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Thursday, October 24, 2013
UMD School of Architecture Lefrak Lecture: Martin Wachs, Wednesday October 30th
2013 Annual Samuel J. Lefrak Lecture and Seminar
Dr. Martin Wachs
"Taking Charge: Taxes, Tolls and the Crisis in Transportation Finance."
University of Maryland
School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation
Lecture: Wednesday, October 30, 2013
8:00 pm to 9:45 pm: Auditorium
With reception to follow
Seminar: Thursday, October 31, 2013
9 am to 10:30 am: Room #1200: Dean’s Conference Room
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Martin Wachs is one of the leading academic researchers (emeritus professor at UCLA; senior researcher at the Rand Institute studying transportation financing. It's worth your going to hear him speak.
He has many reasonably recent publications on transportation financing.
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