American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO)

Monday-July 19,2004

Welcome - Introductions 

8:00 am -9:00 am

Welcome

Wes Lum, Jim Sime

AASHTO Report

John Horseley, Executive Dir. & Ken Kobetsky, Program Dir. for Eng. at AASHTO

TRB Report

Bob Skinner, Executive Director of TRB

SCOR/NCHRP

Bob Reilly, Dir of Cooperative Research Programs at TRB & Secretary of AASHTO SCOR & RAC

Denny Judycki, Director of Research, Development  & Technology at FHWA
Dave Huft, South Dakota and member of AASHTO TIG

New Direction - Moy Biswas

9:00 am - 10:15 am

Opening Comments and Survey Results

Moy Biswas

Policy Research

Michael Shea, Missouri

Non Typical Research

Michael Sanders, SC

Policy Studies and Emerging Challenges

Moy Biswas, NC

The Importance of Research - Jim Sime & Barbara Breslin

10:30am -11:30am

Introductory Remarks

Jim Sime, CT

Perspectives of the Connecticut Commissioner of Transportation

Commissioner Stephen E. Korta, II

An Effective Regional Transportation Research Program - The N.E. Transportation Consortium

Bradley D. Keazer,FHWA-CT Division Administrator and NETC Policy Committee member

NCHRP 20-24 - What it has meant

Crawford Jencks, NCHRP

Lunch with Segway

Segway LLC staff

Expediting Project Delivery - Leni Oman

Environmental Research

2:00 pm -3:30 pm

Leni Oman

Partnering on Environmental  Research

Partnering Speaker 1

Sue Sillick, Montana

Moy Biswas, NC

Partnering Speaker 3

Barnie Jones, Oregon

Questions/Answers

Leni Oman

Rapid Construction
Tommy E. Nantung, INDOT
Rick Collins, TXDOT
Leni Oman

Broadening our Multimodal Perspectives in Transportation Research - Jeff Smith

4:00 pm -

5:30 pm

Introductory Comments

Jeff Smith

Federal Transit Administration (FTA)

Barbara Sisson, FTA

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA)

Mary Powers-King, FMCSA

        State Waterborne Research: Port Sedimentation Solutions

Randy Beatty for William McAnally, Mississippi DOT

State Rail Research: Rail Oriented Development - Strategies and Tools to Support Passenger Rail

Richard Griffin, Colorado

Questions/Answers

Jeff Smith