These online seminars are free of charge and offered by the Community
Transportation Association Joblinks Employment Transportation Initiative.
If you would like to register for any of the following sessions please email Joblinks Program Coordinator Monica Price at price@ctaa.org with your name and email address.
We hope you will join us on one of these dates!
Mobility Management: Successful Strategies
Date: Tuesday, March 6
Time: 2:00-3:00 p.m. EST
Description: Mobility Management is an innovative method of coordinating, managing and providing transportation services. This conference call explains Mobility Management in more detail, including information about getting a program started and programs in progress. Three mobility managers will discuss their programs.
Using Google Earth and Other Visual Tools in Stakeholder Outreach
Date: Thursday, March 13
Time: 2:00-3:00 p.m. EST
Presenters: Scott Bogren, Communications Director, Community Transportation Association of America, Washington, D.C. Julie Stamper, GIS Specialist, Pasquotank County, N.C. Carter Dozier, Director of Workforce Development, Northeastern Workforce Development Board, N.C.
Description: Google Earth and GIS technologies are powerful tools that you can use in your discussions about filling in gaps in employment and other types of transportation needs in your region. Pinpoint with accuracy the location of employment centers, residential densities, existing and proposed transit services, geographic features, and more on a single satellite-imagery map.
Establishing a One-Call Center for Transportation Services
Date: Wednesday, April 9
Time: 2:00-3:30 p.m. EST
Presenters: Todd Schoenrock, Technical Specialist, Community Transportation Association of America Lynnda Bassham, Human Services Director, Lower Savannah Council of Governments, and director of projected funded by a U.S. DOT's Mobility Services for All Americans grant to use technology to support a coordinated transportation system.
Description: Transportation users-whether the general public, Medicaid- or ADA-eligible, older adults, or workers who have limited income-often do not know what transportation services are available to them and how to access them. They may have experienced frustration in calling agency after agency trying to determine what options they have. Communities are increasingly looking into establishing a single phone number that all customers can use to find transportation. Learn about the different versions of one-call centers, from the most rudimentary to the more complex.
Also visit the National Transit Institute's website for more courses, www.ntionline.com.
Using Google Transit as a Planning and Customer Information Tool
Date: Tuesday, May 13
Time: 2:00-3:30 p.m. EST
Presenter: Jessica Wei, Strategic Partner Development, Google
Description: Google Transit (www.google.com/transit) is a powerful tool that gives customers access to travel routes, schedules, and travel times on participating urban and rural transportation services. Learn how your community could use Google Transit to provide trip planning services to your customers. Google Transit's features can also used in conjunction with other applications for many other purposes, such as providing real-time travel information, being used in planning services, and reducing duplication of existing services.
