Message where it needs to be delivered, that the time is critical and i look forward to being part of the solution. Thank you very much, mike, for your comments and your contributions. Ill take it a little bit out of order now and take my law partner and former member of congress, state of georgia, congressman Jack Kingston to give his perspective on some of the things theyre doing down in georgia, particularly in the port project area and hes now with us, with these projects probably had something to do with them back when you were in congress yourself. Jack, why dont you go ahead and tell us about what is happening down there. Thank you very much, senator. I have to take a point of personal privilege that i really came here to lobby jennifer on going ahead and getting a fast lane on 395. I think we all would like to see that happen. And, mike, i want to say my mother actually lives in louisville, colorado, and your toll road is great. Thank you. Ive driven it many times. It is such a great alternative to 36. But as a member of the house, i was on the Appropriations Committee and served in the house for 25 years. And probably the biggest Infrastructure Project in the state of georgia right now is the deepening of the savannah river. That project we lived and breathed for 13 years. Ill put that in perspective for a minute. It took 40 million to get four federal agencies to sign off on it. We had hadto have the okay from epa, and from noaa and along with that we had to have state and stake holders and all kinds of people who had an opinion on it. It took forever and yet 300,000 jobs in the state of georgia are involved almost directly with the port. 15,000 businesses. And of the 15,000 businesses that export in our state are import either one, 70 of them have less than 500 employees. So it is always this thought well, you know, port and export, thats the big folks but thats not the case at all. We had to jump through all kinds of hoops as you can imagine just to get the river five feet deeper. And we were going to 47 feet when general ogle thorp sailed up the river in 1743, it was 12. We have been playing in the mud for 200 years. This was not some new concept. But the global part of this is that during that period of time, china built a port from start to finish that was bigger than the port of savannah. Savannah is the fourth largest port in the United States of america. But if were going to compete in the marketplace internationally, we cant have such a slow tedious really uncertain working permitting process. The state of georgia was ready had skin in the game. The project, by the way, went from 250 million to over 650 million, but the state was there, dollar for dollar for their share, always ready to kick in. And i think thats important. But now that and the point is, of course, to be able to be deep enough to get the panama post panama ships, really is what were focusing on now. Panama canal is supposed to be finished 2014 fortunately for us in savannah they got delayed. That helped us. But it is part of the world trade, but the second part of it now that were in is railroad access, railroad crossings, making sure that there arent delays, and then of course, truck lanes and so now we have to get back to traditional surface transportation issues. And thats one of the things that were working on from a state level, the state of georgia just passed a transportation bill. Congressman defazio talked about what virginia had done. Georgia is a red state. Georgia is a republican governor, Republican HouseRepublican Senate but the state legislature increased the hotel, motel tax 5 a night. Pretty big slug if you think about it. But that there had to be some funding mechanisms. But beyond that, one of the things i can say, i served in the state legislature and in congress, from a legislators standpoint, in my opinion, you need to have leadership that we really dont have on a complete level. And by that i mean leadership from the white house to the core. Everybody has to pass the baton. What i have seen from the other side, from the voting side of this issue is you get transportation type people whether theyre, you know, directly involved with cars or railroads or highway contractors and so forth, but they tend to call on members of the highway Transportation Committees. They dont call on somebody from a health care committee. And, yet, health care is very involved in transportation. They dont call on somebody from the Agriculture Committee but agriculture depends on good roads and transportation as well. One of the things i would say that we as those who support more transportation funding or a better vision, you got to call on all 435 members of the house. Because calling on the Transportation Committee members, and i would say bill shuster is probably my best friend in the house, but they live and breathe it. Theyre for it. Theyre going to make it happen. Pete defazio and shuster, theyll come up with the program. They can do it in half a day, but they need 218 votes. Unless were working on the entire congress then it is not going to happen. That would be kind of my report from my little foxhole. And, senator, i appreciate you thank you very much, jack. A quick question. I know you have to leave. One of the arguments is since the congress eliminated earmarks on special projects and member districts, thats been a really tantamount to having projects that are essential, being authorized and approved. Do you think the idea will come back to allowing those type of endeavors by members . I think that what happened with the earmark debate is it got out of hand numerically and in substance but what it really is is a member directed project. And traditionally when bud shuster held the gavel, we already mentioned, he would go to the individual member of the house and say what do you need in your district . You already heard from your mayors and county commissioners and governor and state legislator so you had an idea. There is we have some projects, they add up to 25 million. Thats not paying for the entire project, but just the federal match that the state was ready to go for. And then he would say well youre not going to get 25 million. What can i get mr. Chairman . You can get 20. Let me go back and shop it back home. Thats where i think a lot of the leadership came from, because suddenly that county commissioner, that city councilman, everybody had a buyin. And you went back and you were going to vote for the bill but right now, it is sort of an academic thing gets fuzzy. We passed transportation bill. Not sure who actually makes the decision, all that money might go to ohio. Not to pick on ohio. Im just saying it might go elsewhere. And thats what a legislator cares about what is going to come back to my district. I do think there needs to be a way to address member priorities as a way of getting of growing the vote. When bud shuster was chairman, every highway in pennsylvania became a sixlane highway. Thank you very much jack. Ill excuse you. I know you have another thing to get to. I with like to welcome new our next presenter chris no, mike. Lets do mike. Mike sharute. Im going to cede my time. We only let you do it once. Chris guthridge is a project director on Infrastructure Development. Were delighted to have you here. We look forward to your thoughts. Thank you very much. Ready to introduce scanska a swedish company, 127 years of pedigree. It is one of the Worlds Largest developer and contractor companies. It is a champion for sustainable infrastructure. It drives the way the Company Looks at its opportunities. It has 10000 employees in the u. S. And the u. S. Is our number one growth market. Were just completing a 2020 fiveyear Business Plan cycle, but within the Infrastructure Development side, we think ten years ahead. And this is a hugely competitive market. Lots and lots of international companies. All vying to get the next opportunity. And so, you know, we need to be teaming some two to three years ahead before formal procurements start. You know, were here to we want the opportunity to invest in americas continued growth. But i would also include Workforce Development. It includes minority supply chain development. Because in reality, we cannot grow the way that we want to unless we can actually create these centers of excellence. But we need a reliable program of projects, both federal, state and local levels. We want an opportunity to be able to show the value that can be created by using innovative procurement and financing means. We want fairness and transparency. You know, dont blame Public Private partnerships for short falls in permitting and right away acquisition procedures. We want decisiveness. Once you set a path, you know you need to stick to it. And last but not least this is all about execution and it is execution in a timely manner. Just to put a personal side to it, when i was the project director for the midtown tunnel when we won the bid for this, 2 billion project, down in Hampton Roads, a really large construction worker came up to me and gave me a big hug and said thank you for assuring my job for the next five years. Thats the reality, the impact on families and, you know their bread winners and so on of unreliable project streams. Quickly, sort of talk about the midtown tunnel with which i was very proud to be associated, this is a huge technical undertaking of Elizabeth River and Hampton Roads area of southern virginia. This is a Public Private partnership, this cannot be done without one side or the other. This is a 5,100 foot immersed concrete tube tunnel. 11 segments, each of them 16,000 tunnels. It was fabricated up in sparrows point, baltimore, and then the segments floated down the chesapeake to the Elizabeth River. Then each segment laid in 100 feet of water, with one inch tolerance. Thats the sort of engineering you get with these you know, megaprojects. You cant do projects like this without things like, you know, federal loans. The loan was the key part of the financing for this project. What we see is critical success factors. Firstly, joint stake holder management. We learned a lot about stake holders and the representatives. Talking about getting the whole house on side. But this is much more than that. This is about getting you know, all the political spectrum and the taxpayers and the users of these assets, going through educative process. And i would like to applaud what colorado has actually done in terms of the approach that they have had driven by the governor, to actually get public critical to these projects. If you dont have a project champion thats the real issue. Project champion many of these projects will just flounder. Last but not least is just to make the point dbe, you know, disadvantaged business enterprise, i mentioned it earlier on just for the midtime project alone we have some 28 dbes and 124 vendors already on board. A key area of these projects is not just creating and constructing the project but actually bringing up the Community Around it. Thanks. Chris, thank you very much for that perspective. Next we would like as our presenter dr. Oliver mcgee, a good friend of the secretary and slater and served with the secretary in the department of transportation. Hes now at Howard University and professor there. And will share some thoughts, i think, on technology and positive train control thoughts . Thank you, secretary slater for having me here. And senator breaux and lott. I want to congratulate Squire Peyton Fox for representing transportation infrastructure week in this fashion. It is so very, very important. Transportation in my eyes and many others is about economic choices. It is about moving people, ideas and things as secretary slater oftentimes said. But more importantly im a mathematician, engineer and scientist scientist scientist. And so i would like to put things in mathematical formulas. Competitiveness equals risk, uncertainty and growth. And i learned that from a great economic teacher, an absentee teacher, frank knight, at the university of chicago, great book on this subject. And when you look at risk, it is about what we know. And uncertainty is about what we dont know. It is our innovation enterprise. And growth is about jobs. And more importantly, how we remain competitive how we remain competitive in the United States and the world. And when youre looking about looking at growth, you have to start thinking about how youre invested in technology. And how do you employ it. Positive train control is about taking advanced technology that was developed 45 years ago and implementing it today. Were basically running a 19th Century Railroad system in the northeast. 50 of positive train control has been implemented between new york and boston. But only 5 has been implemented between new york and washington d. C. And through the philadelphia corridor. Without that employment of technology lives are lost. So oftentimes what i do is i look at what are we looking at and the public understanding of science and technology. And oftentimes thats what science and technology and transportation is all about, understanding transportation in the science and technology realm. There are really seven grand technologies were trying. One is information technology. Youve heard from the folks at its really saying were trying to acuate information so you engage it. Biotechnology is how Health Issues can incorporate and couple with transportation. We want a healthy transportation enterprise, but also Healthy People engaging healthy transportation. And then there is also advanced wireless and communications. Transportation is always about megascale engineering as chris was outlining here, big, large, projects. But transportation is also getting smaller. We are actually doing virtual transportation more often than we are physical transportation. So when we had these wireless communication devices, were moving people and ideas and things virtually. With telecommuting virtual offices, thats transportation. But it involves wireless communications. Microtechnology. Microtechnology is about computing transportation computing the choices and decisions that are involved in transportation. Researchers are now looking much further, 50 years out, in mental technology, where things get very, very small. And oftentimes what i was sharing with secretary slater is were going to be looking at molecular computing. Looking at 750 times faster than the High Performance commuting we have now. Why do we need to compute transportation . Because were trying to figure out the traffic patterns in the northeast corridor for daily flight and now rail systems. The derailment today that were faced is costing our economy 100 million a day. So do we want to advance in these advance technologies or do we want to lose 100 million a day and get into the business of moving derailed trains off the tracks instead of moving people . Cogno technology is looking at advances in brain research. This deals with the Human Factors. Human factors is really what positive train control is about. But when we look at air travel Southeast Asia is suspected to be the largest growth in air travel by 2050. But we have close to well over 1100 people who have died in airplane crashes in the last year since march 8, 2014, which was the inception of, what . Mh370. Still trying to find the aircraft. And also, in other parts of the region, of the world, we are impacted by Germanwing Airline where we had to look at the psychological factors involved inside what we call a cockpit post 9 11. What is a locked cockpit door and who belongs in it . Should we bring the navigator back so we can make sure that when we lock that cockpit door, we have very strong Human Factors and cogno issues in looking at psychological factors of pilots and personnel inside the aircraft cockpit. And then finally, we need to look at elder technology as in the western society as we get to an Older Society how do we gauge with moving people ideas and things, the mobility issues in engagement of transportation. Finally, i would like to tap into what were looking at in the Government University and Industry Partnership that really involves not only developing the advances in transportation of these technologies, which involves a lot of investment, a lot of uncertainty management, but more importantly deals with Workforce Development. How do we gauge a new supply of scientists and engineers to understand these advances in technology engage them. More importantly as we look at heightened engagements who are actually engaging in transportation, and this will involve training many, many scientists and engineers not only in america but also across the world, particularly when we look at the southeast region. Flying, we have to look at pilot shortages, how are we training the pilots for advances in technologies, say, for an airbus or aircraft, which has a glasscock pit. And then how do we look at those technologies that are developing in the western side of the world and engage with the eastern side of the world when youre basically trying to fly the aircraft. Imagine, for example if you were flying an aircraft made in china, and it was largely in a society of Mandarin Chinese and youre english and trying to flind that fly that aircraft in a digital aircraft aircraft. It is very difficult. Thats what were talking about in the new age of Workforce Development as we go forward. In closing, i agree with frank knight. I think frank knight would probably say that infrastructure and transportation week