The APTA UTFS program is actively promoting the Contactless Fare Media System Standard (CFMS) for use in Contactless fare systems throughout North America. Additionally, there are exciting developments in the contactless payments industry that will make the future of transit fare collection bright. These include using contactless bank cards, mobile devices, and identification credentials to pay for transit fare. The UTFS program is actively gathering information on these approaches and developing training curriculum around them how they will relate to the CFMS Standard. APTA and the UTFS leaders will lead this highly informative and interesting session with a special emphasis on interactive question and answer.

For more information:
T3 Session 12/11/2007 on the U.S. DOT ITS Professional Capacity Building Program website.
Transcript: T3 Session 12/11/2007 Files

This T3 webinar was a technical presentation about the recent improvements made to the NTCIP 1203 (Dynamic Message Sign) standard, including a discussion of Virginia's experiences in deploying an early version of this standard. NTCIP 1203 is one of the most widely deployed ITS standards and version 2 was recently elevated to Recommended Standard status by the NTCIP Joint Committee - suggesting that it is ready for early deployment. This webinar discusses the enhancements made to the version 2 standard, the issues that need to be considered when deploying the new standard, and Virginia's experience in deploying the standard.

For more information:
T3 Session 9/26/2007 on the U.S. DOT ITS Professional Capacity Building Program website.
Transcript: T3 Session 9/26/2007 Files

Congestion is one of the greatest threats to the nation's economy. Businesses lose an estimated $200 billion per year due to freight bottlenecks; and drivers waste nearly 4 billion hours of time, and more than 2 billion gallons of fuel, in traffic jams each year. The greatest concentration of congestion is often along critical transportation corridors that link residential areas with business centers, sports arenas and shopping areas. New road construction alone will not solve the growing problem of congestion-travel demand on our nation's roadways is outpacing new freeway capacity by a factor of five. ITS is now widely recognized as key to improving the management and operation of highways and arterials. Metropolitan areas are Increasingly integrating ITS into their transportation planning and programming processes through congestion management processes in order to assure that economic growth and quality of life will be supported by the region's surface transportation system. Albuquerque, New Mexico is facing rapid population growth and shifting land use patterns. Although ITS applications are been deployed throughout the region, in 2005 the MPO for the region, the Mid-Region Council of Governments (MRCOG), concluded that congestion management process had not been fully integrated into the programming and transportation decision making process at the regional or local levels. MRCOG turned to the ITS Peer-to-Peer Program, and MRCOG was connected with the Wilmington Area Planning Council (WILMAPCO) in Delaware because of WILMAPCO's decade of experience with congestion management systems. In this T3 webinar, WILMAPCO's experience in integrating operations into the planning process was detailed. MRCOG described the gaps that it identified in Albuquerque's congestion management process, and how it is filling them through Lessons Learned from Wilmington.

For more information:
T3 Session 9/18/2007 on the U.S. DOT ITS Professional Capacity Building Program website.
Transcript: T3 Session 9/18/2007 Files

This T3 Webinar focused on the impact of signal coordination. Two presenters, Bill Henry from the City of Little Rock, and Reggie Chandra from the Mid-America Regional Council (MARC), presented on their efforts to improve signal timing in their regions. Mr. Henry discussed signal coordination using a timing innovation known as Dallas Phasing. He provided background on the timing project, offer a description of the implementation, and discuss lessons learned. Mr. Chandra presented on Operation Green Light, a signal timing project that continues to optimize traffic-signal corridors that span across multiple jurisdictions (20 municipal agencies and 2 states in the Kansas City Metropolitan Area). Mr. Chandra focused on the costs and benefits of traffic signal optimization in Olathe, KS and discussed both technical and institutional issues overcome.

For more information:
T3 Session 9/11/2007 on the U.S. DOT ITS Professional Capacity Building Program website.
Transcript: T3 Session 9/11/2007 Files

The Architecture provides a common framework for planning, defining, and integrating intelligent transportation systems. It is a mature product that reflects the contributions of a broad cross-section of the ITS community (transportation practitioners, systems engineers, system developers, technology specialists, consultants, etc.). The National Architecture is required on ITS projects receiving funding in whole or in part from the Highway Trust Fund, including the Mass Transit Account.
This T3 focused on new features found in Version 6.0 of the National ITS Architecture and the new Version 4.0 of the Turbo Architecture Software. This T3 Webinar is not an overview of the National ITS Architecture but addresses some history and background.

For more information:
T3 Session 8/23/2007 on the U.S. DOT ITS Professional Capacity Building Program website.
Transcripts:  T3 Session 8/23/2007 Files

The purpose of this Wireless T3 webinar was to provide background information concerning the use wireless data transport systems. The availability of unlicensed radio spectrum has fostered tremendous growth in wireless data networking and the use of wireless technologies in support of transportation networks. That growth in the use of unlicensed radio devices presents us with challenges. This session explored the reasons for the growth and introduce information concerning unlicensed spectrum, architectures and wireless data transport standards. This session was the first in a series of T3s that will focus on Wireless Data Transport for Traffic and ITS.

For more information:
T3 Session 8/14/2007 on the U.S. DOT ITS Professional Capacity Building Program website.
Transcripts:  T3 Session 8/14/2007 Files

The purpose of this T3 webinar was to address one of the more challenging aspects of systems engineering (SE)-understanding and articulating where and how systems engineering applies in an organization's day-to-day business processes and practices. To illustrate these concepts, separate case studies were presented by two State agencies-the Virginia DOT and the Mississippi DOT-on the approach these agencies have used to incorporate systems engineering into their project delivery process. The webinar explored how needed institutional changes occurred and what products had to be developed in support of the systems engineering application.

For more information:
T3 Session 8/2/2007 on the U.S. DOT ITS Professional Capacity Building Program website.
Transcripts:  T3 Session 8/2/2007 Files

The purpose of this T3 session was to provide more background to highlight the use of a Regional Concept for Transportation Operations (RCTO) as a tool for facilitating regional collaboration on management and operations, and to present four metropolitan areas that have developed and applied RCTOs to their regions: Portland, Oregon; Detroit, Michigan; Tucson, Arizona; and Hampton Roads, Virginia. The session explored the differing approaches used to develop an RCTO, and the contributing roles of ITS Strategic Plans, Regional Architectures, and funding sources in this process.

For more information:
T3 Session 7/25/2007 on the U.S. DOT ITS Professional Capacity Building Program website.
Transcripts:  T3 Session 7/25/2007 Files

This session presented the experiences of the Capital District Transportation Authority (CDTA) and the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) on the deployment and use of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) in the management of information. Topics covered included management reporting and data archiving associated with on-board ITS technologies that include automated vehicle location (AVL) systems, next-stop automated announcement systems, automatic passenger counting systems, and automated fare collection systems. Additional topics of discussion included planning applications using AVL data, CAD/AVL project implementation, and Peer-to-Peer lessons learned.

For more information:
T3 Session 6/20/2007 on the U.S. DOT ITS Professional Capacity Building Program website.
Transcripts:  T3 Session 6/20/2007 Files

This webinar discussed the eleven technologies or systems that constitute the Transit Core Suite of Technologies. These eleven technologies are considered the most basic and useful technologies for public transportation agencies to deploy.
This webinar was for any transit agency representative that is "starting to examine or apply technologies" or technical manager that needs assistance in talking to non-technical decision makers regarding various intelligent transportation systems for transit. This webinar and the accompanying materials should also appeal to transit managers of medium, smaller, and rural transit agencies that are looking for like-sized peers to discuss transit technology applications. In addition, specific discussion of human service transportation needs should also interest transportation providers in human service agencies.

For more information:
T3 Session 5/22/2007 on the U.S. DOT ITS Professional Capacity Building Program website.
Transcripts:  T3 Session 5/22/2007 Files

This T3 webinar presented an overview of the FHWA Systems Engineering (SE) Handbook. The T3 webinar aimed primarily at ITS project managers and project staff, however the SE concepts described in the webinar would also be useful to transportation planners, system operators and maintainers, and other others involved in the Traditional Project Life Cycle for transportation projects.

For more information go to:
T3 Session 3/13/2007 on the U.S. DOT ITS Professional Capacity Building Program website.
Transcripts:  T3 Session 3/13/2007 Files