CONVERGE Sponsors

The CONVERGE Timeline website project is an activity of the Center for Transportation and the Environment. CTE is a university transportation center of excellence, funded by the U.S. Department of Transportation and North Carolina Department of Transportation. The center is located at North Carolina State University in the offices of the Institute for Transportation Research and Education. CTE's mission is to conduct research, education, and technology transfer programs that seek to mitigate the impacts of surface transportation on the environment. The concept for CONVERGE originated within CTE.

Additional financial support for the CONVERGE Timeline website project was provided by the Federal Highway Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation, and the Office of Transportation and Air Quality, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. CTE thanks FHWA and EPA for their collaboration on this unique educational initiative. Their participation in this project underscores the value of partnerships in enhancing the relationship between transportation and the environment.

CTE also thanks the working group of project advocates who have helped to guide and shape this project since its inception in 1996. These include representatives of government agencies, private industry, academia, and non-government organizations. In particular, CTE acknowledges the support of the Transportation Research Board's Environmental Analysis in Transportation Committee and Transportation History Committee, and the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials Standing Committee on the Environment, whose members have faithfully followed the evolution of this project through the years and provided input at its critical developmental stages.

• James C. Codell, III (Chair, AASHTO Standing Committee on the Environment), Secretary, Kentucky Transportation Cabinet
  
• Carol Cutshall (Chair, TRB Environmental Analysis Committee), Director, Bureau of Environment, Wisconsin Department of Transportation
  
• Janet D'Ignazio, Chief Planning and Environment Officer, North Carolina Department of Transportation
  
• Gorman Gilbert, Director, Oklahoma Transportation Center, Oklahoma State University
  
• Lester A. Hoel, Hamilton Professor and Chair, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Virginia
  
• Thomas D. Larson, President, Vision-Strategy
  
• Russ Lea, Associate Vice President for Research, University of North Carolina General Administration
  
• Jay Messer, Senior Scientist, National Exposure and Assessment Laboratory, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
  
• Alan Pisarski (Chair, TRB History Committee), Transportation Consultant
  
• Michael Replogle, Director, Transportation Program, Environmental Defense
  
• Howard Rosen, Program Director, Engineering Professional Development, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  
• Connie Ruth, Office of Transportation and Air Quality, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
  
• Len Sanderson, State Highway Administrator, North Carolina Department of Transportation
  
• James Shrouds, Director, Office of the Natural Environment, Federal Highway Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation
  
• Robert Skinner, Executive Director, Transportation Research Board, National Academy of Sciences
  
• Lyndo Tippett, Secretary, North Carolina Department of Transportation
  
• John Wight (Executive Director, American Road and Transportation Builders Association), Executive Vice President, HNTB Corporation
  
• Bill Withuhn, Curator of Transportation, National Museum of American History, The Smithsonian Institution