Leadership APTA Presentations - 11/3/2025
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Discover Fresh Insights from the Next Generation of Transit Leaders
 
Broaden your perspective with powerful takeaways from the Leadership APTA Class of 2025 Capstone Projects. Learn how the next generation of transit leaders is tackling today’s biggest industry priorities and challenges.
 
APTA members get exclusive access to these new resources—including executive summaries and short videos packed with key findings and innovative ideas. Months of in-depth research and interviews are distilled into engaging, easy-to-digest presentations covering topics for every interest.
 
As APTA’s premier senior and executive leadership program, Leadership APTA continues to shape the future of public transportation. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from the newest class of rising industry leaders!
 
Brand Data Story IconThe six on-demand sessions are:
 
This project identifies how agencies can more effectively frame their benefits in ways that resonate across political lines and funding levels. Brand, Data, and Story provides a cohesive strategy for building trust, demonstrating value, and earning enduring support.
 

Chiefs cooking breakfastCEO Compass: Peer Tested Strategies for Transit Executives
Through candid interviews with 30 transit leaders from 13 U.S. states and Canada, this capstone highlight the hard-earned insights that helped them lead with clarity, confidence, and impact.

 
Fan at stadium eventMobilizing Mega Moments: How Transit Agencies Prepare, Perform, and Prevail
Drawing on a series of in-depth interviews with executives, operations leaders, customer experience specialists, and public–private partners, this session presents a proven framework for planning, delivering, and sustaining transit excellence across the three critical phases of a mega-event: Pre-Event, During Event, and Post-Event.


Quote from BART CEO Bob Powers on importance of using AIReady, Set, AI: Risk, Readiness, and Real-World Use of AI in Transit
This capstone explores how public transit agencies can adopt AI solutions responsibly by establishing a framework that identifies key risks, outlines governance surrounding AI, and implements policies to put appropriate guard rails on usage.


CTA construction workersStriking the Right Staffing Balance: What Can We Learn from Recent Capital Expansion Programs?
The capstone team conducted several months of industry research on recent capital expansion programs across the United States, seeking to better understand if there was a “right” balance between public and private sector staffing when advancing a capital expansion program.

This capstone examines how agencies are closing the gap between system data and the rider experience. Our findings suggest that restoring rider trust requires a three-legged stool of solutions: Policy & Partnerships, Human Presence, and Technology & Infrastructure.  
 
 
These educational sessions are all less than 10 minutes and are free to all APTA members. Each project also includes an executive summary and presentation slides. Don't miss out on these contributions from the Leadership APTA Class of 2025.
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