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Transportation and the Economy

Transportation and the Economy: Leading Globally, Succeeding Locally

Volpe's newest speaker series, Transportation and the Economy, will consider emerging and future issues crucial to the U.S. transportation system's ability to keep pace with the rising demand to move people and goods and remain competitive in today's global economy.

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Friday, October 3, 2014

Series Kick-Off: “Logistics Clusters: Jobs, Growth, and Economic Development”

Yossi Sheffi, PhD
Elisha Gray II Professor of Engineering Systems
Director, Center for Transportation and Logistics
Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 

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Jobs, Innovation, and Logistics

Opening Address:

Gregory D. Winfree
Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology
U.S. Department of Transportation

Wednesday, October 15, 2014

Catherine L. Ross, PhD
Deputy Director, National Center for Transportation System Productivity and Management
Harry West Professor of City and Regional Planning
Director, Center for Quality Growth and Regional Development
Georgia Institute of Technology

 

Event News:
Transportation Drives Economic Competitiveness in Megaregions

Thursday, October 30, 2014

Anne Aylward
Deputy Associate Administrator for Research and Innovation
Volpe, The National Transportation Systems Center

 

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Intermodalism:  A 20-Year Perspective

 

Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Michael G. Whitaker
Deputy Administrator
Federal Aviation Administration

 

Event News:
The Promise of NextGen

 

Tuesday, December 9, 2014

Kurt Nagle
President and CEO
American Association of Port Authorities

 

 

Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Rich McArdle
Managing Director for Global Operations Policy
UPS

 

Thursday, February 26, 2015

John Moavenzadeh
Senior Director, Head of Mobility Industries
World Economic Forum, USA

 

Tuesday, June 9, 2015      

Rosabeth Moss Kanter, PhD
Arbuckle Professor, Harvard Business School
Chair and Director, Harvard University Advanced Leadership Initiative

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Updated: Thursday, March 26, 2015
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