The panel session will address how an adequate governance structure can be designed to develop and manage a seamless transport project across metropolitan areas or between border cities.

More than 350 policy makers, government officials are expected to be in attendance.  Joining ministers of transport, secretary generals and mayors from around the globe, Ross will bring her perspective and thought leadership on connecting cities and regions through research-based transportation decisions.

Ross has worked with government, corporate and nonprofit organizations on research projects in transportation and infrastructure, as well as regional science (megaregions). She is the author of Megaregions: Planning for Global Competitiveness (Ed), Island Press, 2009, and serves as principal investigator on a number of research efforts funded by the United States Department of Transportation to assess the impact of megaregions on both the methodological and operations of current transportation planning practice and administration. Ross consulted with the Obama administration on the first ever White House Office of Urban Affairs and is on the Board of Directors of the Auto Club Group.

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Read more about the International Transport Forum at www.internationaltransportforum.org.

Read more about Dr. Catherine Ross at www.coa.gatech.edu/people/catherine-ross.