Nationwide Advisory Committee on Journey and Tourism Infrastructure; Solicitation for Committee Member Nominations

I. Background

The Department declares the renewal of the constitution of the NACTTI and solicits nominations for membership to serve on the Committee. Pursuant to Section 1431 of the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act, the Secretary of Transportation established NACTTI on June 1, 2016 to offer info, recommendation, and proposals to the Secretary on issues referring to the function of intermodal transportation in facilitating mobility associated to journey and tourism actions. These actions ignite the financial engine of American tourism, strengthen home journey, and encourage American households to rediscover the wonder, satisfaction, and shared heritage of the United States and assist nationwide celebrations and globally vital occasions hosted on American soil (together with main sporting and cultural occasions) and assist showcase the Nation’s infrastructure, landscapes, and communities because the United States commemorates the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence (“America 250”).

NACTTI advises the Secretary on present and rising priorities, points, initiatives, and funding wants associated to the usage of the intermodal transportation community of the United States to facilitate journey and tourism; serves as a discussion board for dialogue for journey and tourism stakeholders on transportation points affecting interstate and interregional mobility of passengers; and gathers info, develops technical recommendation, and makes suggestions to the Secretary on insurance policies that enhance the situation and efficiency of an built-in nationwide transportation system that’s secure, economical and environment friendly.

Members should actively take part in Committee deliberations and contribute substantively to the Committee’s work. Committee service requires evaluate of complicated supplies, participation in subcommittee work, preparation for conferences exterior of scheduled Committee classes, stakeholder consultations, on-line analysis, drafting of report content material, report preparation, and translating specialised data into actionable suggestions.

In this discover, the Department is soliciting nominations for membership to the Committee. The Committee shall report back to the Secretary by means of the Assistant Secretary for Aviation and International Affairs.

• NACTTI shall comprise not more than 15 members, every of whom shall be appointed by the Secretary of Transportation for a 2-year time period. The membership shall embrace private and non-private sector stakeholders together with however not restricted to journey and tourism business, product and repair suppliers and associated associations and advertising organizations, the journey and tourism-related workforce, State tourism workplaces and departments of transportation, and metropolitan planning organizations and native governments, organizations with experience in intermodal connectivity for journey and tourism, and entities with experience in public-private-partnerships.

Additional components that will probably be thought-about within the number of NACTTI members embrace candidates’ confirmed expertise within the strategic improvement and administration of journey, tourism, transportation-related or different service-related organizations; or the candidate’s confirmed expertise in selling, growing, and implementing

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promoting, advertising, or monetary applications for journey, tourism or transportation-related industries.

Priority could also be given to a Chief Executive Officer, Executive Director, or President (or comparable degree of accountability) of a U.S. firm, U.S. group, or U.S. entity within the journey, tourism, or transportation sectors.

Each NACTTI member shall function the consultant of a U.S. entity engaged in any of the above-listed actions.

Members shall serve in a consultant capability, representing the views and pursuits of their explicit business subsector. NACTTI members are usually not Special Government Employees, and can obtain no compensation for his or her participation in NACTTI actions. All NACTTI conferences will probably be held nearly, and members collaborating in NACTTI occasions will probably be accountable for their journey, residing and different private bills. Meetings will probably be held frequently and, to the extent sensible, no less than yearly or extra regularly as is set essential.

Process and Deadline for Submitting Nominations:
Qualified people can self-nominate or be nominated by any particular person or group. To be thought-about for the DOT NACTTI, nominators ought to submit the next info:

1. Name, title, and related contact info (together with phone, fax, and electronic mail deal with) of the person into account;

2. A letter of assist or advice letter, on letterhead, from an organization, union, commerce or membership affiliation, or non-profit group containing a short description of why the nominee needs to be thought-about for membership;

3. A one-page biography summarizing the applicant’s distinctive experiences and {qualifications}, any skilled and tutorial credentials, expertise serving on advisory committees, and the rationale(s) why she or he wish to be part of NACTTI.

4. An affirmative assertion that the nominee meets all Committee eligibility necessities.

Please don’t ship firm, commerce affiliation, group brochures or another promotional info. Materials submitted ought to complete 2 pages or much less. Should extra info be wanted, DOT workers will contact the nominee, acquire info from the nominee’s previous affiliations, or acquire info from publicly obtainable sources, such because the web.

Nominations have to be obtained earlier than April 1, 2026. Nominees chosen for appointment to the Committee will probably be notified by return electronic mail and by a letter of appointment.