Pre-Conference Workshop -- Hotel Maya -- October 20, 2009

Freight Research at University Transportation Centers:
Integrating Efforts

October 20, 2009
9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Hotel Maya
Long Beach, California

Details available at: www.wistrans.org/cfire/IntegratingEfforts/

The National Center for Freight and Infrastructure Research and Education (CFIRE) and the METRANS Transportation Center are hosting the second national workshop on Freight Research at University Transportation Centers on October 20, 2009.

Purpose: This national workshop and forum will bring together national leaders from the freight transportation community and from educational institutions to:

• Explore opportunities for collaborative research in freight
• Identify colleagues and contacts for continued cooperation
• Define existing barriers and challenges for freight research and information dissemination
• Explore institutional arrangements that will be needed to meet the research and training needs of the future

Sponsored by the Mississippi Valley Freight Coalition, METRANS, and CFIRE.