Summer 2009 Newsletter Now Available

Welcome to the Summer 2009 issue of the Newsletter for the National Center for Freight and Infrastructure Research and Education (CFIRE) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. We are pleased to provide this to you in a convenient PDF format at http://www.wistrans.org/cfire/news/newsletters.html. A direct link to the PDF version is: http://www.wistrans.org/cfire/Newsletter/Summer09.pdf.

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Inside this newsletter, you’ll find:

• A column by Director Teresa Adams reminding policy makers to look back and keep in mind the important links between transportation and communications when designing a new transportation network
• General proceedings and summary of the Mississippi Valley Freight Coalition Annual Meeting, held in April 2009.
• Summary articles on CFIRE projects dealing system resiliency, air quality, traffic management, freight demand forecasting, and bridge load limits.
• Notices of our upcoming CFIRE Integrating Efforts Workshop where the UTC community will come together to collaborate and communicate on freight research being conducted
• Summaries on the Spring Semester's Transportation Management and Policy program's graduate colloquium and practicum projects, and
  
• A calendar of Center sponsored and other freight related meetings and workshops

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