Rail policy forum at UD Feb. 22

3:56 p.m., Feb. 17, 2005--A public policy forum focused on the formulation of policies and programs for an efficient interurban rail system will be held from 8 a.m.-3:30 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 22, in Clayton Hall Conference Center.

The invitation-only forum, titled “Interurban Rail Transportation: Moving People and Goods in the 21st Century,” will bring together a variety of people concerned with rail transportation in the Mid-Atlantic portion of the Northeast Corridor, including elected officials, rail operators, public agency representatives, planners and advocates.

The meeting, which is sponsored by UD’s Institute for Public Administration in cooperation with the Delaware Department of Transportation, is expected to identify long-term strategies for enhancing rail corridor services for greater efficiency and more environmentally friendly interurban transportation, and to build an agenda for carrying them out.

Speakers will include U.S. Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del); JayEtta Z. Hecker of the Government Accountability Office’s Physical Infrastructure Team; James P. Repass of the National Corridors Initiative; Richard Crawford of Norfolk Southern; and Lance Grenzeback of Cambridge Systematics Inc.

For more information, call (302) 831-1686 or visit [www.ipa.udel.edu/events.html].

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