In this clip from the latest episode of the Thinking Transportation Podcast, Texas A&M Transportation Institutes’s director Greg Winfree reveals he has helped to put together a panel, in association with NASA, to talk about the advantages and challenges of GPS navigation systems for next week’s TRB Annual Meeting in Washington DC, January 7-11. He also talks about the need to set up complementary navigation systems and muses on the possibility of repurposing the legacy US military LORAN (long-range navigation) for the modern world. To hear the whole episode and more like it visit the Thinking Transportation homepage or find the podcast on your favorite streaming service.
Greg Winfree became Texas A&M Transportation Institute’s (TTI’s) agency director in 2016 after working at the US Department of Transportation (USDOT). He began his USDOT service as chief counsel in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology and was later sworn in as assistant secretary. He also served as deputy administrator and administrator of the Research and Innovative Technology Administration. Prior to those appointments, Greg served as corporate counsel for a number of Fortune 500 corporations, and also worked as a trial attorney in the US Department of Justice.
Winfree is also a columnist for TTi (Traffic Technology International) magazine. Read his latest opinion piece in the December 2023 edition of the magazine.
