Robert E. Skinner, Jr., Executive Director of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies in Washington, D.C., opened by noting that this symposium was the first of four planned symposia to encourage research collaboration across the Atlantic. Cultural similarities and similar states of industrialization bring common transport problems for both sides. The United States could take more advantage of innovations in other parts of the world, he said, and researchers could collaborate much more than they are. Institutional collaboration has been missing but is now being seen between the U.S. Department of Transportation (U.S. DOT) and the European Commission. He indicated that this symposium was made possible by institutional support from the U.S. DOT through the Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA) and the European Commission.
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