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The USDOT's Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Professional Capacity Building (PCB) program will host a free Talking Technology and Transportation (T3) Webinar, "Give Your Customers More Mobility Options! Utilizing Technology in Coordinated Human Services Transportation Systems."
The webinar is scheduled for Thursday, April 14, 2016, from 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm EST.
Background
This webinar will discuss key Mobility Services for All Americans (MSAA) priorities, such as system interoperability and common data format, and highlight important elements for planning and deploying travel management coordination centers (TMCCs) for coordinated human service transportation systems.
As the population ages, Americans are becoming more dependent on transportation services for seniors, veterans, persons with disabilities, and the economically disadvantaged. Transportation services are often fragmented, unreliable, and inefficiently operated, with a lack of coordination among service providers. In response, President George W. Bush signed the MSAA Executive Order in 2004. Since then, the USDOT's ITS Joint Program Office (JPO) and Federal Transit Administration (FTA) have made progress to improve transportation services and simplify access to employment, healthcare, education, and other community activities using ITS technology. ITS technology includes fleet scheduling, integrated fare payment and processing systems, and demand-response systems that enable door-to-door transportation services through a simplified, one-stop process. The integration of these ITS technologies has created both physical and virtual TMCCs that network all parties together.
Host and Moderator
The host of this webinar is Charlene M. Wilder, an FTA Transportation Management Specialist. She manages ITS Projects for the Office of Research, Demonstration, and Innovation. Her areas of expertise include open data guidelines for transit; rural ITS coordination; advanced technologies for persons with disabilities; and traveler information systems, including 511 and real-time information systems.
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Presenters
The following individuals will present during this webinar:
- Carol Schweiger, President of Schweiger Consulting, will describe the best practices in planning, designing, and implementing technology for human service transportation.
- Paula (Polly) Okunieff, President of GO Systems and Solutions, LLC, will review gaps and activities underway both internationally and in the U.S. to develop standards to enable seamless and accessible mobility services.
- Lawrence J. Harman, Co-Director of the GeoGraphics Laboratory at Bridgewater State University, will report on a year-long effort by the FTA to build on the Transit Cooperative Research Program project Standardizing Data for Mobility Management to create consensus on an approach to open data exchange.
Jeff Becker, Senior Manager for the Regional Transportation District, will provide an overview of a case study describing the need for agency coordination, the application of trip exchange technology among different scheduling systems, and overcoming institutional barriers.