Moving Cooler: Leveraging Transportation to Fight Climate Change
Day 1: Cooler Heads Prevailing
Background Briefings on Facts, Trends, Policy and Politics
9:40-10:00: U.S. Transportation Policy – Survey of ISTEA-SAFETEA-LU
- Michael Replogle: Environmental Defense
10:00-10:10: Break
10:10-11:00 Where Are We Going? – Demographic, market and policy trends changing the context for transportation * Chris Leinberger: Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Center; University of Michigan; and- Rob Puentes: Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Center
11:00-12:15: Tools for Shaping a Low Carbon Transportation Future Panel Discussion and Q & A
Growing Cooler – smart growth and transit- Geoff Anderson: Smart Growth America; Transportation for America
- Kevin Mills: Rails to Trails Conservancy
- Leslie Barras: ITS America
- Mike McKeever: Sacramento Area Council of Governments
12:15-1:30: Lunch
Lunch speaker – New Vision for American Transportation (12:45-1:30)- Jannette Sadik-Kahn: New York City Department of Transportation
1:30-3:00: Politics and Policy: Transportation and Climate
1:30-1:50: Policy in Brief: A summary of action to date at the state and federal level- Marty Spitzer: Center for Clean Air Policy
- Amy Scarton, Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
- Susan Binder: Committee on Environment and Public Works
- Don Ross: Transportation for America
- Art Guzzetti: American Public Transportation Association
- Polly Trottenberg: Building America’s Future
- Joshua Shank: Bipartisan Policy Center
- Bill Ankner: American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials
3:30-3:45: Break
3:45-5:30: What’s the Vision: A Proposal for the Green Groups and CLEAN
3:45-4:45: Proposal for Platform, with Group Discussion- Colin Peppard: Friends of the Earth
- David Burwell
- Deron Lovaas: Natural Resources Defense Council
5:30-???: Happy Hour
The Pew Environment Group
1025 F Street NW, 9th Floor
Washington, DC 20004
Telephone: (202) 552-2000