APPENDIX A.
ABOUT CQC AND THE TRANSPORTATION PRIMER PARTICIPANTS
CQC (Citizens for Quality Civilization, Inc.) is a volunteer civic organization under
Section 501 c) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code. CQC’s mission is to improve the
quality of life through responsible civic leadership. CQC focuses on major public policy
problem areas, with due regard for related areas. CQC has a 14-year track record of
working to improve our nation’s education, health care policy, and transportation, and to
clarify globalization. We operate informally, and always check our products with outside
experts.
Robert L. Saloschin, Chairman – a lawyer, has practiced law with the Civil
Aeronautics Board (a transportation regulatory agency); the United States Justice
Department; a housing and real estate agency; and on Wall Street. At the Justice
Department , he chaired the Freedom of Information Committee and worked directly with
the leaders from both political parties (Attorney Generals Robert Kennedy and Nicholas
Katzenbach and later Supreme Court Justices Rehnquist and Scalia). He is a commercial
pilot and flight instructor and has made 14 boat trips on the Intracoastal Waterway and to
offshore islands. He has driven approximately 500,000 miles in and outside the United
States, is a retired naval officer and a longtime civic and community leader in a Maryland
suburb of Washington, D.C. He is the founder and president of Citizens for Quality
Civilization (CQC).
Mahlon G. (“Lon”) Anderson – Staff Director of Public and Government Relations
for the American Automobile Association (AAA) Potomac, directs government and
public media efforts for AAA Mid-Atlantic, serving over 3. 5 million members from New
Jersey to Virginia. On the national level, he has served as press deputy to two U. S.
Secretaries of Education and vice president of public affairs for a Washington trade
association. He has also served as chairman of the board of the Washington Regional
Alcohol Program (WRAP), a nationally recognized business/government coalition to
fight drunk driving and underage drinking, and on the Pedestrian Blue Ribbon Panel and
the Transportation Policy Review Task Force in Maryland. He has a wealth of
experience in local and national public affairs, was recently honored as Montgomery
College’s Outstanding Alumnus of the Year and serves as chairman of the college’s
alumni association. He is a graduate of Montgomery College, the University of
Maryland, and American University – where he earned a Master’s Degree in Public
Administration.
Henry Bain – a nationally known transportation specialist, has worked as a consultant,
researcher, university instructor, and a government employee. He helped plan the
Washington area’s regional transportation system and worked on the legislation that
initially authorized it. He served on the planning staff of San Francisco’s Bay Area
Rapid Transit (BART) program and was the technical manager of a large federally
sponsored study of the impact of BART on the region it serves. He has taught at the
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA); George Washington University; and the
University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
John H. Bruce – U.S. Coast Guard Captain, retired after 33 years of active duty as a
surface operations and law specialist, and as a commander of oceanographic survey, buoy
tender, search and rescue, and icebreaker vessels. He also served in various legal,
intelligence, law enforcement, and legislative positions. He operated a fishing troller in
Alaska. Since retirement, he has served as counsel to a Congressional committee and as
director of a university adult education program. He has also been active over the years
in various civic and military associations.
Emanuel Karbeling – an editor and information consultant, has developed and edited
military, historical, and technical features for the Army and Army Materiel Command;
Naval Electronics Supply Office; Stewart-Warner Corporation; National Provisioner;
Digital Equipment Corporation; and TRACOR. He has also worked with the Freedom
of Information Program for the Department of the Army and Army Materiel Command
and served as a volunteer entertainment coordinator at the White House Social Office.
Phillip L. Melville, PhD – a registered civil engineer, supervised worldwide
construction with the Army Corps of Engineers and was chief of the international and
technical staff of the Airport Directorate of the Federal Aviation Administration. He was
also employed by the Virginia Department of Transportation and the Virginia
Transportation Research Council. He has published professional papers and lectured at
the University of Virginia. Dr. Melville currently serves as a transportation consultant
and carries out pro bono activities on transportation-related matters.
Herbert Stone – a civilian engineer retired from the Department of the Navy and a
retired lieutenant commander in the Naval Reserve, has traveled frequently by auto up
and down the east coast. He has also flown to and driven around cities that he visited in
connection with his work. He recently traveled across the country by train and is acutely
aware of the traffic challenges he hopes to see remedied. He is a volunteer computer
instructor with SeniorNet, introducing seniors to the digital age, and a volunteer with
Maryland’s Bethesda Regional Library, with his area citizens association, and a member
of his district’s Police Citizens Advisory Board. Special interests include staying current
on modern technology and finding new ways to employ it in solving people problems.
John V. (“Jack”) Wells – Chief Economist at the Bureau of Transportation Statistics
(BTS) in the U. S. Department of Transportation, is also editor-in-chief of the Journal of
Transportation Statistics. He has served as deputy administrator of the Federal Railroad
Administration; Democratic staff director of the House subcommittee on railroads; and
staff director of the subcommittee on investigations and oversight of the House public
works and transportation committee. From 1979 to 1993 he was an economist at U.S.
General Accounting Office, working on a wide range of transportation, regulation , and
science and technology issues. He also served as assistant professor of economics at
George Mason University. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Howard University
and a Doctor of Philosophy degree from Yale University – both in economics.
CQC also wishes to express its gratitude to the outside experts on various aspects of
transportation who reviewed and commented on the draft of this primer.
APPENDIX B.
SOURCES OF MORE INFORMATION AND ASSISTANCE
To obtain good sources for information and assistance on transportation problems in your
metropolitan area, you must first decide two questions:
First, What are the problems you are interested in solving? Do you want to
relieve traffic congestion in your area or your neighborhood? Do you want to limit the
traffic congestion by zoning laws that will cut down on excessive building that overtaxes
the roads in your area? Do you want improved travel between your home and your
work? Do you travel during your workday in ways that need improvement?
Second, How deeply are you prepared to get involved in relieving the traffic and
transportation problems that concern you?
Transportation improvements start at the local, state, and national transportation planning
levels. Planners search for the best ways to get you to where you live, where you work,
where you shop, where your children go to school and to play and where you go on
vacation.
The next step is transportation decision making – looking for ways to solve today’s
problems while avoiding future transportation and environmental problems.
Transportation professionals seek the help of many different public and private groups
that provide employment, housing, schools, services, and parks. You can get involved
with some of the following: Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs) covering
areas with a population of 50,000 people or more; local governments, which schedule
planned improvements and maintain local streets and roads; transit agencies, that include
public and private organizations which provide transportation for the public; and the
Federal government, which oversees the transportation planning and project activities of
state and local agencies. The key Federal government role is to provide funds and
establish standards for state and local transportation improvement decisions.
To get involved in the transportation planning, decision-making, and implementation
process, you can:
Attend meetings of local transportation boards and offer your input;
Volunteer to serve on a citizen focus group or citizen advisory committee;
Put your name on mailing list to get newsletters, updates, and other information
from Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs), State Departments of Transportation
(DOTs) and other transportation and environmental agencies;
Invite transportation officials to attend your Rotary, Kiwanis, and other service
clubs, as well as meetings of community organizations, schools, and other civic
organizations and discuss transportation matters and how you and your organizations can
help them;
Find out what other public involvement opportunities are available by contacting
your MPOs, State DOTs, and officials in transportation agencies, local governments, and
Federal transportation offices;
Work with other friends, neighbors, business associates, church groups, local
chambers of commerce, agencies working to improve the lot of the disabled, the news
media, and political leaders to identify transportation problems and develop
recommendations to avoid, minimize, alleviate, or solve them.
A very helpful 32-page booklet entitled “A Citizen’s Guide to Transportation
Decision Making” is published by the U.S. Department of Transportation. Copies of this
booklet, as well as other helpful materials, can be obtained without charge by phoning the
USDOT Office of Planning (202) 366-0106 or 0150, or by writing to DOT/FHWA, 400
Seventh Street, S.W. Washington, D.C. 20590.
There are, of course, many other sources of reference materials on transportation
and related subjects: libraries, the Internet, and academic, governmental, and other
concerned organizations.
We also strongly suggest that citizens working for better transportation should,
from time to time, refer back to Part 8 and other parts of this primer.