Honorable Joseph E. Brooks, Chairman, Richmond Area Metropolitan Planning Organization

Honorable Floyd H. Miles, Sr., Chairman, Richmond Regional Planning District Commission

Honorable Shirley Ybarra, Virginia Secretary of Transportation

Success Stories by:

National Perspectives: James P. Repass, President and CEO
National Corridors Initiative, Inc.

Virginia Success Stories: Leo J. Bevon, Director, Virginia Department of Rail and Public Transportation

Virginia Railway Express: Northern Virginia, Stephen A. MacIsaac, Director of Operations, VRE

Warwick Station: Connecting Trains, Planes, and Automobiles, Samuel S. Reid, Washington Office Director, Office of the Governor, Rhode Island

Maximizing Economic Benefits:

Roger Figura, Senior Manager, KPMG Peat Marwick LLP, Northern Virginia

Next Stops:

Mark Yachmetz, Director, Office of Passenger Programs, Federal Railroad Administration, Washington, D.C.

G. Alexander Taft, Executive Director, Association of MPOs, Washington, D.C.

Richard Beadles, Executive Director, Virginia High-Speed Rail Development Committee, Richmond, Virginia

Honorable John Mason, Mayor, Fairfax, Virginia (Moderator)
Raymond H. Ellis, National Director of Transportation Consulting, KPMG Peat Marwick LLP, Northern Virginia
Monica Long, Senior Transportation Planner, Atlanta Regional Commission, Atlanta, Georgia
Alexander Taft, Executive Director, Association of MPOs, Washington, D.C.

Patrick Simmons, Director, Rail Division, North Carolina Department of Transportation (Moderator)
Ken Briers, Railroad Operations Analyst, Parsons Transportation Group, Washington, D.C.
Kevin B. Page, Senior Rail Transportation Engineer, Virginia Department of Rail and Public Transportation
Richard U. Cogswell, Transportation Engineer, Federal Railroad Administration, Washington, D.C.

Alan Tobias, Senior Rail Transportation Engineer, Virginia Department of Rail and Public Transportation (Moderator)
Stephen A. MacIsaac, Director of Operations, VRE
Watson Brown, Senior Planner, Raleigh, North Carolina
Paul H. Reistrup, Vice President, Passenger Integration, CSX Transportation, Washington, D.C.

Richard Beadles, Executive Director, Virginia High-Speed Rail Development Committee (Moderator)
Patrick Simmons, Director, Rail Division, North Carolina Department of Transportation
Leo J. Bevon, Director, Virginia Department of Rail and Public Transportation
Thomas W. Dugan, Executive Director, Chattanooga Area Regional Transportation Authority, Chattanooga, Tennessee

John F. Berry, Jr., Executive Director, Richmond Convention and Visitors Bureau, Richmond, Virginia (Moderator)
Rex Hammond, President, Lynchburg Regional Chamber of Commerce (Executive Secretary, The Committee to Advance the Trans Dominion Express), Lynchburg, Virginia
Richard Remington, Director of Communications, Amtrak, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Robert G. "Bob" Corder, RGC Transportation Consulting, Richmond, Virginia (Moderator)
Ann Steedly, EIT, Public Outreach Manager, Southeast High-Speed Rail Project, NCDOT
Alan C. Tobias, Senior Rail Transportation Engineer, Virginia Department of Rail and Public Transportation
Elizabeth Sanford, President, Sycamore Planning Services, Atlanta, Georgia