Event Schedule
Monday, October 4, 2021 Duluth Entertainment and Convention Center (DECC)
8:00 AM — Registration Opens
10:00 AM to 12:00 PM — Operations/Paratransit Committee
10:00 AM to 12:00 PM — Training Session I - Safety and Security with TSA: Brooke Boesch, Transportation Security Inspector
1:00 PM to 3:00 PM — Training Session II - Mobility Management: Judy Shanley, Ph.D, Easterseals Director, Nat Ctr for Mobility Management (NCMM)
2:30 PM to 3:30 PM — Transit System CEO Summit
4:00 PM to 6:00 PM — MPTA/WIPTA Annual Meetings
6:00 PM to 7:30 PM — Welcome Reception
Tuesday, October 5, 2021 Duluth Entertainment and Convention Center (DECC)
7:30 AM — Registration Opens
8:30 AM to 12:00 PM — Maintenance Committee
8:30 AM to 10:00 AM — General Session / Welcome / Keynote Speakers
Duluth Mayor Emily Larson - Welcome
Federal Transit Funding Update - Art Guzzetti, APTA; Scott Bogren, CTAA; Kelley Brookins, FTA
10:00 AM to 11:00 AM — Break in Expo Hall
11:00 AM to 12:00 PM — Break-Out Sessions
Recovering From COVID
Vehicle Maintenance Topic
Micro/Macro Transit
Transit System Planning
12:00 PM to 2:30 PM — Lunch In Expo Hall
2:30 PM to 3:30 PM — Tours of Duluth Transit Authority
3:30 PM to 5:30 PM — Duluth Harbor Tour (Pre-Registration Required)
6:30 PM — First Transit Reception
Wednesday, October 6, 2021 Duluth Entertainment and Convention Center (DECC)
7:30 AM — Registration Opens
8:30 AM to 9:15 AM — General Session - Minnesota and Wisconsin Agency Updates
Tori Nill, MnDOT; Ian Ritz, WisDOT; Nick Thompson, Metropolitan Council
9:30 AM to 10:30 AM — Break-Out Sessions
Alternative Fuels/Electric Buses
Non-Emergency Medical Transportation Idea
Café
FTA Update – FTA Staff
Customer Service/Marketing
9:15 AM – 11:45 AM Let’s Get Going with On-line Trip Planning & General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS)!
Marcy Jaffe, Transnnovation, Inc.
10:30 AM to 11:00 AM — Break
11:00 AM to 12:00 PM — Break-Out Sessions
Better Bus Project
Transit Association Participation
Entry Level Driver Training Requirements
Transit Technology/Software
Drug and Alcohol Training
12:00 PM to 1:30 PM — Lunch with Keynote Speaker - Diversity and Equity in Transit: Alonzo Kelly
2:00 PM to 3:00 PM — Tribal Transit Training Opening FTA Region
3:00 PM – Break
3:15 PM – Tribal Transit Training 2
Speaker: Kristen Joyner
6:00 PM – National RTAP Reception
Thursday, October 7, 2021 Radisson Hotel (505 W. Superior St.) Duluth
7:30 AM – Breakfast
8:00 AM - National RTAP Update
8:45 AM — Tribal Transit Training 2 - FTA Tribal Transit Technical Assistance Program
10:15 AM — Break
10:30 AM — Tribal Transit Training 3 - Procurement
12:15 PM — Lunch - Robin Phillips, Executive Director, National RTAP
1:30 PM — Tribal Transit Training 4
3:00 PM — Break
3:15 PM — Tribal Transit Training 5
4:30 PM — Tribal Transit Training 6
2019 Conference Attendees:
Wisconsin Department of Transportation
Maritime Metro Transit
City of Appleton/Valley Transit
Janesville Transit System
ADVOCAP
Center for independent living Western Wisconsin
Milwaukee County Transit System
American United Transport Group
Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission
Clark County Department of Social Services
Boelter + Lincoln
Eau Claire Transit
Brown Cab Service Inc
SWCAP
Metro Transit
City of Wausau/Metro Ride
Maritime Metro Transit
Rusk County Transit
City of Janesville
Regional Transit Leadership Council
SRF Consulting Group
Go Transit/City of Oshkosh
Green Bay Metro
City of Eau Claire
Maritime Metro Transit
Federal Transit Administration
City of Milwaukee DPW
Northwoods Transit Connections
Waukesha Metro Transit
