Speaker: Sarah C. Campbell, President of TransManagement, Inc.

Transportation Costs to the American public increases when certain land use patterns are effected.

Ms. Campbell discussed the consequences for individual wealth and regional economies of our current transportation choices and land use patterns. She also reviewed the nature of the data on which we are relying to make our policy decisions regarding transportation and land use and propose policy options to consider in addressing the economic and social effects of current transportation and land use trends."

Ms. Campbell is president of TransManagement, Inc. She has over twenty years of professional experience in the transportation field and has worked at all levels of government. Ms. Campbell?s caree has included overseeing planning of major capital improvement programs and developing public policies for transportation programs that encourage strong community roles.

Prior to joining the firm Ms. Campbell served as founding director of the Surface Transportation Policy Project, a public interest coalition that united for the first time a broad range of transportation, environmental, design, business, and planning interests on national transportation policy issues.

Ms. Campbell is currently a member of the Executive Committee of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences and serves as chairperson of the board of the Surface Transportation Policy Project. Notable among the awards Ms. Campbell has received for her professional endeavors, is the Secretary of Transportation?s Meritorious Achievement Award for her contribution to the development of a national urban policy. She has also been honored by the American Planning Association (APA), the National Association of Regional Councils (NARC), and the Women?s Transportation Seminar (WTS) for her work towards the passage of the ISTEA.

Ms. Campbell received her bachelors degree from the University of Texas School of Communication and her masters from the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, also the University of Texas.