RTA 2026 Brunch keynote speaker announced
Please register for our RTA 2026 Transportation Brunch event, which will be held on Friday, August 7, at the Westin RDU Airport hotel.
Our keynote speaker will be Andrew Miller, Ph.D., a consultant, advisor, and speaker on innovative mobility and smart cities. He writes a weekly newsletter, Changing Lanes, and has written op/eds for The Wall Street Journal, The Globe and Mail, The New York Post. Andrew was formerly the Director of Mobility for Sidewalk Labs, Google’s smart-city firm, where he led development of innovative mobility systems for a proposed “city of the future” on the Toronto waterfront. He is also a Fellow of Roots of Progress Insititute. For the RTA 2026 Transportation Brunch, Andrew will dive into several topics and perspectives on innovation in transportation that will be of interest to the regional business community and our elected and transportation partners.
Click here for the event page, including registration and sponsorship options. Space is limited for the event; please let me know if you have questions.
Successful I-40 / Orange County field visit
RTA members and partners enjoyed our first RTA field visit of 2026 earlier this week, to a portion of the I-40 widening project in Orange County.
As we have noted in prior weekly briefings, this I-40 corridor improvement is essential for the entire state, as it represents the final segment of the 200+ mile I-40/85 freeway corridor between Raleigh and Charlotte that is not yet at least three lanes per direction.
The regional business community applauds our partners at NCDOT Division 7 for their vital leadership on this important multimodal freeway. Learn more about the visit, including some photos, from this week’s blog.
