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Best practice in European
large rail multi-modal hubs
▶A

look into various rail infrastructure
projects throughout Europe reveals the
challenges of working with historic sites,
meeting the public's needs and expectations and increasing capacity while
managing project costs.
MassTransitmag.com/21116555

MORE NEWS AT A GLANCE
▶ L.B.

City of Albuquerque

AN ART bus on a final test run before service began on Nov. 30.

Albuquerque begins ART service

▶ Stadler

The city of Albuquerque, N.M., began service on two ABQ Ride ART lines
Nov. 30, delivering a severely delayed project that could have been scrapped
due to any number of factors, but that will now provide improved service
to the city's west side. Free rides will be offered through Jan. 1, 2020, to
give the public an opportunity to experience the service.
MassTransitmag.com/21113840

Rail will bring the first hydrogen-powered train to the United States
through a contract with the San Bernardino County Transportation Authority
and signed the single largest rail car
order for both itself and the Metropolitan
Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority for the
purchase of 254 new rail cars.
MassTransitmag.com/21114673
▶ Texas

Technology solutions
driving enforcement to
improve overall service

Orchestrating energy:
Making sure electric fleets
have the juice to deliver

▶ When

▶ The

it comes to bus lane and fare
enforcement, technology applications
are both efficient and cost effective.
MassTransitmag.com/21116565

Foster Company has been awarded a $13.2-million contract to provide
direct fixation fasteners, rail and other
track materials for the Chicago Transit
Authority's Red and Purple Modernization Phase One Project.
MassTransitmag.com/21116311

goal of fleet orchestration is all
about sending the right mission to the
right vehicle at the right time.
MassTransitmag.com/21116217

Central reached an agreement
with Mass. Electric Construction Co., to
install the core system of the Texas highspeed train and critical safety elements
which include all necessary power, signaling and communications equipment.
The rail project will connect Houston
and North Texas in 90 minutes.
MassTransitmag.com/21115785

People in the News
Omnitrans

Omnitrans has
chosen Art Torres
as the new director
of procurement,
where he will lead
Art Torres
a department of
20 employees that
oversees the purchase of all goods and
services for the agency. The department
also maintains and manages an extensive
parts warehouse to support maintenance
of the agency's bus fleet. He brings more
than 20 years of procurement management experience and was most recently
employed as a senior manager in contracts
administration at the Los Angeles County
Metropolitan Transportation Authority,
where he learned how to work within the
Federal Transit Administration's guidelines.

MassTransitmag.com/21106016

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MJ Maynard

Regional
Transportation
Commission
of Southern
Nevada (RTC)

MJ Maynard has
been appointed as
the new CEO of the Southern Nevada
RTC following a unanimous approval
from the board of commissioners. Her
priority in her new role is to provide
a sustainable, efficient and accessible transportation system that meets
the mobility needs of the region. She
brings more than 12 years of service
and most recently served as the deputy
CEO. She succeeds retiring CEO Tina
Quigley and began her new role effective immediately.

MassTransitmag.com/21114726

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San Francisco
Municipal
Transportation
Agency (SFMTA)

The SFMTA Board
of Directors has
selected Jeffrey
Tumlin to be the new director of
transportation after conducting an
international search. Tumlin has spent
his career helping organizations around
the world clarify their values and align
their operations with those values. Most
recently, he worked as a principal at
Nelson/Nygaard Consulting Associated where he led dozens of detailed
neighborhood plans. He's currently
leading the San Francisco Transportation Authority's downtown congestion
pricing study.

Jeffrey Tumlin

MassTransitmag.com/21114533

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