Transit Finance Learning Exchange

TFLEx Workshop Spring 2022 Presentations

The presentations for the Spring 2022 TFLEx Workshop, “Navigating the Post-COVID Financial Landscape.” have been posted in the Workshop pages.

The members-only site at TFLEx Café has been retired

The members only site has been retired. To become involved in TFLEx activities, please register on the TFLEx Mailing List.

TFLEx Mailing List

If you wish to be included in the TFLEx membership please email rgarton@dart.org. Only employees of the member agency can register, and they must use their work email address. The email list is used to send out invites to the Workshops held twice a year, and to the Special Interest Group (SIG) conference calls that are held every few months. TFLEx also does benchmarking efforts and may use this list for contacting members to gather input.

About

Business Plan Purpose The Transit Finance Learning Exchange (T-FLEx) began with the inaugural workshop in March 1999. The conference shaped the ideas of a few leading finance professionals into an active nation-wide working group of transit finance professionals. T-FLEx enables transit agencies to share and exchange training materials, instructors, uniform procurement scopes of work, policies…

Member Agencies

Current TFLEx member agencies: Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District – Oakland, Fremont, Berkeley Bay Area Rapid Transit Office of Inspector General – San Francisco Bi-State Development Agency – St. Louis C TRAN – Vancouver Capital Area Transit – Baton Rouge Central Ohio Transit Authority – Columbus Central Puget Sound Regional Transit Authority – Seattle Culver City…

Join

The T-FLEx leadership committee thanks you for your interest in the Transit Finance Learning Exchange (T-FLEx). The mission of T-FLEx 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 T-FLEx…

Transit 101 (temporarily disabled)

Training and Professional Development Why Transit 101? Existing transit industry orientation tools for finance professionals are ineffective because of industry complexities, hiring and retention challenges associated with a tight labor market, and rapidly changing expectations for financial staff performance. Orientation practices vary from agency to agency; TFLEx members are convinced that standardizing industry orientation materials…

TFLEx Café

TFLEx Café has been retired. (1/29/2022) TFLEx Café is a members-only website for employees of the TFLEx agencies. This website is no longer available, it has been retired, to be replaced by another option for members only.

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.