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Crissy
Ditmore

Director of Strategy
Cubic
Transportation
Systems Inc.

CRISSY DITMORE IS A 14-YEAR VETERan of the transportation industry and assists government partners in developing
technology solutions while ensuring the
public's interest through a common-sense
approach to policy. In her current role with
Cubic, she works with transit agencies and
transportation authorities in communities
across the country to identify new technologies that support their overall transportation network including advancements
in CAD AVL, fare collection systems, real
time passenger information, traffic and
congestion management and Mobility for
All. She collaborates with policymakers at
the state and federal level to maximize user
experiences while ensuring equity, access
and the attainment of broad regional goals.
Ditmore serves as board chair of the
TravelSpirit Foundation North America
and is a founding member of the Coalition for Smarter Transportation, which
works toward refining open and accessible tools for an integrated mobility future
while unifying public and private interests for the common good.
Ditmore began her career as a project
manager for VPSI Commuter Vanpools,

FACT:
Ditmore is
a recipient
of the Max
Lyon Lifetime
Achievement
Award, APTA Ad
Wheel Award
and was recently
named Number
5 on the 2019 list
of "50 Tweeters in
MaaS You Should
be Following."
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com/21093099

where she saw a doubling of the vanpool fleet in Anchorage, Alaska, during
her first year. She is credited with organizing a series of successful grassroots
campaigns to ensure transit funding was
preserved through changes in municipal
leadership and she worked with the Alaska State Transit Coalition to secure the
state's first, dedicated matching funds
for federal grants and local projects. Additionally, Ditmore developed language
to introduce the concept of commuter
centers that was eventually included in
a Department of Defense authorization
bill. She also worked with industry associations to introduce and eventually
pass the "private investment in commuter vanpool" funding regulation that
expanded access to implement vanpool
projects in regions that did not have
matching funds to implement service.

"Everything

we hope to accomplish lives or
dies by policy. Whether that policy is local, state, federal,
by regulation, law or statute, a deep understanding of
policy is fundamental to a successful career in mobility."

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