I'm not a transportation expert, so it is a little intimidating to be in this room full of transportation experts talking about transportation. My area is land use, and we like to think that what it is and where you put it has a lot to do with transportation. I am going to look at some of the trends that have determined the development pattern within which you put your transportation solutions. Where did growth go and why? What was that growth? Then we will look at some new trends. I totally agree that demographics are destiny. I want to go deeper into that and look not only at the short-term trends over the next 5 to 10 years but also at some of the things we know about how people make decisions at different points in their lives, and how that influences where they go in terms of product and location choices. I'll go through some of these trends quickly because I suspect you spend a lot of time thinking about them. We see faster growth in suburbs versus cities in the past decade. One important thing in thinking about the development pattern we have now and the type of development pattern we will have in the future is "driver" and "follower" uses. By "driver" use, I don't mean a car, I mean housing—looking at where housing went and how that led to retail jobs and later office jobs following the housing. If there are some shifts or opportunities to shift where housing goes, what happens to those retail and office jobs?
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