Speaker: George List, Ph.D., Rensselear Polytechnic Institute
Speaker: Mark Turnquist, Ph.D., Cornell University

The lntermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 (ISTEA) presents a new vision of the nation's transportation system -a concept in which the various modes form an integrated, closely coordinated system, providing "seamless" multimodal service for both passengers and freight. This sort of unified system outlined in ISTEA can be accomplished only if the intermodal connections become the focus of attention, because it is in those connections that many major problems must be solved, particularly in the freight sector. An integrated freight transportation system enhances the U.S.'s ability to compete in the international market place and also yields to the increasingly sophisticated demand for transportation services of the manufacturing sector. Our view of transportation systems must acknowledge the movement, flow and interrelationships of cargo, vehicles and information.

Drs. List and Turnquist will focus on new perspectives in intermodalism and will offer a vision of where we may be going in the 2lst Century. They will describe a framework for understanding the simultaneous movements of shipments, vehicles and information in integrated networks, and highlight important opportunities for investment, operation changes and policy changes to create a more unified freight transportation system.

For the past seven years George List has been a member of the faculty of Rensselear Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, holding appointments in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Department of Decision Sciences and Engineering Systems. Mark Turnquist has been a member of the faculty of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York for the past thirteen years at the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Drs. List and Turnquist have collaborated on a number of research projects for the University Transportation Research Center. Currently, they are exploring intermodal issues for NYS DOT, NYC DOT and the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey.