Bipartisan Policy Center's National Transportation Policy Project to Release Plan...

Bipartisan Policy Center's National Transportation Policy Project to Release
Plan for Extensive Reform

Recommendations call for performance-driven transportation policy

WASHINGTON, May 27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The National Transportation
Policy Project (NTPP), a project of the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC), will
release its final report entitled "Performance Driven: A New Vision for U.S.
Transportation Policy" on Tuesday, June 9, 2009. NTPP, led by its co-chairs
former Mayor of Detroit Dennis Archer; former Congressman Sherwood Boehlert;
former Senator Slade Gorton and former Congressman Martin Sabo, will issue its
recommendations to Congress and the Administration at the Washington Court
Hotel in Washington, D.C.

NTPP's recommendations will create a thorough framework for the next
transportation authorization bill, calling for U.S. transportation policy to
be more performance-driven, with a clearly defined set of goals and more
accountability. The recommendations call for improving the nation's
infrastructure, focusing on economic growth, connectivity, improved access and
energy and environmental goals.

A press conference featuring the four co-chairs will begin at 9:00 AM.
Senator Mark Warner (D-VA), a founding co-chair of NTPP, will give a keynote
address following the press conference at 9:30 AM. Senator Warner was
instrumental in the launch of the project, and stepped down from NTPP to
pursue his bid for U.S. Senate in August 2008.

A panel discussion, beginning at 10:30 AM, will focus on the report findings,
and will be followed by a question and answer session with audience
participation. Participants will include NTPP project members Douglas
Holtz-Eakin, President of DHE Consulting, LLC and former Congressional Budget
Office Director, and Nancy Kete, Senior Fellow and Director of EMBARQ, The
World Resources Institute's Center for Transport and Environment.

NTPP was launched with the goal of bringing fresh approaches to transportation
policy and new voices to the debate. Its proposals for transportation reform
aim to be bold and pragmatic with a more focused federal role. NTPP is
composed of a diverse and bipartisan group of transportation experts and
business and civic leaders. More information about NTPP is available here:
www.bipartisanpolicy.org/transportation.

WHO: The Bipartisan Policy Center and its National Transportation Policy
Project

WHAT: Release of "Performance Driven: A New Vision for U.S. Transportation
Policy"

WHEN:Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Press conference at 9:00 AM
Keynote address at 9:30 AM
Panel discussion at 10:30 AM

WHERE:Washington Court Hotel, 525 New Jersey Avenue NW, Washington, D.C.

This event is open to the public, although space is limited. If you would
like to attend, please RSVP to ehawkes@bipartisanpolicy.org. Members of the
press wishing to attend, please RSVP to press@bipartisanpolicy.org.

About the Bipartisan Policy Center:
In 2007, former U.S. Senate Majority Leaders Howard Baker, Tom Daschle, Bob
Dole, and George Mitchell formed the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) to develop
and promote solutions that can attract the public support and political
momentum to achieve real progress. The BPC acts as an incubator for policy
efforts that engage top political figures, advocates, academics, and business
leaders in the art of principled compromise. For more information please visit
our website: http://www.bipartisanpolicy.org/

SOURCE Bipartisan Policy Center

Eileen McMenamin, Director of Communications, Bipartisan Policy Center,
+1-202-379-1633, emcmenamin@bipartisanpolicy.org