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The FSHN 2000 CD Conference
November 2-3, 2000
Clarion Inn, Fayetteville, AR
"Transportation Issues 2000"
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The Conference Committee
4-State Heartland Community Development Conference
Transportation Issues 2000
Clarion Inn, Fayetteville, AR
Nov. 2-3, 2000
Subject of the Conference: modes and methods of mobility for people, goods, services and even ideas and concepts are increasingly dynamic, especially in context of the rapid economic and population growth of the Heartland region. Increasingly there is a need to look at mobility - and especially transportation - comprehensively on a regional basis. We are proposing a two-day conference to do just that for the corner of Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Arkansas, what we call the 4-State Heartland Region.
The 4-State Heartland Community Development Conference is an annual event involving Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and Arkansas. It focuses on issues of multi-state relevance in this region and upon the smaller, rural communities. On-going sponsorship and planning depends upon the Community Development Specialists of the respective Extension Services, with the collaboration of Economic Development Districts, local legislators, and others.
The 2000 conference will be held in Fayetteville, Arkansas, and will focus on transportation issues in the region. The tentative program is as follows:
Tentative ProgramThursday
Morning
A comprehensive briefing about current and future transportation developments in the region by responsible agency or legislative representatives from each of the four states in a panel format. Tentatively Carol Lindsey will chair this panel.
Afternoon
Presentations of how emerging transportation infrastructure and transportation
patterns are affecting local communities, and how they are responding.
These will be made by community representatives from each of the four states.
For Arkansas we have been talking about Gravette, Waldron, Mena, one of
the small communities nearby the Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport, as
possibilities.
Evening
Field trip to the Genesis Center to focus upon transportation-related
work with the Max Blackwell Transportation Center, maybe reception there?
Friday
Morning
"Solutions" workshops focused around different strategies(e.g. regional
transportation or "mobility" planning; technological solutions; land use
management and planning as solutions; strategies for obtaining key
infrastructure; etc., etc.) Here I'm thinking of the possibility
of several workshops going on simultaneously, maybe even with some self-selection
which goes on at the conference.
Noon
A major policy presentation as the closing event. Secretary of
Transportation Rodney Slater has agreed to attend and to make this presentation.
Target Audience for the Conference
The major target audience is local community leaders-mayors, city council members, county judges and quorum court members, community activists, interested agency personnel, community development advocates and researchers of all kinds.
Mack Blackwell Center, UofA
http://www.cveg.uark.edu/mbtc/
Missouri Department of Transportation
http://www.modot.state.mo.us/
University Transportation Centers
http://utc.dot.gov/
Department of Trasportation - Programs
http://www.dot.gov/programs.htm
About the Department of Transportation
http://www.dot.gov/about.htm
Sustainable Transportaionn Network (for Asia)
http://www.malaysiakini.com/sustran/