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74th Annual Meeting & Exhibition

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GENERAL SESSION

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9:15 am-10:15 am - Keynote Speaker: Rohit Talwar
Highways to Tomorrow (PDF); Video

10:45 am-12:15 pm:
All Things Texas (Video)

Moderator: Allan Rutter, Executive Director, North Texas Tollway Authority, Dallas, TX USA

• TxDOT: Open for Business (PDF), Phillip E. Russell, P.E., J.D., Director, Texas Turnpike Authority Division Texas Department of Transportation Austin, TX USA
• Houston Update (PDF), Mike Strech, P.E., Director, Harris County Toll Road Authority, Houston, TX USA
• The Central Texas Approach (PDF), Mike Heiligenstein, Executive Director, Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority, Austin, TX USA

2:30 pm-3:00 pm
Toll Excellence & President’s Awards Ceremony (Video)

3:00 pm-5:00 pm
Privatization–Deal or No Deal? (Video) 

Moderator: Steve Snider, General Manager & CEO, Dartmouth-Halifax Bridge
Commission, Dartmouth, NS CANADA

Panelists: (No PowerPoints were shown during this session)

• Deal! The Indiana Toll Road Delivers, Thomas O. Sharp, Commissioner, Indiana Department of Transportation, Indianapolis, IN USA
• How to Deal With It, Michael Johnston, President & CEO, Kansas Turnpike Authority, Wichita, KS USA
• Weighing the Options–the HCTRA Study, Michael Bartolotta, Vice Chairman, First Southwest Bank, Houston, TX USA
• Big Deal–selling stock on French Roads, Jean Mesqui, Executive Director, ASFA (Association des Societes Francaises d’Autoroutes et d’Ouvrages a Peage), Paris, FRANCE

General Session and Break-out Sessions

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GENERAL SESSION: 8:30 am - 10:30 am

8:30 am - 8:45 am
Presidents Reports (Video)

• Santiago Corral, President, IBTTA, Madrid, SPAIN
• João Bento, President, ASECAP and APCAP, PORTUGAL

8:45 am - 9:15 am
A Look Back at the Industry and Time Capsule Ceremony (Video)

9:15 am - 10:30 am
THE ROAD AHEAD (Video)

Moderator: Pat Jones, Executive Director, IBTTA, Washington, DC USA

Panelists: (No PowerPoints were shown during this session)

• João Bento, President, ASECAP and APCAP, PORTUGAL
• Neil Schuster, President & CEO, ITS America, Washington, DC USA
• Ken Orski, President, Urban Mobility Corporation (and author of Innovation Briefs), Potomac, Maryland USA

11:00 am - 1:00 pm: BREAK-OUT SESSIONS
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  TECHNOLOGY: ATTAINING ETC INTEROPERABILITY–ISSUES AND CONCERNS, Moderator: Ken Philmus, DMJM+Harris/AECOM

• National RFID Interoperability–Is It Possible?, Harold Worrall, Ph.D.,
• Media, A First Step Towards an Interoperable Pan-European ETC System
  François Malbrunot
• ETC Interoperability–An Australian Experience, Michael Whelan
• Interoperability in a Large Volume Multi-State Environment, James Crawford

  FINANCE: GETTING THE REVENUE YOU DESERVE, Moderator: Victoria Cross Kelly, Port Authority of NY/NJ, New York, NY USA

• Driving Change–All The Way To The Bank: Revenue and Collection Issues Facing Today’s Tolling Industry, Richard Carrier and Jeff Hall
• ETC’s Unexpected Side-Effect: A Stockpile of Uncollected Tolls.  What to Do?
  Sonny Holtzman
• What Enforcement for ORT-based Tollroads, Salahadin Yacoubi, Ph.D.,
• Chronic Toll Violators: The “Garbage Dump” Paradox, Curtis Esposito
• Advances in Video Tolling Open the Road to All Rental Cars; Converting ‘Violators’ into Casual Customers, Jim Tuton

  OPERATIONS & MOBILITY: DEVELOPING HOT LANES–POLICIES, GOALS AND CHALLENGES, Moderator: Parker Williams, ACS Government Solutions, Washington, DC USA

• Developing HOT Lanes–Policies, Goals and Challenges, Katherine “Katie” Nees
• Active Management 101: Techniques for Making Managed Lanes Work
  Ginger Goodin
• Georgia’s Truck Only Toll (TOT) Study and the Impact on Traffic, Congestion, Revenue and Safety, Rosa Clausell Rountree
• MnPASS: A HOT Tolling Partnership in Minnesota, John Doan

  STAKEHOLDERS & INSTITUTIONS: USING TOLL REVENUE FOR OTHER TRANSPORTATION PROJECTS, Moderator: Celia Kupersmith, General Manager, Golden Gate Bridge, Highway & Transportation District, San Francisco, CA USA

• Tollways and Public Transit Systems: Is it Time for a New Paradigm?, Tom Bamonte
• Tolling and Transit: Moving From Cross-Subsidy to Integrated Planning
  Mark Muriello
• Multi-Modal Bridging in Denmark, Lars Møller
• I-15 Managed Lanes Project, Gary Gallegos

3:30 pm - 5:30 pm: BREAK-OUT SESSIONS

  TECHNOLOGY:  VEHICLE INFRASTRUCTURE INTEGRATION, Moderator: Larry Yermack, President, Telvent Farradyne

• VII: A U.S. DOT Perspective, Michael Freitas
• A Silicon Valley View of VII, Steve Heminger
• Privacy Implications of  Using VII for National Tolling and “Road Pricing”, Barbara Wendling

  FINANCE: BLURRING THE LINE BETWEEN PUBLIC & CORPORATE DEBT, Moderator: Susan Buse, Chief Financial Officer, North Texas Tollway Authority

• Credit Implications of Asset Privatization and New Financing Structures, Maria Matesanz
• Give Me Equity or Give Me Debt: Rating Toll Roads in the 21st Century, Cherian George
• Evaluating Deep Future Toll Concessions, Kurt Forsgren

  OPERATIONS & MOBILITY: MAXIMIZING YOUR ASSET, Moderator: Servando Parapar P.E., Executive Director, Miami-Dade Expressway Authority (MDX) Miami-Dade Expressway Authority

• ORT Master Plan, Alfred Lurigados
• Thinking Outside the Booth–Open Road Tolling at the Illinois Tollway, Matt Beaudet
• Making the Most Out of What You Have, Trent Kittleman

  STAKEHOLDERS & INSTITUTIONS: WHAT IT TAKES TO GAIN ACCEPTANCE AND IMPLEMENTATION, Moderator: Beth Ruffing, Project Director, PBS&J

• Institutional Issues and Strategies for Introducing Road Pricing in the United States, Daniel Dornan
• Tolling Innovations: Managing Expectations, Overcoming Controversy and Gaining Public Acceptance, Tina Collier
• Raising Route Awareness of New Toll Roads (plus additional Microsoft Word document), Ian Symon
• The 5-Year Transformation of a Mid-Size Toll Operator, Frank McCartney

General Session

8:15 am - 8:30 am
Opening Remarks (Video)
Maria Cino, U.S. Acting Secretary of Transportation

8:30 am-8:45 am
Preview for 2007 Annual Meeting in Vienna (Video)
Mathias Reichhold, Board Member, ASFINAG, Vienna, AUSTRIA

8:45 am-9:30 am
Annual Business Meeting (Video)
(Financial Report, Election of Officers, Executive Director’s Report &
Honorary Member Award Presentation)

9:30 am-11:15 am
Building a Strategic Alliance on Congestion (Video)

Moderator: Steve Heminger, Executive Director, Bay Area Toll Authority (BATA) and Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC), Oakland, CA USA

(No PowerPoints were shown during this session)

Customer Group:

• Patrick Quinn, Chairman, American Trucking Associations and President &
  Co-Chairman Xpress Enterprises, Chattanooga, TN USA
• Erik Autor, Vice President and International Trade Counsel, National Retail
  Federation, Washington, DC USA

Provider Group:

• Steve Heminger, Executive Director, Bay Area Toll Authority (BATA) and
  Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC), Oakland, CA USA
• Stephen Mayer, Parsons Corporation, East Aurora, NY USA

Government Group:

• Tyler Duvall, Assistant Secretary for Transportation Policy, U.S. Department
  of Transportation, Washington, DC USA
• JayEtta Hecker, Director of Physical Infrastructure Issues, U.S. Government
  Accountability Office (GAO), Washington, DC USA
• J. Richard Capka, Administrator, Federal Highway Administration,
  Washington, DC USA

Academics:

• Joseph Giglio, Ph.D., Professor, Northeastern University, Boston, MA USA
• Robert Poole, Director of Transportation Studies, Reason Foundation, Boston,
  MA USA