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Strategic Plan Guides APTA in Addressing Key Industry Challenges
APTA’s new strategic plan for 2015-2019, The Way Forward, continues to center the association’s work on five key challenges and opportunities facing the industry. These are safety and security first, resource advocacy, workforce development, demographic shifts and technological innovation.
APTA Chair Phillip Washington led a Strategic Plan Steering Committee in 2014 while vice chair to lay the groundwork for a new five-year plan and brought it to the board in December 2014 for unanimous approval. “As a result, APTA’s strategic plan is a true consensus document,” he said, “built on an open dialogue that sharpens our focus and ensures that we take the right action at the right time.”
As APTA starts its new fiscal year, the first guided by this strategic plan, Washington highlighted the work some APTA committees are already doing to integrate the plan’s goals into APTA’s operations.
“I’m especially excited about the work a number of our committees recently launched on how to position public transportation in the rapidly evolving world of mobility and transformative technologies,” Washington said. “We are looking at game-changing innovation, driven by individual entrepreneurs as well as large corporations and ranging from automated vehicles to new apps like Uber and Lyft, all of which are potential opportunities as well as challenges for transit agencies.”
Numerous sessions at the Annual Meeting in San Francisco in October will feature work being done to meet the goals as laid out in the strategic plan, and Passenger Transport will report on progress made on various aspects of the plan.
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