TRB is sponsoring the 2012 UTC Spotlight Conference on Sustainable Energy and Transportation: Strategies, Research, Data on November 8-9, 2012, in Washington, D.C. The conference is designed to promote dialogue and coordination among University Transportation Centers (UTCs), federal agencies, industry, and state and local agencies on research to address the complex and challenging issues concerning sustainable energy and transportation.

The conference will focus on recently completed and ongoing research on sustainable energy and transportation being conducted by UTCs and others, and will identify existing knowledge gaps and promising developments for future research.

The preliminary program is now available.

Advance registration expires October 11, 2012.

The hotel group bloc at the government per diem rate ($183/night) expires on Monday, October 15, 2012