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IPA Associate Director Leads Delmarva Freight Summit
June 27, 2025 Written by Biden School Staff | Photo by Sarah Marshall
On Wednesday, June 11, the annual Delmarva Freight Summit took place in Newark, Delaware, presented by the Delmarva Freight Working Group, which includes the Delaware Department of Transportation (DelDOT), Dover/Kent County Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO), Salisbury/Wicomico MPO, University of Delaware’s Institute for Public Administration (IPA), and WILMAPCO. Troy Mix, associate director of IPA, hosted and helped to coordinate the gathering. Eric Johnson, senior technology editor, Journal of Commerce by S&P Global, offered keynote remarks on trade uncertainty and what it means to local transportation networks. Mark Glagola and Tim Shaw, executives with Logistics Property Company LLC, offered an analysis of the market outlook for industrial real estate. Additional presenters included Cooper Bowers, transportation planner, DelDOT; Ted Foglietta, AICP, vice president, Century Engineering; and Don Weber, PE, senior project delivery Leader, RK&K. The annual Delmarva Freight Summit enhances awareness of major freight planning programs by sharing information regarding significant freight and goods movement trends while encouraging partnership development. IPA is a research and public service center in the Joseph R. Biden, Jr. School of Public Policy and Administration.
Originally posted in UDaily's For the Record.