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We convened the
panel to listen to these different perspective and engage in a dialog with
them.
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Bill Ball is
President of Merriweather Advisors LLC, a consulting firm specializing in
automotive policy issues. He retired from General Motors as OnStar's
Vice President for Public Policy and has over 25 years of legislative and
regulatory policy experience in the cellular and automotive industries
including leading efforts to support intelligent transportation systems and
connected vehicle technology.
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Dan Murray, is VP of
research for the American Transportation Research Institute. Dan has
been active in numerous ITS-CVO initiatives including:
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1) Core team member
of the DOT-sponsored "Smart Roadside Initiative"
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2) Advisory
Committee member of the NY State Commercial VII program
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3) ATRI lead for the
DOT-sponsored Trucking Industry Technology & Mobility Coalition (TIMTC)
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4) Immediate past
chair of ITS America's Commercial Vehicle & Freight Mobility Forum
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Jim Wright is the
Program Manager of the Connected Vehicle Programs for the American
Association of State Highways and Transportation Officials (AASHTO). Prior to
2008 he was an on loan executive from the Minnesota Department of
transportation serving seven years as Program Director for 511 and the
Connected Vehicle. Before joining AASHTO he managed the Minnesota Department
of Transportation’s (MnDOT) Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Program
called Minnesota Guidestar. From 1991 - 2001 he directed $100 million in ITS
work, including a regionally integrated ITS system.
Taso Zografos has over 25 years of experience in program management
and IT solution development, specifically focused on Intelligent
Transportation Systems (ITS), DSRC, and Automatic Vehicle
Identification/Location (AVI/AVL). He specializes in the transformation
and change management of R&D projects or concepts and mainstreaming them
into commercial services. He has served as PM for the USDOT V2V &
V2I Technology Test Bed, and is currently the PM for the NCHRP Connected
Vehicle Benefit Cost Analysis Project.
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