Jannet Walker-Ford, WSP Advisory and Planning Business Line Executive
What a fabulous conference here in Austin, Texas. The American Public Transportation Association's Mobility 2025 conference has been a tremendous success. It's just such a pleasure to be here with my WSP colleagues as we hosted the WSP Innovation Forum. We had great conversation around autonomous vehicles, AI and innovation and what our clients are doing, the wonderful work that our clients are doing all over the country.
Angela Schwarz, WSP Transit and Rail Market Leader
It was an excellent event. We heard from clients, CEOs, operators and maintenance personnel. I think the theme that we saw this year was all around transportation being safe, clean, reliable and efficient. There was a lot of discussion around the new technologies and how we can use them to make the services for the travelling public much better.
Inez Evans Benson, WSP Deputy Transit and Rail Market Leader
During the CEO Conference, there were some key points made. Failure is basically your foundation to start from and that if you don’t invest in your programs, your services, your people and your systems, you cannot progress.
Stephen Goodreau, WSP National Bus Rapid Transit Practice Leader
Mobility is really all about Bus Rapid Transit (BRT). What we still see is BRT is still a very popular growing program throughout the country. Agencies are really looking for technology to continue to improve traffic flow and public outreach continues to be important to keep agencies moving.
Cliff Henke, Technical Fellow, Zero-Emission Buses and Bus Rapid Transit
I think that there remains a strong desire to adopt new technology, whether its zero emission, guidance technology or full automation. There are still a number of regulatory, institutional and labor barriers that need to be overcome. That said, I still think the industry is interested in entertaining new technology, trying to adopt in their fleets, in their capital programs.
