Date:
Friday, September 07, 2007
Contact:
Chris Simmons, WSDOT Public Transportation Division, (206) 464-1244
Mark Wright, ACT Executive Director (202) 712-9021
SEATTLE –The Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) is pleased to be a part of the 2007 Association for Commuter Transportation (ACT) International Conference being hosted at the Seattle Sheraton Hotel on September 9 -12. Interim Secretary of Transportation Paula Hammond will join local elected officials to kick-off the conference on Monday, September 10, 2007 at the opening session from 8:30 a.m. – 9:45 a.m.
“We are pleased that ACT chose to hold this year’s international conference in Seattle,” said Interim Secretary of Transportation Paula Hammond. “Public transportation is an important part of our transportation system. Washington has some of the finest transit systems and the largest vanpool fleet in the nation.”
The conference covers the latest issues in transportation demand management policy and programs, including program marketing and evaluation, ridematching for carpools and vanpools, climate change, construction mitigation, parking policy and disaster preparedness.
International speakers from Canada, United Kingdom and Australia-New Zealand will join local experts to speak on a wide array of public transportation topics. The three-day conference will include 24 breakout sessions covering topics on clean air, construction mitigation, employer marketing bicycle commuting, evaluation techniques, general marketing, incentives and passes, parking management, policy creation and implementation, research and many others. More than 400 attendees from around the world will be participating in the conference.
For more information about the conference and the workshops please visit the ACT Web site.
Sponsors for the conference include: Microsoft, King County, Starbucks Coffee, Boeing, Flexcar, Washington State Department of Transportation, Pierce Transit, PRR, ACT Cascade Chapter, Trapeze, General Administration, TransitCenter, Goose Networks, Bonfire, IFPTE, URS, TDM and VPSI.
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