Integration of Air and High Speed Rail: Are We Ready to Do It?
In the United States, we have shown that high speed rail can successfully compete with air, but have we shown that they can work together to make a better system? Matthew A. Coogan, the director of the New England Transportation Institute, a non-profit research institute devoted to intermodal and interdisciplinary issues, presented this topic on October 4, 2011.
About the Speaker
Coogan is the director of the New England Transportation Institute, a non-profit research institute devoted to intermodal and interdisciplinary issues. Over the past decade, he has focused on the deployment of integrated multimodal mobility strategies and the use of new information technologies in the implementation of those procedures. He graduated from Harvard College in 1969 and later served as a Loeb fellow in Advanced Environmental Studies at Harvard's Graduate School of Design. Between 1983 and 1991, Coogan served as Undersecretary of Transportation for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, where he co-founded the Coalition of Northeastern Governors' Task Force on High Speed Rail. He was appointed by the National Academy of Science to both the Committee on High Speed Ground Transportation and the Committee to Critique the National Maglev Initiative. He has lectured on transportation issues throughout the United States, and in Europe and Asia. He has been featured in Engineering News Record, Architectural Record, The New York Times, USA Today, Bloomberg News Service, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post, and has appeared on The Today Show, CBS News, and National Public Radio.
Presently, Coogan is serving as principal investigator for the Transportation Research Board's Airport Cooperative Research Program Project 03-23 Integrating Aviation and Passenger Rail Planning. Before this assignment, he served as principal investigator for ACRP Report #31, Innovative Approaches to Addressing Aviation Capacity in Coastal Mega-Regions. In 2009, he served as prime contractor in the preparation of A Regional Context for Intercity Passenger Rail Improvements in the Northeast for the Coalition of Northeastern Governors. He was the principal investigator for ACRP Report #4, Ground Access to Major Airports by Public Transportation, and for the Transit Cooperative Research Board's Report #62 Improving Public Transportation Access to Large Airports. He is a founding member of the Board of Directors of the International Air-Rail Organization, based in London, England.
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