We love bringing together planners to share best practices. That’s why we’ve recently started working together with several of our customers to host Regional Workshops to connect our transit planning community to each other. Here are a couple examples from the past months:
Central Illinois
In September, we hosted our first Regional Workshop at the Springfield Mass Transit District (SMTD) in Springfield, IL. We were joined by several other agencies in the region including Champaign-Urbana (CUMTD) and Bloomington-Normal (Connect Transit), bringing together three of the major agencies in Downstate Illinois who are otherwise a 1– or 2-hour drive apart.
While these three agencies had some level of coordination at the leadership or grant writing levels, we found that collaboration amongst service planners was not as common. We took the afternoon together as an opportunity to tour the SMTD facilities, share questions and conversations about each agency’s strengths and challenges and walked through several Remix projects from each agency.
Bay Area
When you live in a place with as many transit agencies as the Bay Area, ongoing coordination between agency staff is a critical element to provide seamless service to customers. That’s why we were excited to host our first Bay Area Remix Training right here in our San Francisco office. We were joined by transit planners from seven agencies across the region including AC Transit, County Connection, Union City Transit, Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority, WestCat, and Santa Rosa Citybus. We spent an afternoon discussing local projects, Remix best practices, and even a bonus session on how Remix works, under the hood.
During the Remix best practices session, we opened up Remix maps in each participant’s city and talked through a project, garnering feedback from the group in terms of ideas and tips specific to Remix. The group also got to hear about a few secrets that we’ll be excited to share in more detail in just a few months.
Next Workshop location is _________
We’ve heard from attendees that the workshops have been extremely valuable and a tradition we should keep! If you’re interested in hosting a Remix Regional Workshop for other Remix users in your area, reach out to your Customer Success Manager or email us here. We’d love to sketch out a few ideas to make it a reality.
