AASHTO Executive appointed to prestigious ACTS panel.

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U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood appointed Leanna Depeau, Missouri DoT highway safety director, and Anthony Kane, AASHTO director of engineering and technical services, to 10-member Advisory Council on Transportation Statistics (ACTS). Panel will advise U.S. DoT's Bureau of Transportation Statistics, part of Research and Innovative Technology Administration. Depeau and Kane add to what Secretary LaHood calls "a knowledgeable group from diverse parts of the transportation community."



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Missouri DOT Safety Expert and AASHTO Executive Appointed to Prestigious Panel



U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood today appointed Leanna Depeau, highway safety director for the Missouri department of transportation and Anthony Kane, director of engineering and technical services for the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, to the 10 member Advisory Council on Transportation Statistics (ACTS). The prestigious panel will advise the US Department of Transportation's Bureau of Transportation Statistics, which is part of the Research and Innovative Technology Administration.

In a statement released today, Secretary LaHood said, "We are bringing together a knowledgeable group from diverse parts of the transportation community to provide their expertise to the Department. The new ACTS members will assist the Department in coordinating data and statistics with our work on transportation systems for the future."

ACTS was created by the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, and Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU) of 2005 to advise BTS on the quality, reliability, consistency, objectivity, and relevance of transportation statistics and analyses collected, supported, or disseminated by the Bureau and the Department.

"Ms. Depeau and I are very pleased and honored to be asked to severe on ACTS," said Mr. Kane. "AASHTO and our members states are dedicated to finding solutions to the transportation challenges we face in America today and this advisory panel will help to gather the information needed to make sound policy decisions."

Also appointed today were: Christina Casgar, San Diego Port Authority; Robert Costello, American Trucking Associations; Elizabeth Deakin, University of California, Berkeley; George Donohue, George Mason University; John Gray, Association of American Railroads; Michael Replogle, Institute for Transportation and Development Policy; Kara Kockelman, University of Texas at Austin; and John-Paul Clarke, Georgia Institute of Technology.

The new appointees replace previous ACTS members whose terms have expired.

The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) is the "Voice of Transportation" representing State Departments of Transportation in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. AASHTO is a nonprofit, nonpartisan association serving as a catalyst for excellence in transportation.

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