The Hon. John Robert Smith-Chair

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The Center for Urban and Public Affairs of LSU-New Orleans

in association with The National Corridors Initiative, Inc.

Invite you to participate in

NEW ORLEANS --- Transportation leaders, advocates, those who study or work in the transportation industry, and the news media are invited to New Orleans March 26 for “Setting A Vision for Sustainable Development: The Louisiana Transportation Renaissance”, with opening keynote address by former Amtrak Board Chairman the Hon. John Robert Smith, closing keynote by American Public Transportation Association President & CEO William Millar, a featured address by nationally-known author Roberta Brandes Gratz and presentations by a series of national and regional transportation and smart-growth advocates in between.

The all-day event at the Port of New Orleans, 1350 Port of New Orleans Place, adjacent to the Morial Convention Center, will be presented by the University Transportation Center at the University of New Orleans, and the National Corridors Initiative, and takes place starting at 8:30 a.m. Thursday, March 26, 2009. It will feature development of a Conference Resolution on the future of New Orleans and the region’s transportation system, with participation by all invited.

Please register in advance at: www.nationalcorridors.org/conf/ on “UNO Conference”. The advance registration fee is $25 for students, and $75 for all others; at the door, $35 and $90, respectively. A box lunch will be provided.

In addition to Chairman Smith and President Millar, speakers will include Dr. John Renne, Co-Director of the UNO University Transportation Center, and co-editor of “Transportation Oriented Development: Making It Happen,” to be published this Summer, as moderator of the conference opening session “Transportation Is Land Use Policy”, with Justin Elizabeth ‘Boo’ Thomas, President, The Center for Planning Excellence, Baton Rouge, Kathryn Lawlor of AARP, and Kara Mattini Renne, Economic Development & Community Planner, NO RPC, followed by a special presentation by Dike Ahanotu, Associate, Cambridge Systematics, Atlanta.

In the afternoon, Dr. Billy Fields III, Director, Center for Urban and Public Affairs, moderates a panel focused on “Placemaking” with Dr. Karl Seidman, Senior Lecturer in Economic Development, M.I.T. , Cambridge, MA and (Maurice) Pres Kabacoff, Co-Chairman & CEO, HRI Development Team.

Featured speaker that afternoon will be noted urban affairs writer Roberta Brandes Gratz, author of Cities Back From the Edge: New Life for Downtown (Wiley), on “Transportation, Place, Economy and Community: Connecting the Issues”.

The second afternoon panel, “Setting a Policy Agenda” will be lead by James P. RePass, President & CEO, The National Corridors Initiative, as moderator, with Alexander Evans, of the Louisiana Recovery Authority, Jeff Thomas (ORDA), and Justin Augustine III, General Manager, New Orleans Regional Transportation Authority.

A conference resolution on moving Louisiana and the Gulf Coast Region forward to a viable transportation future will be developed during the conference, and issued at its conclusion.

For further information and to registration online, go to www.nationalcorridors.org/conf/ and click ‘UNO Conference’ and please listen to our pre-conference podcast.

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