Funding Options for Freight Transportation Projects (2009)

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Study Committee Biographical Information Genevieve Giuliano, Chair, is Professor and Senior Associate Dean of Research and Technology in the School of Policy, Planning, and Devel- opment, University of Southern California (USC), and Director of the METRANS joint USC andCalifornia State University Long Beach Trans- portation Center. She was named theMargaret and John Ferraro Chair in Effective Local Government in 2009 for her work in regional transporta- tion policy. She also holds courtesy appointments in Civil Engineering andGeography. ProfessorGiuliano’s research focus areas include relation- ships between land use and transportation, transportation policy analysis, and information technology applications in transportation. She has pub- lishedmore than 140 papers and has presented her research at numerous conferences both within the United States and abroad. She serves on the Editorial Boards of Urban Studies and Journal of Transport Policy. She is a past member and Chair of the Executive Committee of the Trans- portation Research Board. She was named a National Associate of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in 2003, received the Transporta- tion Research Board (TRB) William Carey Award for Distinguished Service in 2006, and was awarded the Deen Lectureship in 2007. She has participated in several National Academies policy studies; currently she is participating in the NAS study America’s Climate Choices. She is Chair of the California Research and Technology Advisory Panel, which advises the California Department of Transportation and the Depart- ment of Business, Housing, and Transportation on the implementation of the Growth Management Plan. Peter J.Basso isChiefOperatingOfficer andBusinessDevelopmentDirec- tor of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation 281

282 Funding Options for Freight Transportation Projects Officials (AASHTO). Before joiningAASHTO in 2001, he served as Assis- tant Secretary for Budget and Programs and as Chief Financial Officer of the U.S. Department of Transportation. Mr. Basso’s 34 years of service as a career official included assignments as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Budget and Programs of the Department of Transportation, Assis- tant Director for GeneralManagement of theOffice ofManagement and Budget, Deputy Chair for Management of the National Endowment for the Arts, andDirector of Fiscal Services for the Federal Highway Admin- istration. He received a BS degree in business administration from the University of Maryland. MaryR. Brooks is theWilliam A. Black Chair of Commerce and Profes- sor of Marketing and Transportation in the School of Business Admin- istration at Dalhousie University, Halifax. Her research is in maritime transportation management and policy, international marketing, and international strategicmanagement. She is Chair of the Port Performance Research Network, an international association of researchers on issues of port governance and performance, and a member of the Marine Board of the National Academies. She served as Chair of the TRB Com- mittee on International Trade and Transportation from 2002 to 2008. Dr. Brooks served as Vice President for Policy of theHalifax Chamber of Commerce from 1996 to 1998 and was a Director of the Halifax Inter- national Airport Authority from 1995 to 2004. She is a member of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport. She received a PhD in marine transportation and marketing strategy from the University of Wales, anMBA fromDalhousieUniversity, and an undergraduate degree fromMcGill University. Kenneth J. Button is University Professor in the School of Public Policy, GeorgeMasonUniversity.His research is in transport economics and pol- icy. Recent publications have been on air transport policy, transportmod- eling, and transport and the environment. Previously Professor Button was amember of the faculties at theUniversity of BritishColumbia and the University of California at Berkeley, an advisor to the Secretary General of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, and Special Advisor to the United Kingdom House of Commons Transport Committee from 1993 to 1994. He was amember of the TRBCommittee

Study Committee Biographical Information 283 for the Study of Freight Capacity for the Next Century. Professor Button received a PhD from Loughborough University, anMA from the Univer- sity of Leeds, and a BA from the University of East Anglia. Mortimer L. Downey is the President of Mort Downey Consulting, LLC, and a Senior Advisor to Parsons Brinckerhoff. He served as Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Transportation from 1993 to 2001. Previously, Mr. Downey was Executive Director and Chief Financial Officer at the New YorkMetropolitan Transportation Authority. Earlier in his career he was on the staff of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Budget and worked for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. He is a member of the Board of the Eno Founda- tion and is active in the American Public Transportation Association. Mr. Downey received a master’s degree in public administration from New York University and a bachelor’s degree from Yale. William Ellis is Assistant Director of Port Planning and Development for the Port Commerce Department at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Formerly he held the positions of General Manager of Capital Programs and Program Manager of Port Planning with the authority. Mr. Ellis has been certified as a Professional Port Manager by the American Association of Port Authorities. Robert J.Gernon is ExecutiveVice President,Maine Pointe, LLC, Boston, Massachusetts. Until 2008, he was Vice President, Logistics, with Pacer Global Logistics, a firm providing transportation management services tomanufacturers, distributors, and retailers. He specializes in all aspects of logistics and the supply chain, with emphasis on railroad and inter- modal transportation consulting. RecentlyMr. Gernon has worked with national rail initiatives in Poland, Tanzania, China, and Mexico, and on developing public–private partnerships for rail projects in the United States. He is a member of TRB’s Committee on Freight Transportation Economics and Regulation. Michael K. Gray is an expert in supply chain management. He was with Dell, Inc., from 1991 until 2009, where he contributed to the design of processes formanagingDell’s global supply chain. He previously worked for IBM Corporation and for the Square D Company and is a member

of the Executive Education Programs Faculty at Pennsylvania State Uni- versity’s Smeal College of Business. Mr. Gray received a BA from New England College. Gill V. Hicks is Director, Los Angeles–Southern California Operations for Cambridge Systematics, Inc. Previously he was President of Gill V. Hicks and Associates, Inc. He is a former Chair of the California Marine and Intermodal Transportation System Advisory Council and former General Manager of the Alameda Corridor Transportation Authority. Mr. Hicks received an MS degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a BA degree from the University of Pennsylvania. JeffreyHolt isManagingDirector, BMOCapitalMarkets, San Francisco, California. Until 2008 he was a Vice President of Goldman Sachs in the firm’s San Francisco office, concentrating on transportation infrastruc- ture and project finance. Mr. Holt has been the senior banker for many large transportation infrastructure projects, including the Alameda Corridor andRenoReTRACprojects.He spent 2 years helping the Puerto Rican government fund a deepwater port in Ponce and advised the Washington State Department of Transportation on the concession for the second span of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge. Mr. Holt received a BS in finance from the University of Utah. Adib Kanafani is the Edward G. Cahill and John R. Cahill Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests are transportation planning, transportation systems analysis, and air transportation.He is amember of theNational Academy of Engi- neering and of the TRB Executive Committee, of which he is the 2009 Chairman, and has served on several TRB policy study committees. He received a PhD and an MS in civil engineering from the University of California at Berkeley and a BE from the American University of Beirut. James W. McClellan is an independent consultant. He was with the Norfolk Southern Corporation from 1977 to 2004, where his positions included Senior Vice President for Planning. Mr. McClellan formerly was with the Association of American Railroads, the Federal Railroad Administration, andAmtrak. He has served on TRB committees on Fed- eral Railroad Administration research programs, freight transportation 284 Funding Options for Freight Transportation Projects

Study Committee Biographical Information 285 capacity, and landside access to U.S. ports. He received a BS from the University of Pennsylvania. Therese McMillan is the Deputy Administrator of the Federal Transit Administration. Until July 2009 she was Deputy Executive Director for Policy at the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, the regional transportation planning agency for the San Francisco Bay Area, where she supervised departments responsible for strategic financial planning, legislative advocacy and public affairs, long-range planning, and agency finance and budget. She has been a lecturer in the graduate transportation studies program at California State University at San Jose. Ms. McMillan received an MCP/MS in city planning/civil engineering science from the University of California at Berkeley and a BS from the University of California at Davis. DavidW. Seltzer is a Principal with Mercator Advisors, a firm providing financial consulting services to governments and corporationsundertaking major infrastructure projects. He served as Senior Advisor to the Federal Highway Administrator from 1996 to 1999 and was involved in designing and executing new federal financial assistance programs. Mr. Seltzer spent 20 years in investment banking, assembling public and project financ- ings for transportation and other infrastructure programs. He has taught courses at the University of Southern California and at the University of Pennsylvania. He received an MBA from the Wharton School and a BA from Trinity College, Hartford.