To raise awareness regarding current issues facing the transportation community, and to recognize those individuals who continue to improve the field of transportation, the Rudin Center hosts a series of annual events including symposia, an awards reception, Transportation Policymakers Breakfasts, and Visiting Scholars Lecture Series.
Copies of conference proceedings and summaries can be downloaded from the site, where indicated, or requests for hard copies can be emailed to rudin.center@nyu.edu.
RECENT SYMPOSIUM
SPRING SYMPOSIUM - CLOSING THE GAP:Financing the Region's Transportation Needs
On June 4, 2008, about 320 individuals from both the public and private sectors attended "CLOSING THE GAP: Financing the Region's Transportation Needs." The symposium was co-sponsored by NYU Wagner Rudin Center for Transportation Policy & Management, New York Metropolitan Transportation Council (NYMTC), Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the Port Authority of NY & NJ, CSX Transportation, and the American Planning Association's New York Metro Chapter, University Transportation Center - Region 2, Wagner Transportation Association. Edward Rendell, Governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, provided the keynote address. In addition, the conference featured two panels of experts who discussed the transportation funding crisis at the national and local levels; future options for financing and funding operations and maintenance, capital improvements, and expansion; and the institutional and political challenges associated with how we raise monies for transportation.
A summary of the meeting is forthcoming.
Presentations
Joel Ettinger, "The Regional Financial Picture"
JayEtta Hecker, "Financing Regional Transportation Needs"
Martin Wachs, "Financing the Region's Transportation Needs"
Charles Russell, "Funding the Gap: Making the Beneficiaries Pay"
1) Welcoming Remarks: Framing the Issue [View Webcast]
2) Keynote Address: Dollars and Sense – The Challenge [View Webcast]
3) Panel 1: The Past and Present [View Webcast]
4) Panel 2: Closing the Gap – Future Options; Closing Remarks [View Webcast]
FINANCING TRANSPORTATION:A National Imperative
- held on May 1, 2008 at the Rudin Family Forum for Civic Dialogue
Presentations
Frank McArdle, "The National Study Commission and 2009"
Kathy Ruffalo, "Interim Report of Financing Commission"
Mortimer Downey, "Financing Transportation in the 21st Century"
PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS: National and International Experience, Local Possibilities
- held on March 25, 2008 at the Rudin Family Forum for Civic Dialogue
Presentations
John Schmidt & David Narefsky, "Applying the Toll Road Privatization Model to Other Assets"
David Narefsky & John Schmidt, "U.S. Airport Privatization: Chicago Midway Airport and Beyond"
Sebastien Gourgouiliat, "Public Private Partnerships: French and European Cases"
Visiting Scholar Lecture and Book Signing - Anthony Perl, Ph.D., "Transportation Revolution: Moving People and Freight without Oil
- held on February 26, 2008 at the Rudin Family Forum for Civic Dialogue
The Annual Leadership in Transportation Awards - held on February 7, 2008 at the NYU Kimmel Center
WEBCAST OF RECENT EVENTS
January 31, 2008: MOVING AMERICA FORWARD? A Presidential Candidates Forum on Transportation & Infrastructure
Hosted by The NYU Wagner Rudin Center for Transportation Policy & Management, and co-sponsored by the American Council of Engineering Companies of New York; the American Society of Civil Engineers; American Engineering Alliance; CUNY Institute for Urban Systems; the General Contractors Association; the League of American Bicyclists; the Municipal Art Society; the Regional Plan Association; Transportation Alternatives; the University Transportation Research Center, Region 2; and the Wagner Transportation student group.
Click here to access a webcast of this event.
November 13, 2007: THINKING BIGGER: New York and Transportation in the Northeast Megaregion
On November 13, over 300 individuals from both the public and private sector attended "Thinking Bigger: New York and Transportation in the Northeast Megaregion." The event was hosted by the NYU Wagner Rudin Center for Transportation Policy & Management and the New York Metropolitan Transportation Council. The event was co-sponsored by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the University Transportation Research Center – Region 2, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, along with the American Institute of Architects New York Chapter, the Regional Plan Association, the University of Delaware’s Institute of Public Administration and the Wagner Transportation Association.
1) Welcoming Remarks, Framing the Issues, and The Challenge [View Webcast]
2) Panel 1: Key Trends [View Webcast]
3) Panel 2: What is to be Done? & Closing Remarks [View Webcast]
SUMMARY OF RECENT EVENTS
November 13, 2007: THINKING BIGGER - New York and Transportation in the Northeast Megaregion
