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2007 Transportation Short Course:
Program

Session 18
Toll Roads II
Wednesday, October 17
Room: 201 MSC

Program and Session Chair: Phillip E. Russell, P.E., Texas Toll Authority Division, TxDOT
Session Co-Chair: Christopher Poe, P.E., Ph.D., TTI

  Moderator: Phillip E. Russell, P.E., Texas Turnpike Authority Division, TxDOT
8:30 - 9:30 am Comments from the Frontline – The Continuing Debate Over Private vs. Publicly Developed Toll Roads
Ned S. Holmes, TxDOT Commissioner
Michael Walton, Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin
James Ray, FHWA
9:30 - 10:00 am Case Study: SH 130 – The First Deal
Ed Pensock, P.E., Texas Turnpike Authority Division, TxDOT
James Bass, Finance Division, TxDOT
10:00 - 10:30 am BREAK
10:30 - 11:00 am Independent Engineers – What Do They Really Do?
Frank Holzmann, Jr., P.E., San Antonio District, TxDOT
Doug Woodall, P.E., Texas Turnpike Authority Division, TxDOT
11:00 - 11:15 am Managed Lanes/Bus Rapid Transit – How to Operate in a Toll Road Environment
David Casteel, P.E., San Antonio District, TxDOT
11:15 - 11:30 am Rail and Toll Roads – What is the Connection?
Bubba Needham, P.E., Austin District, TxDOT
11:30 - 12:00 noon CDA Ethics Rules – A One-way Pass to Alcatraz?
John Wright, Office of General Counsel, TxDOT

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