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The University of Denver's Intermodal Transportation Institute (ITI) and the National Center for Intermodal Transportation (NCIT) will jointly sponsor a two-day freight training program for public-sector transportation agencies Oct. 13-15 at the university.
 
Entitled "Intermodal Freight Transportation and the Public Planning Process," the course will be headed by Michael Meyer, professor of civil engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology and a member of the ITI's faculty who developed the program.

Participants will hear presentations from executives in the railroad, transit, trucking and intercity transportation industries on the challenges of creating a truly intermodal transportation system. In addition, Alberto Alemán, the chief executive officer of the Panama Canal Authority, will discuss the Panama Canal Expansion Program.
 
The program aims to examine the advantages and disadvantages of different funding sources and strategies for developing a strategic freight investment plan, and a process for incorporating freight concerns into statewide and metropolitan transportation plans, according to ITI. The program is targeted at public transportation agencies, which will help the public sector strategically plan natural interfaces between freight- and passenger-rail modes, ITI said.

"We anticipate that by the end of this training program, participants will understand the basic economic factors that influence shipper and carrier decisions, how the supply chain affects their community, how data and analysis can be used to develop the most cost-effective strategies, and how to develop a state or regional transportation plan," said John Inglish, general manager of the Utah Transit Authority and an ITI board member, in a prepared statement.
 
The program's registration fee is $1,500. For more information, call 303-871-4146 or 303-871-4702, or log onto www.du.edu/transportation.