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ATRA Board minutes - Jan 2006 Minutes
of the Advanced Transit Association
Annual
Board Meeting – January 23, 2006
8 PM in
the Caucus Room, Hilton Hotel, Washington D.C.
Thirteen board members
in attendance:
Dennis Cannon Access
Board cannon@access-board.gov
Dennis Manning Fresno
PRT John.Manning4@comcast.net
Roxanne Warren Vision
42 rwaa@erols.com
Bob Dunning ATRA
President cliff@oz.net
Larry
Fabian Trans.21 lfabian@airfront.us
Martin Lowson Advanced
Transport Systems martin@atsltd.co.uk
George
Haikalis IRUM geohaikalis@juno.com
Stan Young Kansas
Dept. of Trans. young@ksdot.org
Jerry
Kieffer Keiffer Publications Kiefpubl@aol.com
Jeral
Poskey Taxi2000 jposkey@davinciglobal.com
Steve
Raney Cities21 SteveRaney@cities21.org
Dan Brand CRA
International dbrand@crai.com
Bill
Wilde Retired wildebill@juno.com
Three guests:
Shannon
McDonald Atlanta, GA s1027arch@aol.com
Peter Muller PRT
Consulting, Inc. pmuller@prtcons.com
Vienna guy
Call to Order
Opening Remarks:
Jeral Poskey, ATRA Chairman.
He noted that a
quorum was not present, and that full ratification of tonight’s
decisions will be subject to an email ballot.
Introductions of
those present: Stan Young, ATRA Secretary
Previous year’s
minutes were adopted
MOTION: To approve the
minutes from the 2005 meeting as submitted.
Motion
carried unanimously.
I.Reports
President’s
Report – Bob Dunning
ATRA sponsored four
events in 2005. These included:
- Seminar in
association with the Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting
- Seminar and
sponsored booth at APM 2005 in Orlando, Florida
- William Alden O&M
Seminar at Morgantown, WV
A CD of the presentations is
available for purchase at the Website
- Bologna Seminar in
Italy
Presentations
are posted at http://distart033.ing.unibo.it/aats05/cd/index.htm
II.Treasurer’s
Report – Larry Fabian
See summary report.
A more detailed Profit/Loss sheet was requested and will be delivered
via email
Lacking a quorum, the Treasurer’s report and proposed budget
will be balloted via email
A budget totaling $8900 was proposed for 2006.
Concern was raised whether event revenue should or should not be
shown as income
Life Member discussion
No candidates were identified this year.
Review of day’s
activities – Jeral Poskey
Jeral Poskey reviewed
the ATRA seminar hosted at Booz Allen Hamilton headquarters earlier
in the day. Approximately 25 people attended. The morning workshop
was effective at reviewing ATRA activities and making plans for the
coming year. The afternoon seminar had a number of good
presentations, including significant ones from Paul Hoffman of Booz
Allen Hamilton, Martin Lowson of ATS (Ultra), Dawn Show of Vectus
PRT, and Erik Peterson of the Dept of Transportation – RITA.
III.Elections
Jerry Kieffer,
co-chair of the nominating committee, announced the results of the
board and officer election. He also conducted the board’s
election of a chairman and treasurer.
Board candidates
Jerry
Kieffer reported that all nominated board candidates were elected.
Their three year terms begin immediately. The elected candidates
are: Marsden Burger, Catherine Burke, Bill Flanigan, Robert
Griebenow, Jarold Kieffer, Martin Lowson, Dennis Manning, and Jerry
Schneider.
Member-elected
officers
Jerry
Kieffer reported that Bob Dunning was elected President, Larry Fabian
was elected Treasurer, and Martin Lowson was elected Vice-President.
Board-elected
officers
Jerry
Kieffer heard nominations for Jeral Poskey as Chair and Stan Young as
Secretary.
MOTION: To elect Jeral Poskey
chairman of the board and Stan Young secretary.
Motion
carried unanimously.
Jerry
Kieffer reviewed the roles of the chairman and president:
Chairman
is in charge of the business of the organization
President
is in charge of the program
IV.Business Items
Newsletter
Proposal to
continue to contract with Larry Fabian for ATRA newsletter at a cost
of $2000. The newsletter will be distributed via email completely
electronically.
There was some
discussion about the format change.
MOTION:
To approve the proposal to pay Trans.21 $2,000 to supply ATRA members
with electronic copies of TransitPulse for the coming year.
Motion
carried unanimously.
Corporate
Membership
A
task force will investigate corporate membership
policy/benefits/program. Jeral Poskey, Martin Lowson, and another to
be named will head the task force. This task force will report back
to the board by March 31 with a recommendation for establishing a
corporate membership policy and any related actions that need to be
taken.
Maximum number of
Board of Directors
Bob
Dunning reviewed progress in adjusting the number of directors to be
consistent with the by-laws. Next year’s election will be the
first to address the problem of the number of board members exceeding
the by-laws. One suggestion was to possibly give some directors
Director Emeritus designation.
Expectation of
Board of Directors Discussion
Related
to ongoing suggestions to increase the responsibilities of directors,
Jeral Poskey stated that he had contacted directors whose terms would
expire at the end of 2006 and asked them to make commitments for
their contributions for the year.
Manifesto / White
Paper
The
board was updated on an effort by Joerg Schweitzer to prepare a “PRT
Manifesto” for endorsement by individuals and groups.
Currently called a PRT “Proclamation,” the morning
seminar suggested calling it a White Paper.
The
board was reluctant to take any positions on this document, as it is
not yet complete. A committee was formed to review and edit the
document and to submit a recommendation to the board by March. The
committee consists of Jerry Keiffer, Larry Fabian, and Dan Brand.
European ATRA
Bob
Dunning updated the board on the formation of the group ATRA-Europe.
It is currently a sub-group within ATRA, and Bob has exchanged a
letter with Malcolm McDonald that outlines some of the ways the
European members can operate while remaining under ATRA umbrella. No
board action is needed at this time.
It
was reminded that the APM conference will be in Vienna in 2007. ATRA
is a cooperating organization.
V.Education
program
Some
type of educational effort will be initiated in 2006 using $500 ATRA
seed money. Contact Stan Young if interested and want to
participate.
VI.2008
Major Event?
Martin
Lowson discussed the possibility of a 2008 conference sponsored by
the ASCE APM committee focused on Advanced Transit
VII.Current Projects Discussion
Dennis Manning –
Fresno Activities
Roxanne Warren –
conversion of 42nd Street in Manhattan to an auto-free
zone
172 Presentations
have been given to date
Plan
calls for a low-floor at-grade system, similar to light rail.
A grant was received
to fund traffic, economic and cost studies.
Results of the
studies are due this month
The vehicles may be
fuel cell technology
Results of the case
studies will be posted on the web site
Martin Lowson
EDICT - $3 million
(Euro) study is completed
The reports from
EDICT will be published
BAA (British Airports
Authority) have budgeted and tendered for a PRT
BAA target
application is landside transport at Heathrow
Dubai financial
center is also tendering an offer for PRT
The results of these
two tender processes are due at the end of January
Interest in ULTRA continues - of 10 studies recommending ULTRA, 6
were by independent consultants
Steve Raney –
Cities 21
Study funded to study
PRT in a Pleasonton Office Park
Study in Edina,
Minnesota was initiated by efforts from citizens for PRT
Stan Young –
Kansas State Research Initiative
Dennis Cannon –ADA Vehicle Standards are being updated. This
will be a long process, but Dennis is interested in getting PRT
vehicles specifically covered by the language, rather than just
falling into the “other” category.
VIII.Adjournment
MOTION:
Motion to adjourn tonight’s session, to be followed by email
ratification of the votes.
Motion
carried unanimously.
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