MTC Asset Newsletter Winter 2005
Transportation Seminar
The transportation seminar provides students with an understanding of current "big picture" issues in transportation. The topics of individual seminars are issues of current importance to the local, state, or national transportation community. The seminar speakers are usually regional or national experts on the topic they discuss. This year's focus is on four topics: transportation asset management, financing transportation, freight transportation, and transportation safety.
Each seminar is held at 10 a.m. on Fridays during the spring semester. The seminar is broadcast in real time to transportation students at all MTC member schools. For information about participating sites, contact Iowa State University Educational Coordinator David Plazak, 515-296-0814 or dplazak@iastate.edu.
Jan. 14, Omar Smadi (Iowa State University), How State DOTs Use Infrastructure Management Systems
Jan. 21, Jay Thompson (Transportation Business Associates), Profitability and Productivity in the Trucking Industry
Jan. 28, Tom Welch (Iowa DOT), Managing Highway Safety
Feb. 4, Dr. Bill Ankner (Missouri Transportation Institute), Transportation Financing
Feb. 11, Dan Franklin (Iowa DOT), Transportation Funding: A State Perspective
Feb. 18, Wendell Cox (Wendell Cox Consultancy), Topic TBA
Feb. 25, Admiral Lou Smith (US Navy, Ret.), Asset Management in the Military and Education: What Transportation Professionals Can Learn
March 4, Dan Murray (American Transportation Research Institute), Freight Performance Measures and Freight Security
March 11, Larry Salci (Metro St. Louis CEO), Topic TBA
March 25, Reg Souleyrette (Iowa State University), Road Safety Risk Rating
April 1, Mark Taylor (Federal Highway Administration, Federal Lands Division), Innovative Highway Designs
April 8, Kevin Mahoney and others (Iowa DOT), Issues Future Transportation Professionals Will Face
April 15, UMSL presenter TBD, topic TBA
April 22, Ben Allen (Iowa State University), Future Freight Capacity
April 29, Bill Halsband (Mammoet), Heavy Lifting Systems In Construction
Most speakers' PowerPoint presentations are published online after they speak. See www.ctre.iastate.edu/educweb/scholars.htm.
