Seminars 2003-04

Seminar	Speaker
Economic Issues in Designing Alternatives to State Motor Fuel Taxes September 24, 2003	Tony M. Rufolo Professor of Urban Studies & Planning Portland State University
Driving by Choice or Necessity October 16, 2003	Susan Handy Associate Professor, Environmental Science & Policy, University of California at Davis
Truck Drivers and Ballerinas: the Baumol Hypothesis and Trucking Productivity 1977-1997 Thursday, November 6, 2003	Kenneth D. Boyer Economics Department Michigan State University
Automobile Ownership Modeling and its Importance in Travel Behavior November 20, 2003	Abolfazl (Kouros) Mohammadian Civil & Materials Engineering University of Illinois at Chicago
Job Accessibility of Low-Income Workers: Needs Assessment, Trends and Evaluation December 4, 2003	Piyushimita Thakuriah (Vonu) Associate Professor, Urban Planning & Policy; Associate Director, Urban Transportation Center University of Illinois at Chicago
Issues in Transportation: Regional Politics, Funding Conflicts and Shifting Coalitions January 29, 2004	Eric Petersen Associate, PBConsult (NU MST '98;NU PhD Candidate, Sociology)
Urban Travel Forecasting: Revolution or Evolution? February 26, 2004	David Boyce Adjunct Professor of Civil Engineering, Northwestern University
Information Decisions, and Productivity : On Board Computers and Capacity Utilization in Trucking March 4, 2004	Thomas N. Hubbard Associate Professor of Economics & Strategy University of Chicago Graduate School of Business
Transshipments in Supply Chain Management March 11, 2004	Michal Tzur Visiting Associate Professor of Civil Engineering, Northwestern University
The Relative Risk of Flying and Driving after September 11: The Contribution of Bounded Rationality April 1, 2004	Michael Sivak Head, Human Factors Division, University of Michigan, Transportation Research Institute
Effective Ways to Improve Customer Satisfaction, and Increase Ridership in Public Transportation April 22, 2004	Darwin Stuart Recently Retired Director, Strategic Planning, Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) and NU Alum (MST'66)
Welfare Reform and Transportation May 13, 2004	Evelyn Blumenberg Assistant Professor, UCLA School of Public Policy and Social Research, Department of Urban Planning
Risk Assessments, Transportation Vehicles, and Accidents May 20, 2004	Deborah Bruce Director, Safety Studies Division, National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB)
Does Britain or the United States Have the Right Gasoline Tax ? May 27, 2004	Kenneth Small Transportation Center Visiting Patterson Professor, Professor of Economics, University of California, Irvine