MEETING OF THE COMMITTEE TO REVIEW FEDERAL ESTIMATES OF THE RELATIONSHIP OF VEHICLE WEIGHT TO FATALITY AND INJURY RISK
WASHINGTON, D.C.

AGENDA

Thursday, May 2, 1996, NAS Building, 2101 Constitution Ave., Room 150



8:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast
8:30 EXECUTIVE SESSION
Bias and Conflict-of-Interest Discussion
Committee
9:15 Project Statement of Task Committee Discussion
9:45 Overview of Project Schedule and Meeting Agenda Warner North, Committee Chair and Nan Humphrey, TRB
10:00MEETING OPEN TO LIAISONS REPRESENTATIVES AND WORKSHOP PARTICIPANTS
Welcome and Discussion of Groundrules
Warner North
10:10 NHTSA Presentations
- Charles Kahane
- Susan Partyka
- Ellen Hertz
Discussion
12:30 p.m. LUNCH
1:30 Invited Presentations
- Leonard Evans, General Motors
- Charles Farmer, Insurance Institute for Highway Safety
- Ernie Grush, Ford Motor Company
- David Greene, Oak Ridge National
Laboratory
Discussion
3:30 Roundtable Discussion Invited Guests*
5:30 Adjournment
6:00 Reception and Dinner (Anteroom, Executive Dining Room)Committee members and liaisons

Guests

Clarence Ditlow, Center for Auto Safety
Joan Claybrook, Public Citizen*
Judith Stone, Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety*
Richard Klimisch, American Automobile Manufacturers Association*
Rob Strassburger, Mazda (Association of International Automobile Manufacturers)
Daniel Lashof, Natural Resources Defense Council*
James MacKenzie, World Resources Institute*
Deborah Gordon, Union of Concerned Scientists* Ann Mesnikoff, The Sierra Club
Alan Krupnick, Resources for the Future, Inc.*
Robert Crandall, The Brookings Institution*
Robert White, General Accounting Office Kwai Chan, General Accounting Office
Joe Loughran, Investigator, Government Reform and Oversight Committee, U.S. House of Representatives*
Phil Frame, Automotive News

*Invited but unable to attend.


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