### Summary **Minutes –**  **3rd Meeting**  **(approved May 20, 2014)**  **US A ccess Board**  **Rail Vehicles A ccess A** **dvisory Committee**  **April 10 and 11**  **, 2014 Washington, DC**  **Thursday ,**  **Ap ril 10**  **, 2014** With a quorum present, Mr. Christopher Hart , Access Board member, o pened the third meeting of the Rail Vehicles Access Advisory Committee (RVAAC) at 10 a.m. in the Access Board’s conference room at 1331 F Street, N.W. , room 800, Washington, DC . Mr. Hart welcomed committee members, alternates, and members of the public , and asked those in attendance to introduce themselves . The attendance record is in the Attachment to these minutes . He then turned the meeting over to the Committee Chair, Mr. Billy Altom . The committee approved the January 2014 meeting summary minutes as submitted. 1 The committee welcomed Mr. Francis Mascarenhas who replaced Mr. Justin Vonashek as the committee Metra representative, and Mr. Larry Scott who replaced Mr. Ross Capon as the committee representative for the National Association of Railroad Passengers. For Amtrak, it was reported that Mr. Gary Talbot is the new alternate representative and Ms. June Kailes is the new alternate for the Disabilities Rights Educational Defe nse Fund. During the meeting, Mr. Michael Wetherell informed the committee that he could no longer serve on the committee and that Mr. Frank Maldari is now the representative from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority of the State of New York and Mr. Gricelda Cespedes would be his alternate. Mr. Altom provided a brief report on a recommendation by Access Board staff to rename and expand the scope of the existing two subcommittees (Signage and Interior Vertical Circulation) and add two new subcommittees . 2 This recommendation was approved by the committee with only one dissenting vote. The new subcommittees are:  Boarding and Alighting  Communications (formerly Signage)  On - board Circulation and Seating (formerly Interior Vertical Circulatio n)  Rooms and Spaces Ms. Terry Pacheco, who had been chair of the Signage s ubcommittee will chair the Communications s ubcommittee. Mr. Blair Slaughter was elected chair of the On - board

1 The draft minutes were circulated to the committee in an email dated February 12, 2014. 2 The recommendation was made in an email to the committee dated February 27, 2014.Rail Vehicles Access Advisory Committee Summary Meeting Minutes, Contd.

April 2014 Page 2 of 5 Circulation and Seating Subcommittee. Election of chair for the Boarding and Alighting Subcommittee was scheduled for the first subcommittee meeting to be held o n April 11 , 2014 . The committee agreed to postpone election of the chair of the Rooms and Spa ces s ubcommittee which was not scheduled to meet during the two-day full committee meeting. Access Board staff recommended the committee establish two additional meeting dates between October 2014 and June 2015. The committee agreed to add meetings and directed staff to handle the date selection following the meeting and to poll the committee members regarding their availabilty . T he committee agreed to schedul e conference calls for the four subcommittees between the April and September 2014 full committee meetings. T imes for subcommittee meetings will be from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. (e astern time zone) . The dates will, to the exten t possible, be on Thursdays. The committee authorized the Access Board staff to modify the day when necessary to accommodate log istical and administrative needs . The call dates were to be sent to the committee as soon as possible. The following five education al presentations were made to the committee. A discussion time followed each presentation.

 Federal Railroad Administration (Mr. Harold W eisinger) – Rail 101  American Public Transportation Association Streetcar Subcommittee (Mr. Paul Grether) – Maximizing Accessibility for Modern Streetcar Systems  Ricon Corporation (Mr. Stanton Saucier) – An Overview of Vehicle Access Systems  Center for Inclusive Design and Environmental Access ( D r. Edward Steinfeld) – Research: Anthropometry of Wh eeled Mobility for Transportation Applications  Amtrak (Mr. Gary Talbot an d Mr. Christopher Kattola ) – Gap Mitigation/Elimination Program ( included two video clips ). During the presentations, members observed that the American Public Transportation Association would be holding a Rail Conference in Montreal, Canada, June 18/19, and also during this conference a workshop, titled " Improving Rail Transit Safety at Platform/Train and Platform/Guideway Interfaces” would take place. Mr. Uwe Rutenberg reported that the workshop was sponsored by the Transit Cooperative Rese arch Program of the Tra nsportation Research Board . A lunch break occurred between the second and third presentations . After the last presentation, the floor was opened for public comment. With no one desiring to comment, the committee adjorned around 3:40 p.m after which subcommittee meetings took place for the balance of the meeting through April 11 . The Commun ications s ubcommittee meeting #3 took place between 4 and 5 p.m.Rail Vehicles Access Advisory Committee Summary Meeting Minutes, Contd.

April 2014 Page 3 of 5 **Friday ,**  **Ap ril 11**  **, 2014** The On - board Circulation and Seating s ubcommittee meeting #4 took place from 9:30 a.m. until 12:30 p.m . After a short lunch, the Boarding and Alighting Subcommittee meeting #1 was convened from 1 :0 0 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. Among its activities, Ms. Marilyn Golden was elected as subcommittee chai r . **Note 1:** All material (including PowerPoints) presented during committee meetings or subcommittee meetings have been archived in the RVAAC electronic docket referenced below. **Note 2**  **:** A Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) system was used in the committee meeting (and subcommittee meetings) to provide an accommodation to persons with hearing loss and persons who are deaf. The CART output was streamed in real -time and available to the public on the intern et. The unedited text of the CART output is available in the RVAAC electronic docket at http://www.regulations.gov/#!docketDetail;D=ATBCB -2013 -0006 in the section titled “Sup porting Documents” (may have to click “view all” and sort by title) for the document titled “ 3rd Meeting - Unedited CART Text - 2014 Apr 10 “. Th is document provide s the details of the committee meeting . CART text from the three subcommittee meetings is fi l ed separately in “Supporting Documents” by subcommittee name , meeting number, and date . **Note 3:** During the Boarding and Alighting Subcommittee meeting on April 11, the subcommittee added “Visual signal for entry doors” to the RVAAC issues list under the heading “other communication issues”. No other change was made to the issues list as contained in Attachment B of the approved January 2014 Summary Meeting Minutes located in the RVAAC electronic docket referenced above and on the RVAAC website (www.access- board.gov/rvaac). The list is not reproduced in these summary minutes.RVAAC Summary Meeting Minutes, Contd. **Attachment**

April 2014 Page 4 of 5 **Attachment U.S. A** **ccess Board Rail Vehicle** **s Ac** **cess A dv**  **isory Committee**  **- Meeting A**  **ttendance Ap**  **ril 10 , 201**  **4 Washington, DC**  **Members Present :**  **27** 1. Alstom Transportation - Jon Holbrook 2. American Council of the Blind - Terry Pacheco 3. (Amtrak) National Railroad Passenger Corporation - Joseph Slaughter & Gary Talbot 4. Association of Programs for Rural Independent Living - Billy Altom ( Committee Chair) 5. Bombardier Transportation - André Gagné 6. California Department of Transportation, Division of Rail – Thomas Peacock 7. Center for Inclusive Design and Environmental Access - Edward Steinfeld 8. Community Transportation Association of America - Robert Carlson 9. Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund - Marilyn Golden 10. Federal Railroad Administration - Linda Martin & Calvin Gibson 11. Hearing Access Program - Janice Schacter Lintz 12. Hearing Loss Associ ation of America – Lisa Hamlin 13. International Centre for Accessible Transportation - Uwe Rutenberg 14. Maryland Transit Administration – David Hughson 15. Metra & N ortheast Illinois Regional Commuter Railroad Corporation – Francis Mascarenhas 16. Metropolitan Transportation Authority of the State of New York – Michael Wetherell , Frank Maldari , & Gricelda Cespedes 17. National Association of the Deaf – Andrew Phillips 18. National Association of Railroad Passengers – Larry Scott 19. National Council on Independ ent Living - Cliff Perez 20. National Disability Rights Network - Dennis Cannon & Kenneth Shiotani 21. New Jersey Transit – Ed Hoff 22. Parsons Brinckerhoff – Francis Banko 23. RailPlan International – Terry Soebee & Jonathan Michel 24. Ricon Corporation - Stanton Saucier 25. South W est Transit Association - Crystal Lyons 26. Talgo, Inc. - Joshua Coran 27. United Spinal Association - James W eisman **Members Ab** **sent :**  **0**RVAAC Summary Meeting Minutes, Contd. **Attachment**

April 2014 Page 5 of 5 **Ac cess Board**  **Present :**  Melissa Anderson , Transportation Engineer Paul Beatty , Accessibility Specialist and Designated Federal Officer to the Advisory Committee David M. Capozzi , Executive Director Lisa Fairhall , Deputy General Counsel Christopher S. Hart, Board Member and liaison to the advisory committee Marsha K. Mazz , Director, Office of Technical and Information Services Aromie Noe , Policy Analyst Jim Pecht, Accessibility Specialist **Other s Present**  **:** 

### Dick Cogswell, Federal Railroad Adminstration John Day, Federal Transit Administration Rhonda Drews, Federal Transit Administration Kyle Giannaula, Amtrak Sid Goldstein, Transit Access Report Paul Grether, S outh West Ohio Reg ional Transit Auth ority Pierre H olloman, City of Alexandria, VA Kimberly Jackson , University of Kansas Christopher Kattola , RLE International Tom Kennedy, RLE International Robert Kokx, RLE International Mike Martino, Association of American Railroads Glenn Millis, Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority David Nelson, Amtrak Bob Reuter, Access Systems Melissa Shurland, Federal Railroad Administration Gurmit Singh, Siemens Keith Wa rtzman Harold W eisinger, Federal Railroad Administration Louis Woolner, Virginia Railway Express **Note:** Attendance of subcommittee meetings was not recorded.