Updated at 7:43 a.m., Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Rotary Club to hear expert discuss city's transit plan
Advertiser Staff
The Honolulu Rotary Club will look again at the city's proposed fixed guideway transit project during a noon meeting today at the Royal Hawaiian hotel's Monarch Room.The guest speaker at the meeting will be Panos D. Prevedouros, a professor of traffic and transportation engineering at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of the University of Hawai'i at Manoa.
He is the developer and coordinator, of the UH Traffic and Transportation Laboratory and a member of several national committees on transportation. He chairs the Freeway Simulation Subcommittee of the Transportation Research Board, which is a unit of the National Research Council.
In August 2006, Prevedouros became the president of the Hawaii Highway Users Alliance. He is co-author of three editions of a popular transportation engineering textbook and of 100 research reports and technical papers.
The title of his presentation is, "Traffic Congestion: National Trends and Local Solutions."
