Railway Age / RT&S Light Rail 2024

Registration opens soon!

Early bird rates end September 6 at 11:59pm ET.

Join Railway Age and RT&S at a premier event: Light Rail 2024, our annual conference on light rail transit.

LRT, North America’s fastest-growing passenger rail mode, employs a full range of technologies and operating practices. Light Rail 2024, developed for transportation professionals in planning, operations, civil engineering, signaling and vehicle engineering as well as students at the undergraduate and graduate level, will offer a comprehensive review of the specialized technical, operational, environmental and socio-economic issues associated with LRT in an urban environment. The conference concludes with a special tour of the San Diego Trolley, the first modern LRT system in the United States.

Top Reasons to Attend
• Spend valuable networking time with LRT professionals from around North America.
• Earn multiple Professional Development Hour credits if you’re a P.E.*
• Share lessons-learned with industry colleagues.
• Connect with potential new customers.
• Acquire the knowledge you need about ongoing and planned projects.
• Discover what regulations are coming and how they could impact your business or operations.
• Advance your standing as a railway industry professional.

Key Sessions
• Engineering for Operations
• Capital Program Management
• Dealing with Extreme Weather Events
• Project Updates on Major New-Builds and Expansions
• Transit-oriented Development
• Alternative Propulsion Technologies
• Customer Interfaces: Fare Collection, Communications, Security
• Funding Challenges

View the 2023 agenda >

*Professional Development Hour certificates of attendance will be provided on request.