remarks: Sandra K. Bushue, deputy administrator, Federal Transit Administration (FTA), Washington, D.C. Raymond Hue, vice chair, 2006 Joint International Light Rail Conference Planning Committee; chair, UITP Light Rail Assembly; and president & chief executive officer, Transport en Commun de l'Agglomération Rouennaise, Rouen, France John W. Schumann, senior planner, LTK Engineering Services, Portland, Oregon
11 - 12:30 p.m.	Light Rail Vehicle Design And Innovation John W. Schumann, senior planner, LTK Engineering Services, Portland, Oregon (Moderator) Nils Jänig, head of transport planning and vehicle technology department, Transport Technologie-Consult Karlsruhe GmbH (TTK), Karlsruhe, Germany Thomas B. Furmaniak, P.E., vice president, southeast region, LTK Engineering Services, Decatur, Georgia Trevor Griffin, principal consultant, Interfleet Technology Inc., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania John D. Swanson, vehicle engineering manager, PB Transit & Rail Systems, Inc., Phoenix, Arizona
12:30 - 2 p.m.	GENERAL LUNCHEON Learn how a local advocacy group dedicated to light rail successfully encourages the use of light rail systems. Citizens for Modern Transit, or CMT, leads advocacy efforts to expand light rail as the critical component of an integrated, affordable and convenient public transportation system that will enable economic growth to improve quality of life in the St. Louis region. Presiding: Larry E. Salci, president & CEO, Bi-State Development Agency (Metro/MetroLink), St. Louis, Missouri Guest Speaker: Thomas R. Shrout, executive director, Citizens for Modern Transit, St. Louis, Missouri
2 - 3:30 p.m.	Innovation in Infrastructure Use Georg Drechsler, chair, UITP Light Rail Committee, and director, Bremen Strassenbahn AG, Bremen, Germany (Moderator) Rainer Meyfahrt, board member, Kasseler Verkehrsgesellschaft AG, Kassel, Germany Francis Cheung, project manager, Netherlands Ministry of Transport, Rotterdam, Netherlands Lewis T. Ames, AICP, senior program management analyst, San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, San Francisco, California Joseph R. Walsh, airport project director, Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District of Oregon, Portland, Oregon Alfred E. Fazio, P.E, vice president-operations, Southern New Jersey Rail Group, Jersey City, New Jersey
4 - 5:30 p.m.	Open & Closed Market: The Case for Contracting José Manuel Viegas, general manager, TIS Consulting, Lisbon, Portugal (Moderator) Gunnar Schon, development and marketing director, Connex Transport AB, Stockholm, Sweden Joseph North, general manager, light rail operating contracts, New Jersey Transit Corporation, Newark, New Jersey François-Xavier Perrin, director, Transdev plc, London, United Kingdom
Tuesday, April 11
9 - 10:30 a.m.	Light Rail Transit and Bus Rapid Transit Gregory Lee Thompson, professor, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida (Moderator) Jack W. Boorse, P.E., senior professional associate, Parsons Brinckerhoff, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Lyndon Henry, data analyst, Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Austin, Texas Victor Raul Martinez Palacio, general manager, Sistema Integrado de Transporte, Bogotá, Colombia Philippe Bonnat, director, Transport en Commun de l'Agglomération Rouennaise, Rouen, France Sun Gu Jeong, director-general of transportation, Seoul Metropolitan Government, Seoul, South Korea
11 - 12:30 p.m.	Streetcars Jack W. Boorse, P.E., senior professional associate, Parsons Brinckerhoff, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Moderator) Lyndon Henry, data analyst, Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Austin, Texas Amer Shalaby, assistant professor, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada Michal Pospisil, manager, Dopravní Podnik Praha, Prague, Czech Republic James H. Graebner, chair, APTA Heritage Trolley and Streetcar Subcommittee, and president, Lomarado Group, Denver, Colorado
2 - 3:30 p.m.	Financing and Controlling Capital Costs Winston M. Simmonds, assistant operations officer, rail and facilities, Port Authority of Allegheny County, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (Moderator) Wendy Riggs-Smith, AIA, principal architect, Parsons D4T: Design for Transportation, Boston, Massachusetts Gretchen Von Grossmann, RA, AICP, principal architect /urban designer, Parsons D4T: Design for Transportation, Boston, Massachusetts James Quinlan, chief architect, Rail Procurement Agency, Dublin, Ireland Ramon Escales, financial director, Tramvia Metropolita, Barcelona, Spain Neil McKendrick, coordinator, strategic transit planning, Calgary Transit, Calgary, Alberta, Canada Dave Colquhoun, manager, transit planning, Calgary Transit, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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