ITS Professional Capacity Building Program

T3 Webinars

Webinar Overview

Intended Audience

The webinar is free of charge, and is available to both Federal and non-Federal personnel. A certificate for webinar participation will available upon request via e-mail and through the webinar feedback form.

Description

The webinar is a conference call and simultaneous net conference (webcast).

Success rates for intelligent transportation systems life cycles are very low. Problems can be traced to:

• an incorrect contracting approach
• inexperience of the agency
• failure to follow appropriate procedures
• inadequate commitment of resources.

This webinar introduces an approach to developing a Contracting model that:

• helps identify what should be included in the procurement process and assemble together the combination of options, called procurement packages, then
• gives you a web tour through an eight-step decision process to defining and completing a procurement contract.

Host:

Mac Lister, ITS Specialist, FHWA Resource Center

Mac Lister has over 35 years of experience in the field of information systems. Before joining FHWA nine years ago, he had worked as an IT manager for 25 years, the last 12 of which were for a public transit agency. His ITS areas of expertise are 511 technology/overall operations, the National ITS Architecture, ITS professional capacity building, and systems engineering. Mac provides training, outreach and technical support for the National ITS Architecture program. He is also the team leader for the FHWA's National Field Support team; the field co-chair for the FHWA Operations Council's architecture working group; and a member of the 511 Deployment Coalition Working Group.

Mac is a certified NHI instructor, teaching courses in ITS Software Acquisition, Systems Engineering and National ITS Architecture. He has also been an independent consultant to ITS America. Mac is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

Presenters:

Phil Tarnoff, Director, Center for Advanced Transportation Technology, University of Maryland

Prior to beginning his work at the University, Phil was President and founder of PB Farradyne Inc. While at Farradyne, he was involved with numerous projects dealing with advanced technology including the development of the RT-TRACS adaptive traffic signal control system and the TRANSMIT system, a toll-tag based traffic surveillance system.

Phil's work with the University of Maryland includes preparation and delivery of both short courses and online training for the ITS community through the Consortium for ITS Training and Education (CITE). He served as the co-principal investigator for the NCHRP project for the development of procurement practices for ITS. In addition, he is also an active participant in the National Dialogue on Transportation Operations, a leader in the development of a national research agenda for Operations, and a researcher in the areas of distance learning and Intelligent Transportation Systems. Phil also provides support to the Maryland State Highway Administration in connection with their acquisition of the CHART Advanced Traffic Management System.

Phil's earlier previous work experience included employment with Alan M. Voorhees and Associates (a division of the Planning Research Corporation), and the Federal Highway Administration. He received his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Carnegie Institute of Technology (renamed Carnegie Mellon University), and Master of Science from New York University. In 2002, Phil received the prestigious Theodore M. Matson award for his contributions to the traffic engineering profession.