-- FTA S ADVANCED PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS (APTS) MOBILE SHOWCASE PROJECT The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) invites interested parties to participate in a meeting on the FTA s Advanced Public Transportation Systems (APTS) Mobile Showcase project. The meeting will held in the U.S. Department of Transportation (US DOT) Multimedia Center in the US DOT Headquarters building (400 Seventh Street, SW, Washington, DC, Room 2201) on Monday, November 2, 1998 starting at 1:00 PM. The purpose of the meeting is to determine the interest of the APTS and Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) vendor communities, and transit bus manufacturers, in participating in the Mobile Showcase project. The APTS Mobile Showcase is conceived featuring a transit bus that will demonstrate state-of-the-art APTS/ITS technologies such as automatic vehicle location, electronic fare pa yment, automatic passenger counters, and traveler information systems. The Mobile Showcase also will display on-vehicle technology such as night vision enhancement and collision avoidance technology. The Showcase also may demonstrate technology associated with vehicle maintenance, and with routing and scheduling. The Showcase will tour the country under the sponsorship of the FTA and be on display at major transportation and transit conferences, individual transit operator locations, and other venues in the contiguous United States. The Showcase also will promote the benefits of using APTS technologies to improve safety and operational efficiency, and to attract new riders. Finally, the Showcase will provide the FTA with a mechanism for education and consensus building among the transi t community and general public. The US DOT Headquarters building is a secured government facility. Please RSVP if you plan to attend, so that your name can be added to the list of participants. Responses are needed by October 29, 1998. Please reply to: Raymond Keng, US DOT/Federal Transit Administration, 400 Seventh Street SW, Room 6107H, Washington, DC 20590, (202) 366-6667, (202) 366-3765 Fax raymond.keng@fta.dot.gov e-mail. The US DOT Headquarters Building is handicapped-accessible. The building is adjacent to the L Enfant Plaza Metrorail station, which is on the Yellow, Green, Orange, and Blue lines. Visitors without Federal Employee or Federal Contractor ID need to use the southwest entrance to the building. Please have a valid government-issued photo ID (e.g., driver s licen se or passport). WEB: Volpe Center Acquisition Division home page, http://www.volpe.dot.gov/procure/index.html. E-MAIL: Contract Specialist, raymond.keng@fta.dot.gov. Posted 10/15/98 (D-SN262495).

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