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2010

• April 6
  "Climate change and transportation: Lessons from California"
  Deb Niemeier, University of California, Davis
  Burack Distinguished Lecture Series
  

• March 16
  "Transportation and the National Park System: the Past and the Future"
  Kevin Percival, Alternative Transportation Program Planning Group Manager, National Park Service
  

• March 4
  "Reducing Car Use: The Role of Transit-Oriented Development"
  Reid Ewing, University of Utah
  Co-sponsored by the CCRPC and the CCMPO
  

• February 24
  "The Demographics of Aging: Impacts on Transportation and Mobility"
  Dr. Joseph Coughlin, Director, MIT Agelab
  Burack Distinguished Lecture Series

2009

• December 7
  "Research Directions in Understanding and Visualizing Rural Health Access and Traffic Safety"
  Thomas A. Horan, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Claremont Graduate University & Research Director, Center for Excellence in Rural Safety, University of Minnesota (UVM Class of '81)
• November 18
  "Transportation Planning and Community Development in Urban Areas"
  Elizabeth Deakin, Professor of City and Regional Planning, UC Berkeley
• November 11
  "Transportation & social equity--Transportation is access: issues for people with disabilities"
  Phil Hammerslough, Transportation Advocate and Carmen George, Good News Garage
  
• November 10
  "Lessons Learned: Results from the Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety and Mobility International Scan"
  Jon Kaplan, VTrans Bicycle & Pedestrian Coordinator
  "Advancing Non-motorized Transportation in Vermont"
  Lisa Aultman-Hall, Ph.D., Transportation Research Center
  
• November 5
  "Community and Transportation: an Analysis of Roundabouts as a Solution"
  Dr. Per Garder, Professor Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Maine
  
• October 21
  "The Relationship of Housing and Community Development to Transportation"
  Sue Minter, VT Legislator/Dept. of Housing and Community
• October 14
  "Transportation and quality of life in rural areas"
  Dr. Jane Kolodinsky, Community Development and Applied Economics
• October 9
  Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Workshop
  Ellen McShane, UVM Director of Academic Support Programs
• September 15
  "Transportation Research Board Overview"
  Steve Maher, Engineer of Design, Transportation Research Board
• March 18
  "Innovative Approaches for Addressing Airport Capacity Issues"
  Thomas Adler, PhD, President Resource Systems Group, Inc.
  3:00 - 4:30 pm; Farrell Hall
• February 12
  "Aging in Rural and Small Urban Environments: Are Travel Needs Being Met?"
  Jill Hough, SURTC Program Director, North Dakota State University
• January 15
  Dan & Carole Burack President's Distinguished Lecture — "Two Billion Cars:
  Driving Toward Sustainability"
  Daniel Sperling, Director, Institute of Transportation Studies; Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering; Professor, Environmental Science & Policy, University of California, Davis
  7:00 - 8:00 pm; Livak Ballroom, Dudley H. Davis Center

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2008

• December 5
  "Fuel Cells and Transportation"
  Trent Molter, Research Scientist and Business Development Officer, The Connecticut Global Fuel Cell Center, The University of Connecticut
  2:30-3:30 pm; 209 Votey Hall
• December 4
  PANEL DISCUSSION: "Critical Issues in Transportation for the 21st Century"
  David Dill, VTrans Secretary; Cindy Burbank, Parsons-Brinckerhoff; Dr. Tom Adler, President, Resource Systems Group, Inc (RSG); Lisa Aultman-Hall (moderator), TRC Director
  3:30 - 5:00 pm; Farrell Hall
  
• November 14
  "CAFE Credits and the Energy Act of 2007"
  Jonathan Rubin, Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center, University of Maine
  11:00 am - 12:00 pm; Farrell Hall
  
• October 17
  "Community Design, Traffic Safety and Sustainability"
  Norman Garrick, University of Connecticut
  2:30 - 3:30 pm; 209 Votey Hall
• May 16
  "Merging Epidemiologic Methods with Transportation Data: the Example of the Black Women's Health Study"
  Patricia Coogan, ScD, Slone Epidemiology Center, Boston University
• February 13
  "Where Transportation Is Going: Transportation in the 'Complex, Large-Scale, Interconnected, Open, Sociotechnical' Systems Era"
  Joseph Sussman, Jr.,Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Engineering Systems, MIT
  11:15 am; 101 Perkins Hall

2007

• December 6
  PANEL DISCUSSION: "Critical Issues in Transportation for the 21st Century"
  Neale Lunderville, VTrans Secretary; Cindy Burbank, Parsons-Brinckerhoff; Peter Plumeau, Resource Systems Group (RSG); Lisa Aultman-Hall (moderator), TRC Director
  3:30 - 5:30 pm; Chittenden Room, Dudley H. Davis Center
• October 18
  "An Overview of Air Pollution Issues"
  Richard Valentinetti, Associate Director, Air Pollution Division, Vermont Agency of Natural Resources
  3:30 pm
• September 26
  "Measuring Benefits for Context-sensitive Solutions Projects"
  Dr. Nikiforos Stamatiadis, University of Kentucky
  12:00 - 2:00 pm
• September 20
  "Safety and Transportation in Vermont"
  Kevin Marshia, Program Manager, Roadway, Traffic & Safety, VTrans
  3:30pm
• April
  "Public Involvement in Transportation Projects"
  Ted Grossardt, University of Kentucky
• March
  "Development of an Optimization Methodology for Adaptive Traffic Signal Control at Diamond Interchanges"
  Clara Fang, University of Hartford
• February
  "Stochastic Transportation Network Modeling — Overview and Current Research Challenges"
  Satish Ukkusuri, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)

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