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MTI’s Summit on HSR Connectivity Shows Game-Changing Effects
BY DONNA MAURILLO, Director of Technology Transfer, Mineta Transportation Institute, San Jose, CA

The Mineta Transportation Institute (MTI) and its affiliated Mineta National Transit Research Consortium sponsored a half-day policy summit at the recent APTA Annual Meeting in Chicago to address the critical importance of transit connectivity for high-speed rail (HSR).

The presentations stressed the game-changing effects of this new system on communities around the stations, the need to have a far-reaching feeder and distribution system when HSR arrives, and the necessary time—often 15-20 years—to implement comprehensive systems.

MTI Executive Director Rod Diridon, an APTA past chair, moderated a panel discussion that featured Jeff Morales, chief executive officer, California High-Speed Rail Authority; Drew Galloway, chief of planning and performance, Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor; Robert Eckels, president, Texas Central High-Speed Rail; and Stan Feinsod, director, MTI’s National High-Speed Rail Connectivity Center.

Panelists encouraged attendees to jump-start HSR connectivity implementation by creating the institutional mechanisms necessary to build new or to expand current feeder systems. New HSR stations, which would serve millions of riders each year, often become revenue-generating destinations themselves when commercial and institutional enterprises are located nearby.

Due to the partial shutdown of the federal government, DOT Undersecretary for Transportation Policy Polly Trottenberg was unable to delivering her scheduled keynote, but retired DOT Deputy Secretary Mortimer Downey, a consultant for Parsons Brinckerhoff and one of three recipients of the APTA Lifetime Achievement Award, stepped in with remarks.

MTI Executive Director Rod Diridon opens the policy summit in Chicago.

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