Eleven state legislators from around the country, many of them transportation committee chairs in their respective states, attended the invitation-only CSG Transportation Policy Academy July 18-20, 2013 in Portland, Oregon. The event included an intensive briefing on Oregon’s pursuit of a mileage-based road user fee, tours that encompassed both the flow of commerce at the Port of Portland and transit-oriented development along the city’s South Waterfront, keynote addresses on the history of Portland’s approach to transportation and land use and how the Oregon Department of Transportation is evolving to meet the state’s needs, and a roundtable discussion that examined such topics as: the state of the nation’s infrastructure, the role of the business community in encouraging infrastructure investment, the role of metropolitan planning organizations, state efforts to seek new transportation revenues and the future of the federal-state-local partnership on transportation. Below are links to pages highlighting various aspects of the policy academy with additional photos, resources and further reading.
