Events / Meetings

Transit Priority in the Pacific Northwest: Lessons from King County Metro and TransLink

When: April 22, 2025 | 2:00 - 3:00 PM ET

This webinar is led by the ITE Transit Committee.

Webinar Description:

Support and funding for large-scale transit projects may be tenuous in the future. Agencies across the US and Canada will need to work extra hard to make the most of their existing resources. This webinar hosts two agencies with programs that do just that; develop cost-effective, smaller-scale projects that maximize transit benefit for minimal cost. Most of these groups' successes do not result in massive, 'ribbon-cutting' projects but they provide recognized improvements to transit speeds and journey experience.

This hour-long webinar will feature two Pacific Northwest Transit agencies - King County Metro (KCM) in Seattle, WA and TransLink (TL) in Vancouver, BC - who will discuss two distinct initiatives to low-cost transit priority measures in their respective regions. KCM will present their Bus Speed & Reliability Program and TL will discuss its Bus Stop Balancing Program. Both initiatives provide significant travel savings to bus passengers but their implementation has not been without challenges and setbacks. KCM and TL planners will share how these initiatives work, how they sometimes don't, and how they can translate to other agencies in the US and Canada.

Learning Objectives:

  • Recognize the value of smaller-scale "projects of opportunity" for transit improvement
  • Understand and navigate the trade-offs involved in transit vs general purpose vehicle movement
  • Analyze travel patterns and road lane assignments beneficial to transit customers
  • Neutralize the inherent, personal vehicle-based bias in traffic operations analysis and reporting
  • Define existing and proposed mode split on study corridors
  • Communicate the benefits of smaller-scale projects to diverse and vested audience

Moderator: Dan Ross, Senior Project Manager | HDR | Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Presenters:

  • Vivienne Li, Planner | TransLink | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
  • Stephanie Tsui, Senior Planner, Bus Priority Programs | TransLink | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
  • Owen Kehoe, P.E., PTOE, Engineer IV | King County Metro Transit | Seattle, WA, USA

Fees:
ITE Members: Free
Non-Members: $79.00

Registration for webinar includes the live event, an archived recording with access for 30 days to each registrant. If you are a non-member of ITE you will need to create an account to register. You can create an account here.
 

PDH/CM Credit Certificate: If you would like PDH/CM Credit for this webinar, there is a processing fee for each registrant of $20 regardless of membership status to receive 1.0 PDH/CM credits certificate. Instructions and link will be provided at the conclusion of the live event. Participants are able to purchase and retrieve their certificate until their access to the content expires. After the content expires and goes into archive, the certificate opportunity is forfeit.