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Monday wednesday
CAD/AVL 101
10:15 - 11:45 a.m.
Willow A, Level 2
Getting to the basics.
Computer Aided Dispatch/Automated Vehicle Location
Systems (CAD/AVL) have revolutionized transit operations
and management. This technology optimizes planning and
organization of routes and schedules, allows flexible vehicle
assignment to provide sufficient capacity for passenger
volume at a given time, and transit employees have access
to the required information. Understanding this technology
is critical when tracking vehicles has become a requirement
for most transit agencies. This session will help you
understand where we are with this continuously evolving
set of technologies.
Related TCRP Documents: R-126, S-73 (See page 16
for details.)
Moder at or
• Christopher Norris, director of technical services,
Canadian Urban Transit Association, Toronto, ON
C omputer A ided Dispat ch ( C A D ) —
Ta m ing a T r a nsf orming T echnol ogy
• Bill McFarland, director, technical service & business
development, INIT Innovations in Transportation Inc.,
Chesapeake, VA
• Marty Williamson, systems administrator, Coast Mountain Bus
Company Ltd., Vancouver, BC
How C A D / AV L T echnol ogy is Hel p ing Bus C us t omers
a nd E m p l oy e e s at t he M B TA in Bos t on
• Mike Kuzmich, senior account executive, ACS Transportation
Management Solutions, Franklin, TN
wednesday
G CLOSING GENERAL LUNCHEON: BUS/BRT
Partnership Strategies Help
BRT Transit Move Forward
12 - 2 p.m.
Grand Ballroom C, Level 2
Transit agencies are teaming up with local partners, including
cities and businesses, to achieve success in improving
mobility throughout the nation. These partnerships help
transit agencies build support for their goals, leverage
financial resources, remove barriers, and find new ways of
working together.
This session will highlight exciting partnering efforts to show
you how successful partnerships can benefit you and your
community. Representatives from Microsoft will discuss
their employee transportation program, which includes their
private transportation service offering service from area
residential neighborhoods to their Redmond campus; GILLIG
will discuss their very successful partnerships with King
County Metro Transit; the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit
Authority will talk about the many partnerships created in
developing the new BRT line, the Health Line, including civic,
business, and political partnerships as well as partnerships
with other transit agencies, vendors and suppliers; and
the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority will
highlight their partnering efforts with local businesses, law
enforcement, community groups, just to name a few, in
preparation for the presidential inauguration in January 2009.
These stories are key examples of how transit agencies
are working with partners to create outstanding public
transportation services that are becoming the choice of an
ever-increasing number of people who will help their regions
flourish for generations to come.
P r e siding
• Joyce Eleanor, vice chair-bus & paratransit operations, APTA,
and chief executive officer, Community Transit, Snohomish
County, WA
Moder at or
• Harold S. Taniguchi, director, Department of Transportation,
King County Metro Transit, Seattle, WA
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