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March 13, 1998 State officials beat a path to Purdue Road School WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- More than 1,200 people, from street commissioners to mayors to highway engineers, will learn about what's new and talk about what could be for Indiana's roads and highways March 24-25 at the 1998 Purdue University Road School. The annual highway conference begins at 9 a.m. Tuesday, March 24, in Purdue's Stewart Center and continues through Wednesday, March 25. The conference is free and open to the public, but attendees should register in Stewart Center beginning at 8 a.m. the first day. Highlights include: Tuesday. 9:30 a.m. Loeb Theater. U.S. Rep. Ed Pease, a member of the House Transportation Committee, will speak about the reauthorization of the highway bill. Tuesday. 10 a.m. Loeb Theater. Anthony Kane, executive director, Federal Highway Administration, will discuss current and future federal highway programs. Wednesday. 8 a.m. Loeb Theater. Discussion of Indiana's national achievement award for the best highway project in the United States, a stretch of Interstate 65 through downtown Indianapolis that was completed 60 days ahead of schedule. Wednesday. 9:15 a.m. Loeb Theater. Clinton Topham, deputy director of the Utah Department of Transportation, will discuss that state's infrastructure preparations for the Winter Olympics in 2002. Wednesday. 1:30 p.m. Room 210. Indiana's "brownfields" program, an update on the state's efforts and use of technology to clean lands that have been lightly polluted or contaminated. Other sessions at the Road School will focus on planning of local transportation projects, project management, maintenance issues and how air quality standards relate to transportation issues. Purdue's annual Road School is sponsored by the School of Civil Engineering and the Indiana Department of Transportation. CONTACT: Kumares Sinha, professor of transportation and infrastructure systems engineering and director of the Joint Transportation Research Project, (765) 494-2211; e-mail, sinha@ecn.purdue.edu Purdue News Service: (765) 494-2096; e-mail, purduenews@purdue.edu To the Purdue News and Photos Page