{"59050":{"#nid":"59050","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Can Swiss Rail Solve Atlanta\u0027s Traffic Problems?","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESwitzerland claims the best transportation system in the world.  In the Sustainable Transportation Policy Forum held on campus January 20-21, the Swiss light rail system was presented as a model of best practices that could help resolve the southeast\u0027s growing traffic congestion.  \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ECo-organized by the European Union Center of Excellence (EUCE) in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs and the Consulate General of Switzerland, the forum brought together a distinguished roster of business and political leaders, regional planners, advocates, and policy makers from Georgia and the southeast to evaluate the challenges and choices facing Georgia. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech President G. P. \u0022Bud\u0022  Peterson offered welcoming remarks and a toast to the Swiss Ambassador at the forum\u0027s reception.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe Swiss offered lessons from their long history of building and operating public transportation.  They\u0027ve invested heavily in transit system sciences and technologies including tunnel and bridge construction (through the Alps), clean-energy transportation vehicles, and long lasting infrastructures. Their technologies are exported around the world.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ERemarks were also made by Urs Ziswiler, Ambassador of Switzerland to the United States, and Steve McLaughlin, Vice Provost for International Initiatives at Georgia Tech. Panelists and moderators included EUCE Director Vicki Birchfield, Associate Professor, Sam Nunn School of International Affairs; Michael Meyer, Professor, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering; Catherine Ross, Professor, College of Architecture; mayors from Athens and Charlotte, NC; Georgia state senators Doug Stoner and Jeff Mullis; as well as regional, national and Swiss experts in transportation planning and policy.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Forum is part of the U.S.-wide outreach program ThinkSwiss \u0022\u0022 Brainstorm the Future which promotes exchanges and the sharing of know-how related to \u0022sustainable transportation\u0022 between the United States and Switzerland.\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Switzerland claims the best transportation system in the world.  In the Sustainable Transportation Policy Forum held on campus January 20-21, the Swiss light rail system was presented as a model of best practices that could help resolve the southeast\u0027s growing traffic congestion.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Sustainability Forum Focuses on Swiss Technology"}],"uid":"27167","created_gmt":"2010-02-11 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:06:50","author":"Rebecca Keane","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-02-11T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2010-02-11T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"59051":{"id":"59051","type":"image","title":"toy85449.jpg","body":null,"created":"1449176211","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:56:51","changed":"1475894515","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:41:55","alt":"","file":{"fid":"190824","name":"toy85449.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/toy85449_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/toy85449_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":51122,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/toy85449_0.jpg?itok=aEd1M0Nz"}}},"media_ids":["59051"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.euce.gatech.edu\/","title":"Read more about EUCE at Georgia Tech"},{"url":"http:\/\/thinkrail.org\/","title":"Sustainability Forum"}],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"10004","name":"Birchfield"},{"id":"612","name":"EUCE"},{"id":"5466","name":"European Union"},{"id":"166890","name":"sustainability"},{"id":"171002","name":"Swiss Rail"},{"id":"1262","name":"traffic"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003ERebecca Keane\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIvan Allen College of Liberal Arts\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=rkeane3\u0022\u003EContact Rebecca Keane\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-1720\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["rebecca.keane@iac.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}