Date: Thursday, November 12, 2009 4:30 PM
Location: B14 Hollister Hall
This presentation describes the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey created in 1921 to manage major infrastructure systems upon which the Metro-New York City region depends. The twenty-first century brings new challenges to carrying out that mission, such as the increased emphasis on sustainability goals and stricter environmental regulations. The talk will describe the role of the Port Authority in managing critical infrastructure throughout the region, the challenges and difficulties associated with new projects, and its efforts to pursue efficient multi-modal freight transshipments into and through the region while respecting environmental regulations, and the challenging civil engineering projects that the agency has undertaken.
The Port Authority of New York & New Jersey conceives, builds, operates and maintains infrastructure critical to the New York/New Jersey region’s trade and transportation network. These facilities include four airports representing America’s busiest airport system, marine terminals and ports, the PATH rail transit system, six tunnels and bridges between New York and New Jersey, the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Manhattan, and the World Trade Center.
For more than eight decades, the Port Authority has worked to improve the quality of life for the more than 17 million people who live and work in New York and New Jersey - a region that supports 8.6 million jobs with an estimated gross regional product of more than $929 billion. Today, as was envisioned at its creation in 1921, the Port Authority is a financially self-supporting entity. It does not receive tax revenue from either state or local jurisdictions, and has no power to tax. See: http://www.panynj.gov/
Joint Seminar: Environment, Infrastructure, and Engineering Systems and Management Areas
