ITS Enos 2003

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Three graduate students affiliated with the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California are among the 20 Eno Transportation Foundation Fellows for 2003. The award includes a five-day visit to Washington, D.C., where Fellows meet with policymakers and transportation leaders under the auspices of the Eno Foundation's Leadership Development Program.

This year's winners are: Anne Goodchild of ITS Berkeley, Jonathan Weinert of ITS-Davis, and Allison Yoh of ITS Los Angeles.

Eno Fellows are chosen on the basis of their accomplishments, leadership and intention to pursue a career in transportation. Transportation graduate students are nominated by their professors, with a limit of one nominee from each campus.

This year's conference takes place from May 19 through May 23.

Following are brief descriptions of the backgrounds and research interests of the students affiliated with ITS:

Anne Goodchild is pursuing a PhD in Transportation Engineering at UC Berkeley. Her research interests are primarily in logistics and freight transportation, but she is also interested in intelligent transportation systems. She is currently focusing on a port logistics problem. "I think the conference will help me focus my professional skills," she commented. "With a better understanding of the political framework, I will be able to put future research projects in context, and provide students with a broader understanding of transportation issues."
Jonathan Weinert is pursuing a degree in Transportation Technology and Policy at UC Davis with an emphasis on hydrogen as a transportation fuel. His interests include alternative fuel vehicles, primarily fuel cell vehicles, and how to develop an infrastructure to support them. "I'm excited to learn firsthand from our nation's top policy makers about how transportation policy works—and doesn't work," he wrote in an email. He's looking forward to sharing this experience with other transportation students around the country with different perspectives.
Allison Yoh is a doctoral student at the UCLA Department of Urban Planning, where her research interests revolve around the relationship between how planners analyze and evaluate transportation, and how elected officials make decisions about transportation projects and objectives in the context of political and institutional environments. She also serves on the governing board of the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority. "Participating in the Eno Foundation's Leadership Development Conference will provide me with a useful and important federal perspective on transportation planning and expose me to how institutional structures, agenda setting, administrative controls, and intergovernmental relationships shape transportation policy," she noted.