STEPS Graduate Researcher Attends the 2008 Eno Transportation Foundation Leadership Development Conference
The annual Eno Foundation Leadership Development Conference, held
in Washington, D.C., provides 20 leading graduate students
in transportation with a full week of meetings and discussion with leaders in
national transportation policy. Three of the participants this year were
ITS-Davis students, one of which was STEPS graduate researcher Wayne Leighty.
(Also attending were Julia Silvis and Kristin Lovejoy.) Speakers included
directors and presidents of organizations representing government agencies,
congressional committees, chambers of commerce, transportation research,
safety, roads, public transit, bicycling, airports, marine ports, railroads,
intermodal freight, labor, infrastructure financing, and more.
The roster of this year’s fellows was equally impressive, including master’s and doctoral students studying a variety of topics including port management, engineering, urban planning and public administration. Leighty returned with a clear picture of the federal surface transportation plan authorization debate, insight from personal conversations with the nation’s transportation policy leaders, and a network of future contacts in the transportation world.
Donald Gautier, USGS geologist, presents on petroleum in the arctic