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9 2 Committee Member Biographical Information Steve Heminger, Chair, is Executive Director of the Met- ropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC), the regional transportation planning and finance agency for the San Francisco Bay Area. MTC allocates roughly $1 billion per year in funding for the operation, mainte- nance, and expansion of the Bay Area’s road and transit networks. MTC also functions as the region’s Service Authority for Freeways and Expressways and has served as the Bay Area Toll Authority responsible for adminis- tering the base $1 toll on the state-owned bridges. Before joining MTC in 1993, he was Vice President of Transportation for the Bay Area Council, a regional public policy group. He also has served as a staff assis- tant in the California State Legislature and the U.S. Con- gress. He received a master of arts degree from the University of Chicago and a bachelor of arts degree from Georgetown University. Mr. Heminger is prominent in the area of road pric- ing. He led the effort in the San Francisco Bay Area that received the first congestion pricing demonstration grant from the Federal Highway Administration. He also served on the National Research Council commit- tee on congestion pricing that produced Special Report 242: Curbing Gridlock: Peak-Period Fees to Relieve Traffic Congestion (1994). Robert D. Bullard is the Ware Professor of Sociology and Director of the Environmental Justice Resource Center at Clark Atlanta University. He is the nation’s leading expert on environmental justice and transportation equity. Dr. Bullard is the author of 11 books that address sustainable development, environmental justice, urban land use, industrial facility permitting, community reinvestment, housing, transportation, and smart growth. His book Dumping in Dixie: Race, Class and Environmental Qual- ity (Westview Press, 2000) is a standard text in the envi- ronmental justice field. His other books include In Search of the New South (University of Alabama Press, 1991), Confronting Environmental Racism: Voices from the Grassroots (South End Press, 1993), People of Color Environmental Groups Directory 2000 (Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, 2000), and Unequal Protection: Envi- ronmental Justice and Communities of Color (Sierra Club Books, 1996). He coedited Residential Apartheid: The American Legacy (University of California at Los Angeles Center for African American Studies Publications, 1994); Just Transportation: Dismantling Race and Class Barri- ers to Mobility (New Society Publishers, 1997); and Sprawl City: Race, Politics and Planning in Atlanta (Island Press, 2000). His most recent book is titled Just Sustainabilities: Development. Kenneth J. Button has been Professor of Public Policy and Director of the Center for Transportation Policy and Operations in the School of Public Policy, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, since 1997. From 1994 to 1996 he was Conseiller in the Advisory Unit to the Sec- retary General of the Organisation for Economic Co- operation and Development (OECD), Paris, where he headed work on international aviation policy. He was at that time on leave from being concurrently Professor of Applied Economics and Transport at Loughborough University, United Kingdom, and VSB Visiting Professor of Transport and the Environment at the Tinbergen Insti-

tute, Amsterdam, Netherlands. He was also at the time Director of the Centre for Research in Economics and Finance at Loughborough University. He was the Special Advisor to the U.K. House of Commons Transport Com- mittee between 1993 and 1994. In 1990 he was full-time Consultant to the OECD Environmental Directorate. Dr. Button’s academic training is in the fields of eco- nomics, econometrics, and transportation planning. He has published or has in press some 80 books and more than 400 papers in leading academic journals. He has given written and oral evidence to transportation com- mittees of the U.S. Congress and to both the U.K. House of Lords and House of Commons Transport Commit- tees. His work on road pricing includes jointly editing Road Pricing, Traffic Congestion and the Environment (Edward Elgar publishing), serving on the Chartered Institute of Transport (CIT) working party on Paying for Progress: A Report on Congestion and Road Pricing, and chairing the CIT working party on Paying for Better Motorways. In addition, he has published articles on road pricing as chapters in numerous books and in such journals as Transportation Research; Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board; International Journal of Transport Eco- nomics; Logistics and Transportation Review; Transport Reviews; and Transportation Planning and Technology. Dr. Button received a B.A. degree from the University of East Anglia, an M.A. from the University of Leeds, and a Ph.D. from the University of Loughborough. Damian J. Kulash is President and CEO of the Eno Transportation Foundation, Inc., Washington, D.C. He has 30 years of experience in managing transportation organizations. He has been extensively involved in transportation policy analysis and has managed many multidisciplinary, multiperspective teams to extract action plans in complex, difficult situations. He has successfully brought industrial and government leaders to work together and has forged new working arrange- ments between state and federal agencies. As Executive Director of the $153 million Strategic Highway Research Program, Mr. Kulash created and managed scores of diverse advisory committees to guide the pro- gram toward useful products and to work with federal, state, and industry organizations to put results into practice. As President and CEO of the Eno Transporta- tion Foundation, he has established a series of forums dealing with cutting-edge issues affecting all modes of transportation and their compatibility with other areas of national concern. They include activities addressing the economic returns on transportation investment, coordination of intermodal freight operations in Europe and the United States, and development of a U.S. transportation strategy compatible with national global climate change objectives. Kathleen F. Marvaso is Managing Director, AAA Gov- ernment Relations, Washington, D.C. In this capacity she directs all federal and state legislative activities for the 45 million member association, focusing on a full range of safety and mobility issues affecting travelers. Since 1993, Ms. Marvaso has been instrumental in developing strategies to help the association achieve its public service goals, improve mobility, and enhance the safety of the traveling public. In recent years she has guided the 80-club federation’s efforts to enact gradu- ated driver licensing laws in every state and has directed the association’s advocacy work on issues including truck safety, highway maintenance, design and funding, child passenger safety, and clean air. Before joining AAA, Ms. Marvaso worked as a leg- islative assistant for Congressman Bill Nelson, now one of Florida’s two senators, and managed campaign opera- tions for Mr. Nelson’s 1990 bid for governor. A journal- ism graduate of the University of Florida at Gainesville, she earned a master’s degree in business administration from George Mason University in Virginia. Anthony D. May has more than 35 years of experience in transport planning and traffic engineering. He has been a Professor at the University of Leeds, United King- dom, since 1977, and he has served as Head of the Department of Civil Engineering, Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, and Pro-Vice Chancellor for Research. He is currently Director of the Institute for Transport Stud- ies. Between 1985 and 2001 he maintained a link between research and teaching at Leeds and practical experience in consultancy with MVA Ltd., for which he was Director of Transport Policy. Before 1977 he spent a number of years with the Greater London Council, where he was responsible for policy on highways, traf- fic management, and transport-related land use plan- ning for the capital and managed major studies on traffic restraint, parking policy, and motorway traffic control. While at Leeds, he has been awarded more than 80 research grants and contracts by the Engineering and Physical Sciences and Economic and Social Science Research Councils, the European Community, the Rees Jeffreys Road Fund, and several local authorities. Among the studies conducted have been those for the transport problems of inner-city firms, techniques for monitoring travel, development of dynamic route guid- ance, the management of congestion at signalized junc- tions, the most appropriate structure for the organization of transport functions in the U.K. conur- bations, the design and assessment of road pricing strategies, the development of trip planning systems and awareness campaigns, the combined performance of transport and land use strategies, the impact of inte- grated transport strategies and their contribution to 9 3COMMITTEE MEMBER BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

environmental policy, and the development of guidance on sustainable urban transport and land use policy. Dr. May has been a specialist adviser to the House of Commons Transport Committee and the House of Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology and a consultant to OECD, the World Bank, the Trans- portation Research Board, the Singapore Land Trans- port Authority, the New Zealand Ministry of Transport, and the Thailand Commission for the Management of Land Transport. Servando M. Parapar was selected by the Miami–Dade Expressway Authority (MDX) board to serve as its first Executive Director in 1996. Mr. Parapar’s first priority was to negotiate the transfer of the Miami–Dade County tollway system, which was accomplished in December 1996. Since then, under his leadership and guidance, MDX has put together a $2.75 billion master transportation plan with the overriding objective of cre- ating an integrated system that provides a seamless and balanced movement of traffic. The current MDX 5-year work program is estimated at $796 million. Mr. Parapar directed the strategic alliance with the Florida Depart- ment of Transportation that has led to the successful implementation of SunPass, a statewide electronic toll collection system, at MDX facilities. Under his guidance MDX has utilized design–build contracts to complete three roadway construction projects in record time. Mr. Parapar is also leading Phase I of the SR-836 corridor reconstruction, one of the major roadways in Miami– Dade County. Mr. Parapar serves on the boards of directors of the International Bridge, Tunnel, and Turnpike Association and the Intelligent Transportation Society of Florida. He was born in Havana, Cuba. A U.S. citizen, he holds a bachelor’s degree in architectural engineering from the University of Miami and a master’s degree in civil engineering from the University of Florida. Robert W. Poole, Jr., is founder of the Reason Founda- tion and a nationally known expert on privatization and transportation policy. In 1978 Mr. Poole launched the Reason Foundation, a national public policy research organization. He began researching privatization of gov- ernment functions in the 1970s, and his book Cutting Back City Hall (Universe Books, 1980) was the first book-length examination of the subject. He advised the White House Office of Policy Development on privatiza- tion during the Reagan years and testified before the Pres- ident’s Commission on Privatization in 1987. During the first Bush administration, he worked with the Vice Presi- dent’s Competitiveness Council and the White House Counsel to help develop an executive order on infrastruc- ture privatization. In 1992 he served as a board member of the Vice President’s Space Policy Advisory Board. Mr. Poole was one of the first to propose privatiza- tion of the air traffic control system, and his work in this field has helped shape current proposals for an air traffic control corporation. His 1988 policy paper on private toll roads directly inspired California’s landmark legislation on the subject (since emulated in 15 other states); he served 18 months on the Privatization Advi- sory Steering Committee of the California Department of Transportation helping to implement the measure. In 1995 he served as a member of California’s commission on transportation investment. Mr. Poole has also helped launch national debates on airport privatization and on congestion pricing for urban freeways. Mr. Poole received bachelor’s and master’s degrees in engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- nology. Edward J. Regan III is Senior Vice President of Wilbur Smith Associates (1990 to present). He is responsible for the oversight and management of the TFT Group, a 45- person division dedicated to providing professional ser- vices to the toll industry worldwide. Mr. Regan is a recognized expert in toll facility studies and finance. Under his leadership, traffic and revenue studies per- formed by the TFT Group have been used in support of more than $50 billion in toll facility finance. He has also been heavily involved in the development and analysis of innovative value pricing programs for various toll facili- ties. His technical specialties include senior project man- agement, transportation planning, road pricing studies, traffic operations, toll feasibility studies, traffic and rev- enue studies, strategic planning, toll collection/automatic vehicle identification system design, and toll plaza oper- ations. He has overseen projects in the United States, Canada, and Australia. Martin Wachs is Director of the Institute of Transporta- tion Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, where he also holds faculty appointments as Professor of City and Regional Planning and as Carlson Distin- guished Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineer- ing. Until 1996 he was Professor of Urban Planning and Director of the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California at Los Angeles, where he had been a member of the faculty since 1971 and where he served three terms as Head of the Urban Planning Pro- gram. The Institute of Transportation Studies at Berkeley is one of the largest academic transportation research centers in the United States. It has approximately 200 employees and an annual budget of $40 million. Dr. Wachs holds a bachelor’s degree in civil engineer- ing from the City University of New York and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in transportation planning from the Civil Engineering Department at Northwestern University. He is the author or editor of four books and has written 9 4 INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON ROAD PRICING

more than 130 published articles on transportation plan- ning and policy on such topics as the transportation needs of elderly and handicapped people, fare and sub- sidy policies in urban transportation, the problem of crime in public transit systems, and methods for the eval- uation of alternative transportation projects. He has also done historical studies of the relationship between trans- portation investments and urban form in the early part of the 20th century and on ethics in planning and fore- casting. Recently, his writings have dealt with trans- portation finance and the relationship between transportation, air quality, and land use. Dr. Wachs served as Chairman of the Executive Com- mittee of the Transportation Research Board during 2000, and he recently completed a term as a member of the California Commission on Transportation Invest- ment, to which he was appointed by Governor Pete Wil- son. He is currently a member of the Advisory Committee on Research and Development for the California Depart- ment of Transportation and recently completed his term as the first Chair of the Advisory Panel for the Travel Model Improvement Program of the U.S. Department of Transportation. He chairs the Subcommittee on Planning and Policy Review of the Transportation Research Board’s Executive Committee. Professor Wachs is a Fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners, a National Associate of the National Academy of Sciences, a Member of the Amer- ican Society of Civil Engineers, and a member of the Institute of Transportation Engineers. 9 5COMMITTEE MEMBER BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

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TRB Conference Proceedings 34: International Perspectives on Road Pricing is the proceedings of the International Symposium on Road Pricing held on November 19-22, 2003, in Key Biscayne, Florida. The event was a collaborative effort of TRB, the Florida Department of Transportation, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, and the federal Highway Administration. The report includes two commissioned resource papers that examine the evolution of congestion pricing and the state of the practice in road pricing outside the United States. The proceedings also explore pricing successes and the challenges that have accompanied specific projects’ implementation, as well as the potential evolution of road pricing in the future.

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