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The 2012 Transport Chicago Steering Committee is pleased to announce that William Millar will be speaking at June's Transport Chicago conference. Millar is a well known expert in the fields of public transportation and transportation policy, who served as the President of the American Public Transportation Association (APTA) from 1996 to 2011. At APTA, he effectively led the organization, guiding it to legislative successes and dramatically increasing federal funding for public transportation. Millar, a strong supporter of transportation research, received the Founding Father Award for his leadership in establishing the Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP). He was a member of the executive committee of the Transportation Research Board for over two decades and served as its chair in 1992. 

Currently, Millar is an adjunct instructor with the Heinz College School of Public Policy and Management at Carnegie Mellon University and a Senior Advisor for Rail and Transit at H.W. Lochner, Inc.

Bill has a BA from Northwestern University in geography and an MA from the University of Iowa in urban transportation planning and policy analysis. He lives in Falls Church, Virginia with his wife, Barbara.

Read more about the 2012 Transport Chicago speakers here.

Transport Chicago is seeking papers concerning all aspects of transportation (including planning, public transit, freight, air, rail, bicycle and pedestrian transportation) for presentation at this year's conference. Paper presentation will occur in one of two separate forums: oral presentation before an audience or display during the poster session.  Authors should submit a 250-word abstract to abstracts@transportchicago.org by Friday, March 2, 2012. Click here for details.

Transport Chicago sponsorship is a great opportunity to increase the visibility of your organization among transportation decision-makers in Chicago and beyond. We offer a variety of sponsorship packages to meet the needs of public, private, and non-profit organizations of all sizes. Click here for more information, and check out our sponsorship brochure.

For the fourth consecutive year, Transport Chicago will be held in the Conference Center at the American Dental Association building in downtown Chicago. The site, at 211 East Chicago Avenue, is accessible via nearly every form of transportation!

The 2012 Transport Chicago Steering Committee is pleased to welcome Tilly Chang, Deputy Director for Planning at the San Francisco County Transportation Authority as our keynote speaker at next year's Transport Chicago conference.

In her post, Tilly oversees a multi-modal transportation planning program that includes development of the San Francisco Long Range Countywide Transportation Plan and Congestion Management Program. She spearheads several policy and planning efforts including congestion pricing initiatives, multiple neighborhood, station and corridor planning studies, and the development of San Francisco’s first full-featured BRT projects. Tilly previously worked as a Transport Officer at the World Bank, developing urban transportation projects in East Asia. She has also worked in the tech sector and at the Metropolitan Transportation Commission in San Francisco.

Planning is underway for the next Transport Chicago Conference, to be held Friday, June 1st, 2012. Continue to check this space for news and updates about the conference, including the Call for Papers announcement early next year.