TRB Webinar: Contracting Commuter Rail Services

TRB conducted a webinar on Tuesday, February 12, 2019, from 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM ET that features research from the Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP)’s Research Report 200: Contracting Commuter Rail Services, Volume 2: Commuter Rail System Profiles.

This webinar provided an introduction to the guidebook in Volume 1 and an overview of the commuter rail systems in North America profiled in Volume 2. The presenters discussed the various approaches that exist for providing commuter rail. They also identified factors that influence these different approaches. This webinar discussed a decision tree analysis to assess different approaches for providing commuter rail or to evaluate changes to existing commuter rail services.

This webinar is sponsored by the Transit Cooperative Research Program.

The slides are available.





Webinar Presenters

• Linda Cherrington, Texas A&M Transportation Institute
• James Stoetzel, Finger Lakes Rail Consulting Group
• Bruce Horowitz, ESH Consult

Moderated by: Allan Rutter, Texas A&M Transportation Institute

American Institute of Certified Planners Certification Maintenance Credits

This webinar is approved by the American Institute of Certified Planners for 1.5 Certification Maintenance Credits. Please make sure that you register for this session and log-in using the link that TRB provides to your email account. We use this as your record that you attended this session. TRB only maintains the records of attendees who use their email address to log into the webinar, and cannot verify attendance of individuals who view the webinar without personally logging into the session.

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Registration questions? Contact Reggie Gillum at RGillum@nas.edu.