USDOT Region V Regional University Transportation Center

1: Intermodalism
Existing transportation infrastructure across multiple modes can be leveraged to address challenges related to mobility and consequent negative impacts. This session seeks innovative approaches/mechanisms to integrate transportation/logistics solutions across modes to address challenges related to multi-sector stakeholders, limited budgets, energy security, ecological footprint, and performance efficiency, to move people and goods.

• Moderator: Ray Benekohal, Ph.D., Professor and NEXTRANS Co-Director, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
• Keith Bucklew, Director, Freight Mobility, INDOT
• Dave Semenuk, Director of Operations, Wal-Mart
• Laurence Rilett, Ph.D., Professor and Director of MATC, University of Nebraska – Lincoln

2: Integration Across Goals: Safety, Mobility and Infrastructure Renewal
The U.S. transportation infrastructure is aging, congestion is getting worse, and safety concerns continue to exist for various transportation modes. Given the limited finances for future investment, this session seeks methods and strategies to generate solutions that address multiple goals simultaneously so as to leverage limited resources judiciously.

• Moderator: Fred Mannering, Ph.D., Professor and Associate Director of CRS, Purdue University
• Thea Graham, Ph.D., Manager, Strategy, Federal Aviation Administration
• Mike Tzamaloukas, Ph.D., Founder and Director of Engineering, Dash Navigation
• Hani S. Mahmassani, Ph.D., William A. Patterson Distinguished Chair in Transportation and Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Northwestern University

3. Leveraging Technology
The technology revolution over the past two decades provides opportunities to generate innovative transportation/logistics solutions. This session seeks to explore new paradigms/approaches to generate integrated solutions to current and future transportation problems, including the use of advanced sensor systems across the transportation infrastructure.

• Moderator: Paul Brubaker, Administrator, USDOT Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA)
• Don Foley, Director and Senior Manager, Indiana Economic Development Corporation (IEDC)
• Harry Voccola, Senior Vice President Government and Industry Relations, NAVTEQ
• Ben Coifman, Ph.D., Associate Professor, The Ohio State University

4. Public-Private Partnerships
Some transportation modes are in the public sector and others are in the private sector. Policy and regulative decisions impact transportation/logistics operators. Limited public sector budgets entail need for new financing strategies involving the private sector. This session seeks innovative strategies/mechanisms to foster public-private partnerships.

• Robert Bernhard, Ph.D., Vice President for Research, University of Notre Dame
• Thomas Marchessault, USDOT Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA)
• Fidel Saenz de Ormijana, Ph.D., Technical Director, Ferrovial Agroman US Corp
• C. Michael Walton, Ph.D., Professor of Civil Engineering and Ernest H. Cockrell Centennial Chair in Engineering, University of Texas at Austin