John Foote

John H. Foote from 1995-2005 was the co-founder and Executive Vice-President of TransCore, a transportation engineering company, specializing in "intelligent transportation systems and services," such as electronic toll collection. Previously he was a managing partner for Lewis, Foote and Company in Philadelphia, a private investment partnership. He has also Managing Director of Chase Manhattan, Asia Ltd, in Hong Kong.

John Foote is a Senior Fellow, Mossavar-Rahamani Center for Business & Government, Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government. He will be researching the US Department of Transportation's vehicle-infrastructure-integration (VII) initiative. As a Senior Fellow, he will be consulting with Tony Gomez-Ibanez and with John Donahue.

"John Foote, senior fellow at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, said the government can take over a highway in an emergency. But he objects to selling roads to raise cash." [Foreign Companies Buy U.S. Roads, Bridges; by Leslie Miller, The Associated Press, July 15, 2006]

On May 24,2006, Foote testified to the Highways, Transit and Pipelines Subcommittee of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee on the subject, "Understanding Contemporary Public Private Highway Transactions—The Future of Infrastructure Finance ."

 

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