Speaker: Dr. Dennis A, Rondinelli, Director of the Center for Global Business Research at the Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Speaker: Sarah C. Campbell, President of TransManagement, Inc.

Transportation Costs to the American public increases when certain land use patterns are effected.

Mr. Imperatore studied history at Yale University and graduated magna cum laude in 1985. He then went on to study American History as a doctorial candidate at Harvard University before receiving a law degree from Columbia University, where he was an editor of the Law Review.

The year 2003 is shaping up as the year of reckoning for national transportation policy. Next year, the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (TEA-21), which authorizes distributions from the federal highway & transportation trust fund, expires. So does the law authorizing expenditures from the airport and airways trust fund. Amtrak, in its present form and level of service will also, in all likelihood, be kept on life support for one more year. Then what?

Two controversial actions have characterized much of TfL?s work in its early days. In March, TfL awarded contracts for the first large-scale Congestion Charging scheme in a major western city. All cars will be charged ?5 per day ($7.50) to enter the central area of London during business hours. In early May, amid heated controversy, the national government decided to proceed with a controversial plan to turn over responsibility for the London Underground to a ?public-private partnership.?

Dr. Janusz Supernak received his MS and Ph.D. from the Technical University of Warsaw, Poland. In 1979 he was invited to SUNY Buffalo as visiting Assistant Professor. In 1981 he moved to Drexel University and in 1984 to San Diego State University. Full professor since 1988, he has been Chairman of the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at SDSU for the last 10 years. He currently serves on the national Executive Council of the CEE Department Heads. Dr.

Speaker: Stephen E. Flynn, Ph.D., Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Senior Fellow for National Security Studies, Council on Foreign Relations

Speaker: Ram Pendyala is an Associate Professor and the Graduate Coordinator in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of South Florida (USF) in Tampa, specializing in Transportation Engineering and Planning

Speaker: David Gurin, City Planner

Speaker: Dr. Ben Hamilton-Baillie, Sustrans, UK Transport

For generations, the spaces between buildings in the towns and cities across the USA and Europe have been dominated by the requirements of traffic engineering, with its language of signs, traffic signals, bollards, barriers, kerbs and road markings. As a result most cities, towns and villages look increasingly alike, and there has been little opportunity to express community values, history, or a sense of place.