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News•by Staff•October 11, 2017

BCTA’s Ober named ‘Outstanding Board Member’

Ober’s nomination covered an outstanding career in the public transit industry. He began his career at the Port Authority of Allegheny County in the early 1970’s. In 1980, Ober was appointed by the Beaver County Commissioners as an inaugural member of the Beaver County Transit Authority (BCTA) Board of Directors. He has been appointed to seven consecutive five-year terms on the Board. Since 1985, the BCTA Board of Directors went on to elect him chairman 17 times.

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News•by Staff•October 11, 2017

Prince receives Hall of Fame distinction

Robert Prince is currently retired from AECOM where he served as VP, transit business development director. He continues work with Gannon Consult. In his past role as Chairman of the Conference of Minority Transportation Officials, Prince continues to give back to the industry.

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News•by Staff•October 11, 2017

Transit GM Q&A: What are you doing to provide comprehensive training to both drivers and maintenance staff?

METRO asked some of the top execs in the industry what they are doing to provide comprehensive training to both driver and maintenance staff.

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News•by Staff•October 11, 2017

Transit GM Q&A: What are you doing to attract the next generation of talent to your agency?

METRO asked some of the top execs in the industry what they are doing to recruit the next generation of transportation leaders.

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News•by Staff•October 11, 2017

Texas' DCTA taps LAN for railroad engineering services

As part of its services, LAN will provide rail system guideway design, additions or modifications to existing guideway, signal system design, rail bridge engineering and inspection, station design, schedule modeling, and emergency railroad engineering services.

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News•by Staff•October 10, 2017

CEOs Discuss Focusing on Behaviors for Better Results

Culture isn’t about results, it’s about behaviors — leadership behaviors, employee behaviors, and customer behaviors. That was the takeaway at the Monday session “Executive Roundtable: Creating World Class Organizations – Leadership, Culture, Trust, Empowerment.”

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News•October 10, 2017

Integration, Innovation Keys to Mobility Management

“Be innovative and adapt” was the theme of Monday’s “Integrated and Innovative Mobility Management” session, as President/Executive Director of the Dallas Area Rapid Transit Gary Thomas led a three-person panel on the future of public transit.

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News•by Staff•October 10, 2017

New Flyer unveils 'Xcelsior CHARGE' electric transit bus

Over the past five years, New Flyer conducted intensive research, development and testing to improve the design, performance, and technological advancement of the battery-electric Xcelsior bus.

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News•by Staff•October 10, 2017

Masabi Launches Account-Based Ticketing at APTA 2017

As well as mobile barcode tickets, the multi-format platform facilitates the use of a variety of fare media, including contactless payment cards, smartcards, digital wallets, and more

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Articles•October 10, 2017

Women in Transportation: Nadine Lee

Nadine Lee came into her position with the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s Office of Extraordinary Innovation two years ago after learning about its mission.

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