Visiting Scholar Seminar Series
Dr. C. Michael Walton, Professor of Civil Engineering, Chair in Engineering, University of Texas at Austin
Speaker: Dr. Delon Hampton, CEO of Delon Hampton & Associates
Speaker: John Vickerman, Principal & Executive Vice President of Vickerman Zachery-Miller (VZM)
Speakers: Nancy Connery & Michael Singer, Independent Researcher & Artist
Speaker: Lawrence Dahms, Executive Director, Metropolitan Transportation Commission
Lawrence Dahms is Executive Director of the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) serving the San Franscisco Bay Area. The Commission membership, authority and scope were first established by the California State Legislature in 1970. Pursuant to federal law MTC is the Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) and designated recipient for federal transit funds. MTC is cinsidered a model for U.S. MPO's in the country.
Speaker: Dr. Michael Meyer, Professor and chair of the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology
Speaker: John Bennett, Vice President, Amtrak
Most roads in the U.S., as in all other countries, are run, like public parks, by politically, appointed officials. The predictable results include excessive congestion, waste and deterioration. Might the application of commercial principles produce a road system more responsive to the wishes of road users?
Speaker: Arthur Goodwin, P.E.
The Alameda Corridor designated by the White House, Congress and USDOT as a project that will received the largest federal transportation infrastructure loan in the county. The corridor is a $2.4 billion 20 mile rail and highway intermodal infrastructure project expected to increase the access to the Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles, the two largest seaports in the United States.
Anthony Perl, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Calgary
