Transit Finance Learning Exchange

TFLEx Forum Call – Property and Liability Insurance – April 25, 2024, 3:00 CST

Renewal challenges in an increasingly difficult and expensive market Transit agencies purchase property insurance on their large investment in fleet and infrastructure to provide financial reimbursement for damage and theft, and liability insurance that provides protection against claims resulting from injuries and damage to people and property from their numerous vehicles in operation daily. The…

by themousepadtexas April 17, 2024April 18, 2024

TFLEx Treasury SIG Call – First / Last Mile connections – February 8, 2024, 3:00 CST

Finance role & challenges associated with third-party arrangements The “First and Last Mile” is the distance a transit rider needs to travel from a transit (bus or rail) stop to their destination, and vice versa. This presents a challenge when the stop is far from where the rider is going. Recently, it has become more…

by themousepadtexas February 1, 2024April 18, 2024

TFLEx Workshop – Spring 2024 – Houston, Texas – April 8-9, 2024

“Mission Control”Refocusing Agency Resources in a post-COVID world Transit finance officers from across the nation will gather in Houston to understand the financial challenges of “Mission Control” in the post-pandemic transit environment. The current landscape reflects changes to the level and nature of service provision, innovations to encourage demand for transit, and increasingly costly capital…

by themousepadtexas January 7, 2024January 17, 2024

About

Purpose The Transit Finance Learning Exchange (TFLEx) began with the inaugural workshop in March 1999. The conference shaped the ideas of a few leading finance professionals into an active nationwide working group of transit finance professionals. TFLEx enables transit agencies to share and exchange information of interest including financial strategies, training materials, procurement scopes of…

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Member Agencies

Current TFLEx member agencies: Altoona Metro Transit (AMTRAN), Altoona, Pennsylvania Central Ohio Transit Authority (COTA), Columbus, Ohio Centre Area Transportation Authority (CATA), State College, Pennsylvania Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority (GCRTA), Cleveland, Ohio Corpus Christi Regional Transportation Authority (CCRTA), Corpus Christi, Texas Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART), Dallas Texas Des Moines Area Regional Transit Authority…

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Thank you for your interest in the Transit Finance Learning Exchange (TFLEx). Purpose and Mission The mission of TFLEx is to create and sustain a strategic alliance of transit agencies to continuously improve transit finance leadership, development, and training practices; and to evolve the finance function into a value-added business partner. In addition, TFLEx enables…

TFLEx Guide for Transit Newbies

Transit agencies typically hire finance professionals for their finance expertise. As such, these professionals often do not have transit knowledge. The TFLEX Guide for Transit Newbies was developed to provide transit basics. Audience Finance professionals new to transit are the intended audience. TFLEx wanted to create these lessons to help staff become more able to…

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TFLEx Forum Calls

TFLEx Forum Calls Between TFLEx workshops we hold calls via Zoom to keep our members engaged and offer a timely forum to address their issues The calls cover topics put forward by members, provide an update to matters discussed at the previous workshop, and offer an opportunity for further follow up at the next workshop…

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Other Resources

NTD Glossary Click to view a glossary of NTD terms. Transit Acronyms Click to view a list of transit related acronyms. NTD link Click to view the National Transit Database. Federal Grants Click to view an introduction to federal grants. Government Finance Officers Association (GFOA) Distinguished Budget Presentation Award The best budget documents provide a…

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Workshops

TFLEx members meet twice annually to share best practices and “needs and leads,” learn from industry experts and work together to develop and maintain the ongoing TFLEx Business Plan. These are facilitated workshops where all members are able to participate in roundtable discussions.

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