{"id":2073,"date":"2015-03-31T09:17:53","date_gmt":"2015-03-31T17:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/?p=2073"},"modified":"2015-03-31T09:17:53","modified_gmt":"2015-03-31T17:17:53","slug":"pactrans-sponsored-transportation-seminar-emily-feenstra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/pactrans-sponsored-transportation-seminar-emily-feenstra\/","title":{"rendered":"PacTrans Sponsored Transportation Seminar: Emily Feenstra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/PacTrans_sponsored_feenstra_header.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2081\" alt=\"PacTrans_sponsored_feenstra_header\" src=\"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/PacTrans_sponsored_feenstra_header.png\" width=\"499\" height=\"163\" srcset=\"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/PacTrans_sponsored_feenstra_header.png 499w, http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/PacTrans_sponsored_feenstra_header-300x98.png 300w, http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/PacTrans_sponsored_feenstra_header-97x32.png 97w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 499px) 100vw, 499px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0673ba;\"><strong>Organized by<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Pacific Northwest Transportation Consortium (PacTrans)<br \/>\nUSDOT University Transportation Center for Federal Region 10<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0673ba;\"><b>Presentation Title<\/b><\/span><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>The Case for Engaging in Public Policy &#8211; Your Projects Depend on It!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0673ba;\"><b>Abstract<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p>This year, we will see several important decision points about infrastructure at the federal level, including how to fund transportation projects with a dwindling Highway Trust Fund.\u00a0 In addition, state and local governments are grappling with how to fund major infrastructure programs, with proposals at the ballot box ranging from raising local sales taxes to state infrastructure banks. Nearly every infrastructure project is affected by decisions made by government and often non-engineers.\u00a0 How do we engage with decision-makers, and why should we care?\u00a0 Learn about the current status of infrastructure funding for 2015, how the American Society of Civil Engineers has engaged in the policy debate, and best practices for becoming a trusted resource on infrastructure issues in your community.<b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0673ba;\"><b>Speaker<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2083 alignleft\" alt=\"Feenstra_emily\" src=\"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Feenstra_emily.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Feenstra_emily.jpg 200w, http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Feenstra_emily-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Feenstra_emily-97x97.jpg 97w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>Emily Feenstra is the Director for Infrastructure Initiatives of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), and leads infrastructure policy research and advocacy initiatives for the Society. Her recent projects include ASCE\u2019s <i>Report Card for America\u2019s Infrastructure<\/i>, the <i>Failure to Act<\/i> economic study series, and a study on the use of life cycle cost analysis in transportation planning. Prior to joining ASCE, she worked with the Intelligent Transportation Society of America, the Washington State Transportation Center at the University of Washington, and as a consultant for the Washington State Department of Transportation. She holds a bachelor\u2019s degree from Duke University and a Master\u2019s of Public Administration from the University of Washington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Organized by The Pacific Northwest Transportation Consortium (PacTrans) USDOT University Transportation Center for Federal Region 10 Presentation Title The Case for Engaging in Public Policy &#8211; Your Projects Depend on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2073"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2084,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073\/revisions\/2084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}