CTS News
April
9, 2004
Assistant Secretary for Transportation Policy to deliver a speech at CTS
The Center for Transportation Studies is pleased to announce that Mr. Emil
Frankel, Assistant Secretary for Transportation Policy at Department of Transportation
(DOT) has accepted an invitation to speak at UVA.
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?
The speech is held at the UVA Rotunda from 3:45
to 4:45 p.m. on April 13, 2004.
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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