Research Driven Communications at Sound Transit

Ron Klein, leader of the communications and external affairs department, talks about Sound Transit's strategic approach to marketing and research and how their multi-million dollar research program is creating, instituting and measuring the effectiveness of their ridership outreach tactics.

Puget Sound Research Forum, Thu 2/16/2012

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