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Distinguished Lecture Series: Spring 2004
University of Virginia Center for
Transportation Studies |
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April 13 3:00-4:45 pm
UVA Rotunda Building, Lower
West Oval Room |
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| The Development of Transportation
Policy in the Context of the Ongoing
Struggle between Congress and
the Bush Administration over the
Surface Transportation
Reauthorization Bill |
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| Emil Frankel, J.D. |
Abstract
Mr. Frankel will discuss the development of transportation policy in the context of the ongoing struggle between Congress and the Bush Administration over the surface transportation reauthorization bill. The questions that will be addressed are: How was the policy developed at the DOT? Why are certain policies necessary? What is the political atmosphere surrounding reauthorization? How does the DOT work with the Congress? What are the differences between the DOT's policies and those of the House and Senate? How different is this bill from other bills? What does this bill mean to state and local communities?
Biography of Speaker
 Emil Frankel was appointed Assistant Secretary for Transportation Policy of the U.S. Department of Transportation in March of 2002. From 1991 to 1995, he served as commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Transportation. He was chairman of the Standing Committee on the Environment of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) and vice-chairman of the I-95 Corridor Coalition.
He has served as a speaker, panelist, and moderator on a wide range of transportation topics including Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) technologies, inter-city rail services, transportation planning and management, and transportation and air quality.
He is a graduate of Wesleyan University, where he served as a Trustee from 1981 to 1997. From 1995 to 2001, Mr. Frankel was a management fellow of the Yale School of Management and a senior fellow of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, where he was engaged in teaching, research and writing on issues of transportation policy, transportation and the environment, and public management. In 2000, he was an adjunct professor at the University of Connecticut, where he taught transportation policy.
Mr. Frankel was a Fulbright Scholar at Manchester University in the United Kingdom and received his law degree from Harvard Law School.
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