 Transportation Leaders Meeting Sessions Overview
Presentations and Handouts
NCSL Fall Forum
San Antonio, Texas
December 4-6, 2006
Meeting Objective
State legislatures play a critical role in the implementation of national transportation policy. Every year, states spend more than $90 billion—almost 20 percent of overall state budgets—for highway construction and maintenance, traffic enforcement, highway safety, transit systems, rail and other transportation needs. Continuing to meet the transportation needs of its citizenry has become a major challenge for state legislatures given declining revenue sources, increasing costs ands competing needs. The NCSL Transportation Leaders Meeting will bring together the highest-ranking state legislators responsible for transportation issues in their respective states to address these issues. Legislators will have the unique opportunity to meet with their peers from across the United States to discuss common concerns and learn about crucial transportation issues including state level innovations and the federal transportation reauthorization scheduled for 2009. Working with transportation experts, meeting participants will develop Action Items that they can use to develop their own policy strategies at the state level, while at the same time providing a framework for efforts at the national level regarding the reauthorization process.
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Session: Easing Gridlock -- Can technology and pricing solve the problem?
- Regina McElroy, Director, Office of Transportation Management, Federal Highway Administration, Washington, D.C.
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- Adrian Moore, Vice President, Reason Foundation, California Download PDF Version
- Kathleen Marvaso, Managing Director, Government Affairs, AAA, Washington, D.C. (presentation pending)
- Gary Thomas, President/Exceutive Director, Dallas Area Rapid Transit, Texas
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Session: The Economics of Traffic Safety -- How Low Cost Interventions Can Save Big Bucks
- Ted Miller, Ph.D., Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, California
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- Ruth Shults, Ph.D., Centers for Disease Control, Georgia Download PDF Version
- Steve Blackistone, State and Local Liaison, National Transportation Safety Board, Washington, D.C. PowerPoint Presentation
Lunch Session:
- Gerry Shaheen, Group President of Caterpillar, Inc., and Chairman of the US Chamber of Commerce Download PDF Version
Session: Finding Transportation Dollars -- Brother, can you spare a trillion?
- C. Kenneth Orski, Innovation Briefs Editor, Urban Mobility Corporaton, Maryland Handout
- Representative Mike Krusee, House Transportation Committee Chair, Texas (presentation pending)
Session: Coordinating Transportation Services -- How Planning Can Increase Mobility and Save Money
Session: Working Lunch and Dialogue on Surface Transportation Priorities
- Kerry O'Hare, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Intergovernmental Affairs, US Department of Transportation, Washington, D.C. (presentation pending)
- David Kelly, Chief of Staff, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Washington, D.C. (presentation pending)
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