Where
This is an online event.
The SRF Rail Segment will include highlights of the Transforming Rail in Virginia initiative to expand rail reliability and service , creating a pathway to separate passenger and freight operations along the Richmond to Washington, D.C. corridor. It will advance goals for increased safety, efficiency, and capacity. The resulting projects will bring together federal, state, and regional partner funding, along with Amtrak support. It will include more efficient connections between the South East and North East Corridors, including a new Virginia-owned Long Bridge across the Potomac River, and will lay the foundation for faster Richmond to Raleigh service through acquisition of the abandoned S-Line from Petersburg, Virginia into North Carolina.
Join us for a virtual webinar luncheon on September 10 at noon, click below to register. This webinar is open to all!
Date: Sept. 10, 2020
Time: 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Fee: FREE with optional $10 donation to the Operation LifeSaver
Registration: Required, webinar link will be provided in registration confirmation email.
One Professional Development Hour (PDH) certificate will be offered after the presentation.
Deadline: Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2020
About the Presenter:
Jennifer Mitchell, Director of the Virginia Department of Rail and Public Transportation (DRPT).
Jennifer Mitchell was re-appointed in January 2018 by Governor Ralph Northam as the Director of the Virginia Department of Rail and Public Transportation (DRPT), the state agency responsible for providing funding and oversight to public transit systems, and passenger and freight rail programs across the Commonwealth. She was previously appointed to this position in January of 2014 by Governor Terrence McAuliffe.
In her time with DRPT, Jennifer has led several high priority transportation initiatives for the Commonwealth, including a recently announced $3.7 billion deal with CSX to construct the Long Bridge and dramatically expand passenger rail in the Commonwealth; legislation that provided dedicated funding and governance reforms for the Washington Metropolitan Area Transportation Authority (WMATA); new sources of transit funding from High Occupancy Tolling projects in northern Virginia and Hampton Roads; creation of the Metro Safety Commission; developing more rigorous and transparent allocation processes for statewide transit funding; extending passenger rail to Roanoke; and opening the “Pulse” Bus Rapid Transit system in Richmond, VA. She also serves as a member of the Commonwealth Transportation Board, and as a board member on several transit agencies across the Commonwealth.
Jennifer has over twenty-five years of experience in the transportation industry, where she has specialized in the planning and implementation of public transit projects, with a particular emphasis on developing strategic financial plans and advancing major projects through planning, design and construction.
In 2018, she was named by Railway Age as a Woman of the Year, and received the 2017 Distinguished Public Service Leadership Award from the Virginia Transit Association. She also received Woman of the Year by the Women’s Transportation Seminar chapters in Washington, DC and Central Virginia in 2016. She previously served on the Executive Committee for APTA and is on the Women’s Transportation Seminar Foundation Board of Directors.
Jennifer has a Master’s in Regional Planning from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill and a Bachelor of Urban Planning from the University of Virginia.