Speakers Announced for Moving Ahead 2010 Conference

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Three national leaders will join the dialogue at Moving Ahead 2010: Sustainable Transportation Solutions for the 21st Century, to be held May 2-4 at The Ohio State University.

Moving Ahead 2010 aims to bring together industry leaders, policymakers and researchers to analyze how advanced transportation technologies, fuels and strategies will impact job creation, environmental protection and national security. The event is co-hosted by Clean Fuels Ohio, a statewide nonprofit organization and designated U.S. Department of Energy Clean Cities Coalition.
Newly confirmed speakers include:
 


  • Robin Chase, CEO of GoLoco, an automobile share business and one of Time magazine’s “100 most influential people of 2009”



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  • Dr. Robert Hirsch, Senior Energy Advisor for Management Information Services, Inc. in Washington, D.C., and former Chairman of the Board of Energy and Environmental Systems of the National Research Council



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  • Allan McArtor, Chairman of Airbus Americas, Inc. and former head of the Federal Aviation Administration


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Chase and McArtor will share their views on 21st century transportation trends at the opening reception on Sunday, May 2. Hirsch, an expert on the issue of peak oil production, will detail the need for an immediate transformation in petroleum usage during a conference Keynote Address on Monday, May 3.

Transportation accounts for more than 30 percent of America’s energy demand and more than 60 percent of the oil we use. Moving Ahead 2010 will focus on the full range of transportation technologies, including automobile, truck, rail, aviation and transit systems, as well as other strategies that can move the U.S. ahead to a better transportation future.

The complete agenda of activities can be viewed at MovingAhead2010.com.

Moving Ahead 2010 will take place in the Ohio Union Conference Center on the campus of the Ohio State University. A top-10 national public research university, Ohio State ranks second in industry-sponsored research and is home to one of the nation’s oldest and most successful transportation research centers. The university has an unmatched ability to conduct comprehensive energy and environmental research drawing upon more than 300 researchers from the colleges of engineering; food, agriculture and environmental sciences; and arts and sciences. Ohio was identified as one of the nation’s top new energy job-creating states in a recent study by Pew Charitable Trust.

 

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