T3 Webinars

Intended Audience

The webinar is free of charge and is appropriate for public transportation agency and private sector professionals engaged in or considering implementing a regional fare card project, including Federal FTA and FHWA field staff, state transportation planners, transit agency managers and operators, metropolitan planning organizations, regional planning councils, city and county agencies, consultants and contractors who support these projects, and members of the financing and policy community. A certificate for webinar participation will available upon request via e-mail and through the webinar feedback form.

Description

This webinar presents an overview of the Central Puget Sound Regional Fare Coordination (RFC) project and a summary of institutional lessons learned through a federal evaluation conducted during the initial planning and implementation stages of the project. The objectives of this T3 webinar are to:

• provide a snapshot of the project and its planned implementation,
• present an overview of key events, decisions and agreements that have led to a consensus approach among seven agencies,
• identify some of the issues faced and strategies for overcoming those issues, and
• present lessons learned that may offer practical value to others.

Host:

Sean Ricketson, Transportation Specialist, Federal Transit Administration's Research Office

Sean has worked in this office since 1992 on a variety of Federally-sponsored transportation research programs, including Intelligent Transportation Systems, transit security and electric drive technology. He has a BA in Economics from the University of Virginia.

Presenters:

Candace Carlson, RFC Contract Administrator, King County Metro. Candace is the regional project manager, coordinating the seven-agency Central Puget Sound smart card fare system implementation. Candace has been associated with the project since the early stages of policy and technical analysis in l994.

Chris Cluett, Research Leader, Battelle Seattle Research Center. Chris has a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Washington. He has 30 years experience with Battelle and has managed numerous Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) research and evaluation projects. His recent work has included the evaluation of public response to ITS and related institutional, societal and operational aspects of transportation. He was the Project Manager for the institutional evaluation of the Central Puget Sound RFC Project, sponsored by the ITS Joint Program Office of the U.S. DOT.

Joe Peters, Manager of ITS Program Assessment at the US DOT's ITS Joint Program Office. He has 34 years of systems research and evaluation experience in the academia, private consulting, and government sectors. Currently, he is responsible for tracking the state of the practice of ITS deployment in the nation, performing qualitative and quantitative evaluations of ITS field operational tests and ITS deployments across the USA, and developing and disseminating ITS-related information to US DOT partners and the national and international public through an integrated network of website and other outreach resources. He holds a PhD in applied-experimental psychology from the Catholic University of America.