MINUTES

Mobility Management Committee

Hyatt Regency San Antonio

San Antonio, TX

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

7:00-8:30 a.m.

Welcome and Introductions

  • Ronald L. Barnes, Chair; Senior Advisor, Steer, Davies, Gleave North America, Inc.
  • Initial Exercise: Everyone was asked to introduce themselves, provide information about their background, and explain their personal visions of Mobility Management
  • Visions:
  • Opportunity and mechanism to take transportation services to a whole new level
  • Customer focused
  • Translates to partnerships with other agencies
  • Smart utilization and optimization
  • Shift from coordination to utilization
  • Management of access and assessing the trip from door to door
  • DOT should change name to Department of Mobility due to the fact that they handle so many mobility issues outside of the traditional highway issues
  • It is important to consider mobility management as a strategy/concept and not a program
  • Everyone had a different definition or interpretation of Mobility Management, and our challenge as a committee is to come up with a common definition

Background and Origins of Mobility Management at APTA

  • Mobility management is the result of a study as a part of a TCRP project from 2000-01. This has resulted in several changes to the transit industry.
  • What do these changes suggest to the transit industry?
  • All of the industries are trying to change
  • This implies a mission change
  • Collaboration
  • Literal integration of assets
  • Use of information technologies
  • It poses the questions about what new skills an agency brings to the table to meet the new customer interests. There has been analysis of transit agencies around the country to ask them where they are in making those changes.There are a dozen or so agencies in the industry that have started to move with the changes
  • Savannah, GA- tried to develop a four county, two state enterprise
  • Since then has developed Mobility Management Inc., which is tourist focused. This works really well in the downtown region.
  • Reaffirmation that everyone has a different definition or interpretation of Mobility Management.

Draft Mission and Goals

  • Committee discussed our mission moving forward and requested input on the draft mission statement. There was also discussion of access management, and whether that should be recognized in the mission statement.
  • Vision statement in the revised strategic plan addressed a single access point.
  • If not the local transit agencies, then who should step forward and to perform this role?
  • Focus on the individual-the whole trip from start to end.
  • If we are going to score anything it needs to be a community score rather than a transit score.

Authorization/Appropriations Update

  • No business

Governance

  • The updated 2007-Strategic Plan for moving Mobility Management forward was disseminated:
  • Staff recently updated the plan in an attempt to revitalize it.
  • United We Ride was originally behind the program; however FTA (Doug Birnie) had a different idea of the definition. One of the difficulties is in trying to determine the definition between different agencies.
  • The committee’s responsibility is laying the foundation for a definition

Other Items

  • There has been a major paradigm shift made at the 50, 000 foot level.
  • James McLary’s class was once called ‘Coordinated Mobility’ and is now called ‘Managing Community Mobility’
  • San Francisco
  • Initially coordinated the parking, transit and human services to eliminate contending factions across departments. The city also had to deal withADA service issues and taxi regulation as well as parking management and enforcement. They essentially forced the consolidation.
  • Next Steps:
  • Conference call to keep this process moving-conference call pending with to determine next steps
  • Subcommittees, coordination with other committees
  • Committee should submit feedback on draft mission statement
  • Define ‘Mobility Management’
  • Identify in very simple terms:“you are doing mobility management if ...”
  • Determine 5 or 6 ideas that we define as markers of mobility management.
  • Determine date and location of next meeting

Adjourn

  • 8:28 a.m.