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As America’s aging infrastructure cracks and crumbles, the demand for transportation has increased dramatically. Our roads, airports, railroads, transit systems and seaports are approaching capacity, resulting in costly escalation of congestion, pollution and safety challenges, rising costs for users and administrators, and an increased demand for scarce resources. While funding dedicated to infrastructure is depleting, our nation is caught in an economic crisis that can only be solved by creating more jobs—fast. Thus, the “Renaissance of Transportation” is born.
As debate begins in earnest on the federal surface transportation bill, and policymakers and practitioners are busy allocating and tracking the funds for transportation infrastructure in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. It is imperative that government representatives and transportation and engineering leaders collaborate at the highest levels to leverage potential at this critical time. We all want the same thing—a multi-modal transportation infrastructure network that is safe, efficient, well maintained and expansive enough to meet the increased population and economic demands.
Now is the time to build for the next generation. Please join the City of Irving, Texas, its sponsors, co-host cities, counties and national transportation organizations, as we host both the Transportation & Infrastructure Convention and Summit. Your ideas, backgrounds and expertise are needed to help cast a vision for a national transportation policy that will become the strong foundation of America’s infrastructure in the upcoming years.
3rd Annual Transportation & Infrastructure Convention
March 10-12, 2010
Washington D.C.
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The 3rd Annual Transportation and Infrastructure Convention in March will continue to promote high-level discussion in the development of a national multi-modal transportation policy for our nation. We are pleased to announce that John Horsley, Executive Director of American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials will be back as the Master of Ceremonies at the Convention in Washington, D.C. The Convention promises to place attendees in some of the most strategic locations around Capitol Hill. For the past two years, House Transportation & Infrastructure Chairman James Oberstar has allowed us to meet in the Transportation & Infrastructure Committee Room. Meetings have also been held in the Senate Russell Caucus Room, Madison Hall in the Library of Congress, and the new Capitol Visitor Center.
Over the course of last year’s convention, over 200 delegates from over 26 states and four countries heard from 42 speakers, while participating in high level discussions on multi-modal transportation planning, investment, and development, including transit, highways, seaports, rail, aviation, and public transportation systems.
The 1st and 2nd Transportation Conventions laid the groundwork for an annual multi-modal transportation symposium within our nation’s capital. It featured legislators at the local, state, regional and national levels, as well as experts from each mode of transportation. Also, national trade organization officials, members of Congress from the both the House and Senate, with significant participation from the House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee, and Administrators from the U.S. Department of Transportation, as well as several international representatives were represented.
13th Annual Transportation and Infrastructure Summit
August 9-13, 2010
Irving, Texas
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The 13th Annual Transportation and Infrastructure Summit will feature a prestigious group of state, national and international dignitaries presented by the City of Irving and the Greater Irving-Las Colinas Chamber of Commerce.
This group’s contributions will help develop potential responses to meet the challenges and opportunities for the future of transportation in the United States and across the globe. 
Much like the Transportation Convention, the Transportation Summit has undergone a name change to include infrastructure.
The purpose of the Summit is to educate policy makers from all levels of government about current transportation issues throughout the world. The goal is to learn, share dialogue, advocate and network with the nation’s transportation and public policy leaders, private sector leaders and trade associations and groups.
2009 Convention Presentations
| Asha Weinstein Agrawal | "Green" Taxes and Fees: A Politically Acceptable Way to Raise Transportation Revenues and Protect the Environment |
| Leslie Blakey | Freight-21: A National Strategic Freight Mobility Program & Trust Fund |
| Michael Buckley | FEMA: Presentation on Water Issues |
| Robert Eckels | Hurricane Evacuation |
| Olivier Gallou | Transportation in France |
| Dave Gorshkov | CCTV and Video Analytics Initiatives in Transit Operations |
| Christian Kohlhase | German Transportation Policy Highlights |
| Kurt Nagle | American Association of Port Authority |
| Pat Natale | America's Infrastructure: Where are We Headed? |
| Robert B. Noland | Expanded Fuel Taxation: An Effective Approach for Dealing with Climate Change |
| Dave B. Sanford | AAPA: Presentation on Water Issues |
| Jack Schenendorf |
Transportation for Tomorrow: National Surface Transportation Policy and Revenue Study Commission |
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