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Study Committee Biographical Information
Study Committee Biographical Information
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He has chaired many Transportation Research Board (TRB) study committees, including the Committee for the Evaluation of the Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Improvement Program, the Committee for a Study of Urban Transportation Congestion Pricing, and the Committee on Determination of the State of the Practice in Metropolitan Area Travel Forecasting.
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Before joining Amtrak, he was Vice President of Infrastructure and Systems at the Long Island Rail Road and held senior management positions at the consulting firms KPMG Peat Marwick and Booz Allen Hamilton. He was a member of the Passenger Rail Working Group of the National Surface Transportation Policy and Revenue Study Commission.
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In that position, he led efforts to create the $150 million Strategic Highway Research Program and began TRB's policy studies program. Before joining TRB, he was Chairman and President of Alan Voorhees and Associates, a transportation engineering and consulting company with clients worldwide.
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He was also cochair of a Maryland committee recommending approaches to building a magnetic levitation train system in the Northeast Corridor and chairman of a committee investigating the causes of a deck construction failure on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge. Other committees he has served on include the Committee on the Federal Funding of Transportation Improvements in Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission Cases, the Committee for the Strategic Highway Research Program 2, the Committee for a Determination of the State of the Practice in Metropolitan Area Travel Forecasting, and the Committee for a Study on Transportation and a Sustainable Environment.
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His research interests include transportation economics, policy and planning, air transportation, and public transportation. He has written extensively on air transportation network flows, the impact of aircraft size on airline demand and market share, and aviation delays and operational performance.
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She recently completed forecasts of travel by older Americans, migration and immigration patterns and trends, and nonwork travel for the National Surface Transportation Policy and Revenue Study Commission. She previously worked for Barton-Aschman of Parsons Transportation Group, where she developed travel and ridership forecasts for major investment studies, including high-speed rail systems in Shanghai, San Juan, and Bangkok.
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Paul F Morris is President and CEO of Atlanta BeltLine, Inc., a major sustainable urban renewal project that is developing a network of parks, trails, and transit services supporting more than $20 billion of inner city reinvestment along a former rail corridor circling the downtown of Atlanta, Georgia.
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He has chaired or cochaired several NRC committees, including the Committee for the Study of Traffic Safety Lessons from Benchmark Nations, the Committee on the Federal Employers' Liability Act, the Committee on the Effects of Commuting on Pilot Fatigue, and the Committee on the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's National Aviation Operational Monitoring Service Project. He was a member of the Committee for a Study of Federal Aviation Administration Air Traffic Controller Staffing, the Committee for Guidance on Setting and Enforcing Speed Limits, and the Committee for a Study on Air Passenger Service and Safety Since Deregulation.
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She is past chair of TRB's Planning and Environment Group and served as chair of the High-Occupancy Vehicle Committee for 6 years. She was a member of the TRB Committee for the Evaluation of the Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Improvement Program and chair of the Steering Committee for the Conference on Travel Demand Management Innovation and Research.
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Report 716, ISBN 978-0-309-21400-1, 160 pages, 8.5 x 11, softcover, 2012, $67.00 A Guidebook for Corridor-Based Statewide Transportation Planning National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 661, ISBN 978-0-309-15479-6, 68 pages, 8.5 x 11, softcover, 2010, $46.00 Metropolitan Travel Forecasting: Current Practice and Future Direction TRB Special Report 288, ISBN 0-309-10417-3, 132 pages, 6 x 9, softcover, 2007, $31.00 In Pursuit of Speed: New Options for Intercity Passenger Transport TRB Special Report 233, ISBN 0-309-05122-3, 179 pages, 6 x 9, softcover, 1991, $22.00 ISBN 978-0-309-36965-7 90000 9 780309 369657
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