BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:US/Eastern BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20191103T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191122T013055Z UID:A1C0C9DC-7BB9-47FC-902B-6C2585A3DAB8 DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20191112T180000 DTEND;TZID=US/Eastern:20191112T203000 DESCRIPTION:The Port Authority of Allegheny County Light Rail Transit Syste m has been an evolving Pittsburgh icon that transports some 25\,000 riders per day to and from the South Hills of Pittsburgh over two routes (Red Li ne and Blue Line) to the downtown area. Monitoring the light rail system t o keep passengers safe during their daily travels involves extensive opera tions monitoring and control in addition to safety signaling and interlock ing systems.\n\nRecent additions to the Light Rail System include a revamp ed Gateway Station featuring an under Allegheny River tunnel connection to the North Side Station adjacent to PNC Park and an Allegheny Station adja cent to Heinz Field\, effectively providing frequent service that effectiv ely merges downtown and north side.\n\nThe Operations Control Center is a focal point for real-time data collection and presentation in an easily in terpreted system map with on demand video monitoring of various locations along the routes.\n\nMaintaining and upgrading this Light Rail System prov ides a constant challenge for the Port Authority\, who will also provide a n overview of the vehicle maintenance facility as well as the correspondin g data servers and real-time network that comprise this much used transpor tation infrastructure.\n\nCo-sponsored by: j.kalasky@ieee.org\n\nAgenda: \ n6:00 Meet at Port Authority South Hills Village Maintenance and Operation s Center\n\n6:15 Organize into Tour Groups\n\n6:30 Begin Tours of the Oper ations Control Center and Maintenance Facility\n\n8:00 Wrapup and Q&A\n\n8 :30 Adjourn\n\nBldg: Port Authority South Hills Village Maintenance and Op erations Center\, Port Authority South Hills Village Maintenance and Opera tions Center\, 1000 Village Drive\, Pittsburgh\, Pennsylvania\, United Sta tes\, 15241 LOCATION:Bldg: Port Authority South Hills Village Maintenance and Operation s Center\, Port Authority South Hills Village Maintenance and Operations C enter\, 1000 Village Drive\, Pittsburgh\, Pennsylvania\, United States\, 1 5241 ORGANIZER:jcioletti@ieee.org SEQUENCE:3 SUMMARY:Tour of Port Authority Light Rail Operations Control and Maintenanc e Center URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/207675 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><p>The Port Authority of Allegheny County Lig ht Rail Transit System has been an evolving Pittsburgh icon that transport s some 25\,000 riders per day to and from the South Hills of Pittsburgh ov er two routes (Red Line and Blue Line) to the downtown area. Monitoring th e light rail system to keep passengers safe during their daily travels inv olves extensive operations monitoring and control in addition to safety si gnaling and interlocking systems.</p>\n<p>Recent additions to the Light Ra il System include a revamped Gateway Station featuring an under Allegheny River tunnel connection to the North Side Station adjacent to PNC Park and an Allegheny Station adjacent to Heinz Field\, effectively providing freq uent service that effectively merges downtown and north side.</p>\n<p>The Operations Control Center is a focal point for real-time data collection a nd presentation in an easily interpreted system map with on demand video m onitoring of various locations along the routes.</p>\n<p>Maintaining and u pgrading this Light Rail System provides a constant challenge for the Port Authority\, who will also provide an overview of the vehicle maintenance facility as well as the corresponding data servers and real-time network t hat comprise this much used transportation infrastructure.</p><br /><br /> Agenda: <br /><p>6:00&nbsp\; Meet at Port Authority South Hills Village Ma intenance and Operations Center</p>\n<p>6:15&nbsp\; Organize into Tour Gro ups</p>\n<p>6:30&nbsp\; Begin Tours of the Operations Control Center and M aintenance Facility</p>\n<p>8:00&nbsp\; Wrapup and Q&amp\;A</p>\n<p>8:30&n bsp\; Adjourn</p> END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR