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National RTAP 101 Webinar: Bus Safety Program and SMS for Small Agencies

Join us to learn about FTA's Bus Safety Program and the value of the Safety Management System (SMS) framework for small transit agencies. Our presenters include Erik Larson and Ream Lazaro, both involved in FTA's Bus Safety Program.

Do you want to learn more about how SMS can be implemented at a small or rural bus system? Are you wondering how SMS will impact your agency? If so, join us for this webinar!

If possible, email any questions you have in advance to nrodriguez@nationalrtap.org and they will be covered during the webinar. There will also be a Q&A session at the end of the webinar for additional questions.

Notes and Recording Available from National RTAP Marketing Toolkit Overview Webinar

Thanks to those who joined us for our Webinar on the National RTAP Marketing Toolkit. The webinar recording is now available via the National RTAP website.

Reminder: National RTAP Conference Feedback Survey

Thank you to everyone who attended our National RTAP Conference in Denver. This is just a friendly reminder to those who attended to fill out the feedback survey, emailed on November 19th so that National RTAP can provide the best possible events and services to you in the future.

Federal Transit Administration and US DOT Updates

Read the Secretary of Transportation's remarks to the American Highway Users Alliance from November 23rd via the FastLane Blog.
Resources and News

Opportunities

NTI will be holding Introduction to Transit Asset Management courses on December 8th and 9th in Wilmington DE, and January 20-21st in Wichita, KS.

A kickoff call for (Re)Building Downtown: A Guidebook for Revitalization will be held on December 14th at 1pm EST. The guidebook is a new guide coming out from Smart Growth America designed to be used by any community, no matter their size, to bring people and businesses back to downtown. Registration is free.
November 26, 2015
Events
TRB
Annual Meeting
January 10-14
Washington, D.C.

SWTA
Freedom Through Transit Conference
February 1-3
Mesa, AZ

FTA
Drug and Alcohol Conference
March 22-24
Sacramento, CA

CTAA
2016 Expo
May 22-27
Portland, OR

TRB
National Conference on Rural Public and Intercity Bus
October 2-5
Asheville, NC

For a listing of all National RTAP and other national events, view our Calendar. If you'd like to submit an event, please email info@nationalrtap.org.

All event times listed as Eastern Time
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Check out National RTAP's newest training products!

National RTAP Marketing Toolkit:
National RTAP's newest product, the online Marketing Transit Toolkit, is designed to help rural and tribal transit systems create marketing plans and materials. 
National RTAP is a program of the Federal Transit Administration dedicated to creating rural and Tribal transit solutions through technical assistance, partner collaboration and FREE training materials.

Contact us:
Main: 5 Wheeling Avenue, Woburn, MA 01801, 888-589-6821
Washington, D.C.: 50 F Street NW, Suite 7020, Washington, DC 20001