Next week, we will have a webinar with Mr. Rodney Bunner, President of ServiceEdge Solutions.
Mr. Bunner is a Geospatial Technology Specialist who over the past twenty years has worked as a consultant to local, regional, state, and federal agencies in developing spatially-enabled and GIS-T applications. Mr. Bunner has contributed to the development of a variety of software products and tools within different government sectors including:
As a public-sector consultant, Mr. Bunner’s professional objective has been to develop software applications which streamline the technically challenging and time-consuming data integration, data development, and analytical processes required to fulfill specific government business needs and workflows. To this end, over the past thirteen years, Mr. Bunner has been lead developer for the Florida Department of Transportation’s (FDOT) TBEST Transit Planning software. TBEST provides public transportation agencies with business-specific data, analytics, and reporting tools to address everyday service and strategic planning tasks. Mr. Bunner supports numerous agencies throughout the U.S. in implementing and utilizing TBEST.
Mr. Bunner is currently the President of ServiceEdge Solutions, a technology company primarily focused on the development of geospatial applications for Transportation. He is a 1991 graduate of West Virginia University with a B.A. in Geography and a 1996 graduate of Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania with a M.S. in Environmental Studies. He currently resides in the Tampa, Florida area with his wife and two children.
Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is intended to ensure people are not discriminated against on the basis of race, color, or national origin in programs which utilize federal funding. Title VI, and the regulations which FTA has put in place to implement it, place specific requirements on transit providers, especially those who provide fixed route services.
TBEST is a tool developed by the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) to help organizations analyze existing fixed route transit service and potential service changes which are being considered. CUTR has played a big role in the development of the software and also in providing support to agencies who want to use it. A CUTR webinar (57:16) on TBEST can be found here [1]. I provide this link for your reference, but watching it is optional. The main speaker in the webinar is Rodney Bunner, next week’s speaker. Consequently, Rodney will likely cover much of the same material in our webinar with him next week.
For this assignment, complete the following activities:
Once you have completed the above activities, respond to the following items and submit them in the form of an M.S. Word document to Assignment 9-6 in Canvas.
After reviewing the background material for next week’s webinar and the biography for next week’s speaker, come up with 3-5 questions which are clearly stated and are relevant to the webinar topics. Submit the questions to the Lesson 9 Questions for Next Week’s Speaker assignment in Canvas.
Criteria | Ratings | Points | ||
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Question Quality |
Excellent: Questions were clearly worded, demonstrated a thorough review of the background material and thoughtful reflection and insight on the part of the student.
5.0 pts
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Satisfactory: Questions were somewhat clear, demonstrated some review of the background material and some reflection and insight on the part of the student.
3.0 pts
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Poor: Questions were unclear and/or demonstrated little or no review of the background material and/or demonstrated little or no reflection and insight on the part of the student.
1.0 pts
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5.0 pts |
Total Points: 5.0 |
Links
[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pqiie3XGnnQ&feature=youtu.be
[2] https://psu.instructure.com/files/81544532/download?download_frd=1
[3] http://tbest.org
[4] http://tbest.org/tbest-video-tutorials/
[5] https://www.transit.dot.gov/sites/fta.dot.gov/files/docs/FTA_Title_VI_FINAL.pdf