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Putting Transit to Work in Main Street America: How Smaller Cities and Rural Places Are Using Transit and Mobility Investments To Strengthen their Economies and Communities
Wednesday, August 29 from 1:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m., CST
Hosted by Reconnecting America and the Community Transportation Association of America (CTAA).
Small and rural communities across the country are implementing transit projects that are making an impact on their economy and quality of life for their citizens. Communities are implementing projects that catalyze private and public investment, developing partnerships to improve transit service, and enhancing connections between people and jobs and essential services.
Using transit investments, rural America is creating stronger and healthier communities. The webinar will provide an overview of the recent report "Putting Transit to Work in Main Street America" and will offer two case studies of transit investments in Vermont and Maine.
The webinar will be moderated by Scott Bogren from CTAA.
Speakers include: - Sarah Kline, Reconnecting America
- Connie Garber, York County Community Action Corporation, Maine
- Jim Moulton, Addison County Transit Resources, Vermont
Space is limited. Click HERE to register.
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Friends, Fans, and Followers: How Transit Agencies Use Social Media
Thursday, September 13 from 1:00 - 2:30 p.m., CST
This webinar explores the use of social media among transit agencies in the United States and Canada. Research findings were drawn from a literature review, a survey of transportation organizations, and six follow-up case studies. Topics include how transit agencies use social media to engage with customers and community, resource requirements, obstacles encountered, case studies, and lessons learned.
This webinar presents the findings from TCRP Synthesis SB-20, Uses of Social Media in Public Transportation, which explores use of social media among transit agencies in the United States and Canada. Research findings were drawn from a literature review, a survey of transportation organizations, and six follow-up case studies.
Topics include:
- how transit agencies use social media to engage with customers and community,
- resource requirements,
- obstacles encountered,
- case studies, and
- lessons learned.
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Integrating Sustainability Analysis into Freight
Wednesday, September 19 from Noon to 1:30 p.m., CST
Integrating Sustainability Analysis into Freight
Sustainability is a concept that enables decision-makers to make balanced choices around different and competing objectives.
Freight transportation touches all three dimensions of this sustainability concept: social, environmental, and economic. Current issues relevant to freight sustainability include emissions reductions and climate change, job creation and preservation, and community impacts.
To assist practitioners with sustainability, a number of tools have been developed to integrate sustainability best practices into highway and freight projects and programs.
The webinar will discuss tools and methods from FHWA, the European Union's COFRET (Carbon Footprint of Freight Transport) project, and others that can be used in understanding the sustainability aspects of freight transportation projects.
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Sustainable Public Transportation: Environmentally Friendly Mobility Report on the International Transit Studies Program Mission
Wednesday, September 20, 2012. 29 from 1:00 - 2:30 p.m., CST
In the spring 2011, the International Transit Studies Program (ITSP) of the Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) conducted a study mission in India and China, two countries that have experienced rapid economic growth and have made impressive strides in building and operating sustainable transit systems. The study team observed first hand successful practices that five cities in India and China have implemented to make public transportation a priority, create multimodal systems, implement alternative fuel and vehicle technologies, integrate land use and transit planning and to focus on quality service. Moderated by Kevin Desmond, study mission leader and General Manager of King County Metro Transit, Seattle Washington, three members of the study team will present their observations: - Clinton Bench, Deputy Director of Planning; Massachusetts Department of Transportation; Boston, Massachusetts
- Mariate Echeverry, Transportation Planning Manager; City of Ashville; Asheville, North Carolina
- Heather Ferguson, General Manger, Scheduling; Chicago Transit Authority; Chicago, Illinois
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State Smart Transportation Initiative
Webinar Series
The Innovative DOT: A Handbook of Policy and Practice
Friday, September 28 from Noon - 1:00 p.m., CST
SSTI has teamed up with Smart Growth America to create a resource to inform senior state-level transportation officials as they make decisions that position their agencies for success.
This handbook of transportation policy and practice for the new economy collects the innovative approaches state leaders are already using to make systems more efficient, government more effective, and constituents better satisfied.
The Handbook includes reforms separated into categories:
- Funding and finance
- Revenue allocations and project selection
- Increasing transportation system efficiency
- Pricing
- Improving options for non-automobile mobility
- Integrating transportation and land use
- Streamlining internal DOT operations
- Freight
The descriptions of each area provide information about the political opportunity each presents, steps for implementation, case studies, and resources for further information.
The Handbook is being further revised in coordination with Smart Growth America. The revised version will be available September 2012.
Click HERE to register for the webinar and HERE for the SSTI Handbook (208 pg PDF).
Innovative, Sustainable Funding Options for State DOTs
Monday, October 29 from Noon - 1:00 p.m., CST
This webinar will discuss a new SSTI report on innovative, sustainable transportation funding models to assist decision-makers in identifying policies and practices to augment the current fuel tax revenue system.
The report provides a broad account of these funding methods, where they have been implemented or proposed, and identifies state laws, policies, and practices that permit state DOTs and local governments to pursue a more sustainable funding model.
The report, completed with the participation of North Carolina DOT, as well as Arizona, Illinois,Tennessee, Vermont, and Washington DOTs, suggests ways multiple revenue sources might be packaged to support and maintain transportation systems. Join Paul Morris, Deputy Secretary for Transit for NCDOT to hear about options that states can use.
Click HERE to register.
Bus Rapid Transit: Planning and Executing a Successful System
Thursday, November 29 from Noon - 1:00 p.m., CST
Join Annie Weinstock U.S. BRT Program Director the Institute for Transportation & Development Policy to hear about the most critical elements for a successful BRT system. She will be joined by Joe Calabrese from the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority, who will share Cleveland's experience with the Healthline BRT.
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Marta Perales
MPO Statewide Coordinator
Illinois MPO Advisory Council
233 S Wacker Suite 800
Chicago Illinois 60606
Email: marta@ilmpo.org  |
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