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SAE Forum Features Bush-Gore Transportation Policy Representatives

16 June 2000

SAE Forum Features Bush-Gore Transportation Policy Representatives

    WARRENDALE, Pa. - Representatives of Republican presidential candidate 
George W. Bush and Democratic candidate Al Gore will debate national 
transportation policy on Monday, June 19 at 10 a.m. at the Society of Automotive 
Engineers Government/Industry Meeting in the Renaissance Hotel Auditorium, 
Washington D.C.

    Alan E. Pisarski, chair of the U.S. National Academy of Science's
Transportation Research Board Committee, will represent Bush and Steven O.
Palmer, vice president at Van Scoyoc Associates, Inc. will speak for Gore.

    In this session, the presidential candidates' representatives will provide
a blueprint for the candidate's legislative/regulatory agenda if elected.
Some of issues expected to be covered include congestion mitigation, road
construction, mass transit, cooperative research programs, advanced
technology, telecommuting, Occupational Safety and Health Administration
(OSHA) rules and other measures that form the basis for dealing with
transportation issues in the 21st century.

    Pilarski has been involved in the national transportation policy scene for
almost 30 years.  He has served in the Office of the Secretary, U.S.
Department of Transportation.  He is perhaps best known for his major studies
of American commuting patterns "Commuting in America" and "Commuting in
America II" produced for a consortium of public interest groups.

    Palmer was Assistant Secretary for Governmental Affairs at the Department
of Transportation from 1993-1998.  He worked as a senior staff member for Vice
President Gore in the Senate from 1990-1992, and served on the Presidential
Transition Team in 1992.  Before his appointment to DOT, Palmer was a senior
staff member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation.

    The Candidate's Forum is a special feature of the 2000 SAE
Government/Industry Meeting, which provides for a free exchange of views and
ideas among representatives of U.S. and foreign governments and the automotive
industry to foster joint consideration of problems and issues of mutual
interest.