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National RTAP's Fifth Annual Photo Contest Announced!
 
Start thinking about what you'd like to submit to National RTAP's Fifth Annual Photo Contest, Photos Across Rural and Tribal America. The theme of National RTAP's fifth annual photo contest is Reaching Your Riders: Getting the Word Out About Your Transit Services. Photos should reflect the ways that you market your transit system to the community. For more information, including prizes, contest rules, and a link to the photo release form, please visit our Photo Contest Page. Entries are due July 15th, 2014 to info@nationalrtap.org.

 
RIBTC Early Bird Registration Deadline

We hope you will join us at the upcoming Rural Public and Intercity Bus Conference in Monterey, CA, October 26-29th. Register for the conference at www.ribtc.org by July 20th to receive the early bird rate. 

The conference is being held at the Monterey Plaza Hotel, which is sold out. However, there are additional rooms at the Victorian Inn for $149 a night (800-232-4141)  and the Spindrift Inn for $169 a night (800-841-1879). For an ocean view room for $229 a night, call the Monterey Bay Inn (800-424-6242). 

For more information about the conference please visit the Rural and
Intercity Bus Transportation Conference website at www.ribtc.org.

 
Looking for Responses to Very Short Survey on NEMT

National RTAP is assisting the Rural Assistance Center in developing  a topic guide related to healthcare transportation. If you provide NEMT, please answer the following question:

What strategies have communities and healthcare facilities used to provide non-emergency medical transportation services?

Thanks in advance for your input!


FTA/DOT Updates

FTA's National Transit Research Program has issued an RFP for Mobility Services for All Americans (MSAA) Deployment Planning. The funds will support "deployment planning of Travel Management Coordination Centers (TMCCs) to support interoperable, coordinated human service transportation (HST) systems."


Resources and News

Reports and Journals

TCRP Report 163: Strategy Guide to Enable and Promote the Use of Fixed-Route Transit by People with Disabilities focuses on helping transit agencies make fixed-route bus and rail systems accessible to people with disabilities, in compliance with ADA.

TCRP Synthesis 111: Optimizing Bus Warranty addresses how transit agencies manage warranties, including monitoring coverage periods and maximizing reimbursement.

News

Congratulations to Big John Smith, the Transportation Director for the Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho tribes' Joint Business Council on the Wind River Indian Reservation (Wyoming). He is a recent White House Transportation Champion of Change! 
 
Keep up with the regulatory processes that affect transit at CTAA's Fed Central.

The Ponca Tribe has opened a new transit facility in Norfolk, NE. 

Announcements

NCST is calling for poster presentations to be displayed at the Senior Mobility Fair during the n4a's Annual Conference in Dallas, from July 12-16. 

Blogs

METRO Magazine Safety Corner blog post about the importance of documenting basic skills bus driver training. Also of interest is a post about advancing women in transportation. 
May 15, 2014
Events
NCMM
Performance Measures in Mobility Management
May 22
2-3:15PM

FTA
Public Transportation Priorities in the GROW AMERICA Act
May 22
3:30-4:30PM

NCST
Never Bored: Developing and Enhancing Board Engagement
May 28
2-3:30PM

NTI
Transit ITS Workshop
July 9-10
Newark, NJ

CTAA
Mobility Management Conference and
CTAA EXPO
June 8-14
St. Paul, MN

LTAP/TTAP
National LTAP/TTAP Conference
July 21-24
St. Louis, MO

National Rural ITS Conference
August 24-27
Branson, MO

TRB
Conference on Transportation and Federal Lands
September 15-17
Washington, D.C.

National Tribal Transportation Conference
September 22-25
Anchorage, AK

APTA
Annual Meeting
October 12-15
Houston, TX

RIBTC
21st National Conference on Rural Public and Intercity Bus Transportation
October 26-29
Monterey, CA

NADO
2014 National Rural Transportation Conference
December 3-5
Cincinnati, OH

For a listing of all National RTAP and other national events, view our EventShare Calendar.

All event times listed as Eastern Time
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