TFLEx Workshop Fall 2024 - Dallas, TX
TFLEx members will meet in Dallas to discuss strategies for handling large events, focusing on maximizing benefits and special measures.
Date and time
Location
1401 Pacific Ave
1401 Pacific Avenue Dallas, TX 75202Refund Policy
Agenda
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Day 1 - Registration and breakfast
9:30 AM - 10:45 AM
Speedy Sharing
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
BIG – Financial impact of big events – Session #1
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Working lunch - Transit metrics / ridership update
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
BIG – Financial impact of big events – Session #2
2:45 PM - 3:45 PM
BIG – Financial impact of big events – Session #3
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM
BIG – Financial impact of big events – Session #4
4:45 PM - 5:00 PM
Daily Summary
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
TFLEx Business Meeting
6:30 PM
Networking Dinner
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
Day 2 - Breakfast with presentation of transit-related videos
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
BIG – Financial impact of big events – Session #5
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Host agency tour and project highlights
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Working lunch - Speaker on Service Planning for Big Events
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Transit Finance Strategy Development
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Needs & Leads
About this event
- Event lasts 1 day 9 hours
“BIG – Financial impact of big events”
Measuring and maximizing the short-term and long-term positives
(Field of Study: Finance)
October 28-29, 2024
DART Headquarters
1401 Pacific Ave.
Dallas, Texas 75202
Program Content/Learning Objectives
As pandemic restrictions have receded, big events have returned. These are the events for which transit agencies do something special – such as special fares; partnering with sponsors for combined tickets, revenue sharing, and promotions; additional fare collection methods; additional service; and providing additional workforce necessary for service and security. Such events include ongoing and annual occurrences (rodeos, state fairs, sports games) as well as one-time (Superbowl, World Cup, faith-based conferences, large concerts). Transit finance officers from across the nation will gather in Dallas to develop techniques to measure and maximize the short-term and long-term positives.
Workshop objectives – After attending this conference, participants will be able to:
- Identify events requiring special assessment, as well as methods to analyze the financial impact – with a focus on decision support and reporting to the Board and stakeholders.
- Understand the Finance role in planning for these events and approaches for budgeting incremental revenue and costs.
- Explore revenue collection challenges and solutions – including innovations to achieve agency ridership, revenue, and overall goals and objectives.
- Asses event-related issues regarding equity, workforce, and charter service & other federal regulations.
- Synthesize workshop information to develop financial strategies to advance and support agency near-term and longer-term plans.
- Identify and share best practices through structured, participative, conversation sessions with other transit agencies.
Group-Live Delivery Method
Program Level: Advanced
No Pre-Conference Reading Material Provided
No Prerequisites*
Earn 14 CPE credits
*This program is at an advanced level of continuing education. Although no prerequisite course or work experience is needed to participate in this program, working knowledge of finance and transportation practices and policies, and knowledge of the program topic, is required.
To register visit https://tflexFall2024.eventbrite.com. For information regarding refund, complaint and cancellation policies, contact Joe Costello, Costello Consulting, 708-606-0811 [email protected].
Transit Finance Learning Exchange is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. Complaints regarding registered sponsors may be submitted to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors through its website: www.nasbaregistry.org
Recommended Hotel
Hilton Garden Inn Downtown Dallas
1600 Pacific Avenue
Dallas, TX 75201
Phone: 214-299-8982
NOTE: The workshop is open to TFLEx member agencies only, and their guests. If you are a transit agency and wish to attend as a guest, please contact [email protected]
Hosted by Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) (www.dart.org)
Tickets
Attendee - Free ticket - Host agency or presenter
0FREEAttendee - Member agency
0$275.00
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The Transit Finance Learning Exchange (TFLEx) is a strategic alliance of transit agencies formed to leverage mutual strengths and continuously improve transit finance leadership, development, training practices and information sharing.