2025 FPTA/FDOT/CUTR PDW & Transit Safety and Operations Summit: Full Schedule

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8:00am EDT

What Would You Do? Drug & Alcohol Testing Scenarios and Solutions

Tuesday June 10, 2025 8:00am - 9:45am EDT

During this interactive session, the speakers will present 5 real-life scenarios that may arise in your agency’s FTA drug & alcohol testing program. Participants will collaborate and discuss how they might handle issues such as shy bladder, refusals to test and post-accident testing decisions. Speakers will provide regulatory guidance and best practices to help participants reach the compliant solution for each of the testing scenarios.

Speakers

Diana Byrnes

Certified Substance Abuse Program Administrator (C-SAPA), CUTR

Diana Byrnes, CSAPADiana is a Certified Substance Abuse Program Administrator (C-SAPA) with more than 25 years of experience in DOT regulated workplace drug and alcohol testing. Diana has been the Project Manager for the Florida Department of Transportation’s Substance Abuse Management... Read More →

Tamie Langman

FDOT Drug/Alcohol Program Analyst, CUTR

After 34 years with Manatee County Government’s Human Resources Department, Tamie Langman joined the FDOT Substance Abuse Management Oversight and Technical Assistance (SAM) team as an FDOT Substance Abuse Program Analyst in April of 2023. Tamie has extensive experience in the management... Read More →

Tuesday June 10, 2025 8:00am - 9:45am EDT
Salons A - C

Workshop

10:00am EDT

Active Assailant & Vehicle Weapons

Tuesday June 10, 2025 10:00am - 11:45am EDT

Salons A - C

Active Assailant – Are you and your employees physically and mentally prepared if you happened to encounter an active assailant? This facilitated discussion will walk you through options to consider if you happen to encounter an active assailant.
Vehicle Weapons – Vehicles are increasingly being used as weapons in attacks with hostile intent. This includes vehicle ramming and vehicle-borne improvised explosive devices (VBIEDs).

Speakers

U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Transportation Security Inspectors

Tuesday June 10, 2025 10:00am - 11:45am EDT
Salons A - C

Workshop

1:15pm EDT

FTA Drug & Alcohol Regulatory Updates

Tuesday June 10, 2025 1:15pm - 3:00pm EDT

Salons A - C

This annual session will provide the latest information related to FTA and USDOT drug and alcohol testing regulations. Topics will include an update on the implementation of oral fluid testing, the roll out of new FDOT drug and alcohol policy templates, and a new Florida Drug and Alcohol Program Manager website, as well as federal messages from the FTA Annual Drug & Alcohol Program Conference. The session will conclude with the ever-popular “State of the State”: an analysis of the drug and alcohol test results in 2024.

Speakers

Diana Byrnes

Certified Substance Abuse Program Administrator (C-SAPA), CUTR

Tuesday June 10, 2025 1:15pm - 3:00pm EDT
Salons A - C

Presentation

3:15pm EDT

Human Trafficking – Capturing Innovation Initiative in Public Transit

Tuesday June 10, 2025 3:15pm - 5:00pm EDT

Salons A - C

Do you provide human trafficking training? Do you have a policy/procedure in place to compliment the training and inform employees how to recognize and prevent human trafficking? This session will be a discussion format for transit agencies to share what they are doing, what is working, what has missed the intended mark, and what has exceeded expectations. Discussions will not only include training and reporting protocols, but we will also discuss implementation challenges and successes, community partnerships, law enforcement coordination, use of technology, funding sources, impact measures, and more. You will leave this session with additional resources to assist you, and your agency, in the fight against human trafficking.

Speakers

Jodi Godfrey

Senior Research Associate, Center for Urban Transportation Research

Jodi Godfrey is a Senior Research Associate at the Center for Urban Transportation Research (CUTR) at the University of South Florida (USF), where she works on the Transit Safety and Workforce Development Program. Ms. Godfrey received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in civil... Read More →

Lexi Higgins

Palm Tran

Lexi Higgins is the Director of Industry Engagement at TAT (Truckers Against Trafficking). In this role, she oversees TAT’s bus program, which works to educate and mobilize members of the motorcoach, transit and school transportation industries to combat human trafficking in the... Read More →

Tuesday June 10, 2025 3:15pm - 5:00pm EDT
Salons A - C

Presentation

2025 FPTA/FDOT/CUTR PDW & Transit Safety and Operations Summit