2025 National RTAP Rural & Tribal Transit Training

DAY 2 - TRANSIT TRAINING - CAPITAL PROJECTS & MOBILITY MANAGEMENT WORKSHOPS

In collaboration with the Alaska Tribal Transportation Work Group, National RTAP is providing (2) concurrent two-day Transit Trainings focused on attendees' choice of either a Capital Projects or a Mobility Management workshop taking place on both the day before and after (March 24 and March 28th)

The Capital Projects/Construction Project Management (CD/CPM) workshop will include:

• Capital Development Project Initiation and Scoping + Project Funding
• Federal Transit Administration Grant Development and Resources
• a half-day NEPA Training
  

The Mobility Management workshop will focus on Mobility Management.
PLEASE NOTE: You must register for both days of the workshop (3/24/25 AND 3/28/25), and only those attendees who attended both days of their workshop are eligible for the raffle.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND:

Rural and Tribal Transportation/Transit Directors, Managers and Staff, Tribal Administrators, State Transportation and Transit Officials, Federal Transportation and Transit Officials and Tribal/State/Federal officials involved with Rural and Tribal Transit.

MEALS TO BE PROVIDED:

The Embassy Suites Hotel has free made-to-order breakfast for guests on their own.

An all-day beverage station plus morning and afternoon snacks will be provided during the two workshops.

Dinner on your own.

Raffles will be held at the end of Day Two of each workshop, and winners must present to win.

HOTEL ROOM BLOCK REGISTRATION:

Competitive room rates of $229/night, with complimentary parking for attendees!

When registering at the Anchorage Embassy Suites, mention: ATTWG Symposium

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QUESTIONS?

Contact Neil Rodriguez, Tribal Transit Program Manager, at [email protected].

ABOUT NATIONAL RTAP

Our overarching mission is to address the training and technical assistance needs of rural, and tribal transit operators across the nation, and to support the state RTAP programs. Our comprehensive set of free technical assistance programs and resources includes training materials, webinars, newsletters and technical briefs, peer resources, research, and innovative technology initiatives.

ABOUT THE CD/CPM PRESENTERS/TRAINERS

Mr. Todd Macalady (Sault Saint Marie Chippewa), Center for Tribal Transportation Executive Director, plays a pivotal role in empowering tribal communities and facilitating their access to essential resources for transportation infrastructure development. For nearly 20 years, Todd has worked with Alaska Native villages and Lower 48 tribal communities to provide training, consultation, and construction project management related to the Tribal Transportation Program.
Ms. Michia Casebier, M.G. Tech-Writing, LLC President/Multimodal Transportation Planner, has funded nearly $26 million dollars in grants; including, but not limited to, an FY14 Federal Transit Authority Tribal Transit Program capital grant for Craig Tribal Association’s transit program startup. Michia has been an NRTAP training facilitator since 2019.
Mr. Darrel Williams, Ninilchik Traditional Council (NTC) Resource & Environmental Director, has been with NTC since March 2003, and is a subject matter expert in environmental management and remediation, ANCSA, federal subsistence in Alaska, project management and administration, RFP development and procurement, along with many other skill sets. Darrel also assists with the day-to-day operations of BUMPS Transit, and provides national representation as a federal QA/QC committee representative appointee for Alaska.

ABOUT THE MOBILITY MANAGEMENT PRESENTERS/TRAINERS

Ms. Enjoli Dixon, National Rural Transit Assistance Program, was Project Associate/Regional Liaison/Technical Assistance Specialist II for the FTA National Center for Mobility Management Easter Seals Transportation Group, and has now joined the NRTAP staff full-time, where her history promoting transportation coordination and mobility management practices as well as her past background with the Missouri Department of Transportation as a Multimodal Operations Specialist and Intermediate Civil Rights Specialist informs her Tribal TRansit training and program support efforts.
Mr. Jeremy Bell (Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians), National Rural Transit Assistance Program Tribal Transit Liaison, has been Chairman of the NRTAP Review Board, and has now joined the staff full-time. Jeremy brings decades of experience having formerly been the Director of Choctaw Regional Transportation/Choctaw Transit for the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, where he’d been employed over 13 years. From 2012-2025, Jeremy served as the Mobility Manager for the EZTAG region and for Choctaw Transit. Graduate of the Community Transportation Association of America’s Emerging Leaders Academy, Jeremy also sat on the Meridian, Mississippi Salvation Army Board of Directors.

Info: According to the FTA’s Project and Construction Management Guidelines and Construction Project Management Handbook, Project Management Plans (PMPs) are required for all major capital projects, and must be submitted prior to preliminary engineering, then updated through subsequent project phases. As guidance for how your transit capital project will be executed and monitored, a PMP is a functioning outline of how the project will be delivered on time and within budget while meeting quality and FTA standards. Attendees will learn the benefits of PMPs; the depth and breadth of a PMP's components (e.g., scope, schedule, budget, risks, quality and communications management plans, and project changes); as well as vital information about assessing risks of project failure, identifying milestones for success, hiring key project talent, choosing project planning and implementation tools, and understanding end users' needs.

Info: Because small rural & tribal communities initiate capital development projects less frequently than larger communities, they may lack the staffing capacity and/or capability to successfully & efficiently complete construction projects with local forces. So, there may be a need to seek this support outside of the community & to select a project delivery strategy that contracts the support expertise needed to implement the transit project. This module gives an overview of six alternative project delivery methods, and their respective advantages and disadvantages for managing project risk. Further, attendees will gain a better understanding of how project delivery strategies determine the: specific work done in-house vs. work contracted out to consultant and/or construction contractors; transit agency control has over how work is performed vs. the control extended to contractors over work performance; and methods through which risk gets assigned to the contractors hired.

Info: TThis comprehensive solicitation development module will cover the lifecycle of Request for Proposal/Request for Qualification (RFP/RFQ) development; including, but not limited to: planning your RFP; information gathering to inform your RFP; RFP writing (e.g., problem statements, goals, scopes of work, incentives, contract management, evaluation and selection criteria); finalizing your RFP; and activities following the RFP publication.

Info: “If everything seems to be going well, you obviously don't know what's going on." -- Edward Murphy (1918 - 1990). Murphy was an American aerospace engineer who worked on safety-critical systems, and is more renowned for his oft-quoted law, "Anything that can go wrong will go wrong." Construction project management is an administrative strategy by which one can mitigate construction risk, monitor project progress via the implementation of essential paperwork (e.g., PMPs), and control project safety, timelines, outcomes, and the final story of success or failure on your capital transit projects. This final workshop module will: introduce work breakdown structure (WBS) as a fundamental project management technique, detail the differences between deliverable-based and phased-based WBS, describe project scheduling basics, and familiarize attendees with the "5 W's Concept."

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