Eno Releases Paper on Impacts of TIGER Program
The Eno Center for Transportation released a new publication entitled "Lessons Learned from the TIGER Discretionary Grant Program."
The paper, researched and written by 2012 Thomas J. O’Bryant Eno Summer Fellow Amy Cavaretta and Eno’s Paul Lewis, looks at key players involved in the creation and sustaining of the program and examines how the funds were distributed. It concludes with five specific policy recommendations for future federal discretionary grant programs to make them sizable, sustainable, and effective.
“The TIGER program is an excellent case-study for how we can distribute federal funding to innovative, multimodal transportation investments,” said Joshua Schank, president and CEO of Eno. “It turned ideas into possibilities and this paper analyzes how we can improve that process going forward.”
The paper presentation included a discussion on the legislative makeup, the project selection process, and the execution of the TIGER program during its first four years. Schank opened the event and served as moderator for the panel discussion of TIGER issues with top experts from the government and the transportation industry.
Pamela Shepherd | Senior Director, Communications
Pamela A. Shepherd is the senior director of communications where she is responsible for all written, printed and electronic materials, as well as branding, marketing, publicity, photography, and media relations. She is the editor of Eno Brief, the organization’s monthly newsletter, and the web master. Prior to joining Eno, Shepherd was the communications manager for the College of Business Administration at Loyola Marymount University. She also previously served as senior manager of Media Relations for the Airports Council International-North America where she was the organization’s liaison to the White House regarding communicable diseases and nationwide pandemic preparations.
