ARTBA To Host Seminar For Analysts & Investors

If you are an analyst or investor who tracks and rates domestic and foreign firms with a stake in the U.S. transportation infrastructure market, then you will want to participate in a special December 4 (10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. EST) ARTBA webinar hosted by three industry experts that will provide a “behind the scenes” look at the factors that will impact the transportation design and construction market sector in 2010.

 Major discussion topics:

  • Update on current U.S. transportation construction market conditions;
  • Progress report on implementation of the transportation investment provisions of the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act and its impacts on highway/bridge market;
  • 2010 federal transportation funding outlook; and
  • ARTBA’s 2010 U.S. transportation construction market forecast.

 The webinar will be led by:

  • Dr. Bill Buechner, who has been ARTBA’s vice president of economics and research since 1996. Prior to joining the association, the Harvard-trained economist spent more than 20 years as a top professional staff member of the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress.
  • Dave Bauer, ARTBA senior vice president of government relations and named one of Washington’s top lobbyists in 2009, who has nearly 15 years of industry experience. A former staffer on the Senate Transportation Appropriations Subcommittee, he has extensive expertise on federal transportation capital investment issues and programmatic improvements, and spearheaded development of ARTBA’s 72-page blueprint for the highway/transit authorization bill pending before Congress.
  • Alison Premo Black, vice president of policy and an economist, has been with ARTBA for a decade. She is responsible for a number of ARTBA’s economic products, reports and state studies. She is currently completing her doctorate in economics at the George Washington University.

 Registration is $475 for analysts/investors, and $300 for ARTBA members. Sign up in the “news and events” or by contacting Jim Colleton at .

 Established in 1902 and headquartered in Washington, D.C., ARTBA represents the U.S. transportation construction industry before Congress, the Executive Branch, federal agencies, news media and general public.