Public transportation board members and their staff will benefit from the specialized instruction offered at the 2011 APTA Transit Board Members Seminar & Board Support Employee Development Workshop, July 23-26 at the Hyatt Regency Jersey City in Jersey City, NJ.

Major sessions will include:

* Housing, Urban Development, and Public Transportation. Community development is about the synergy between housing, work, and transportation. Creating more livable communities is coming from non-traditional collaborations among local and regional participants such as the federal government, transit agencies and railroads, communities, non-profits, and the private sector.

* Mobility Management for the 21st Century. With more people using community and public transportation, riders and service providers see a need for more highly coordinated mobility options. Mobility management is a strategic approach to service coordination and customer service that moves away from fixed-route-only operation toward collaboration with many transportation providers to create a full range of well-synchronized mobility services.

* The Board Member’s Role in System Safety and Security. This panel—including Deborah Hersman, chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board, and former Deputy Secretary of Transportation Mortimer L. Downey III—will consider the achievements that have been made in U.S. and international public transportation safety and security affairs, as well as measures that individual transit agencies can adapt.

More information about the seminar is available here.