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Congress moving forward with transportation extensions
House Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman James Oberstar (D-Minn.) is continuing his effort to pass a six-year reauthorization of surface transportation policy while Congress takes steps to extend the 2005 federal law through 2010.
On March 4, the House passed a bill (H.R. 2847) that provides an extension of transportation policy until the end of the year, shores up the depleted Highway Trust Fund and expands a popular infrastructure bond program.
The Senate is expected to take up the legi...
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Mobility Choice Roundtable, Tuesday, May 25, 2010
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9:00 - 9:45 a.m. |
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Anne Korin, IAGS |
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Vice Admiral Dennis McGinn, Remote Reality |
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9:45 - 11:15 a.m. |
Obstacles to Competition: the Private Sector and Transit |
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Anne Korin, IAGS |
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Jim Jalbert, C&J |
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Tom JeBran, Trans-Bridge Lines, Inc. |
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Robert Padgette, American Public Transport Association (presentation forthcoming) |
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Peter Pantuso, American Bus Association |
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Robin Phillips, American Bus Association |
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11:15 – 12:30 p.m. |
Letting the Market Work: Pricing and Choice |
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Anne Korin, IAGS |
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12:30 – 1:30 p.m. |
Lunch |
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1:30 – 2:10 p.m. |
Keynote Address |
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Speaker: |
Mary Peters, former Secretary of Transportation |
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2:10 – 3:10 p.m. |
Opening the Door to Technology |
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Moderator: |
Monica Trauzzi, E&ETV |
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Paul Feenstra, Intelligent Transportation Society of America |
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Chuck Wilsker, The Telework Coalition |
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3:30 – 4:45 pm |
Local Decision Making |
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Fred Abouselman, National Association of Regional Councils |
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Sam Staley, Reason Foundation |
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4:45 – 5:00 pm |
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All about choice
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Turning Oil into SaltIn their latest book, Turning Oil into Salt, Gal Luft and Anne Korin argue that energy independence is not about the amount of oil we use or import; it's about turning oil from a strategic commodity second to none to just another commodity. |
What's this about?
Who we are
Useful Reference
The national security and economic vulnerabilities posed by oil dependence stem from oil's status as a strategic commodity second to none. Oil underlies the global economy and, indeed, the American way of life. Transportation is dominated by private vehicle road travel as this is in most cases the only convenient option, and at the same time oil has a virtual monopoly over transportation fuel. In order to strip oil of its strategic status, it is necessary to remove barriers to competition not only amongst transportation fuels but also among transportation modes. In other words, we not only need fuel choice through vehicles that are platforms on which fuels can compete but we also need mobility choice. Our purpose here is to offer a fiscally responsible, free market oriented approach to expanding competition among transportation modes for the purpose of reducing oil's strategic value.
Mobility Choice is a project of IAGS.
Anne Korin, Institute for the Analysis of Global Security (IAGS)
Gal Luft, Institute for the Analysis of Global Security (IAGS)
Cliff May, Foundation for Defense of Democracies
Robert C. McFarlane, former National Security Advisor
R. James Woolsey, former director of Central Intelligence Agency
Deron Lovaas, Natural Resources Defense Council
James Strock, Former California Secretary for Environmental Protection
John Norquist, Congress for the New Urbanism; former Mayor of Milwaukee
Matthew Rojansky, Partnership for a Secure America
Kenneth Green, American Enterprise Institute
Peter J. Pantuso, American Bus Association
Admiral Dennis McGinn
Chuck Wilsker, Telework Coalition
Lisa Margonelli, New America Foundation
Kenneth Orski, Innovation NewsBriefs
Gabriel Roth, The Independent Institute
Paul F. Hanley, The University of Iowa
Jose Holguin-Veras, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute