National Surface Transportation Policy and Revenue
Study Commission Public Session
Wednesday, November 15 - Thursday, November 16,
2006
The Peabody Hotel
149 Union Avenue
Memphis, Tennessee 38103
Wednesday, November 15
8:30-8:40 a.m.: Welcome Remarks from Secretary
Mary E. Peters, Chairman of the National Surface
Transportation Policy and Revenue Study Commission
8:40-10:15 a.m. Panel #1: "Global Trends and
Regional Framework"
- Doug Duncan, President and CEO, FedEx Freight
- Tim Yatsko, Senior VicePresident of Transportation,WalMart
- John Moore, President and CEO of the Memphis
Regional Chamber
- Pete Johnson, Federal CoChair for the Delta Regional
Authority
10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Panel #2: "Intermodal
Opportunities in Global & Regional Trends"
- Robert West, Managing Director, Global Trade & Transportation
at Global Insight
- Roger Sklar, Director of Inbound Supply Chain
Operations, NIKE Inc.
- Steve Rand, AVP Sales and Account Development,
CSX Intermodal
- Jonathan Red, Chief Operating Officer, Sea Point
LLC
1:30-3:00 p.m. Panel #3: "Regional Economic
Development and Quality of Life"
- Matt Kisber, Tennessee Commissioner of Economic
Development
- Mark Norris, Tennessee State Senator and Chairman
of Economic Development, Transportation, and Cultural
Affairs Committee of the Southern Legislative Conference
- Neely Mallory, President of Mallory Alexander
- John D. Carruthers Chairman, MidContinent Highway
Coalition
3:15-4:45 p.m. Panel #4: "Surface Transportation
Barriers/Solutions"
- Gerald Nicely, Commissioner of the Tennessee
Department of Transportation
- Scott Bennett, Director of the Arkansas Department
of Highways and Transportation
- Dave Huneryager, President and CEO of the Tennessee
Trucking Association
- Jimmy Smith, Tennessee Public Transit Association
4:45-5:15 p.m. Public Comment Period
5:15 p.m. Adjourn
