Anticipating 2025 in Northeast Corridor Transportation: Aerial, Highway, Marine, and Rail Technologies & Linkages
Friday, October 19, 2007
John M. Clayton Hall Conference Center | University of Delaware | Newark, Delaware
8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
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Jean-Paul Rodrigue |
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James P. RePass of the National Corridors Initiative called this forum, which focused on the future of the Northeast Corridor, “one of the most important…conferences in the United States on these subjects.”
The dynamism and productivity of transportation in the Northeast Corridor, particularly in the linked metropolitan areas from Boston to Washington, D.C., are well recognized as key drivers in the U.S. economy as well as state economies within the Corridor—from Massachusetts to Virginia.
Current needs for dealing with mobility choke points, upgrading the existing infrastructure, and meeting projected freight movement demands by shifts from highway to rail are being widely discussed. It is also clear that new opportunities and challenges for maintaining and enhancing the efficient movement of goods and people for the Northeast Corridor will grow out of future developments in global, national, and regional economies; aerial, auto, marine, rail, and trucking technology; composition and numbers of people and goods moving into, within, and out of the Corridor; and public demands for reductions in the negative environmental effects of transportation modes.
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Panelists (l. to r.) George Schoener, Jack Lettiere, Richard Walker, and Jim RePass take questions from attendees.
all photos by Duane Perry, courtesy of UD PR |
Informed by a set of commissioned research papers, the forum was designed to provide a framework for policymakers, planners, private-sector leaders, advocates, and scholars to discuss, debate, and speculate on what can and should be done now in planning, policy, and research to optimize mobility in the Northeast Corridor two decades forward.
Speakers included Kaan Ozbay (Rutgers University), William P. Anderson (Boston University), Allison L. C. de Cerreño (New York University), Thomas H. Wakeman III (Stevens Institute of Technology), and Jean-Paul Rodrigue (Hofstra University). The forum concluded with an afternoon panel discussion focused on Planning for Technological Change and Intermodal Linkage.
For more information about this policy forum, contact Dr. Robert Warren.
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