Date and Time: Thursday, April 26, 2012, 1:00 pm EDT
Duration: 90 minutes
Cost: Free

Talking Technology and Transportation (T3) Webinars are sponsored by the U.S. Department of Transportation’s ITS Professional Capacity Building (PCB) Program. The ITS PCB Program is part of the Research and Innovative Technology Administration’s ITS Joint Program Office.

Webinar Overview

The trend toward open architecture payment systems for fare collection in the United States is clear. In 2011, the Talking Technology and Transportation (T3) Webinar Program hosted three webinars examining open architecture payment systems. The webinar series content encompassed open architecture systems and how they can leverage multiple fare payment options, the use of open financial payment applications, mobile payment applications, credentials for fare payment, and transit operators' views of these trends and the strategic issues they impact.

Starting last year and continuing through the first quarter of this year, the Southern California Regional Rail Authority (Metrolink) and the Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA) are exploring how open architecture payment systems and, specifically, open financial payment applications could potentially achieve seamless regional fare payment in the Southern California Super Region, from Santa Barbara to San Diego. This exploration includes targeted vendor fairs at Metrolink in 2011 and at OCTA in 2012, as well as a peer-to-peer networking session in the summer of 2011 that brought together subject matter experts from the Utah Transit Authority and Southeast Pennsylvania Transit Authority to discuss their experiences with over 20 transit operators in the super region. The peer-to-peer (P2P) review was sponsored by the US DOT under the Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Professional Capacity Building (PCB) Program. In the summer of 2011, OCTA led the formalization of the SuperUser Regional Stakeholders group during a meeting facilitated by the John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center.

Webinar presenters are Joe Vicente, Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA); Jorge Duran, Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA); and Dave Bostwick, Southern California Regional Rail Authority (Metrolink).

The webinar will be hosted by Tim Weisenberger of the US DOT John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center.

To register for this webinar, or for more information, including speaker bios, click here: http://www.pcb.its.dot.gov/t3/s120426_super_region.asp

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