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Dr. Kingsley Haynes is Dean of the School of Public Policy at George Mason University. Dr. Haynes founded the Institute of Public Policy in 1991, and the Institute has evolved into a School offering a Ph.D. degree in Public Policy, six Master's degree programs, and a research program totaling $8 million per year. Dr. Haynes' academic background is regional science, an area in which he has published extensively and held numerous positions of responsibility, including President of the International Regional Science Association. Drawing on his expertise in regional science, Dr. Haynes has carried out numerous transportation research projects. He is Co-Principal Investigator of the $4 million per year National Center for ITS Implementation Research, and co-principal investigator of several individual transportation research projects, including Evaluation of ITS Deployment; Social and Behavioral Implementation Assessment of ITS; and Complex System Theory for Road Transportation Analysis: Algorithmic Complexity, Connectivity, Fractal Geometry, Percolation Theory, Evolutional Biology and Neural Networks.

Dr. Kenneth Button is Director of the Transportation Policy, Operations and Logistics Center. He is Professor of Transportation at George Mason University's School of Public Policy, where he teaches transportation economics, transportation logistics, international transportation, and managerial economics. Dr. Button is a prolific author whose books include Handbook of Transport Systems and Traffic Control, The Future of International Air Transport Policy, and Transport and Public Policy, and he has written more than 200 scholarly articles on economic and transportation topics. He edits Transportation Research: Transportation and Environment. Dr. Button has served as Special Advisor to the House of Commons Transport Committee and as a full time advisor to the OECD. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from Loughborough University, the United Kingdom.

Dr. Brien Benson is Director of the Transportation and Economic Development Research Center. He is Research Associate Professor at the School of Public Policy, where his research focus is intelligent transportation systems. He has published in such journals as Transportation Research Record, ITS Quarterly, and IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management. His research areas are public opinion in the transportation field, ITS institutional issues, and the policy process, and he teaches program evaluation and the policy process. Dr. Benson is past President of ITS Virginia and was Chairman of the ITS America Communications and Outreach Committee for several years. Dr. Benson has served as Associate Administrator at the Federal Transit Administration. He received his Ph.D. in Public Policy from George Mason University.

Dr. Jonathan Gifford is Associate Professor at George Mason's School of Public Policy, where he directs and teaches in the Transportation Policy, Operations and Logistics Master's program, which he helped found in 2000. Dr. Gifford also teaches on the interstate highway system and on managing information resources. Dr. Gifford has just published the book Flexible Urban Transportation, and his book The Interstate Highway System: A Policy Retrospective is forthcoming. He has published numerous articles on transportation and infrastructure topics, and serves as North American editor of the International Journal of Transport Management. Dr. Gifford received his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.

Dr. Laurie Schintler is Assistant Professor at the School of Public Policy at George Mason University, where she teaches graduate courses on transportation theory and models, regional development theory, and statistics and econometrics. Dr. Schintler has written numerous articles and papers in her field, including "A Prototype Dynamic Transportation Network Model" and "Evaluation of the Smart Flexible Integrated Real-time Enhancement System (SaFIRES)". Dr. Schintler is Book Review Editor for the Annals of Regional Science, and, among other service activities, is helping the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments design and set up a web site for complaints regarding signalized intersections in the Washington region. Dr. Schintler received her Ph.D. in Regional Planning from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.