Miami, Florida
August 4-6, 2008

Call for Presentations: closed
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Registration: Online Registration | In Microsoft Word | In Adobe PDF
Program At-A-Glance: As a web page | In Adobe PDF format
Preliminary Program: As a web page | In Adobe PDF format
Product Showcase Reservation Form: In Microsoft Word | In Adobe PDF
Exhibitor Registration: In Microsoft Word | In Adobe PDF
Lodging: online reservations | In Adobe PDF | In Microsoft Word
Travel: Travel Discounts | Official APTA Travel Agency
Optional Multimodal Tour Of Central Florida: As a web page | In Adobe PDF format
Visitor Information: Miami-Dade Transit | Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau (GMCVB)

Program Information: Contact Kevin Dow, kdow@apta.com, or DeeNaye Williams, dwilliams@apta.com.
Registration Information: Contact Anitha Atkins, or phone (202) 496-4839.

TO:	All APTA Members
DATE:	March 21, 2008
FROM:	William W. Millar President
SUBJECT:	CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS – APTA 2008 INTERMODAL OPERATIONS PLANNING (IOP) WORKSHOP, AUGUST 4 - 6, MIAMI, FLORIDA

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It is once again time to start preparing for the annual gathering of North America’s public transportation planners. The American Public Transportation Association (APTA) Intermodal Operations Planning Workshop this year will focus on passing knowledge, techniques, and experience to the next generation of planners in the industry.

Our meeting will be at the Miami Marriott Dadeland, Miami, Florida, and is scheduled for August 4-6. The city of Miami offers the opportunity to view one of the most comprehensive multi-modal transportation systems in the United States operated by Miami-Dade Transit. Included in the issues we intend to cover this year are:

new technology in scheduling
planning processes
planning around emergency situations
customer services and community outreach
facility and fleet planning
transportation for a changing population

You and your colleagues are invited to submit abstracts for the workshop.

This year, all abstracts will be submitted online using MyAPTA. Please visit APTAgateway.com. Once you have accessed the submittal page choose the call for presentations you would like to submit an abstract for, insert the name of the abstract, paste the abstract into the appropriate place and enter the names of the presenter(s). For assistance with the new online submission process, please contact David Bruening at dbruening@apta.com or (202) 496-4825. If you need assistance in creating a MyAPTA account, please contact Michael Hemsley at (202) 496-4822 or mhemsley@apta.com.

The deadline for submitting abstracts is Thursday, April 17.

Abstracts can only be accepted from members of APTA. If your organization is not a member, you can request more information about joining APTA by contacting Helene Brett at hbrett@apta.com or (202) 496-4837.

APTA is committed to gathering and sharing information from members of all backgrounds, regardless of demographics. We encourage women and minorities to submit abstracts for this conference in order that we can use our association’s diversity to our advantage.

We look forward to your participation and learning more about your work. If you have questions or want more information about the workshop or the call for presentations process, please contact Kevin Dow of APTA’s Operations and Technical Services Department at kdow@apta.com or (202) 496-4831.

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Topics for 2008 Intermodal Workshop

New Technology for Scheduling and Service Planning

How are you as scheduling professionals adapting to new technologies that can improve schedules and assist service planners? What is the “state of the art” in scheduling? What are your best practices and innovations in scheduling that are improving customer service, improving productivity, or reducing cost? How are your enhanced scheduling software packages using AVL and GIS? How are planners and schedulers using new technologies such as Intelligent Transportation Systems, scheduling and planning software, modeling tools and the like, to improve our ability to plan and schedule or improve efficiency or effectiveness of services?

Current and Innovative Practices in Service Planning

What is the state of your practice in bus and rail service planning processes including improved decision-making, stakeholder consultation, and methods to generate and integrate innovation methods to learn from past experiences? What techniques are you as service planning practitioners using that could benefit other service planners?

Fare Collection for Intermodal Systems

What is your experience with the increased focus on smart media for fare collection? To what extent are planners and schedulers seeing the benefits these systems promised? What are the effects on service planning and scheduling, such as a reduction on dwell time?

Customer Services and Community Outreach

How are planners and schedulers reaching out to customers about services? What innovations are you employing to develop two-way communication about your services and to receive customer input about your services?

Fleet Planning

What role are planners and schedulers playing in ensuring customer-oriented fleet decisions? What is the fleet industry doing to bring innovation to their fleet offerings as it affects scheduling and service planning? What are the fleet trends to watch in North America and worldwide? What types of equipment are transit agencies introducing to achieve better efficiencies or meet the needs of specific travel markets?

Facility Planning

What types of intermodal or bus transfer facilities are currently in the planning, design, or implementation stages? What is the “state of the art” in planning intermodal facilities? What is the role of signage and wayfinding, both electronic and non-electronic in enhancing the customer experience? How can wayfinding and signage enhance scheduling and service planning at intermodal facilities? How can good wayfinding improve passenger throughput at a facility? What are your innovative new processes, partnerships and design concepts to ensure transit facilities are developed to their optimum, integrating with communities, making best use of shared resources and providing excellent customer and operating environments?

Transportation for Changing Demographics

How have changing markets affected your planning? There are different demographic groups that are more likely to use transit than in the past. How are planners and schedulers identifying university campuses, migrant populations, and citizens looking to escape high gas prices as candidates for increased transit ridership, and developing transit applications to serve those markets?

Developing Partnerships for Mitigation or Emergency Situations

How prepared is your agency for an unforeseen event? With highways and bridges along major corridors aging, replacement or refurbishment projects often require transit agencies to provide congestion relief during construction. And under emergency conditions, such as the failure of a key component of the travel network, transit agencies must provide mitigation services on very short notice. How are transit agencies planning for expected construction projects or responding to emergency situations?

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