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2008 Texas Ports & Waterways Conference:
Preliminary Program

[Updated July 8, 2008]

WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, 2008
 
5:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. Welcome Reception
 
THURSDAY, JULY 24, 2008
 
7:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Registration/Information Desk
7:00 a.m. - 8:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast
8:00 a.m. - 8:15 a.m. Introductions and Opening Remarks
Jim Kruse, Director of Center for Ports & Waterways, Texas Transportation Institute
8:15 a.m. - 9:45 a.m. Energy in Texas
Dr. Michelle Michot Foss, Center for Energy Economics, University of Texas

Dr. Bernard L. Weinstein, Director of the Center for Economic Development and Research and Professor of Applied Economics at the University of North Texas in Denton

Soll Sussman, GLO
9:45 a.m. - 10:15 a.m. Who's Going to Pay for the Infrastructure?
Perspective from National Surface Transportation Infrastructure Financing Commission, Craig Lentzsch, Commissioner
10:15 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Break
10:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. Economic Development at Texas Ports
Aaron Demerson, Executive Director, Office of the Governor, Economic Development & Tourism Division
11:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. Update from Corps of Engineers
Col. David C. Weston, Galveston District
11:45 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. Lunch
Special presentation by Stephen Curley: The Legend of Jean Lafitte. A spirited saga, in song and story, of the adventures of the nineteenth century pirate of the Gulf Coast.
1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Public-Private Partnerships
Manju Chandrasekhar, Vice President, Economics and Business Solutions Halcrow, Inc.

Ed Penscock, Director of Corridor Systems, Texas Turnpike Authority Division, Texas Department of Transportation

Steve Cernak, Port Director, Port of Galveston
3:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Break
3:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Update on Border Governors Activities
Gus de la Rosa, International Relations Office, TxDOT (invited)
4:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. What the researchers are doing
Update from Center for Transportation Research

Update from Texas Transportation Institute
4:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Getting ready for disasters
Tony Fuller, ARINC
6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Reception @ Fisherman's Wharf, Pier 22
Hosted by Port of Galveston
 
FRIDAY, JULY 25, 2008
 
7:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. Registration/Information Desk
7:30 a.m. - 8:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast
8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. What's Coming Up in Austin?
Craig Eiland, Texas State Representative, District 23
9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. What's Sustainability?
Aston Hinds, Environmental Affairs Manager

David Bierling, Texas Transportation Institute

Michael Savonis, Surface Transportation Environment and Planning Cooperative Research Program, Federal Highway Administration (invited)
10:30 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. Break
10:45 a.m. - 11:15 a.m. What is the Houston Ship Channel Security District?
Wade Battles, Managing Director, Port of Houston Authority
11:15 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. Update from TxDOT
Multimodal Section, Transportation Planning and Programming Division, Texas Department of Transportation
11:45 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Wrap-up and Adjourn
Jim Kruse, Center for Ports & Waterways

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