Civil engineer and certified planner Charles Marohn will give the address at the May 5 Opening General Session of the APTA Bus & ­Paratransit Conference, May 4-7 in Kansas City, MO, and Scott Belcher, president and chief executive officer of the Intelligent Transportation Society of America (ITS America), will provide remarks for the May 7 ­Closing General Session of the conference.

Marohn will focus on the financial health of all local units of government. By reinvigorating existing public spaces and right-sizing infrastructure, he says, cities and towns can better support a wide range of transportation options, including high-performing ­public transit.

He is the president of Strong Towns. To learn more, click here.

At the closing session, Belcher will describe innovations such as integrated payment systems, real-time multimodal navigation and trip planning, connected and semi-autonomous vehicles, mileage-based user fees, and open data.
ITS America (see related story below) is the nation’s largest organization dedicated to Intelligent Transportation Systems.

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