The UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies is organizing a conference entitled Traffic Congestion: Issues and Options, which will take place at the Gallaudet University Conference Center in Washington, DC on June 26th and 27th, 2003. In October 2002 the University of California hosted a symposium on traffic congestion as part of its Lake Arrowhead Transportation - Land Use - Environment policy symposium series. The symposium was so well received that some who attended suggested holding a similar symposium on the East Coast. The program has been modified somewhat to emphasize more prominently policy issues relevant to the upcoming TEA-21 re-authorization, but the objective remains the same: to foster dialogue on the causes and consequences of congestion, and to explore technical and institutional strategies for mitigating congestion. To bring balance and a diversity of viewpoints to the conference, organizations and individuals representing a wide range of interests are included in the program. Sponsoring organizations include: the American Public Transportation Association, the American Road and Transportation Builders Association, the Association of Metropolitan Planning Organizations, the Association American of State Highway and Transportation Officials, the Eno Transportation Foundation, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Federal Highway Administration, and the University of California Transportation Center. Confirmed speakers include: Alan Pisarski, Brian D. Taylor (UCLA), Don Pickrell (Volpe Transportation Systems Center), Elizabeth Deakin (UC Berkeley), Kara M. Kockelman (University of Texas, Austin), Martin Wachs (UC Berkeley), Michael D. Meyer (Georgia Institute of Technology), Pravin Varaiya (UC Berkeley), and Tim Lomax (Texas A&M University). In carefully developed sessions examining different facets of traffic congestion and its policy implications, opinion leaders, researchers, and practitioners will make short, substantive presentations, followed by extensive discussion and exchange by all participants. The specific goal of the conference will be to identify areas of common understanding in developing strategies for addressing traffic congestion, including potential implications for the re-authorization of TEA-21. More information on this conference can be found on the Events page at the UCLA ITS website