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20th Anniversary Program and Reception
McNamara Alumni Center
University of Minnesota East Bank Campus
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Please join us for a look back at how University of Minnesota research influenced many of the technologies, policies, and practices that have transformed transportation over the past two decades—and a look ahead to what the next 20 years might hold.
The event is free of charge and will be held in lieu of the CTS Fall Luncheon.
For further information, please contact Julie Grazier, 612-624-3708, cceconf5@umn.edu.
Program
1:00 p.m. Registration—A.I. Johnson Room
1:30Welcome and Opening Remarks
Robert Johns, Director, Center for Transportation Studies
1:40 Keynote Remarks—The Role of Research in Shaping the Future of Transportation
Genevieve Giuliano, Professor, School of Policy, Planning & Development, and Senior Associate Dean, Research & Technology, University of Southern California
Transportation research has an impressive record with technical solutions—such as fuel efficiency and safer road design—but has had little influence on problems that require policy solutions, such as highway financing. Indeed, argues Genevieve Giuliano, today’s critical transportation problems are public policy problems, either because technical solutions are no longer effective or because political and institutional barriers prevent their implementation. “As researchers,” she says, “our challenge is not just to do ‘good research,’ but to inform the public policy process.”
Giuliano will explore the role of research in shaping the future of transportation in her keynote address. Using the Transportation Research Board’s 2006 list of “critical issues” as a framework, Giuliano’s presentation will reflect on the role of research in shaping our perceptions of critical transportation problems and their solutions.
2:20Panel Discussion—CTS Engineering and Technology Research and Education
Panelists:
- Max Donath, Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, and Director, Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Institute
- Catherine French, Professor, Department of Civil Engineering
- Mihai Marasteanu, Associate Professor, Departmen of Civil Engineering
- Panos Michalopoulos, Professor, Department of Civil Engineering
- Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos, Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering
3:30Break
3:50 Panel Discussion—CTS Policy and Planning Research and Education
- John Adams, Professor, Department of Geography
- Gary Davis, Professor, Department of Civil Engineering
- David Levinson, Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, and Richard P. Braun/CTS Chair in Transportation Engineering
- Lee Munnich, Director, State and Local Policy Program, Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs
- Mary Vogel, Senior Research Fellow, Department of Landscape Architecture