Meetings


Steering Committee Meeting #1

2007 December 17-18, Santa Barbara CA

VenueAccommodationGetting to Santa BarbaraAttireWeatherWhile in Town


Agenda (tentative)

All events are at the Upham Hotel—Garden Room

Monday, December 17

0730
Breakfast
0830
Welcome and Introductions
Mike Goodchild
Professor and NCRST Principal Investigator
University of California, Santa Barbara
0900
Background Presentations

NCRST Program—Background and Future
Caesar Singh
Program Manager, Research and Innovative Technologies Administration (RITA)
U.S. Department of Transportation, Washington DC

Overview of Port Logistics and Challenges
TBD

The Role of Rail in Freight Logistics
TBD
1030
Consortium Presentations

Intermodal Trucking Industry Issues

Patty Senecal
Transport Express

MeTrIS
Val Noronha
Digital Geographic Research Corporation
1200
Lunch (provided)
1330
Consortium Presentations

Empty Container Management
Rick Church, Ting Lei
University of California, Santa Barbara

Port Synchronization
Anne Goodchild, Wenjuan Zhang
University of Washington
1530
Brownie break
1600
Consortium Presentations

Data Models to Support MeTrIS

Mike Goodchild, Linna Li
University of California, Santa Barbara

Application and Commercial Potential
Bill Lyte
CALMITSAC
1700
Adjourn
1800
Wine and cheese at the Upham, followed by group dinner off-site


Tuesday, December 18

0730
Breakfast
0830
Steering Committee deliberations (closed door)
1000
Committee Report to Consortium
1200
Adjourn




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