2019 Mid-Year Training Conference 

March 28-29, 2019 * Marriott University Park Hotel * Tucson, AZ

Every year SWPTA hosts a Mid Year Training Conference that has something for everyone in the parking and transportation industry.  This year we have included two tracks, Frontline Training and Admin Training.  CAPP applicants can earn up to 9 CAPP Points.  CAPP Re-certificants can earn their annual maximum in Program Type 2.

MID-YEAR AGENDA

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27

7:00 PM                             Welcome Reception & Networking (Meet Hotel Lobby)

THURSDAY, MARCH 28

8:30 AM                              Registration and Networking Continental Breakfast 

Front Line Track 

9:00 AM – 12:30 PM    Tactical Communication  101 - 3 CAPP Points

This is an interactive course designed to help the participant defuse and de-escalate conflict.  The course is intended to provide front-line customer service personnel with tools and options to calmly and effectively address aggressive behaviors and challenging situations encountered at work during the performance of their duties.  As part of the course, participants will complete an evaluation of their personal communication style as it relates to conflict.

Trainer: Cindy Campbell, Senior Training & Development Specialist, IPMI

Admin Track

9:00 AM – 10:15 AM      

Curb Management Strategies – Finding What Works -  Curb space in every city is becoming increasingly more valuable and the number of uses is ballooning; Taxi, Limo, Commercial Deliveries, Couriers, Uber, Lyft, Grubhub, Autonomous Vehicles – you name it and it has a crucial need for curb space.  The City of Las Vegas is tackling curb allocation and management in partnership with the stakeholders in the community.  This session will detail the problems the City is having with curb space and how it is involving the community and technology to try to solve some of its curb problems.  The focus of the session will be on how Las Vegas is seeking to both effectively allocate its curb AND effectively manage the curb once the curb is allocated.  The second problem is by far the most difficult and technology solutions and regulation don’t yet exist.  Attendees will be able to understand how to develop a plan for allocating curb space and more importantly understand how that allocation can – or can’t – be managed effectively. (1 CAPP Point)

Presenter: Brandy Stanley, City of Las Vegas

 10:15 AM  - 11:15 AM   

Partnering a City and University to Make Special Event Parking Successful in Tucson: Who needs to know, how does it get started and what are the steps? - The University is surrounded on all sides by diverse neighborhoods and private businesses that are within the city limits in Tucson.  Taking into consideration their parking needs as well as coordinating an event that may host up to 55,000 fans from all over the community and out of town visiting fans can be a challenge.   The overall efforts are distributed throughout the city and campus to bring an event to fruition.  Learn how two parking liaisons, the Administrator for Park Tucson, from the City of Tucson and Program Coordinator at Parking and Transportation from the University collaborate to bring awareness to make events successful.          (1 CAPP Point)

Presenters:  Donovan Durband, M.S., CAPP Administrator, Park Tucson Division Department of Transportation, City of Tucson and Elisa Tapia, University of Arizona 

11:15 AM – 12:30 PM    

Rideshare for Downtown Entertainment Areas -  The rideshare phenomenon is now well-established in most American cities, but its impact on traffic, the use of the curb, and parking varies among cities due to several factors.  Some cities may have experienced a significant impact from rideshare only in entertainment areas, but these impacts can be disruptive.  Downtowns, airports and other transportation hubs are looking for the most effective ways of accommodating rideshare while providing access for parking, transit, and other uses.  The panelists, representing two Arizona cities and a Nevada airport, will share their experiences and their efforts to understand the impacts that rideshare will have in their communities in the coming years.

Panel: Donovan Durband, Park Tucson, Thomas Thorpe, City of Phoenix and Adam Jones, Downtown Tempe, Ben Carpenter, Reno-Tahoe Airport Authority - Moderator: Zach Cook, ParkMobile 

 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM        Lunch

1:30 PM – 2:30 PM         

Food Trucks & Downtowns – Case Studies from Las Vegas, Seattle & Lexington - In 2014, these 3 cities participated in a webinar and a live presentation at IPI in Dallas, each detailing their plans for handling food trucks in their downtown areas.  This session will demonstrate how each city set up a program to regulate and enable food trucks to operate in their downtowns.  The session will also show how each program worked over a 5-year period, with each city sharing course corrections, revisions and the ultimate results.  Attendees will be able to take away key considerations for setting up a program and will understand the impacts such a program will have on their community. (1 CAPP Point)

Presenters: Brandy Stanley, City of Las Vegas,  Mike Estey, City of Seattle and Gary Means, Lexington Parking Authority

 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM        

Futureproof your Municipal Code: Necessary Updates, Things to Consider & How to Proceed - Learn how other agencies have updated their municipal code to address their immediate parking management challenges and how they have prepared their agency for the future. We will identify common issues, learn how to fix gaps and review strategies that have worked and been applied to a variety of municipalities throughout the United States. The discussion will include the ways that you can streamline municipal code language to improve management efficiency, minimize risk and provide an adaptive foundation for recent and upcoming technology. We will provide comparable city references that you can utilize to update your codes in your town. Bring your municipal codes for the interactive discussion to address parking management challenges in your community. You will be equipped with the information needed to apply municipal code updates for your city administrative review process.            (1 CAPP Point)

         Presenter: Julie Dixon, Dixon Resources Unlimited

3:30 PM – 5:00 PM         

Park Tucson Overview & Interactive Park Tucson Streetcar Tour - The City of Tucson has made great strides in recent years in transforming its city center into a connected, urban environment for work, live, and play.  While the city as a whole is spread-out and auto-centric, efforts to revitalize Tucson’s Downtown area and create density along the length of the 3.9-mile Sun Link modern streetcar route are bearing fruit.  The City of Tucson is creating transit and mobility opportunities while modernizing the city’s parking management program.  Park Tucson staff will provide an overview of the City’s parking and transit projects, as well as redevelopment activity, and will lead a streetcar and walking tour of 4^th Avenue,  the Warehouse Arts District and the east end of Downtown.  Sun Link, the modern streetcar system that was launched in July 2014, connects the University of Arizona and Main Gate Square (home base of the conference) with these dynamic districts.   Key stops include the Sun Link Operations & Maintenance Center, Plaza Centro and Centro Garage, and the Historic Depot and Intermodal Center.   The tour concludes in the heart of the Congress Street Entertainment District at the rooftop location of the evening networking event. (1 CAPP Point)

 Presenter:  Donovan Durband, M.S., CAPP Administrator, Park Tucson Division Department of Transportation, City of Tucson

5:00 PM – 7:00 PM        

Networking Event at Playground Tucson

                Park Tucson Streetcar Tour will end at the event location

FRIDAY, MARCH 29

8:30 AM - 9:00 AM                         Breakfast and Registration    

9:00 AM – 10:00 AM      

Safety and Security Barriers:  Protecting the Public Where We Work, Play, Shop, and Attend Classes - Hostile Vehicle Attacks (HVAs) are a major threat to public safety and security in America today.  Threats to use vehicles as weapons of mass destruction have been made by ISIS and other terrorist organizations, and such attacks have and will continue to occur.  Since 2016, there have been more casualties in the US and Europe from vehicle attacks than from bombings and shootings and other means of terrorist attack.  Additionally, accidental or deliberate vehicle incursions not related to terrorism continue to occur, resulting in death and injuries on city streets, sports and entertainment venues, festivals, campuses, tourist areas, and other areas where crowds gather. (1 CAPP Point)

Presenters: Robert Reiter, Storefront Safety Council and Shannon Ahartz, Kimley Horn

10:00 AM – 11:00 AM   

Complete Streets or Correct Streets – Understanding the Return on Investment - As resources and funding for urban transportation projects become scarcer, the demand for space on city streets is growing exponentially.  More and more, cities are realizing that great communities provide space for all modes of transportation, not just the automobile.  With increased demand paired with diminishing resources, cities have to be smart about how they invest in themselves.  Fortunately, many case studies are proving that investment in complete streets - what I call “Correct Streets” - not only is a great investment for safety and mobility, but also provides real economic return.  Streets designed for all users are proven to support commercial enterprises, promote development, increase land value (and hence tax base), and, shockingly, promote a more efficient use of on-street parking.  “Correct Streets” are clearly one of the best ways a City can invest in itself and its people. (1 CAPP Point)

  Presenter: Jordan Block, WSP USA                    

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM       

The Cognitive and Autonomous Test Vehicle  (The CAT Vehicle) - The Cognitive and Autonomous Test Vehicle (The CAT Vehicle) is a modied Ford Hybrid Escape vehicle capable of operating autonomously in addition to normal operationswith human-in-the-loop. The CAT Vehicle has integrated TORC ByWire XGV drive-bywire platform that utilizes Joint Architecture for Unmanned Systems (JAUS) protocol for communications. The drive-by-wire platform consists of multiple hardware-software subsystems control modules, a central embedded controller and TORC SafeStop ES-220 multilevel wireless emergency stop system design to send pause and stop command in case of emergency. With the closed loop drive-by-wire control, a user can command desired acceleration, speed or steering control to the CAT Vehicle for autonomous operation.  Since our control algorithms are developed in ROS, we developed an additional ROS-JAUS interface to time-series format. A closed-loop control leverages LiDAR, camera or any other sensors for estimating inter-vehicle spacing, obstacle detection, and advanced maneuvering. Depending on the use cases and necessity, steering control can be made under human control while longitudinal velocity control may be kept by-wire to control the velocity autonomously. The reverse case is also possible where longitudinal velocity is under human control while steering command can be fed from computer autonomously. This allows us to test a variety of scenarios with paramount importance to safety. (1 CAPP Point)

                Presenter: University of Arizona College of Engineers

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