New scholarship will be known as the American Public Transportation Foundation (APTF) Business Member/Janie Wulkan Memorial Scholarship, in honor of his wife who died last summer.
by Alex Roman, Managing Editor
April 24, 2013
Joining Alan Wulkan (far right) at the check presentation ceremony last March were APTA President/CEO Michael Melaniphy, BMBG Chair Angela Iannuzziello and APTA Chair Flora Castillo. Photo by Steve Barrett
2 min to read
Joining Alan Wulkan (far right) at the check presentation ceremony last March were APTA President/CEO Michael Melaniphy, BMBG Chair Angela Iannuzziello and APTA Chair Flora Castillo. Photo by Steve Barrett
In March, Alan Wulkan, managing partner for HDR|InfraConsult, donated $50,000 to fund a new scholarship that will be known as the American Public Transportation Foundation (APTF) Business Member/Janie Wulkan Memorial Scholarship, in honor of his wife who died last summer.
“At our Business Member Board of Governors (BMBG) meeting last January, I learned the BMBG, who had three funded scholarships in our program, had not done anything as far as the name or how to recognize somebody with the third scholarship,” explained Wulkan. “It then occurred to me that I had a unique opportunity, if the BMBG was interested, of matching that $50,000, because Janie loved the BMBG. We never missed a meeting, and frankly, she was as much a part of the BMBG as I was.”
Ad Loading...
The end result is the APTF’s first-ever $100,000 endowed scholarship. Wulkan explained, since it is in his wife’s name, the recipients of the scholarship will be women.
“I have always been committed to trying to open our industry up to women, minorities and others who have not traditionally had management or upper level opportunities in our transit industry,” he said. “What we are targeting this toward are women who are going to school to study in some field that could lead to a career in public transit. It’s one small step, but it’s something I have always felt strongly about.”
The mission of the APTF, the charitable affiliate of the American Public Transportation Association, is to increase and retain the number of young professionals entering the public transportation field as a career to sustain growth and improvement throughout the industry. The foundation does this by providing scholarships, fellowships, transit education, and research programs for students and professionals involved in or entering the public transportation field as a career.
Since its inception, APTF has awarded more than 65 scholarships.
What truly drives the cost of a paratransit fleet? Beyond the purchase price, seven operational factors quietly determine maintenance frequency, downtime, and long-term service reliability. This whitepaper explores how these factors shape lifecycle cost and what agencies should evaluate when selecting paratransit vehicles.
In this conversation, TBC’s Executive Director Ed Redfern, President Corey Aldridge, and Washington Representative Joel Rubin outline the coalition’s key policy priorities, the challenges facing transit agencies, and how industry stakeholders can work together to strengthen the voice of bus transit at the federal level.
Originally introduced in 2023 as the Bus Line Redesign, the effort has evolved into a more targeted update that maintains familiar routes while improving reliability, frequency, evening and weekend service, and connections across Allegheny County.
S3 will connect communities along SR 522 with fast, reliable, battery-electric bus service from Shoreline South Station to Bothell via Kenmore and Lake Forest Park.
The configuration uses Ster Seating's Gemini seat platform to create a family-friendly floor layout specifically engineered to accommodate parents traveling with young children.
The Renton Transit Center project will relocate and rebuild the Renton Transit Center to better serve the regional Stride S1 line, local King County Metro services, and the future RapidRide I Line.
