Missouri Transit Conference 2024 – Educational Resources

Thank you for attending the 2024 Missouri Transit Conference in St. Louis, MO. Transit professionals, stakeholders, and elected and interested citizens from across Missouri and the Midwest enjoyed a unique opportunity to share innovative ideas and best practices with a variety of top presentations, mobile workshops, vendors, and panel discussions.  A selection of conference presentations are available below.  Please reach out to twood@mopublictransit.org for additional information.

Save the Date

Mark your calendars for next year’s multi-state Midwest Transit Conference, set for September 3-5, 2025 in Kansas City, MO at the Kansas City Marriott Downtown (200 West 12th Street, Kansas City, MO 64105).

Missouri Transit Conference 2024 Presentations

The following presentations are being shared with permission from the presenters and the content is the sole responsibility of those presenters.

Plenary I: Funding Landscape on the National Front with CTAA Executive Director Scott Bogren

 

MoDOT / RTAP Update – Christy Evers, MoDOT, Heath Pickerill, MO-RTAP

 

FTA Rural Connections w/ Region VII Staff

 

FTA Future of Transit w/ Region VII Staff

 

New Avenues for Recruitment and Retention – Shayna Gleason, Transit Workforce Center and Julia Castillo, Heart of Iowa Regional Transit Authority.

 

Recruitment and Retention for Rural Transit Systems – David Stephen, Transit Workforce Center, Tracy Walkup, OATS Transit, Pam Knox, OATS Transit, and Trenise Winters, Metro Transit

 

First Last Mile for Missourians: Current Practices and Future Opportunities – Alvaro Villagran, Shared-Use Mobility Center, Luba Guzei, Via Strategy, Jose Feliciano Jr, Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority, Rochelle Parent, SHARE Mobility

                           

 

Disability Inclusion in Public Transportation – Jason Hartsfield, Starkloff Disability Institute and Steve Foelsch, Starkloff Disability Institute

 

Alternative Fuels – Electrifying Your Fleet 101 – Mike Jones, Project Leader in the Technical Assistance for Clean Transportation (TACT) Group in the Center for Integrated Mobility Sciences (CIMS) at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)

 

Technology Summit – Scheduling & Dispatching Technologies – Abby Tremel and Lauren Ellis, National Center for Applied Transit Technology (N-CATT), CTAA

 

Technology Summit – Fare Payment – Abby Tremel and Lauren Ellis, National Center for Applied Transit Technology (N-CATT), CTAA

 

 

 

 

 

For additional session information, access the full conference program here.