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Environmental Re views Stream lined for Some Trans por ta tion Pro jectsNew Fed eral Rule Took Effect Feb ru ary 12

A new rule is in effect that’s designed tohelp stream line envi ron men tal reviews fortran sit and high way pro jects.

As pub lished in the Fed eral Reg is ter,the final rule “amends the Fed eral High -way Admin is tra tion (FHWA) and Fed eralTran sit Admin is tra tion (FTA) joint pro ce -dures that imple ment the National Envi -ron men tal Pol icy Act (NEPA).” It amendsthe pro ce dures “by add ing new cat e gor i calexclu sions (CE) for pro jects within anexist ing oper a tional right-of-way and pro -jects receiv ing limited Federal funding.”

The changes are required by the 2012trans por ta tion autho ri za tion bill, known asthe Mov ing Ahead for Prog ress in the 21stCen tury Act (MAP-21). Both the FTA andFHWA antic i pate the new rule will speeddeliv ery of tran sit and high way pro jectsthat fall into two cat e go ries: those to bebuilt within an exist ing right-of-way where trans por ta tion already exists and those thatreceive less than $5 mil lion in fed eralfund ing or with a total esti mated cost of not more than $30 mil lion and Fed eral fundscom pris ing less than 15 per cent of the totalesti mated project cost, respectively.

In announc ing the rule, the U.S. Depart -ment of Trans por ta tion said it will encour -age “pro ject spon sors and state andregional trans por ta tion author i ties to buildhigh way and tran sit pro jects with fewerimpacts to reap the ben e fits of the quicker,sim pler pro cess, which requires less doc u -men ta tion for qual i fied pro jects.” FTAAdmin is tra tor Peter Rogoff says “thesecom mon sense changes” may shave morethan a year off the envi ron men tal review

Research ers Study ing Ways to use Drones for Trans por ta tion Oper a tions and Plan ningUnmanned Aerial Vehicles Show Potential for Improving Safety and

Saving Money

Research ers in Mich i gan are hop ing tohelp trans por ta tion agen cies “hit theground run ning” when the com mer cialmar ket for unmanned aerial vehi cles(UAVs) opens next year. The Mich i ganTech Research Insti tute (MTRI) is look inginto ways these UAVs, more com monlyknown as drones, can be used for trans por -ta tion plan ning and oper a tions.

For now, UAV use is lim ited to gov ern -ment agen cies, includ ing pub lic uni ver si -ties, but that will likely be chang ing next

Sep tem ber when the Fed eral Avi a tionAdmin is tra tion (FAA) is expected to issuenew reg u la tions allow ing com mer cial useof UAVs. They hold poten tial for use in awide range of ways for trans por ta tion,from assess ing the con di tion of roads andinfra struc ture to pro vid ing aerial traf ficinfor ma tion during major sporting events.

MTRI Senior Research Sci en tist ColinBrooks says research ers are cur rentlywork ing on a $2.4 mil lion pro ject for the

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pro cess while help ing to “bal ance respon -si ble envi ron men tal stew ard ship withdeliv er ing trans por ta tion solutions tocommunities more quickly.”

FHWA Dep uty Admin is tra tor GregNadeau adds that the change in Envi ron -men tal Impact and Related Pro ce dures

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Mixed Suc cess at State Level for Bi cy cleReg is tra tion FeesCol lec tion and En force ment Among Hur dles to be Con sid ered

As bi cy cling grows in pop u lar ity, some

mo tor ists are tell ing law mak ers that cy -

clists should help pay for ex pand ing bi cy -

cle in fra struc ture through taxes or reg is tra -

tion fees, but the his tory of such leg is la tion

is a mixed bag. The Na tional Con fer ence

of State Leg is la tures (NCSL) says there

are no new state wide bi cy cle fee pro pos als

on the books so far this year, though mea -

sures in some states are still pend ing.

NCSL Pro gram Prin ci pal Doug Shinkle

says Ha waii has had a stat u tory state wide

reg is tra tion re quire ment on the books for

years. The $15 fee is col lected at the point

of sale. When cy clists pur chase a bike,

deal ers give them a reg is tra tion form that

must be filled out on-site. The dealer then

sub mits the form to the county, and it sends

the li cense de cal and reg is tra tion to the bi -

cy cle owner. Fees col lected through the

reg is tra tion pro cess go to ward build ing

and improving bikeways.

How ever, Shinkle notes that Ha waii’s

reg is tra tion pro gram is used mainly as a

means for re cov er ing lost and sto len bi cy -

cles. The bike way fund has been gen er at -

ing about $400,000 a year for the city and

county of Ho no lulu, which has been see ing

bi cy cle reg is tra tions steadily in crease

despite the fee.

Utah re quires all bi cy cles to be li censed

to as sist own ers in re cov er ing their bi cy -

cles if sto len, but the pro gram is run at the

lo cal level. The state code man dates that

county, city and town gov ern ments re quire

cy cle deal ers in their ju ris dic tion to li cense

the bi cy cles at the time of sale. The cost is

$2.

Min ne sota tried a state wide bi cy cle reg -

is tra tion pro gram in the past, but Shinkle

says it was re pealed in 2005 on the rec om -

men da tion of the state De part ment of

Trans por ta t ion be cause of

underperformance. The $9 reg is tra tion fee

Min ne sota im posed was not col lected at

the point of sale. In stead, cy clists were

sup posed to vol un tarily con tact the DOT to

reg is ter. The DOT even tu ally asked for the

reg is tra tion sys tem to be re pealed be cause

the ad min is tra tive costs in volved ex ceeded

the rev e nue gen er ated. Money that was

col lected was sup posed to be used to

support bicycle facilities and safety.

In Shinkle’s roundup of state pol i cies

on bi cy cle reg is tra tion, he notes that there

are a num ber of road blocks to the ap proval

of state wide bi cy cle pol i cies. Reg is tra tion

pro grams “could be a dis in cen tive to ride

or cre ate an un due bur den on lo cal law en -

force ment agen cies.” Some see the fees as

an un fair pre text to stop cy clists. There are

also lo gis ti cal con sid er ations, such as how

and where a reg is tra tion sys tem would be

im ple mented, and whether chil dren’s bikes

should be registered, as well as adult

bicycles.

A bill in tro duced in Geor gia last year

would have re quired a $15 yearly reg is tra -

tion fee for bi cy cles, but that mea sure is ex -

pected to die in com mit tee. Even spon sors

of the leg is la tion said it was de signed

mostly to spark a di a logue about bi cy cling

in the state. Leg is la tion has been pend ing

since last Feb ru ary in Ver mont that would

re quire adults to pay an an nual bi cy cle

registration fee of $20.

A state wide bill that was in tro duced in

Or e gon would have re quired a $10 bi cy cle

reg is tra tion fee. It failed to win pas sage.

Lan guage re gard ing bi cy cle reg is tra tion

fees was re moved from a bi l l in

Washington state.

Some states, such as Cal i for nia and

Wis con sin, leave it up to lo cal mu nic i pal i -

ties to de cide whether to im ple ment a reg is -

tra tion fee. How ever, Shinkle says Cal i for -

nia does im pose some lim its on the fees. If a

mu nic i pal ity votes for a reg is tra tion fee,

the state dis trib utes the reg is tra tion forms

and bike li cense stick ers. It re ceives money

for ad min is ter ing the pro gram and lim its

the reg is tra tion fee to no more than $4 for a

new reg is tra tion and no more than $2 for a

re newal or re place ment. A Mas sa chu setts

law that al lowed mu nic i pal i ties to re quire

bicycle registration was repealed in 2009

due to lack of use.

A $4 reg is tra tion fee in Col o rado

Springs was ac tu ally pro moted by the cy -

cling com mu nity to give cy cling en thu si -

asts some po lit i cal mus cle when it co mes

to fund ing bi cy cle pro jects, but the idea

was n’t as pop u lar when a bi cy cle fee pro -

posal came be fore the city coun cil in Chi -

cago. Some mo tor ists spoke in fa vor of the

fee, but bi cy clists ar gued it would be like

charg ing pe des tri ans a shoe tax for using

the sidewalks.

Shinkle says that ul ti mately, the main

in tent of bi cy cle reg is tra tion sys tems is to

track and re cover lost or sto len bi cy cles

and get a better tally of just how many bi -

cy clists there are in a state. While some of

the fees that have been col lected in these

pro grams have gone to fund bike pro jects,

the pros pects for ad di tional fund ing

through state wide reg is tra tion fees is

looking dim for 2014.

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Bike shar ing pro grams are in creas ing inthe United States and around the world,and the In sti tute for Trans por ta tion andDe vel op ment Pol icy (ITDP) is out with aguide to help cit ies de velop bike-share sys -tems. The or ga ni za tion es ti mates there arenow 400 cit ies on five con ti nents that of ferbike shares, and the vast ma jor ity of thosesys tems have sprouted in the last ten years.

The Bike Share Plan ning Guide iden ti -fies seven cit ies it clas si fies as hav ing al -ready achieved “world-class” sta tus intheir bike shar ing pro grams. It high lightstwo met rics for de ter min ing whether abike-share sys tem is ef fi cient, re li able andcost-ef fec tive, and it iden ti fies five el e -ments of a bike share sys tem that are crit i -cal to mak ing it top-rate. ITDP’s re port of -fers its guid ance through best practices and case studies.

Bar ce lona, Lyon, Mex ico City, Mon -treal, New York City, Paris and Rio de Ja -neiro are cited as cit ies that are lead ing theway for oth ers in two key met rics: the av er -age num ber of daily uses for each pub licbi cy cle and the av er age daily trips per res i -dent within the cov er age area. Top-ratedBar ce lona av er ages 10.8 trips per bike and67.9 trips per 1,000 res i dents with its bikeshare pro gram. New York, the only U.S.city in the top seven, has a sys tem that av er -ages 8.3 trips per bike and 42.7 trips per1,000 residents.

ITDP’s guide says the five el e mentsthat are crit i cal to boost ing ridership num -bers are sta tion den sity, bikes per res i dent,cov er age area, bike qual ity and easy to usestations.

If bike share sta tions are too far apart,us age suf fers. The ITDP finds that a qual -ity sys tem needs 25-40 sta tions for ev erysquare mile with an av er age spac ing of ap -prox i mately 1,000 feet be tween sta tionsand a con ve nient walk ing dis tance fromeach sta tion to any point in between.

Ide ally, there should be 10-30 bikesavail able for ev ery 1,000 res i dents in thecov er age area. The ITDP says very large,dense cit ies with a high com mu ter rateshould have more bikes to of fer com mu -ters and res i dents. Cit ies that of fer fewer

New Guide Paves Way to Suc cess ful Bike SharePro gramsFive El e ments Iden ti fied as Keys to Boost ing Bike Share Us age

bikes may see a prob lem with avail abil itydur ing peak pe ri ods, and that af fects thesys tem’s reliability and usage.

The ITDP guide also says the min i mumarea cov ered by a bike share sys tem shouldbe three square miles. If a sys tem is toosmall, us age can suf fer. It must be largeenough to en velop a sig nif i cant num ber ofuser or i gins and des ti na tions.

Bi cy cle qual ity also af fects us age rates. The ITDP rec om mends us ing bikes thatare du ra ble and at trac tive but prac ti calenough to of fer the con ve nience of a frontbas ket to carry pack ages and gro cerybags. It’s also im por tant to of fer bikes thathave spe cially de signed parts and sizes todis cour age theft and resale.

Bike stations in New York City (top photo) and Guangzhou (China). (Photo: Cour tesy of ITDP)

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The Fed eral High way Ad min is tra tion(FHWA) is plan ning to is sue de ploy mentguid ance next year to trans por ta tion in fra -struc ture owner/op er a tors work ing withcon nected ve hi cles. In the mean time, it’sseek ing in put from a wide va ri ety of stake -holders to fig ure out the best ways to makede ci sions about con nected ve hi cles and put the "smart" tech nol ogy to use.

The FHWA says the na tion’s high waysys tem is “burst ing at its seams” and theU.S. can no lon ger “sim ply build its wayout of the con ges tion prob lem.” It seescon nected ve hi cles that “talk” to eachother and to traf fic sig nals, work zones,toll booths, school zones and other in fra -struc ture el e ments as a key so lu tion to thecongestion problem.

Ear lier this month, U.S. Trans por ta tionSec re tary An thony Foxx an nounced thatthe USDOT and the Na tional High wayTraf fic Safety Ad min is tra tion (NHTSA)will be gin to take steps to en able ve hi -cle-to-ve hi cle (V2V) com mu ni ca tion tech -nol ogy for light ve hi cles. In ad di tion to itsprom ise for re duc ing con ges tion, Foxxcalled V2V tech nol o gies “the next gen er a -tion of auto safety im prove ments, build ingon the life-sav ing achieve ments we’vealready seen with safety belts and airbags.”

The U.S. De part ment of Trans por ta tionhas been in vest ing in con nected ve hi cle re -search and sees its vi sion of “con nected ve -hi cles and smart in fra struc ture” be com inga re al ity in the “not-too-dis tant” fu ture. Brian Cronin, re search team leader atUSDOT’s In tel li gent Trans por ta tion Sys -

USDOT Seek ing In put on Con nected Ve hi cleSys temsStake holders En cour aged to Share Ideas about De ci sion-Mak ing and De ploy ment at State and Lo cal Levels

tems (ITS) Joint Pro gram Of fice, says con -nected ve hi cles “can im prove mo bil ity, re -duce trans por ta tion’s en vi ron men tal im -pacts, pro vide cost sav ings” and reducetraffic fatalities and injuries.

Be fore this con nected fu ture be comes are al ity, the FHWA and the Re search andIn no va tive Tech nol ogy Ad min is tra tion(RITA) are ask ing for help on the kinds ofguide lines that are needed and the tools, re -sources and pol i cies nec es sary to sup portcon nected ve hi cle tech nol o gies. Lastmonth, they hosted a pub lic meet ing to getstake holder in put and pub lic sec tor guid -ance. The FHWA and RITA tar geted themeet ing to ward state and lo cal trans por ta -tion de part ments, tran sit op er a tors and in -fra struc ture own ers who are start ing toplan for the de ploy ment and use ofconnected vehicle technologies in theirareas.

For those who missed the meet ing butstill want their voices to be heard, theUSDOT has set up a website (ConnectedVehicle Technology) that in cludes a linkfor com ments. It asks those who are in ter -ested to con sider three key ques tions:

· What type of guid ance is needed to bestsup port the suc cess ful de ploy ment ofcon nected ve hi cle tech nol o gies?

· What spe cific is sues would you like tosee ad dressed for plan ning, de sign andin te gra tion, in sti tu tional and le gal is -sues, im ple men ta tion and/or op er a -tions?

· Are there any ad di tional tools, train ing,or re sources that you would like to seede vel oped?A sum mary of the pub lic meet ing will

be posted to the site, as soon as it be comesavail able.

Mean time, NHTSA is fi nal iz ing ananal y sis of the data it gath ered dur ing ayear-long pi lot pro gram and will pub lish are search re port on V2V com mu ni ca tiontech nol ogy for pub lic com ment. The re port will look at is sues such as tech ni cal fea si -bil ity, pri vacy and se cu rity, pre lim i nary es -ti mates on costs and safety benefits.

For more in for ma tion, visit: http://www.its.dot.gov/connected_v_Hlt379285544_Hlt379285545eBM_1_BM_2_hicle/fhwa2015_co_Hlt379285548nBM_3_nected_vehicles.htm or con tact Rob -ert Ar nold at Robert.arnold@dot.gov.

Connected vehicle systems will be able to determine imminent danger and providea warning. (Photo: Cour tesy of RITA)

Con nected ve hi cles sens e the lo ca tion of other ve hi cles rel a tive to their own lo ca tion as well as com mu ni cate with smart in fra struc ture. (Photo: Cour tesy of RITA)

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Tran sit Toolkit Of fers Com mu ni ties Help withCom pre hen sive Plan ning UpdatesLes sons from Puget Sound and Other Metro Ar eas May Ben e fit Plan ners Na tion wide

A new tran sit-ori ented toolkit is avail ableto help lo cal ju ris dic tions up date theirlong-range plan ning doc u ments and de -velop reg u la tions to im ple ment thoseplans.

The Tran sit Sup port ive Plan ning Toolkitwas de vel oped by the Puget Sound Re gionalCoun cil’s (PSRC) Trans por ta tion Op er a torsCom mit tee and the Grow ing Tran sit Com -mu ni ties Part ner ship. The PSRC says thedoc u ment is par tic u larly timely on a lo cal ba -sis be cause ju ris dic tions within King, Pierceand Snohomish coun ties are re quired tocom plete com pre hen sive up dates in 2015.While the toolkit is tar geted at the PugetSound re gion, it can pro vide guid ance tothose out side the lo cal bor ders.

Gil Ce rise, Se nior Tran sit Plan ner for

the PSRC, says the con sul tant on the toolkitpro ject re viewed tran sit-sup port ive plan -ning prac tices within the Puget Sound re -gion and be yond. Ce rise notes the websitere sources in clude ex am ples from placessuch as Brit ish Co lum bia, Cal i for nia, Col o -rado, Min ne sota and Or e gon. He adds, “Al -though some of the spe cific ter mi nol ogymay vary, these prin ci ples are more broadly applicable.”

To be gin, the toolkit iden ti fies three keycom po nents of a re gional trans por ta tionnet work: core tran sit ser vices, such as buses and light rail; com mu nity con nec tor tran sitser vices that run be tween or through ar easnot dense enough for core ser vice; and spe -cial ized tran sit ser vices, such as peak-pe -riod ex press ser vices that run to em ploy -ment cen ters. The strat e gies dis cussed inthe toolkit are de signed to apply to all threetransit types.

The toolkit goes on to iden tify the threeel e ments key to any tran sit-sup port iveplans — co or di nat ing land use and trans -por ta tion, sup port ing multi-modal mo bil ityand con nect ing peo ple to tran sit. Withineach cat e gory, the toolkit of fers strat e giesto im ple ment these el e ments and of fers ex -am ples of how these strat e gies have beenshown to work – in policy and in practice.

For ex am ple, the toolkit notes that onestrat egy to sup port multi-modal mo bil ity isto work closely with tran sit agen cies,

neigh bor ing ju ris dic tions and the com mu -nity. It high lights a pol icy in Com mu nityTran sit’s long-range tran sit plan that in -volves build ing a ser vice net work“around tran sit-em pha sis cor ri dors thatpro vide con ve nient travel op tions alongar te rial streets.” In prac tice, it notes thatthe city of Lynwood is plan ning to re vi tal -ize SR99, which is a bus rapid tran sit cor -ri dor. The plan calls for mak ing the cor ri -dor pe des trian friendly while re con nect -ing neigh bor hoods to and across SR 99.Lynwood sees BRT as a catalyst for newdevelopment.

When it co mes to con nect ing peo plewith tran sit, the toolkit cites as an ex am ple the ad vance ment of Ta coma’s Com pleteStreet pol i cies through the Sta dium WayCom plete Streets Pro ject. This $13 mil -lion cap i tal fa cil i ties pro ject, which isnear ing com ple tion, in cludes el e mentssuch as side walks, bike lanes, rain gar -dens and an over all de sign that could ac -com mo date a light rail extension.

The toolkit draws from a wide va ri etyof na tional and lo cal best prac tices and isavail able on line for any lo cal ju ris dic tionlook ing for guid ance and case stud ies inde vel op ing its own com pre hen sive plans.

For more in for ma t ion, v is it :http://www.psrc.org/assets/10666/TransitPlanningToolkit.pdf or con tact Gil Ce -rise at gcerise@psrc.org.

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“will have a pos i tive im pact on the vastma jor ity of high way pro jects” and savetime and money by get ting pro jects un dercon struc tion more quickly.

Be fore pub lish ing a fi nal rule, the agen -cies sought pub lic com ment on the pro -posed changes over a two-month pe riodlast year. The agen cies re ceived com mentsfrom a to tal of 40 en ti ties, which in cluded12 State DOTs and agen cies, four tran sitagen cies, eight state/lo cal trans por ta tionen ti ties, ten trans por ta tion in ter est groups,three na tional/re gional en vi ron men tal in -ter est groups, one Federal agency and twoindividuals.

All 40 par ties gen er ally sup ported thepro posed cat e gor i cal ex clu sions. The ma -jor ity of those com ment ing sug gested ad -di tional clar i fi ca tions on the use of theCEs, in clud ing ex pand ing or limiting theirscope.

To read the rule as pub lished in theFed eral Reg is ter, visit: http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2014-01-13/pdf/2014-00370.pdf, or for morein for ma tion, con tact Angela Gates atangela.gates@dot.gov.

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U.S. De part ment of Trans por ta tion’s Re -search and In no va tion Tech nol ogy Ad -min is tra tion (USDOT/RITA) to de velop apro to type for an a lyz ing un paved road con -di tions – a re search area that has not re -ceived much at ten tion. A “pi lot” on theground uses the UAV to fly about 100 feetabove the ground to shoot pho tos, whichare later stitched to gether in a three-di men -sional model that can re veal char ac ter is tics such as the num ber and depth of pot holes,rut ting con di tions and crown in a road way. Brooks says, “Be cause we can get thesehigh-res o lu tion, short, rep re sen ta tive sam -ples of roads, we can make road con di tionmon i tor ing cheaper than it cur rently is.”

The Mich i gan sci en tists are us ing twoUAVs in this re search that re sem ble min ia -ture he li cop ters – the U.S.-built Bergenhexacopter and DJI Phan tom quadcopter.The hexacopter, the larger of the two, hassix blades and a four-foot ro tor span. Themodel be ing used costs $5,000 and weighsjust over 11 pounds. It can fly a dig i talcam era such as the Nikon D800. Thesmaller UAV has four blades that spin in atwo-foot di am e ter. Weigh ing in at just twopounds, it costs $700 and can carry smallercam eras, such as the sports-ori ented GoPro.

Brooks says the UAVs’ cur rent flightsare lim ited to the 30-min ute ca pac ity of thebat ter ies be ing used, but the re search ersdon’t need lon ger than that to do theirwork. While the UAVs have a range of acou ple ki lo me ters, un der cur rent FAA reg -u la tions, they must stay within the re -search ers’ line of sight.

Drones have be come a light ing rod forsome pri vacy ad vo cates who worry abouttheir reach, and Brooks says the re search -ers are sen si tive to the po lit i cal is sues sur -round ing their use. How ever, he notes thatthe use of ae rial im ag ery to study con di -tions on the ground has been around sincethe Civil War when the Un ion Army usedbal loons to take pho tos of Con fed er ateearth works. He adds, “We’re just mak ingdata-gath er ing quicker, eas ier, safer andmore de tailed for rap idly un der stand ingour transportation infrastructure.”

For in stance, rather than send ing peo ple into po ten tially dan ger ous sit u a tions to as -

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Re search ers Study ing Ways to use Drones for Transportation

sess flood-rav aged roads or po ten tiallydan ger ous bridges, the re mote units can beused to gather in for ma tion. MTRI is alsoex per i ment ing with an even smallerquadcopter to in spect con fined spaces tosee whether it’s safe to send a per son in -side. Brooks says the con trol ler on the$179 Crazyflie, which weighs justtwo-thirds of an ounce, is bigger than the

ve hi cle it self.Ac cord ing to Brooks, we are “on the

cusp of an ex plo sion in UAV data col lec -tion,” and he’s hope ful the re search atMTRI will help lead the way.

For more in for ma t ion, v is it :www.mtri.org/unpaved or con tact ColinBrooks at cnbrooks@mtu.edu.

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New Guide Paves Way to Suc cess ful BikeShare Pro gramsFi nally, the ITDP says it’s crit i cal to makecheck ing out a bi cy cle easy to do, andthere needs to be a real-time method formon i tor ing oc cu pancy rates. That way,bike share sys tems can track us age to de -ter mine where more bikes are needed andwhich sta tions have too many.

A pop u lar bike share sys tem also tendsto be a safer sys tem. Colin Hughes, Di rec -tor of Na tional Pol icy and Pro ject Eval u a -tion at ITDP, notes that there is a “wide ar -ray of re search that shows that the morecy clists there are on the street, the saferthey be come be cause cars be come moreaware of them due to in creased num bersand driv ers are better ac quainted with howto drive safely amongst cy clists.” Ac cord -ing to Hughes, one of the great thingsabout bike shar ing is that “it drives up thenum ber of peo ple who are cycling overnight.”

While putt ing more bi cy clists on thestreet may lead to an in crease in the ac tualnum ber of cy clist ac ci dents, the ITDP says the rate of crashes and in ju ries has beenshown to go down. In some cases, the ab -so lute num ber of ac ci dents has de clined aswell. In jury rates among bike share us ersalso tend to be lower than other cy clists,and the ITDP says there’s spec u la tion itmay be be cause the bikes tend to be slowerand the users less daring.

There is no sin gle best way to fi nancebike shar ing. ITDP’s guide notes that cit -ies have found suc cess with a va ri ety of fi -nanc ing and op er a tions sys tem. Some,such as Bue nos Ai res, Mon treal and

Shang hai, have pub licly-run pro grams.Non-profit or ga ni za tions run the sys temsin Den ver, Min ne ap o lis and San An to nio.In some of the top-rated cit ies, such as Bar -ce lona, Mex ico City and New York, pri -vate en ter prises con trol the op er a tions. Inall cases, the ITDP found that the most suc -cess ful sys tems en cour age the use ofshared bi cy cles for short trips of about ahalf-hour or less to increase turnover rates.

ITDP’s re search ers found that bikeshar ing not only of fers air pol lu tion ben e -fits and health ben e fits for the rid ers, it co -mes at a low price. They found thatbike-share sys tems can be among the mostcost-ef fec tive tran sit modes. For ex am ple,the guide says Wash ing ton, D.C. pays apri vate en ter prise to run its bike share sys -tem, but the rev e nue it re ceives from thefee col lec tion cov ers the op er at ing pay -ments. The city’s sub way and bus fareboxes cover only half the systems’operating costs.

In ad di tion, bike share pro grams scorein the po lit i cal arena. The ITDP says thatbe cause the pro grams come at a low costand with a short im ple men ta tion time, it’spos si ble to see a pro gram de vel oped andim ple mented in the span of just onemayoral term.

For more in for ma tion, visit:http://www.streetfilms.org/riding-the-bike-share-boom/ or https://go.itdp.org/display/live/The+Bike-Share+Planning+Guide?/bikeshare= orcon tact jemilah.magnusson@itdp.org.

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In a twist on the the ory that a pic ture’sworth a thou sand words, ed u ca tors inNorth Carolina have re leased a set ofinfographics that try to cap ture the scope of pub lic mass tran sit in a city with a sin gleim age.

The Uni ver sity of North CarolinaSchool of Gov ern ment’s on line Mas ter ofPub l ic Adminsit rat ion pro gram(MPA@UNC) has cre ated infographicsfor some of the na tion’s larg est, most ex -ten sive pub lic tran sit sys tems. Theseinfographics, Let’s Take a Ride: 5 Larg estUS Pub lic Tran sit Sys tems, cover key tran -sit el e ments such as ridership, rev e nue, up -com ing im prove ments and fre quent con -sumer com plaints for tran sit sys tems inBoston, Chi cago, New York City, SanFran cisco and Wash ing ton, D.C. Thegraphics also cover a lit tle his tory, funfacts, key met rics and the num ber ofemployees in the transit systems.

MPA@UNC says the infographicswere cre ated “to cap ture the his tory andscope of each city’s pub lic trans por ta tionsys tem” in an ef fort “to show how mil lionsof Amer i cans travel daily via mass tran sit.” The de sign ers hope that the infographicswill help to “in crease the aware nessaround the use and scale of our larg est pub -lic transit systems.”

The uni ver sity points to sta tis tics fromthe Amer i can Pub lic Trans por ta tion As so -ci a tion that show pub lic trans por ta tionridership in creased by 34 per cent from1995 to 2012 with peo ple across the U.S.board ing pub lic trans por ta tion 35 mil liontimes each week day. While the folks atMPA@UNC ac knowl edge short com ingsin these sys tems, they note, “It’s re mark -able how many peo ple they trans portsafely each day. Lead ers in lo cal gov ern -ment need good in for ma tion to un der standand evaluate the use of such systems.”

MPA@UNC says the tran s i tinfographics are in tended for use by allthose who live and work in the tar get cit ies, as well as oth ers around the coun try, so ev -ery one can better un der stand the com plex -ity of pub lic trans por ta tion sys tems in sideand out side their areas.

Tran sit Sto ries Be ing Told Through Graphics andFew WordsNew Infographics Tell the Tale of Tran sit in Top Tran sit-Ori ented U.S. Cit ies

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In a re cent de ter mi na tion, the Su premeCourt of Rich mond County, NY, granted amo tion for sum mary judg ment by the Cityof New York, in a case aris ing out of ahead-on col li sion that left plain tiff with se -vere in ju ries.

Plain tiff al leged City was neg li gent inits de sign, con trol and main te nance of thesub ject road way. She claimed the wheelson the right side of her ve hi cle left thepaved sur face of the road way and wentinto a rut. At tempt ing to re gain con trol, she turned the steer ing wheel to the left, caus -ing her ve hi cle to veer into, and col lidewith, an oncoming vehicle.

In sup port of her al le ga tions, plain tiffpre sented af fi da vits from a pro fes sionalen gi neer and an ac ci dent reconstructionist. Both agreed that a driver whose tires leftthe road would be forced to steer to the left,as plain tiff had. Fur ther , that the“drop-off” was not caused by ero sion butwas in ten tion ally cre ated and main tained;that this con sti tuted an im me di ate dan gerand was the prox i mate cause of plain tiff’sac ci dent. That, in ef fect, the City “causedand created” the defect.

Plain tiff also ar gued that the City hadre ceived prior writ ten no tice of the dan ger -ous con di tion, as its own in ter nal doc u -ments doc u mented pre vi ous ac ci dents, aswell as work done in the area of the ac ci -dent in re sponse to com plaints. Al ter na -tively, that the City was not en ti tled to prior writ ten no tice since it “caused and cre ated” the con di tion which led to the ac ci dentthrough “affirmative acts of neg li gence.”

City re sponded by claim ing it was notli a ble for the hap pen ing of the ac ci dent; itwas im mune from suit; the sub ject stretchof road way was not de fec tive; and the faultfor the ac ci dent lay with the plaintiff.

The Court found that the ev i dence pro -vided by the City showed it had a for malpro gram in place to eval u ate its road wayson an on-go ing ba sis to de ter mine whetherand what was re quired by its duty to makeits streets rea son ably safe for travel. Also,that it had re ceived prior writ ten no tice ofcon di tions in the area, but none of thesewere rel e vant to the case at issue.

Su preme Court Re af firms Re quire ment of “Im me di acy” in CasesWhere “Af fir ma tive Acts of Neg li gence” are Al leged

This ev i dence in cluded:

· Re cords show ing that its De part ment ofTrans por ta tion had re viewed the sub ject stretch of road within the year prior tothe ac ci dent, and it had a re ceived a pos -i tive rat ing of “8 out of 10;”

· Doc u ments which es tab lished that theCity had last re-paved the road way inthe area of plain tiff’s ac ci dent ap prox i -mately nine years be fore the ac ci dent;All its re cords of mo tor ve hi cle ac ci -

dents in the sub ject area which had oc -curred dur ing the pre ced ing five years, and that none of them were anal o gous to plain -tiff’s ac ci dent.

The Court up held City’s ar gu ment thatplain tiff failed to prove it had “caused andcre ated” the cited con di tion be cause thatpar tic u lar sec tion of road way had not beenworked on for nine years prior to plain -tiff’s accident.

It held that the ac ci dents re cords for thepre vi ous five years showed that, evencloser in time to the work hav ing beencom pleted, no im me di ate dan ger had been

Transportation Tort Liability: Case in Review

By tak ing a quick look at the infographics,a reader can learn that Boston’s first elec -tric street car line be gan op er a tion in 1889,11 mil lion rid ers use New York City’stran sit sys tem each day, rid ers in Chi cagocom plain about op er a tors talk ing on theircell phones while driv ing buses and trains,Wash ing ton’s metro sys tem in cludes11,490 bus stops and rid ers on San Fran -cisco’s BART sys tem save 44 pounds ofpol lut ants each day by tak ing tran sit.

The infographics are also filled withfun facts about the five tran sit sys tems.New York’s Met ro pol i tan Trans por ta tionAu thor ity pro vides ser vice for one-third of the tran sit rid ers in Amer ica. Chi cago’sTran sit Au thor ity is one of the few pub lictran sit sys tems to of fer rail ser vice to twoma jor air ports. The Mas sa chu setts BayTran sit Au thor ity serves 176 cit ies andtowns. Wash ing ton’s Met ro pol i tan Area

cre ated. Given the ab sence of any sim i larac ci dents over such a long pe riod, there-pav ing work done then could not con sti -tute an “af fir ma tive act of neg li gence”which re sulted in an immediate danger.

Cit ing a pre vi ous rul ing, the Courtnoted that an “af fir ma tive neg li gence” ex -cep tion to the prior writ ten no tice re quire -ment is lim ited to work that im me di atelyre sults in the ex is tence of a dan ger ouscondition.

It stressed that the re quire ment of “im -me di acy” is nec es sary to avoid the ex cep -tion be ing ex tended to cases where a dan -ger ous con di tion has de vel oped over timefrom, e.g. , an al leg edly neg l i gentmunicipal repair.

In ad di tion, it found that the ex is tenceof the City’s re view pro gram was a clearin di ca tion of its rea son able ef forts to as cer -tain which road ways within its ju ris dic tionre quired re me dial work, and to makemean ing ful de ci sions in light of op er a -tional ex pe ri ence to keep them safe.

Tran sit Au thor ity boasts the lon gest es ca -la tor in the West ern Hemi sphere, and theto tal cost of the orig i nal Bay Area RapidTransit system was $1.6 billion.

For oth ers who might be con sid er ing agraphic ap proach to tell ing their tran sit sto -ries, MPA@UNC rec om mends thegraphics be “in for ma tive, en gag ing andpro vide new facts that com mu ters may nothave known be fore.” When it co mes to de -sign, the ed u ca tors say it’s im por tant thatthe im ag ery sup ports the in for ma tion –“not the other way around.”

For more in for ma tion, visit:https://onlinempa._Hlt378921671_Hlt378921672uBM_1_BM_2_nc.edu/5-largest-us-public-transit-systems-inforgraphic/and https://onlinempa.unc.edu/ or con tact Alexa DiGaetano atalexa@resoundmarketing.com.

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MindMixer Of fers Tech no log i calTwist on Old-Fash ioned TownHall Meet ings; Com mu nityEn gage ment Plat form Aids inTrans por ta tion Plan ning andOp er a tionsMindMixer is of fer ing trans por ta tionagen cies an al ter na tive to com mu nitymeet ings to gather in for ma tion, gauge cit i -zen sen ti ment or seek so lu tions to trans -por ta tion is sues. It en cour ages agen cies totry its on line com mu nity en gage ment andso cial me dia tools to gather a wider rangeof in put than is usu ally found throughoffline means.

The found ers of MindMixer note thatoffline meet ings are tra di tion ally not wellat tended, and those who do at tend may notnec es sar ily be re flec tive of the com mu nityas a whole. MindMixer al lows trans por ta -tion agen cies, as well as cit ies, schools,healthcare agen cies and oth ers, to reachout to a wider au di ence of peo ple throughon line means. Those who want to take partin a dis cus sion can sign up us ing theirFacebook ac count or email ad dress andstart weigh ing in at a time and lo ca tionthat’s convenient to them.

MindMixer says its ser vice can be usedin a num ber of dif fer ent ways. Agen ciescan use it to “dis cover great ideas” by post -ing a chal lenge and let ting the com mu nityhelp find so lu tions. It can be used to“gather valu able feed back” through theuse of polls and sur veys to quickly gaugecom mu nity in ter est and sen ti ment. Fi nally, it can be used to “mea sure the im pact” ofcer tain ac tions by gain ing in sights and im -por tant data from the community.

Mi chael Ash ford, mar ket ing man agerwith MindMixer, says all of the com pany’s trans por ta tion cli ents have come toMindMixer with the same goal – “to im -prove pub lic en gage ment around their pro -jects or top ics.” He says offline meet ingshave not been work ing well as a standalone tool for get ting com mu nity feed back.MindMixer helps cli ents add an on line tool to make the con ver sa tion “more in ter ac tive and trans par ent than a simple messageboard.”

Once that con ver sa tion has started,Ash ford says it’s more likely com mu nitymem bers will en gage offline, too. Henotes, “What we have seen in the cit ies wework with is that there’s a much higherlike li hood that some one who has never at -tended an offline meet ing will show up inthe fu ture be cause they were en gagedonline first.”

Those who are not email- or so cial me -dia-savvy are not over looked in the pro -cess. Ash ford says cli ents are still en cour -aged to con tinue us ing tra di tional out reach ef forts, such as con tact ing lo cal press,post ing fly ers in a lo cal li brary or post ingin for ma tion to com mu nity websites. In ad -di tion, in for ma tion found on MindMixeris of ten spread by word-of-mouththroughout a community.

In the realm of t rans por ta t ion,MindMixer has been used on such pro jects as the Santa Monica Bike and Pe des trianSafety Study, North Carolina Bike Pe des -trian Plan, NYMTC Re gional Trans por ta -tion Plan, Salt Lake City Trans por ta tionPro ject and Phase 2 of the Los An gelesTrans por ta tion Plan.

Ash ford says Trans form CT has usedMind Mixer’s photo share fea ture tomuch suc cess. Trans form CT is the Con -nect i cut De part ment of Trans por ta tion’svi sion ing fo rum for streets and high -ways, tran sit, trails and any mo bil itychanges state wide. Res i dents were asked to use MindMixer to post im ages show -ing Con nect i cut’s as sets:http://www.transformct.org/topics/6934/submit-your-photos-show-us-what-makes-connecticut-great .

Kan sas City is us ing MindMixer to askres i dents for their pref er ences on where anew street car should run. Ash ford says thepop u lar Next Rail KC site al lows res i dents to pin point their de sired street car stopsalong the dif fer ent fu ture rail lines:http://ideas.nextrailkc.com/stop-locations-and-route-end-points/archived.

MindMixer counts al most 500 civic,ed u ca tion and healthcare or ga ni za tions inthe U.S. among its cli ents. It touts the plat -

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form’s abil ity to help lead ers en gage intwo-way com mu ni ca tions for more pro -duc tive and ef fi cient con ver sa tions whileal low ing com mu nity mem bers to let theirvoices be heard.

For more in for ma tion, visit:http://www.mindmixer.com/ or con tactTory Carroll attory.carroll@grayling.com.

Audi Test ing Sys tem to In creasethe Use of Traf fic Sig nal GreenBands and Re duc ing In ter sec tion De lay; Carmaker States Abil ity to Save Fuel while Help ing theEn vi ron mentAudi used last month’s Con sumer Elec -tron ics Show in Las Ve gas to show case anew tech nol ogy de signed to help mo tor ists see more green in their fu ture. Its On lineTraf fic Light In for ma tion ser vice will net -work a car with the cen tral traf fic con trolcom puter that con trols traf fic sig nals in acity to help driv ers reach more sig nals dur -ing the green phase.

Audi’s dash board sys tem shows driv ers the speed they should use to reach the nexttraf fic sig nal while it’s green, and it dis -plays the time re main ing while wait ing fora traf fic sig nal to turn green. Driv ers us ingthe tech nol ogy may en joy a smoother,faster com mute, but Audi says it also ben e -fits the en vi ron ment and saves fuel. TheGer man car com pany says the sys temcould re duce CO2 emis sions by up to 15per cent, and if de ployed through out Ger -many, Audi es ti mates nearly 238 mil liongal lons of fuel could be saved each year.

The carmaker is con duct ing mul ti plefield tri als of the sys tem in Eu rope, and theprin ci ple is be ing dem on strated with 50traf fic sig nals in Las Ve gas. Audi saysTraf fic Tech nol ogy So lu tions (TTS) de -vel oped the backend tech nol ogy for theLas Ve gas dem on stra tion sys tem. Itworked with staff from the Free way andAr te rial Sys tem of Trans por ta tion (FAST)in Las Ve gas to es tab lish real-time datacon nec tion to all 50 dem on stra tion sig nals, which operate in semi-actuated mode.

TTS uses its pro pri etary pre dic tionmeth od ol ogy to take all of the in ter sec tionmove ments into ac count, in clud ing the

pres ence of pe des tri ans, in de ter min ingthe switch times for the lights. The in for -ma tion is then con verted to stan dard for -mat and re layed to Audi’s servers.

It’s un cer tain when the tech nol ogy willmake its way into Audi cars in the U.S. The com pany says the tech nol ogy for theOn line Traf fic Light In for ma tion sys temhas reached “mar ket ma tu rity,” and ifenough cit ies make their data avail able,“there is noth ing stand ing in the way of abroad rollout.”

For more in for ma tion, visit:www.audiusa.com orwww.traffictechnologysolutions.com orcon tact Thomas Bauer atthomas.bauer@traffictechnologysolutions.com.

Traf fic Cam eras Be ing Used forWeather De tec tion; Exelis Us ingTrafficLand Net work to Pro videHyperlocal Weather DataTrafficLand and Exelis have joined forcesto put traf fic cam eras to work de tect ingand as sess ing weather con di tions on ahyperlocal level. Exelis says that in theyear since the launch of its Helios en vi ron -men tal in tel li gence plat form, it has worked with all the ma jor weather com pa nies insome ca pac ity and is start ing to work withall the ma jor play ers in traf fic and trans -por ta tion, too.

Helios pro vides a fourth type ofweather ob ser va tion data, com pli ment ingdata al ready be ing gath ered through ra dar,sat el lite and fixed weather sta tions. By us -

ing TrafficLand’s net work of 17,000 cam -eras in the United States, it can pro videweather in for ma tion at street level on areal-time basis.

The Helios plat form can both show andan a lyze cur rent con di tions, and us ers canset their sys tem to mon i tor and track im -ages in an area of in ter est. For in stance,dur ing a Na tional Weather Ser vice alert,the sys tem can be used to mon i tor the alertarea to “see” when bad weather moves in.Helios also uses al go rithms to an a lyze thecam era im ages to “de tect” if a par tic u larroad is wet or dry, if it’s rain ing at that lo -ca tion and how vis i bil ity is chang ing.While the Helios sys tem can not fore castweather, the ana lyt ics can be pro vided toex ist ing now-casting models to improveprediction.

Brian Bell, Helios Prod uct Man ager for Exelis, says that when cus tom ers see whatthe plat form can do, “their eyes get re allybig and peo ple are just amazed.” He saysthe plat form may be up dated in the fu tureto de tect weather con di tions such as snow,ice and hail, but the rea son Exelis chose tocon cen trate first on wet roads, rain and vis -i bil ity is be cause “they have the most im -pact in caus ing in jury ac ci dents anddeath.”

Exelis says the Helios plat form is tar -geted to ward any en ter prise or or ga ni za -tion that can be im pacted by weather, in -clud ing weather com pa nies, trans por ta -tion com pa nies, in sur ance com pa nies, mo -bile phone ap pli ca tion de vel op ers, fed eraland state de part ments of trans por ta tion,mu nic i pal tran sit agen cies and emer gencyre sponse units. Costs are based on thenum ber of cam eras be ing used in the sys -tem, the num ber of mar kets, how many ofthe three ana lyt ics prod ucts are be ing usedand the desired refresh rate of theanalytics.

Helios can be used in a va ri ety of ways.For ex am ple, Exelis says nav i ga tion com -pa nies can use the plat form to pro vide haz -ard alerts, weather con di tion re ports andre rout ing sug ges tions, as well as vi sualcon fir ma tion of con di tions. Emer gencyre spond ers can use Helios to pro videaware ness and alerts as road con di tionsde te ri o rate and weather con di tions

The On line Traf fic Light In for ma tionsystem provides the recommended speed

(30 mph) on the dashboard. (Photo:Courtesy, Traffic Technolology

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change. It can even be used in ar eas wherevari able tolls are in use. The real-time roadcon di tions data can be cap tured and used in the sup ply/de mand model to de ter minepric ing more ac cu rately than con ven tionalweather data.

Bell says us ers some times de scribe thewealth of in for ma tion pro vided by thecam eras Helios can ac cess as mag i cal. Heex plains that cam eras can be set at a va ri ety of an gles and each “has its own per son al -ity,” which may make some better at de -tect ing whether it’s rain ing and oth ersbetter at judg ing vis i bil ity. Bell says thatwith Helios, “Part of the magic is that oural go rithms have to work on any cam era.”

Con tent from the Helios plat form canbe de liv ered through an Ap pli ca tion Pro -gram ming In ter face (API) or the HeliosUser In ter face (UI).

For more in for ma t ion, v is it :http://www.exelisinc.com/solutions/Helios/Pages/default.aspx or con tact: Jay Co hen at jcohen@trafficland.com or KristinJones at kristin.jones@exelisinc.com.

New Ac tive Traf fic Man age mentCon trol Sys tem Be ing Of fered inU.S.; Off-the-Shelf Sys tem Draws on Years of Ex pe ri ence Over seas

An off-the-shelf Ac tive Traf fic Man -age ment (ATM) con trol sys tem that hasbeen used widely in Eu rope is now com ingto North Amer ica. Traf fic Tech nol ogy So -lu tions and Heusch/Boesefeldt are join ingforces to of fer GeoDyn2 to the Amer i canmarket.

The com pa nies de scribe GeoDyn2 as a“ma ture and re li able off-the-shelf man age -ment con trol soft ware” for ATM free waycon trol that in cor po rates op er a tional ex pe -ri ence from ap prox i mately 70 op er a tionalsys tems in Ger many, Aus tria, It aly and theNeth er lands and more than 30 years oftraf fic man age ment and con trol ex pe ri -ence. It sup ports the ATM strat e gies ofspeed har mo ni za tion, hard shoul der run -ning and tem po rary pass ing bans fortrucks, as well as warn ings for con ges -tion/queues, ve hi cle head way, wrong-way

driver, fog, wetness, ice and cross winds.This ATM Lab was de vel oped by in te -

grat ing the ATM con trol and man age mentsoft ware GeoDyn2 with the mi cro scopictraf fic sim u la tion tool VISSIM. It al lowsus ers to in ter ac tively test var i ous traf ficand in ci dent sce nar ios in microsimulation, ob serve their im pact on the whole net workthrough VISSIM and de ter mine the bestATM con trol strat e gies. The ATM Labalso pro vides re al is tic 2D and 3D an i ma -tions that can help com mu ni cate the strat e -gies and their impacts to a wide audience.

Traf fic Tech nol ogy So lu tions says theATM Lab out paces tra di tional ITS sim u la -tion mod el ing be cause it pro vides “a vir -tual re al ity for op er a tors to in ter act withtraf fic man age ment sys tems more re al is ti -cally with quicker re sponse feed back.”

For more in for ma tion, visit:www.traffictechnologysolutions.com orcon tact Thomas Bauer atthomas.bauer@traffictechnologysolutions.com.

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This Month’s Sur vey Re sults (Sur vey 1)

Characteristics of In-Pave ment LightsLast month, The Ur ban Trans por ta tion Mon i tor conducted a na tional sur vey to ob tain in for ma tion from or ga ni za tions that mar ketin-pave ment lights in the U.S. for ap pli ca tion at pe des trian cross walks and other lo ca tions.Five or ga ni za tions were iden ti fied that mar ket in-pave ment lights in the U.S. E-mails with a link to the sur vey ques tion naire's web lo -ca tion were sent to the five or ga ni za tions. Four or ga ni za tions re sponded.

Please note that the sur vey was com pleted by the ven dors mar ket ing the de tec tors. The Ur ban Trans por ta tion Mon i tor can not vouchfor the ac cu racy of this in for ma tion.

Characteristics of In-Pave ment Lights

ORGANIZATION CONTACT PERSON ADDRESS, TELEPHONE, E-MAILADDRESS

Think Pavers Hardscaping, LLC Nicholas Furfari 405 Helms Ave.Swedesboro, NJ 8085 (856) 832-4680nfurfari@thinkpavers.com

LightGuard Systems, Inc. Michael Harrison 2292 Airport Blvd.Santa Rosa, CA 95492(707) 542-4547MikeH@LightGuardSystems.com

SolarPath, Inc Roy Warshavsky 273 Merrick Rd.Lynbrook, NY 11563(201) 490-4499Roy.w@solarpathusa.com

3i Innovation Charles Maud Unit 6, 9 Orbit Drive, AlbanyAuckland, New Zea land 632(649) 356-6666charles@maud.co.nz

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Char ac ter is tics of In-Pave ment Lights

Organization LightGuard Systems, Inc. SolarPath Inc. 3i Innovation

Distributors/dealers in NorthAmerica

LightGuard Systems, Inc. SolarPath, Inc. Mid American Signal, Inc., Traffic ControlCorporation, Southern Lighting and TrafficSystems

Manufacturer LightGuard Systems, Inc. SolarPath, Inc. 3i Innovation

Location where in-pavement lights are manufactured

USA Portugal and South Korea New Zealand

In-pavement lights applied in a"real-world" application in NorthAmerica?

Yes. We invented them and received approval for use in the USA.

Yes. Also applied in Europe, Middle Eastand South America

Yes

Types of application ofin-pavement lights in NorthAmerica

Pedestrian crossings.Lane con trol and guid ance in clud ingap pli ca tions at in ter sec tions.Rail, Baracade, Parking exits.

Pedestrian crossings.Lane control and guidance includingapplications at intersections.

Pedestrian crossingsLane con trol and guid ance in clud ingap pli ca tions at in ter sec tions.Motorways/freeways; left turn; dangerouscurves; stop lines; off/on ramps

Application of In-Pavement Lights for Pedestrian Crosswalks

Cost of equipment Average cost $14,000 (varies with #of lanes, snow region or not, type ofactivation, singage, A/C or solarpower, etc)

N/A $10,000 to $20,000

Cost of installation Should not exceed cost ofequipment, however control is lostdue to public bid process!

N/A $7,000 to $15,000

Cost of maintenance contractper year

Depends on the quality ofinstallation. We provide warranty forthree years. We have cities that have had systems in for nearly three years with almost zero maintenanceperformed.

N/A $1,000-$5,000. We can lease systems at amonthly rate

Description of the operation ofin-pavement lights atcrosswalks

We offer manual activation andinvented and developed the mosteffective automatic activationsystems. We recommend automaticactivation as the best option albeit itis more costly. Studies show thatonly 60% of pedestrians will push the activation button. Our automaticactivation systems have proven tooperate at the 99% level and havebeen in use for nearly 15 years.

Solar Markers are lighting all night and the wired can light 24\7. Results are great and driver can see the lights from 3,300 ft.Customers are excited.

Detection by cameras, pavement tiles assensors (Smartped), push buttons. The 3isystem can connect with any pedestriandetection device.

Can installation cope withsnowplowing?

Yes, we have thousands of units inthe roadway in snow regions andhave proven to be the most effectivein protecting the in-roadway warninglight in snow country.

Yes Yes - the ON ROAD marker is mounted flushwith the road and lenses are 4mm above theroad surface - therefore snowploughable.However, due to some snowploughsscrapping the road surface, we have designed a "SnowCap" for extra protection for the LEDmarkers.

Typical crosswalk conditionswhere in-pavement lights arebeneficial

N/A N/A Controlled Intersections, uncontrolledintersections, school zones, hospitals, retirement homes, sports and entertainmentarenas, blind corners, high volumepedestrian crossing points, truck or cranecrossing points

Method by which in-pavementlights are powered

Direct/hard wired. "One wire is wortha thousand batteries"... We have tosleep at night!

Direct/hard wiredSolar poweredCapacitor

In duc tionSo lar pow eredBattery powered

Visibility distance ofin-pavement lights during theday

Over 500 feet. Up to 2,500 ft 2,000 ft

Visibility distance ofin-pavement lights at night

Miles Up to 3,300 ft 2,000 ft

N/A = Not Avail able, Not Ap pli ca ble

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Characteristics of In-Pave ment Lights (con tin ued)Organization LightGuard Systems, Inc. SolarPath Inc. 3i Innovation

In which ways can your lightsoperate?

Flash. We developed theenhanced "Enlighten1" flash ratethrough the University ofCalifornia Vision DetectionLaboratory. It is far more effective than any other flash rate beingoffered or used in the industry. Itpromotes the "PrimitiveResponse Reflex Action of theeye" which draws the eye to thesequence.

FlashStrobeConstant Shine

FlashStrobeConstant ShineAny combination

Available colors of in-pavement lights

Amber, red, green, blue, andcombination amber/redcombination.

Red, white, blue, green andamber.

All Colors available. Amber LED's normally used.

Distance lights protrude abovethe road surface

1/2 inch Surface level 4mm or 0.15 inches

Does the level of intensity ofyour lights change dependingon prevailing light conditions?

No. Would not want this featureas it would dim during dark anddreary conditions which mayrequire a high degree of caution.Not a good idea.

No. Yes. Any traffic or environmental sensor can be added tothe system.

Application of In-Pavement Lights for Lane Control and Guidance

Cost of equipment Varies N/A 50,000 per mile @ 11-yard spacing per marker

Cost of installation Varies. Depends on spacingrequirements.

N/A 25,000 per mile. Prices varying around specification andfunction

Briefly describe the operation of your lane control lights

N/A N/A The Lane Control can be activate by all accepted trafficcontrol devices - SCADA etc. Also off the internet or Wifi.

Can installation cope withsnowplowing?

Yes, for years. Yes Yes. Flushed mounted - plus we have an additional cap forthe protection of the ON Road LED markers.

Typical conditions wherein-pavement lights for lanecontrol and guidance arebeneficial

Valet parking. N/A Dangerous Curves, OverHead Light replacement,Obstacles, Toll Gates, Tunnels, On Ramps, Off Ramps,Rail Crossings, Fog Prone Areas, School Zones, Bridge,Bus Lanes, Roundabouts, Cycle Lanes

Method in-pavement lights arepowered

Direct/hard-wired Direct/hard wiredSo lar pow ered

InductionSo lar pow eredBattery powered

Visibility distance ofin-pavement lights during theday

N/A Up to 2,500 ft 2,000 ft

Visibility distance ofin-pavement lights at night

N/A Up to 3,300 ft 2000 ft

Types of operation ofin-pavement lights

N/A FlashConstant shine

FlashStrobeCon stant shineAny and all functions

Available colors of in-pavement lights

N/A Red, white, blue, green andamber

All. Main traffic colors - amber, red, white, blue, green

Distance lights protrude abovethe road surface

N/A Surface level 4mm or 0.15 inches

Does the level of intensity ofyour lights change dependingon prevailing light conditions?

N/A No Yes

Type of installation supportprovided

We do not do the installation butprovide technical support.Normally it goes out to public bid.We offer (and recommend) onsite supervision. Our product isonly as good as the contractorselected. We recommend thatthey specify a "factory authorizedor experienced" installer but arestuck with how the specificationsare written.

We do not do the installation but provide technical support.

The client can elect to do the installation or have ourcompany do/arrange the installation. Dependent onwhether the sale is direct with the manufacture (3i) orthrough our distributors

N/A = Not Avail able, Not Ap pli ca ble

Organization LightGuard Systems, Inc. SolarPath Inc. 3i Innovation

Support provided after installation Yes, technical support via phone orinternet. Also, can offer on sitereview and analysis for a fee.

Any support that thecustomer needs.

Full maintenance arrangements are available in most states.

Guarantee provided on equipmentand its operation

Three year warranty on all IRWL's.Our systems have been in operation for over 15 years in many locationsand cities.

Depends on theapplication.

Largely dependent on the application and the volume of traffic, aswell as the type of traffic (heavy goods vehicles) . Generally oneyear on ON Road LEDs and associated equipment. We can priceextended warranties up to 5 years.

Organizations in North Americathat have approved use ofin-pavement lights andstandards/specifications theycomply with

Our company (LightGuard Systems,Inc.) and its product was thestandard by which the MUTCD waswritten for in-roadway lights.

State DOTs FHWA tested and approved. Sold to 10 US states plus Canada.

Can troubleshooting of lights bedone remotely?

Yes. If desired, can be remotelyviewed over computer internet. Thisfeature, however, is rarely needed or desired, if at all.

No Yes

What maintenance and frequencyof maintenance are required foryour installations during theirlifetime?

Today, we have very lowmaintenance requirements. In theearly development years, whileperfecting the product and learninghow to provide longevity, we didexperience a higher level ofmaintenance. Our product is legacysuitable, and our most recentIRWL's can be used at locations that date back over 15 years with thebase plates installed then. We offerupgrades to cities who convert theolder sites out with a complete swap to newer models and provide adiscount and extended warranty fordoing so.

No maintenancerequired.

Largely dependent on the application and the volume of traffic, aswell as the type of traffic. But generally, annual.

Number of years in-pavementlights have been provided in NorthAmerica

20 7 13

Number of years in-pavementlights have been provided outsideNorth America

5 12 17

What do you consider to be thebest features of your in-pavementlights?

Smartest controllers, highest qualityautomatic activation, highestreliability, brightest of all currently on the market, innovative "DebrisFree-Self Clearing Design." We hold up, treat our customers with the highest level of concern, and ourcustomer service is second to none.We can't help users who do notcontact us and let their systemsdeteriorate.

No maintenance,long life time, easy to install, high visibility,cost.

3i Innovation is on the road to establishing a new lighting standard. 3i has developed an intelligent, efficient and resilient lightingsystem for settings as diverse as roads, tunnels, airports and atsea. 3i's lighting products are based on a unique combination ofwireless power transfer and LEDs. These two technologies enablethe creation of lights that can be commercially applied over longerdistances than hard-wired lighting with the following features:individually programmed, making them ideal for traffic applications;quick and affordable to install; spark-free and have no danger ofelectrocution, making them safer for hazardous environments.Unique road lighting. Our key product is a wirelessly poweredintelligent on-road LED marker. Instead of being hard-wired into an electricity supply, the markers are lit up using magnetic fields viainductive power transfer, or IPT (similar to how an electrictoothbrush is charged). The markers are made from high-impactUV-stable polycarbonate and are designed to:withstand heavy traffic and temperature extremes; be waterproof; be fast to install and replace; be snow-ploughable; and have low total cost of ownership. The same cables that generate the magnetic field to light up theLED markers are used to communicate with microprocessors ineach light, making them individually programmable. Andcommunications are two-way: the systems have diagnosticcapabilities, including reporting of marker performance and roadtemperature.

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This Month’s Sur vey Re sults (Sur vey 2)

Bus Plannning and Op er a tions Soft ware

Last month, The Ur ban Trans por ta tion Mon i tor sent sur vey ques tion naires to or ga ni za tions that de velop and mar ket bus plan ning andop er a tions soft ware. Al to gether Five ven dors were iden ti fied that mar ket this type of soft ware in the U.S. Re plies were re ceived fromfour of those ven dors.

The re sults of the sur vey are pub lished here.

Bus Plannning and Op er a tions Soft ware Con tacts

NAME OF ORGANIZATION ANDNAME OF SOFTWARE PRODUCTS

CONTACT NAME TEL. E-MAIL

Enghouse Transportation -- Sched 21,TeleDriver, TripFinder

Debra Hendricks (905) 946-3200 dhendricks@enghouse.com

GIRO Inc. -- HASTUS, HASTUS-Daily,HASTINFO

Francois Carignan (514) 383-0404 francois.carignan@giro.ca

MobilitatEasy Rides

Cindy Johnson (307) 875-3425 easyrides@mobilitat.com

BusWiseBusWise2

Ian Mitchell N/A ian@buswise.net

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Bus Planning and Op er a tions Soft ware. Part A: Tran sit PlanningNAME OF SOFTWARE Sched21 HASTUS Easy Rides BusWise 2

ORGANIZATIONMARKETING SOFTWARE

Enghouse Transportation GIRO Inc. Mobilitat BusWise

PRICE RANGE AND/ORPRICING BASIS

Pricing is based on a site license, number of vehicles and numberof workstations.

Pricing based on the peak vehiclelevel and the modules installed.

$6,000 to $120,000 Initial licence: $500 per bus.Subsequent years: $200 per bus.

DATA FORMATSACCOMMODATED FORDATA IMPORTAND EXPORT

Excel, HTML, XML and ASCII Wide variety of formats availablefor data export or import. GIROworks with clients to determine themost effective method.

Comma Separated Value, TabDelimited, from SQL or Accesstables and over data-connection.

.CSV

OPERATING SYSTEMSSUPPORTED

Windows Servers: Windows Server 2008,Windows Server 2012. Workstations: Microsoft Windows7, Windows 8.

Microsoft Windows, ProfessionalEditions, All Versions under activesupport.

Windows 7, Linux

NATURAL LANGUAGESSUPPORTED

English English, French, German, Spanish. The application can easilyaccommodate many otherlanguages.

9 different languages English

NUMBER OF TRANSITPROPERTIES USINGSOFTWARE IN U.S.

5-19 20-99 100 or more Less than 5

NUMBER OF TRANSITPROPERTIES USINGSOFTWARE OUTSIDE U.S.

5-19 100 or more 100 or more Less than 5

YEARS SOFTWARE HASBEEN USED IN U.S.

25 30 15 Not in use in USA

YEARS SOFTWARE HASBEEN USED OUTSIDE U.S.

25 34 0 Not yet installed - beta awaitingacceptance for 3 years now

OPTIONS PROVIDED FORSUPPORT AND TRAINING

Software maintenance, grouptraining, individual training, onlinehelp, webinars, telephone support

Software maintenance, grouptraining, individual training, onlinehelp, webinars, telephone support,periodic users conferences,newsletter, user guides, trainingguides, remote login

Software maintenance, grouptraining, individual training, onlinehelp, webinars, telephone support,videos

Software maintenance, onlinehelp, webinars, telephone support

ANNUAL COST OFSUPPORT FOR YOURSOFTWARE/MODULE ANDWHAT IS INCLUDED INTHIS?

Support cost depends on the size of the agency. We offer 24x7support to issues to all customers under a maintenance agreement.

Maintenance and support fees area percentage of license fees. Unlimited support and errorcorrection, discounts on additionalmodules acquisition.

$3,000 to $18,000 Softwareupdates, bug fixes, continuedtraining, reports, webinars, andnewsletters.

Included in price

TRANSIT MODES THATSOFTWARE CANACCOMMODATE

Bus and rail All transit modes (bus, commuterrail, light rail, subway, tram, ferry).

Demand response, deviated fixedroute, door through door service,non-emergency medical

School buses, urban buses ,charter buses

RELATIONAL DATABASESTHAT SOFTWARESUPPORTS

SQL and Oracle Oracle, SQL Server. Microsoft SQL server MySQL

OTHER MODULES ANDSYSTEMS THAT SOFTWARE IS INTEGRATED WITH

CAD/AVL, IVR, TeleDriver Scheduling, runcutting, dispatch,trip planning, customer information, run time analysis, ridershipanalysis. Automatic vehiclelocation systems, automatedpassenger counters.

MapPoint, Google Maps, MobilitatTablet apps

Integration available on request l

OPEN DATABASE DESIGN Yes Yes Yes No

CAN POPULATIONSTATISTICS SUCHS ASPOPULATION DENSITIES,AGE, INCOME, THAT ARE INPROXIMITY TO STOPS BEDETERMINED?

No Yes Yes No

INTEGRATES CENSUS DATA IN ANALYSES?

No Yes Yes Yes

IDENTIFIES LOCATIONS OFSPECIAL SERVICES?

No Yes Yes Yes

PRODUCES THEMATICMAPS?

No Map data can easily be exported to external systems or applications.

Yes Yes

STRENGTHS OF SOFTWARE Easy to use, flexible, improvesdecision making ability, optimized runcutting, modular design,comprehensive reporting.

Flexible set of data import andexport tools available. Singlerelational database for seamlessintegration with other modules. Optional ridership and run timeanalysis modules available. Powerful algorithms forsynchronization between modesand routes and overalloptimization. Extensive set ofreports and interfaces availableand integrated support for CrystalReports for ad hoc reporting.

Ease of use: access trip record from any position in the software, canedit a record from any position in the software, designed by dispatchers,the software is maintained byin-house developers who have been with the company since thebeginning.Customer service is our number one priority. We customize to fit needs.

Conversational user interface, browser interface, full networkfunctionality, small to hugebusinesses can be catered for.

N/A = not avail able or not applicable

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NAME OF SOFTWARE Sched21 HASTUS BusWise 2

ORGANIZATION MARKETING SOFTWARE Enghouse Transportation GIRO Inc. BusWise

PRICE RANGE AND/OR PRICING BASIS Pricing is based on a sitelicense, number of vehiclesand number of workstations.

Pricing based on the peak vehiclelevel and the modules installed.

Initial licence: $500 per bus.Subsequent years: $200 perbus.

DATA FORMATS ACCOMMODATED FOR DATA IMPORT AND EXPORT Excel, HTML, XML andASCII

Wide variety of formats available forstatic and dynamic data export orimport. GIRO works with clients todetermine the most effectivemethod.

.CSV

OPERATING SYSTEMS SUPPORTED Windows Servers: Windows Server 2008,Windows Server 2012. Workstations: Microsoft Windows 7, Windows 8.

Windows 7, Linux

NATURAL LANGUAGES SUPPORTED English English, French, German, Spanish. The application can easilyaccommodate many otherlanguages.

English

NUMBER OF TRANSIT PROPERTIES USING SOFTWARE IN U.S. 5-19 20-99 Less than 5

NUMBER OF TRANSIT PROPERTIES USING SOFTWARE OUTSIDE U.S. 5-19 100 or more Less than 5

YEARS SOFTWARE HAS BEEN USED IN U.S. 25 30 Not in use in USA

YEARS SOFTWARE HAS BEEN USED OUTSIDE U.S. 25 34 Not yet installed - beta awaitingacceptance for 3 years now

OPTIONS PROVIDED FOR SUPPORT AND TRAINING Software maintenance,group training, individualtraining, online help,webinars, telephone support

Software maintenance, grouptraining, individual training, onlinehelp, webinars, telephone support,periodic users conferences,newsletter, user guides, trainingguides, remote login

Software maintenance, onlinehelp, webinars, telephonesupport

ANNUAL COST OF SUPPORT OF SOFTWARE/MODULE AND WHAT ISINCLUDED

Support cost depends on the size of the agency. We offer24x7 support to issues to allcustomers under amaintenance agreement.

Maintenance and support fees are a percentage of license fees.Unlimited support and errorcorrection, discounts on additionalmodules acquisition.

Included in price

TRANSIT MODES THAT SOFTWARE CAN ACCOMMODATE Bus and rail All transit modes (bus, commuterrail, light rail, subway, tram, ferry).

School buses, urban buses ,charter buses

RELATIONAL DATABASES THAT SOFTWARE SUPPORTS SQL and Oracle Oracle, SQL Server. MySQL

OTHER MODULES AND SYSTEMS THAT SOFTWARE IS INTEGRATEDWITH

CAD/AVL, IVR, TeleDriver Bid/Operations/dispatch, tripplanning, customer information, runtime analysis, ridership analysis.Automatic vehicle location systems,automated annunciation systems,automated passenger counters,interactive voice response.

Integration available on request

BUILDS TIMETABLES Yes Yes Yes

CONNECTIONS AND TRANSFERS DISPLAYED IN TIMETABLES Yes Yes Yes

INTERPOLATES BUS STOP ARRIVAL TIMES Yes Yes Yes

BLOCKING METHODS Manual, optimal Manual, optimal, heuristic Manual, optimal

ACCOMMODATE INTERLINING ROUTES OR TRIPS Yes Yes Yes

INCLUDES UNION RULES IN INTERLINING Yes Yes Yes

MINIMIZES DEADHEADING WHEN VEHICLE BLOCKING IS DONE Yes Yes Yes

CONSIDERS GARAGE LIMITATIONS WHEN VEHICLE BLOCKING ISDONE

Yes Yes Yes

OPTIMIZES DEADHEAD ROUTES Yes Yes Yes

OPTIMIZATION PROCEDURE MINIMIZES COSTS WHEN RUNCUTTINGAND DRIVER ASSIGNMENT IS DONE

Yes Yes Yes

ADHERES TO UNION AGREEMENTS WHEN RUNCUTTING ANDDRIVER ASSIGNMENT IS DONE

Yes Yes Yes

CONSIDERS “HARD” AND “SOFT” RULES WHEN RUNCUTTING ANDDRIVER ASSIGNMENT IS DONE

Yes Yes Yes

TRAVEL TIMES DETERMINED BASED ON TIME OF DAY WHENRUNCUTTING AND DRIVER ASSIGNMENT IS DONE

Yes Yes The whole system is based onreal time simulation for dailywork diary and all reporting. Allscreen displays/reports can beprinted if required.

TRAVEL TIMES DETERMINED BASED ON SCHEDULED SERVICEWHEN RUNCUTTING AND DRIVER ASSIGNMENT IS DONE

Yes Yes Yes

Bus Planning and Op er a tions Soft ware. Part B: Sched uling/Blocking/Runcutting/Ros ter ing

N/A = not avail able or not applicable

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Bus Planning and Op er a tions Soft ware. Part B: Sched uling/Blocking/Runcutting/Ros ter ing

NAME OF SOFTWARE Sched21 HASTUS BusWise 2

ORGANIZATION MARKETING SOFTWARE EnghouseTransportation

GIRO Inc. BusWise

CONSIDERS TYPES OF CREWING RULES WHENROSTERING/WEEKLY CREW IS DONE

Yes Yes Yes

CREATES BOTH 4-DAY AND 5-DAY ROSTERS Yes Yes Yes

MODIFIES COSTING ROUTINES TO CALCULATE AND MINIMIZEWEEKLY MAKEUP AND OVERTIME

Yes Yes Yes

ACCOMMODATE EFFECTIVE AND DISCONTINUE DATES Yes Yes Yes

DETERMINES THE REVENUE IMPACT OFROUTE-RESTRUCTURING

Yes Yes Yes

REPORTS PRODUCED Peak vehicle requirements,scheduled trips andmileage (by day type,garage, route,pattern, etc.), vehiclehours (by day type,garage, route, block,and time of day)

Peak vehicle requirements,scheduled trips and mileage(by day type, garage, route,pattern, etc.), vehicle hours(by day type, garage, route,block, and time of day). Theapplication is integrated withCrystal Reports.

Peak vehicle requirements, scheduled tripsand mileage (by day type, garage, route,pattern, etc.), vehicle hours (by day type,garage, route, block, and time of day), driverpayroll can be produced with additionalmanual overtime inclusion (see earlier).

STRENGTHS OF SOFTWARE See previous pages Flexible set of data import andexport tools available. AllHASTUS modules areseamlessly integrated througha single relationaldatabase.Capability to definemultiple versions of routes, run times, deadhead times, operator travels, rules,parameters, etc. Powerfuloptimization algorithms and aflexible mechanism to modelrules and conduct simulation(”what ifs”). Extensive graphic display capabilities with colorschemes. Seamlessintegration between vehicleschedules and crewschedules, with direct accessto vehicle scheduling datafrom crew scheduling graphsand lists. Adjustments tovehicle schedules can bemade directly from crewschedules. Comprehensivevalidation tool, with capabilityto add user-definedvalidations. Undo/Redocapability.

See previous pages.

N/A = not avail able or not applicable

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NAME OF SOFTWARE TeleDriver HASTUS-Daily BusWise 2

ORGANIZATION MARKETINGSOFTWARE

Enghouse Transportation GIRO Inc. BusWise

PRICE RANGE AND/OR PRICINGBASIS

N/A Pricing based on the peak vehicle level and themodules installed.

Initial licence: $500 per bus. Subsequent years: $200 per bus.

DATA FORMATS ACCOMMODATEDFOR DATA IMPORT AND EXPORT

N/A Wide variety of formats available for static anddynamic data export or import. GIRO works withclients to determine the most effective method.

.CSV

OPERATING SYSTEMS SUPPORTED Windows Servers: Windows Server 2008, Windows Server2012. Workstations: Microsoft Windows 7,Windows 8.

Windows 7, Linux

NATURAL LANGUAGES SUPPORTED English English, French, German, Spanish. The applicationcan easily accommodate many other languages.

English

NUMBER OF TRANSIT PROPERTIESUSING SOFTWARE IN U.S.

5-19 20-99 Less than 5

NUMBER OF TRANSIT PROPERTIESUSING SOFTWARE OUTSIDE U.S.

5-19 20-99 Less than 5

YEARS SOFTWARE HAS BEEN USED IN U.S.

+ 25 years 17 Not in use in USA

YEARS SOFTWARE HAS BEEN USED OUTSIDE U.S.

+ 25 years 17 Not yet installed - beta awaiting acceptance for3 years now

OPTIONS PROVIDED FOR SUPPORTAND TRAINING

Software maintenance, grouptraining, individual training,online help, webinars,telephone support

Software maintenance, group training, individualtraining, online help, webinars, telephone support,periodic users conferences, newsletter, user guides,training guides, remote login

Software maintenance, online help, webinars,telephone support

ANNUAL COST OF SUPPORT OFSOFTWARE AND WHAT ISINCLUDED

Depends on size of theagency.

Maintenance and support fees are a percentage oflicense fees. Unlimited support and error correction,discounts on additional modules acquisition.

Included in price any updates or specialcustomer requirements loaded via Internet ,demo software available on website (at presentif requested by email) freely available again in30 days time.

TRANSIT MODES THAT SOFTWARECAN ACCOMMODATE

Bus and rail All transit modes (bus, commuter rail, light rail,subway, tram, ferry).

N/A

RELATIONAL DATABASES THATSOFTWARE SUPPORTS

SQL or Oracle Oracle, SQL Server. N/A

OTHER MODULES AND SYSTEMSTHAT SOFTWARE IS INTEGRATEDWITH

N/A Bid/Operations/dispatch, trip planning, customerinformation, run time analysis, ridership analysis.Automatic vehicle location systems, interactive voiceresponse,

N/A

INCLUDES STYLES OF BIDDING Yes Yes N/A

TYPES OF BIDDING PERFORMED Holiday bidding, vacationbidding, vacation reliefbidding, hold down bidding,volunteer bidding. We assume that bidding means the sameas picking. We also assumevolunteer bidding means extra board.

Holiday bidding, vacation bidding, vacation reliefbidding, hold down bidding, volunteer bidding

N/A

INTERFACE TO HUMANRESOURCES DATA

Yes Yes As required

ACCESSES DRIVER INFORMATION Yes Yes Yes

MONITORS AND PROCESSESEXTRABOARD ASSIGNMENTS,DRIVER CHECK-IN, VEHICLEASSIGNMENT, EXTRA WORK ANDRUN ASSIGNMENTS

Yes Yes Yes

IMMEDIATE ACCESS TO SCHEDULECHANGES

Yes Yes Yes

PERFORMS PRE-PAYROLLPROCESS FOR DRIVER PAY

Yes Yes Yes

BUILDS DAY, WEEK, ORBI-MONTHLY PAYROLL FILES

Yes Yes Yes

STRENGTHS OF SOFTWARE Minimizes driver costs,reduces payroll error, ensures compliancy, instant access toaccurate information

Fast and easy access to all source scheduling data. Single dispatch window to enter absences and coverwork. Automatic and manual work assignment modessupported by a flexible assignment manager. Capability to optimize left over work pieces to createefficient and valid runs for assignment. Extensive setof statistics, counters and quotas functionality. Comprehensive validation tool, with capability to adduser-defined validations. Extensive set of configurablelists, interfaces (payroll, employee data, etc.), andreports available. Controlled individual operator access to their own information with capability to enterrequests or preferences, and view payroll data.

See section A

Bus Planning and Op er a tions Soft ware. Part C: Op er a tions

N/A = not avail able or not applicable

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Bus Planning and Op er a tions Soft ware. Part D: Cus tomer In for ma tion/Trip Planning

NAME OF SOFTWARE TripFinder HASTINFO BusWise 2

ORGANIZATION MARKETINGSOFTWARE

Enghouse Transportation GIRO Inc. BusWise

PRICE RANGE AND/OR PRICING BASIS Depends on size of the agency,third party costs

Pricing based on the peak vehicle leveland the modules installed.

Initial licence: $500 per bus. Subsequent years:$200 per bus.

DATA FORMATS ACCOMMODATED FORDATA IMPORT AND EXPORT

N/A Variety of formats available for static anddynamic data transfer. GIRO will work with client to determine the most effectivemethod.

.CSV

OPERATING SYSTEMS SUPPORTED N/A Servers: Windows Server 2008, WindowsServer 2012. Workstations: MicrosoftWindows 7, Windows 8.

Windows 7, Linux

NATURAL LANGUAGES SUPPORTED English English, French, German, Spanish. Theapplication can easily accommodate manyother languages.

English

NUMBER OF TRANSIT PROPERTIESUSING SOFTWARE IN U.S.

5-19 5-19 Less than 5

NUMBER OF TRANSIT PROPERTIESUSING SOFTWARE OUTSIDE U.S.

5-19 5-19 Less than 5

YEARS SOFTWARE HAS BEEN USED INU.S.

N/A 14 Not in use in USA

YEARS SOFTWARE HAS BEEN USEDOUTSIDE U.S.

N/A 16 Not yet installed - beta awaiting acceptance for 3years now

OPTIONS PROVIDED FOR SUPPORTAND TRAINING

Software maintenance, grouptraining, individual training, onlinehelp, webinars, telephone support

Software maintenance, group training,individual training, online help, webinars,telephone support, periodic usersconferences, newsletter, user guides,training guides, remote login

Software maintenance, online help, webinars,telephone support

ANNUAL COST OF SUPPORT OFSOFTWARE.MODULE AND WHAT ISINCLUDED

Depends on the size of theagency.

Maintenance and support fees are apercentage of license fees. Unlimitedsupport and error correction, discounts onadditional modules acquisition.

Included in price

TRANSIT MODES THAT SOFTWARE CAN ACCOMMODATE

Bus, rail All transit modes (bus, commuter rail, lightrail, subway, tram, ferry).

School buses, urban buses , charter buses

RELATIONAL DATABASES THATSOFTWARE SUPPORTS

N/A Oracle, SQL Server. MySQL

OTHER MODULES AND SYSTEMS THATSOFTWARE IS INTEGRATED WITH

N/A Scheduling, dispatch, automatic vehicle location systems,interactive voice response,

Integration available on request

GENERATES AUTOMATIC TRANSITROUTE INFORMATION BETWEENORIGIN AND DESTINATION

Yes Yes No. Normally appropriate but system can accessGoogle Maps to do this. Normally routes aredefined by population related to business staffingand normal transport requirements for BusWise 2based on tying together TimingPoints.

TRANSIT ROUTE INFO BASED ON ALLTRANSIT MODES PROVIDED

Yes Yes See above.

ACCOMMODATE MAXIMUM WALK TIMEAND NUMBER OF TRANSFERS

Yes Yes No

PROVIDES WALKING INSTRUCTIONS Yes Yes No

CAN ACCESS TIMETABLE INFORMATION Yes Yes Yes

CAN ACCESS FARE INFORMATION Yes Yes Yes

N/A = not avail able or not applicable

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1. Trails Feasibility Study and PreliminaryEngineeringAgency:Solano Transportation AuthorityDeadline:March 6, 2014, at 3 p.m. PSTContact:Sofia Recalde, Associate Planner, at tel. (707)399-3230.Website:http:_Hlt380909927_Hlt380909928/BM_1_BM_2_/tiny.cc/jobsrfpsDescription:The Bay Trail and the Vine Trail share acommon planned alignment in Solano County from the Vallejo Ferry Terminal to the northend of the White Slough Path at theintersection of Highways 29 and 37.The planned alignments for the two trailsdiverge as they head north past the WhiteSlough Path, with the Bay Trail plannedalignment adjacent to the Bay to the west ofHighway 29 and the Vine Trail plannedalignment to the east of Highway 29 (see Area1 in Attachment A). In addition, a gap existsbetween the south end of the White SloughPath at Sacramento Street as it turns intoWilson Avenue before connecting to theVallejo Waterfront Path at the intersection ofWilson Avenue and Highway 37 (See Area 2in Attachment A). The alignment from thispoint to the Vallejo Ferry Terminal isconsidered complete by the Bay Trail and inneed of minor upgrades for the purposes of the Vine Trail.The objective of the Bay Trail and Vine TrailFeasibility Study is to provide a continuousand seamless multi-use path for cyclists andpedestrians. The City of Vallejo has requested that the STA act as the project sponsor onbehalf of the City to complete the feasibilitystudy.The goal of this study is to identify thepreferred alignments for the Bay and VineTrails in Areas 1 and 2 based on theengineering and environmental feasibility,public support and cost. The consultant shallprovide mapping, cross sections, researchoptions, property ownerships, identifyenvironmental constraints and opportunities,costs of alternatives, funding opportunities for future implementation and identify any flawsin alternatives.

2. Intelligent Transportation SystemsEngineering StudyAgency:Chautauqua County, NY, Chautauqua AreaRegional Transportation System (CARTS)Deadline:March 28, 2014 at 2 p.m. ESTContact:Cheryl Gustafson, Sr. Project Coordinator,CARTS, email:GustafsC@Co.Chautauqua.NY.US, tel.(716) 661-8486Website:https://www.nyscr.ny.gov/iframes/openAdDetail.cfm?id=7D0A1A65-7CA0-4B34-9818-6035B5AA4F76Description:Intelligent Transportation SystemsEngineering Study. Questions and Answer meeting will be held at234 Hopkins Ave., Jamestown, NY at 10:00

A.M. on Tuesday March 11, 2014.Teleconference will be available uponrequest.

3. Regional TransportationPlan/Sustainable Communities StrategyAgency:Southern California Association ofGovernments (SCAG)Deadline:March 13, 2014, at 10 a.m. PSTContact:Laura Aguilar, Contracts Administrator, tel.(213) 236-1922, email: aguilarl@scag.ca.govWebsite:www.scag.ca.gov/businessDescription:RFP Number: 14-001-B38In April 2012, SCAG’s Regional Counciladopted the 2012-2035 RegionalTransportation Plan/SustainableCommunities Strategy (RTP/SCS): Towards a Sustainable Future. The RTP/SCS is theculmination of a multi-year effort, involvingstakeholders from across the SCAG Region,to guide regional planning policy through theintegration of land use planning andtransportation investment decision-making.The Sustainability Program is a key SCAGinitiative for implementing the RTP/SCS,combining Compass Blueprint assistance forintegrated land use and transportationplanning with new Green Region Initiativeassistance aimed at local sustainability andActive Transportation assistance for bicycleand pedestrian planning efforts. Sustainability Projects are intended to provideSCAG-member jurisdictions the resources toimplement regional policies at the local level,focusing on voluntary efforts that will meetlocal needs and contribute to implementingthe SCS, reducing greenhouse gas (GHG)emissions, and providing the range of localand regional benefits outlined in the SCS.

4. Rail Corridor StudyAgency:North Carolina Capital Area MetropolitanPlanning OrganizationDeadline:March 26, 2014Contact:N/AWebsite:http://www.campo-nc.us/RFPs/RFP_WREC_2014-02-04-FINAL.pdfDescription:The North Carolina Capital AreaMetropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) is inviting qualified consulting firms or personsto submit Project Proposals to conduct a RailCorridor Study along the rail corridor between Gorman Street in Raleigh, NC and NEMaynard Street in Cary, NC.This document presents a desired set of worktasks to prepare a work product of twoprimary needs:

• Corridor Safety and Mobility Studywithin the City of Raleigh and the Townof Cary.

• Station Area Plans around identifiedproposed light rail (LRT) and commuterrail (CRT) stations.

The Corridor Safety and Mobility Study will

evaluate the area surrounding existing streetcrossings of the NCRR/NS/CSXT Railroadsbetween Gorman Street in the City of Raleighand NE Maynard Road in the Town of Cary.This study will also address the need for newgrade separations and other potential streetimprovements within the study area, whileevaluating the economic, community, andmarket impacts of those recommendations. The Station Area Plans will providerecommendations for supporting andimplementing policy and regulatory changes;alternative future land use patterns; andmultimodal mobility scenarios resulting fromthe Corridor and Safety Mobility Studyfindings and supportive of other local plansand initiatives.The Station Area Plan scenarios shall befocused on:

• Connectivity - fostering coordination ofmultimodal transportation opportunitieswithin a long term development patternthat encourages light rail and commuterrail ridership;

• Jobs - enabling creation of new orexpansion of existing businesses toprovide jobs for residents; and

• Housing - supporting the existingresidential community

5. Wayfinding ProgramAgency:Town of FalmouthDeadline:March 26, 2014, at 2 p.m. ESTContact:Theo Holtwijk, Director of Long-RangePlanning, email:tholtwijk@town.falmouth.me.us.Website:http://www.town.falmouth.me.us/Pages/FalmouthME_Bids/2014_files/RFP_Wayfinding_20140212_complete.pdfDescription:The Town of Falmouth is requestingproposals from qualified consultants for thedesign and development of a Town-wideWayfinding Program.Many communities have identified a need forwayfinding to help travelers navigateefficiently to area destinations and amenities.Wayfinding also helps to increase site or areavisibility and helps attract new visitors. Thecurrent wayfinding system of the Town ofFalmouth is in a state of disrepair and it is, tosome, also out of date. The Town’sComprehensive Plan has reaffirmed the needfor an updated wayfinding system. Thisproject is Phase 1 of the establishment anddesign of a wayfinding program in Falmouth.It is anticipated that Phase 2 will includefabrication and installation of all or a portionof the wayfinding system.

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March 1-5 National Association of Counties Legislative Conference

Washington, DC

Washington Hilton

The NACo Legislative Conference is held on an annual basis in Washington, DC. This meeting brings over 2,000 elected and appointed county officials from across the country to focus on legislative issues facing county government. Attendees hear from key Administration officials and members of Congress and are offered a myriad of additional educational opportunities addressing current and hot topic issues. A day of lobbying on Capitol Hill the last day rounds out the conference.

http://www.naco.org/meetings/participate/LegislativeConference/Pages/default.aspx

March 3-4 2014 Transportation Planning, Land Use and Air Quality Conference, sponsored by The Institute for Transportation (INTRANS) at Iowa State University, Transportation Research Board, American Society of Civil Engineers, Air and Waste Management Association, Federal Highway Administration

Charlotte, NC

Holiday Inn Charlotte-City Centre

The conference will address the latest research on the integration of transportation planning, land use decisions, and air quality. March 2014 is a new date for the conference. It previously had been planned for the June/July 2013 timeframe.

http://www.ucs.iastate.edu/mnet/tpluaq/home.html

March 4-6 Minnesota’s Transportation Conference, sponsored by the Federal Highway Administration, Minnesota DOT, The Transportation Alliance, the American Council of Engineering Companies, the University of Minnesota Center for Transportation Studies, and the Associated General Contractors of Minnesota

Bloomington, MN

DoubleTree by Hilton

Conference sessions and an exhibit area will feature recent advances in highways, transit, rail, waterways, biking, walking, and more from the Twin Cities metro area and Greater Minnesota. Current technical and policy issues will also be explored. Attendees will be able to earn training and professional development credits, including American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP) credits and Professional Development Hours (PDHs). Individuals from multiple transportation-related disciplines and organizations are encouraged to attend.

http://mntransportationconference.org/

March 9-11 APTA Legislative Conference

Washington, DC

J.W. Marriott This conference directs the industry’s advocacy effort and legislative strategy to the U.S. Congress and Administration; offers sessions with key members of Congress, Hill staff, Administration officials, and Washington opinion makers. It’s designed for board members, policy makers, transit operators, consultants, manufacturers and suppliers, local coalition members, and state association leaders.

http://www.apta.com/mc/legislative/Pages/default.aspx

March 9-12 ITE 2014 Technical Conference and Exhibit

Miami, FL Hyatt Regency Miami

This year’s theme is “Applying Innovation and Technology to Transportation.” The event will include more than 20 technical sessions, three “Get-Out-and Experience” technical tours and a technology showcase. Attendees will hear from key transportation experts, learn about and see demonstrations of products and services in the exhibit hall and have opportunities to share experiences and network.

http://ite.cvent.com/events/ite-2014-technical-conference-and-exhibit/event-summary-bee5f7ffea4540ffbf41f324d1e6c081.aspx

March 12 Mileage-Based User Fee Alliance (MBUFA) Conference

Washington, DC

Pew Conference Center

The conference will feature addresses from national and state transportation leaders, as well as state representatives who will discuss what actions states are expected to take. Attendees will also be able to hear what car manufacturers are thinking as they look to the future. In addition, the conference will include a full session to address myths about MBUF.

http://www.mbufa.org/

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March 19-21 2014 Design-Build in Transportation

San Jose, CA

San Jose Convention Center

The conference, sponsored by the Design-Build Institute of America, is the world’s only event dedicated to enhancing the use and delivery of design-build in the transportation sector. Nearly 900 key players and decision-makers from the industry will take part in the conference educational programs and networking events -- all geared towards teaching how to save time, save money, and increase the quality of the nation’s construction projects

http://www.dbia.org/conferences/transportation/Pages/default.aspx

March 25-28 Intertraffic Amsterdam

Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Halls 1-6, 9-11 and the Elicium of the Amsterdam RAI Convention Centre

Intertraffic Amsterdam attracts high profile visitors: final decision makers, co-decision makers and advisors from private ventures, contractors, local, national and international authorities. Almost 26,000 visits in 2012 from 123 different countries worldwide, further details of which can be found in our facts and figures. Visitor registration for Intertraffic Amsterdam 2014 is facilitated online as of December 2013. The event will feature exhibits by manufacturers, importers and agents of products and services in the traffic and transport industry.

http://www.intertraffic.com/intertraffic-amsterdam/Pages/default.aspx

Spring 2014 5th Transportation Research Board Conference in Travel Modeling

Baltimore, MD

Hyatt Regency Baltimore on the Inner Harbor

The event will allow researchers and practitioners to share knowledge and experiences on current models and modeling research. The conference will also review advances made possible by the integration of social, land-use, transportation supply, and technology into the modeling process.

http://www.cvent.com/events/innovations-in-travel-demand-forecasting/event-summary-477f7b8596454859ac120f90d9ebc56c.aspx

April 2-4 TRB Joint Rail Conference

Colorado Springs, CO

Cheyenne Mountain Resort

TRB is cosponsoring the Joint Rail Conference which is expected to address railroad infrastructure, rail equipment, and signal and train control engineering; service quality and operations; planning and development; safety and security; energy efficiency and sustainability; urban passenger rail transport; and electrification.

http://www.asmeconferences.org/JRC2014/

April 8-9 Kansas Transportation Engineering Conference, sponsored by K-State University Transportation Center, Kansas Department of Transportation, Kansas County Highway Association, Kansas Chapter, American Public Works Association, Kansas Association for Uniform Traffic Control, Federal Highway Administration, Mid America Transportation Center and the Kansas University Transportation Research Institute

Manhattan, KS

Kansas State University Student Union

The conference will include addresses from state and federal transportation officials and educators, as well as numerous sessions on transportation issues such as: Public Works Professionals as First Responders: How Can We be Ready?; Low-Cost Option (Blue Configuration Light Systems) to Reduce Red Light Running at Signalized Intersections; Bridge Scour Countermeasures Based on HEC 23; and Estimating Design Discharges for Drainage Structures in Western Kansas

http://www.dce.k-state.edu/conf/transportation/

April 8-10 New Jersey State Transportation Conference and Expo, sponsored by the New Jersey Council on Special Transportation

Atlantic City Tropicana Hotel, Casino, Conference Center

This annual conference attracts more than 900 transportation professionals from New Jersey and nearby states and features five concurrent sessions each day with each track of sessions specializing in one of the following: Commuter Rail, Light Rail Transit and Bus; Community Transportation and Paratransit; Road and Bridge; Pedestrian and Bicycle; Goods Movement; Miscellaneous Transportation Subjects; Funding, Grand Opportunities and Advertising Revenue.

When available, conference details can be found online at www.njcost.com. Click on Transaction.

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April 9-11 TRB’s 5th International Transportation and Economic Development Conference

Dallas, TX Dallas Sheraton

The conference is designed to address the important role that investments in all transportation modes have on the economic development potential and global competiveness of communities, regions, and nations. The conference will include keynote speakers, general sessions, and breakout sessions. The breakout sessions will provide more focused discussions on techniques to promote economic development through transportation investments; the economic implications of trends in funding; the impacts of all forms of transit; climate change; global trade; and urban development policies. Other topics expected to be addressed during the meeting include freight and the impact of the expansion of the Panama Canal, economic development analysis tools, and techniques to communicate with the public and policy makers.

http://www.trb.org/main/blurbs/168776.aspx or contact Martine Micozzi of TRB at MMicozzi@nas.edu

April 14-16 5th International Conference on Women’s Issues in Transportation

Paris, France Ecole des Ponts

The conference’s objective is to highlight the latest research on gender issues relating to the use of transportation systems and services through the use of plenary sessions, poster sessions, thematic sessions, and one keynote session. The conference will be held in concert with the Transport Research Arena Conference (European Union-sponsored) being held in Paris at the same time.

www.ifsttar.fr and http://wiit-paris2014.sciencesconf.org/

April 14-17 Transport Research Arena (TRA 2014), supported by the European Commission, the Conference of European Road Directors, and the three European Technology Platforms: the European Road Transport Research Advisory Council the European Rail Research Advisory Council and the WATERBORNE TP.

Paris, France CNIT in Paris-La-Défense

The theme and slogan of TRA2014 are “Transport Solutions: From Research to Development” and “Innovate Mobility, Mobilize Innovation. The objective will be to mobilize the best researchers and engineers together with policy and decision makers and company managers and engineers to find and implement innovative solutions in transport. TRA2014 will be composed of several types of sessions for better dissemination of information.

http://tra2014.sciencesconf.org/

April 16-18 TRB’s 4th International Conference on Roundabouts

Seattle, WA Washington State Department of Transportation

The event, which will draw upon more than 20 years of roundabout design, planning, and operational knowledge, will explore innovative and effective uses of roundabouts to help enhance the safety and efficiency of intersections. The meeting will also examine the international influences on North American roundabout design practices.

http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/conferences/2014/Roundabouts/Roundabout2014.pdf

April 22-25 3rd International Conference on Transportation Infrastructures, hosted by The Department of Civil and Industrial Engineering at the University of Pisa under the auspices of the International Society for Maintenance and Rehabilitation of Transportation Infrastructures (iSMARTi)

Pisa, Italy University of Pisa

The ICTI series aims to promote and discuss efficient planning, design, construction and maintenance of transportation facilities and infrastructure assets by addressing important issues related to roads, railways, airports, intermodal and mass transit systems. The 3rd ICTI is focused on sustainable development and preservation of transportation infrastructure assets, by eco-efficient and cost-effective actions needed to correct undesirable situations. The conference aims to present and discuss current knowledge of ever-changing challenges to scientists, engineers, managers and professionals from around the world who are involved in sustainable development and maintenance of transportation infrastructure assets.

http://www.ing.unipi.it/. Detailed information will be provided at the Conference web site http://www.ing.unipi.it/icti2014 several months before the event date.

April 27-30 5th Transportation Research Board Conference on Innovations in Travel Modeling (ITM) of the Transportation Research Board

Baltimore, MD

Hyatt Regency Baltimore on the Inner Harbor

This fifth conference will build on the successes of the previous four conferences to serve as a venue for the modeling community to exchange information on promising modeling methods to address emerging policy questions. The conference will feature a series of sessions that address a wide range of topics related to innovations in travel modeling.

http://www.cvent.com/events/innovations-in-travel-demand-forecasting/event-summary-477f7b8596454859ac120f90d9ebc56c.aspx

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April 28-30 TRB 10th National Conference on Transportation Asset Management

Miami, FL Hyatt Regency Miami

The 10th National Transportation Asset Management Conference will cover a broad range of topics on surface transportation modes of interest to agencies in all stages of implementation of asset management practices. Themes will include comprehensive implementation within and across organizations, establishing and monitoring asset management plans, performance measures for asset management, tools and technology to assist decision making, transit state of good repair, and adaptation of transportation to extreme weather events and climate change. This meeting will serve as the forum for moving MAP-21 asset management initiatives into practice and will be the venue for a wide range of federal, state, MPO/local, and transit agencies, as well as private sector practitioners and university researchers to share knowledge, sponsor peer to peer learning, and work together.

http://www.cvent.com/events/10th-national-conference-on-transportation-asset-management/event-summary-be4a48a1ff534e04a5eeba464b2878f3.aspx

May 2-6 APTA International Bus Roadeo

Kansas City, MO

Kansas City Marriott Downtown and Kansas City Convention Center

The International Bus Roadeo is a unique learning opportunity for operators and maintenance teams to engage with other transit agency professionals up close and personal. The Roadeo is more than a competition of driving skills and maintenance disciplines; it is a training and networking opportunity for all attendees. There are multiple training sessions for operators, maintenance teams and supervisors as part of the Bus & Paratransit Conference

http://www.apta.com/mc/busroadeo/Pages/default.aspx

May 4-7 APTA Bus & Paratransit Conference

Kansas City, MO

Kansas City Marriott Downtown and Kansas City Convention Center

The conference includes specialized educational sessions, technical training workshops, interactive presentations, special events, tours, and also a bus display and exhibitor showcase featuring the latest bus and paratransit vehicles, products, and services. It’s designed for all bus and paratransit system personnel, board members, policymakers, suppliers, consultants, and any other personnel involved with bus and paratransit design, construction, operations, and maintenance.

http://www.apta.com/mc/bus/Pages/default.aspx

May 5-8 AASHTO GIS for Transportation Symposium

Burlington, VT

Sheraton Burlington Hotel and Conference Center

"Seasons for Change" is the theme of this year's 27th Annual GIS-T Symposium. It will provide a chance for people in government and private industry who are interested in the use of GIS for transportation purposes to get together and share experiences, see state-of-art software, and learn more about this field. The Symposium annually attracts over 400 Symposium registrants in addition to the 50 exhibitors in the technology hall.

http://www.gis-t.org/

May 12-16 Infrastructure Week 2014, led by led by the U.S. Council on Competitiveness, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program and the National Association of Manufacturers

Washington, DC

N/A Infrastructure Week 2014 will feature a series of events designed to build awareness and educate both the public and policy makers about America’s infrastructure challenges. It will explore emerging solutions, innovative approaches, and best practices being developed nationwide to modernize aging infrastructure.

http://www.infrastructureweek2014.com/

May 13-15 Intertraffic China 2014, organized by the Ministry of Transportation, and managed by the Transport Technology Exchange Center of the China Academy of Transportation Sciences and CCPIT Beijing Sub-council

Beijing, China

Beijing Exhibition Center

Intertraffic China takes place in conjunction with China Transpo 2014, organized by the Ministry of Transportation (MOT), and managed by the Transport Technology Exchange Center of the China Academy of Transportation Sciences (CATS) and CCPIT Beijing Sub-council. Since its launch in 1992, China Transpo has gone from strength to strength, and become the largest international show for transportation in China.

http://www.intertraffic.com/intertraffic-china/Pages/default.aspx

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May 18-21 Inaugural Light Rail Futures 2014 Conference, hosted by Curtin University

Fremantle, Australia

The Esplanade Hotel Fremantle

Curtin University is inviting academics, engineers, architects, planners and others from around the world to present and discuss the latest advances in their research as well as important issues relevant to Light Rail transit role in City shaping. It aspires to embrace a broad cross section of the transport and land use planners to look to the future as well as build on the successes over the last past several decades of Light Rail systems planning, operations and outcomes. The Fremantle (Perth) Light Rail Futures 2014 Conference will be the first of the sort in Australia and provide an opportunity for Australians and the global community to contribute to the knowledge-base of the Perth Metro Region as it plans to construct a first line of Light Rail.

http://www.lrf2014.com/

May 21-22 CTS Transportation Research Conference, sponsored by the University of Minnesota Center for Transportation Studies

St. Paul, MN Saint Paul RiverCentre

The conference acts as a forum for researchers and practitioners from Minnesota and the Upper Midwest to share their research findings in a variety of transportation-related areas. Concurrent sessions are focused in four categories that match the Center’s research emphasis areas—Transportation Safety and Traffic Flow, Transportation Infrastructure, Transportation and the Economy, and Transportation Planning and the Environment—with a fifth category covering Education and Outreach issues. Attendees come from multiple disciplines and organizations involved in transportation, including policymakers and practitioners from state, regional, and local government; private sector consultants, shippers, carriers, and providers; and faculty, students, and staff from the University of Minnesota and other educational institutions.

http://www.cts.umn.edu/events/conference/

May 28-30 Wessex Institute of Technology Urban Transport 2014

The Algarve, Portugal

Pestana Alvor Praia hotel

The goal of this 20th International Conference on Urban Transport and the Environment is to devise and implement transportation systems that contribute to a sustainable urban environment through minimizing the negative environmental impacts while improving the socioeconomic and cultural development of the urban environment. The depth and breadth of topics covered by this conference will allow for robust analysis of the complex interactions of urban transport and the environment and provide opportunities for establishing practical action strategies for resolving urban transportation problems.

http://www.wessex.ac.uk/14-conferences/urban-transport-2014.html

May 28-June 1

AASHTO Spring Meeting

Louisville, KY Louisville Marriott Downtown Hotel

The AASHTO Annual Spring Meeting offers transportation executives the opportunity to network and share the latest in industry policies and innovations. Hosted by the home state of the AASHTO President, this meeting includes informational sessions on relevant industry topics

http://www.cvent.com/events/2014-aashto-spring-meeting/event-summary-eb49d7ac39bc4d1da1e584c8d3756b57.aspx

June 2014 Council of University Transportation Centers (CUTC) 2014 Summer Meeting

Lincoln, NE University of Nebraska-Lincoln

The meeting will include strategy sessions, workshops, committee discussions, and other business relevant to the members’ transportation research activities.

http://cutc2014.unl.edu/

June 1-4 International Symposium on Transport Simulation & International Workshop on Traffic Data Collection and its Standardisation, organized by the Traffic Engineering Laboratory (LICIT), a joint Research Lab. of ENTPE, and IFSTTAR (a state-financed Research Institute in the areas of Transportation, Urban and Civil Engineering, Construction Materials and Natural Hazards)

Ajaccio, Corsica, France

Conference Centre of Ajaccio

The aim of this event is to gather the world’s transportation and traffic academics and practitioners, as well as people who are interested in contributing to or gaining a deeper understanding of data collection, its standardization and the transport simulation field. The conference will include plenary sessions featuring high-level speakers and interactive breakout sessions. It will focus on scientific challenges and issues raised by new theoretical development in the transport fields, as well as new advances in Mobility Data Collection and smart processing tools

http://ists14.sciencesconf.org/

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June 2-4 Geospatial Transportation Mapping Association’s 2nd Annual Meeting & TransData Expo and US DOT Sponsored Data Palooza

Arlington, VA Hilton Reagan National Airport

This gathering of transportation data experts provides an opportunity to network with the greatest data collection, organization and analytical minds. Private sector innovators combine with federal, state and local policymakers to push the borders and discover what makes the system work. For 2014, USDOT brings its successful "Data Palooza" showcase to TransData Expo providing greater access to more of tomorrow's innovations while addressing MAP-21 related safety, pavement and bridge data requirements. Data Palooza sessions focus on challenges that need to be overcome to make "better, faster, smarter" a reality.

http://www.gtma2014.com/

June 2-6 FISITA 2014 World Automotive Conference

Maastricht, Netherlands

Maastricht Exhibition & Conference Centre (MECC)

FISITA 2014 will showcase the latest mobility innovations from companies and universities throughout the region, including The Netherlands, Germany, France and Belgium. It will provide a meeting place for engineers and executives from Europe, Asia and America to exchange knowledge and build collaborations for the creation of greener, safer mobility world-wide.

http://www.fisita2014.com/

June 8-11 Transportation and Development Institute Congress 2014, organized by the Transportation and Development Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers

Orlando, FL Hilton Orlando Lake Buena Vista

The meeting is designed to bring together all of the disciplines of transportation and infrastructure development, including aviation. The aviation component includes discussions on airfield geometry, safety, Geographic Information Systems, and pavements.

http://content.asce.org/conferences/tdicongress2014/

June 8-11 2014 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium

Dearborn, MI Adoba Hotel The symposium is the premier annual forum sponsored by the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society (ITSS). Researchers, academicians, practitioners, and students from universities, industry, and government agencies are invited to discuss research and applications for Intelligent Vehicles and Vehicle-Infrastructure Cooperation. The technical presentations are characterized by a single session format so that all attendees remain in a single room for multilateral communications in an informal atmosphere. Tutorials will be offered on the first day followed by three days of presentations and a vehicle demonstration day. An exhibition area will be available for the presentation of products and projects.

http://www.ieeeiv.net/

June 10-11 Innovation in Mobility Public Policy Summit, hosted by the Association for Commuter Transportation, Mobility Lab, University of California-Berkeley Transportation Sustainability Research Center and Transit Center

Washington, DC

Hamilton Crowne Plaza

The summit will bring innovative transportation professionals together to discuss new developments in shared use mobility and foster further collaboration among federal, state and local governments and private sector mobility providers. Building upon the Shared Use Mobility Summit in San Francisco last October, this event will feature panel discussions and presentations by influential mobility leaders within the public sector, alongside the world’s experts in the fields of carsharing, one-way carsharing, peer-to-peer (P2P) carsharing, public bikesharing, ridesharing, and technology providers to share their experiences in bringing new transportation options to local communities. In addition, Summit participants will have the opportunity to examine ways that governments and shared use providers can work together to create more seamless transportation systems within their communities and connect even more individuals to their services.The event will also examine the role of emerging technologies in shared use mobility, and how the public and private sectors can take advantage of these technologies to reach a wider portion of the travelling public

http://sharedusemobilitycenter.org/

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June 10-12 Transports Publics 2014 – The European Mobility Exhibition, organized by Transportation Authorities Association (GART) and the Public and Rail Transport Union (UTP) and the GIE Objectif Transport Public

Paris, France Paris-Expo, Porte de Versailles

UITP, GIE Objectif transport public, GART and UTP signed a memorandum of understanding at the UITP Congress in Geneva to establish closer ties between key players in the world of transport as they join forces and work together to promote mobility in Europe. This international conference will be the first practical outworking of the MOU. It will bring together high-ranking figures from across Europe, offering strategic insights into the issues facing the sector today.

http://www.transportspublics-expo.com/

June 15-18 APTA Rail Conference

Montreal, Quebec

Fairmont The Queen Elizabeth and Palais des congrès de Montréal

Hosted by the Societe de Transport de Montreal, this technical conference focuses on all rail modes: urban, commuter, intercity and high-speed rail. Experts in the industry will share effective strategies, experience, and solutions. The program of educational sessions will be organized by six tracks of study: Technology & Technical Forums, Operations, Safety & Security, Planning, Sustainability & Finance, Capital Programs and Management & Policy.

http://www.apta.com/mc/rail/program/Pages/default.aspx

June 22-25 AASHTO Subcommittee on Traffic Engineering (SCOTE)

Minneapolis, MN

N/A Details not yet available. http://scote.transportation.org/Pages/default.aspx

June 24-27 2014 World Symposium on Transport and Land Use Research (WSTLUR) , sponsored by the University of Minnesota

Delft, the Netherlands

Delft University of Technology

The conference provides a unique international forum for academics and practitioners at the intersection of economics, planning, design, engineering, and other relevant disciplines. The conference aims to develop a better understanding of the interaction between the dynamics of land use and transport, with an emphasis on the way in which the built environment can contribute to more sustainable transport in a rapidly changing world.

http://www.cts.umn.edu/events/wstlur/symposium/

June 25-27 National Committee on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (NCUTCD) Summer Meeting

Minneapolis, MN

N/A Details not yet available. http://www.ncutcd.org/index.shtml

June 29-July 2

ITE 2014 Midwestern District Annual Conference

Rapid City, SD

Rushmore Plaza Holiday Inn

The Western District and Midwestern District will try something completely different this year by holding a joint inter-district Annual Meeting. The Midwestern District covers 11 states and, with the Western District’s 13 states, the confab represents 24 western states plus U.S. Pacific territories. From a technical perspective, the broader base of this conference will allow for technical information sharing that will further advance innovations throughout the combined regions.

http://www.2014ite.com/

June 29-July 2

TRB’s North American Travel Monitoring Exposition and Conference (NATMEC): Improving Traffic Data Collection, Analysis, and Use 2014

Chicago, IL Swissôtel Chicago

The conference is designed to advance the state of the practice of travel monitoring by providing a mechanism for improving the interaction between system operators, data collection program managers, and the various staff that collect, process, and utilize that data.

http://www.cvent.com/events/natmec-improving-traffic-data-collection-analysis-and-use/event-summary-1dbfb7ac4c1848939d04579344615323.aspx

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July 4-7 14th COTA International Conference of Transportation Professionals (CICTP2014)

Changsha, China

N/A The theme for this year’s conference is “Safe, Smart and Sustainable Multimodal Transportation,” and CICTP2014 will address critical issues and challenges emerging from the development of safe, smart and sustainable multimodal transportation systems. The conference will provide a platform for exchanging and sharing of the international experiences in developing and applying innovative solutions and advanced technologies in transportation. In addition to regular technical sessions, several plenary sessions are planned for internationally prestigious experts and scholars to discuss the state-of-the-art/practice transportation development. Other special forums will be focused on issues that are of great interest to the audience of various backgrounds, including the World Bank Transportation Development Forum, Dean Forum for Chinese University Transportation Schools, and COTA Professional Development Forum for Young Scholars and Students.

http://www.nacota.org/Events_CICTP.html

July 11-14 NACo’s 79th Annual Conference and Exposition

New Orleans, LA

Morial Convention Center

The National Association of Counties conference will provide an opportunity for all county leaders and staff to learn, network and guide the direction of the association. It will give county officials the opportunity to vote on NACo’s policies related to federal legislation and regulation; elect officers; network with colleagues; learn about innovative county programs; find out about issues impacting counties across the country; and view products and services from participating companies and exhibitors.

http://www.naco.org/meetings/participate/NACoAnnual/Pages/default.aspx

July 13-16 2014 WASHTO Annual Meeting

Albuquerque, AZ

Hyatt Regency This meeting will come at a time when the expiration of MAP-21 will be nearing and lawmakers will be embroiled in efforts for a new transportation bill. The meeting program will allow attendees to share ideas to address challenges in preserving the transportation infrastructure that is vital to the economy.

http://washto2014.com/

July 14-17 MoTraSim: Mobility, Traffic and Transportation Movels, Methodologies and Applications

Diepenbeek, Belgium

Hasselt University/ Campus Diepenbeek

The event is being sponsored by the Transportation Research Institute (IMOB) at Hasselt University. MoTraSim will feature a series of lectures by renowned researchers in the following topics: Mobility Modeling – basic principles and tools; and Special Focus – agent-based modeling and simulation for mobility, travel behavior, mobility market and electro-mobility (including smart grid, etc.); Big data as source for modeling; Integrating big data and modeling; and Applications. The summer school is designed for senior-researchers, early-stage researchers, practitioners and students from the domain of transportation sciences, data mining, agent/activity based modeling and related topics.

http://www.uhasselt.be/datasim

July 15-17 2014 Automated Vehicles Symposium, sponsored by the Transportation Research Board

San Francisco, CA

Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport

The Transportation Research Board is sponsoring the symposium, which will focus on challenges and opportunities related to the increasing automation of motor vehicles as well as the environments in which they operate. The symposium will build on the 2012 and 2013 workshops on the state-of-the-art in road vehicle automation research and will explore automation developments that may affect the future of surface transportation and transportation organizations.

http://www.trb.org/Main/Blurbs/169833.aspx

July 21-23 TRB’s 14th National Conference on Transportation Planning for Small and Medium–Sized Communities: Tools of the Trade

Burlington, VT

Sheraton Hotel and Conference Center

The conference will focus on economical, ready-to-use, and practical tools and techniques designed to help transportation professionals in planning and programming multi-modal transportation facilities in small- and medium-sized communities. The conference will also discuss future research and implementation needs related to transportation planning for small- and medium-sized communities.

http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/conferences/2014/save-the-date-flier_20130522_FINALb.pdf

July 26-29 International Municipal Signal Association (IMSA) Annual Meeting

Schaumburg, IL

Renaissance Schaumburg Hotel and Convention Center

This will be the 119th Annual Conference and 37th Annual School.

http://itsa.org/events/icalrepeat.detail/2014/07/26/147/-/international-municipal-signal-association-imsa-annual-meeting

Aug. 3-4 TRB’s 2014 Global Level Crossing Symposium

Urbana-Champaign, IL

N/A TRB is cosponsoring this symposium which will give attendees the opportunity to share best practices on safety at level crossings and trespass prevention programs.

http://trb.org/Calendar/Blurbs/169394.aspx

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Aug. 10-13 ITE 2014 Annual Meeting and Exhibit

Seattle, WA Washington State Convention & Trade Center

Details not yet available. http://www.ite.org/meetings/index.asp

Aug. 17-20 APWA’s 2014 International Public Works Congress and Expo

Toronto, Canada

Metro Toronto Convention Centre

The annual APWA Congress will provide dynamic keynote speakers, world-class education sessions covering all areas of public works, as well as presentations on emerging trends in technology and sustainability. More than 400 exhibiting companies are projected to showcase cutting-edge products and services.

http://www.apwa.net/Congress

Aug. 21-22 Mid-Continent Transportation Research Symposium, sponsored by the Institute for Transportation and the Iowa Department of Transportation

Madison, WI Concourse Hotel & Governor's Club

The symposium is being hosted by the Wisconsin Transportation Center and Wisconsin Department of Transportation and sponsored by the Institute for Transportation and the Iowa Department of Transportation. Presentations may focus on completed research projects or highlight implementation activities that result from research.

http://www.wistrans.org/midcon/

Sept. 7-11 2014 ITS World Congress

Detroit, MI Cobo Center The ITS World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems & ITS America Annual Meeting is a major forum for academic and scientific excellence in the ITS industry, and this year’s theme is “Reinventing Transportation in our Connected World.” The conference will feature keynote addresses, conference sessions, special events and demonstrations. They are designed for scholars, researchers, policymakers and high tech and transportation professionals to present their original research and areas of expertise within a unique context of papers, presentations, expert panels, publications, demonstrations, exhibits, and technical tours.

http://itsworldcongress.org/

Sept. 21-24 Rail~Volution 2014, sponsored by Brookville, Siemens, URS, United Streetcar and Wilson Ihrig & Associates

Minneapolis, MN

N/A Details not yet available. http://www.railvolution.org/

Sept. 21-27 Seoul 2014 Capacity Building Program: Building Leaders in Urban Transport Planning, sponsored by The Korea Transport Institute

Seoul, Korea Korea Transport Institute

The workshop is aimed at developing leadership capabilities in urban mobility planning. It seeks to create awareness of what integrated mobility planning involves, what are its different components and how it needs to be undertaken. It will use a “hands on” learning approach, making extensive use of case studies, group exercises and site visits – all aimed at highlighting linkages between the different components of the urban transport system.

http://english.koti.re.kr/lutp2014/overview.asp

Sept. 29-Oct. 1

42nd European Transport Conference, sponsored by The Association for European Transport

Frankfurt, Germany

Campus Westend, Goethe University

The conference connects the worlds of research, consultancy, policy and practice. Attendance at ETC allows different groups to pose questions to fellow professionals and to assess what is possible in terms of delivery. Researchers are challenged by policy-makers; practitioners need to deliver on the ground what the policy-makers want. Among the themes this year are: big data, investment in transport infrastructure, cycle infrastructure and cycle safety, managing traffic in urban areas and town centers and resilience to the effects of climate change.

http://aetransport.org/page/open/title/European%20Transport%20Conference/

Oct. 26-29 40th International Forum on Traffic Records & Highway Information Systems

St. Louis, MO

N/A Details not yet available. http://www.trafficrecordsforum.org/

Dec. 10-12 TPMDC-2014 --International Conference on Transportation Planning & Implementation Methodologies for Developing Countries

Powai, Mumbai, India

N/A The conference is being organized by the Transportation Systems Engineering group at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. TPMDC will serve as a platform to share transportation-related findings more relevant to developing countries, though work more relevant to developed countries may also be presented at the conference. Conference themes will include Transportation Planning, Traffic Operations and Pavements.

http://www.iitb.ac.in/