Carroll will speak at the forum's opening session at 8:30 a.m. in the Worsham Theatre of the UK Student Center. Kentucky Transportation Secretary James Codell will introduce Carroll.

Waltrip, who has announced he will retire from auto racing after the 2000 NASCAR season, will speak at a luncheon in the Student Center.

Waltrip, a native of Owensboro, is a consultant for the Kentucky Speedway, a $152 million, one and one-half mile track that opens for racing in June 2000.

A test driver for the Indy Racing League, one type of racecar that will compete at the speedway, has already turned a lap at the speedway of more than 200 miles per hour.

Transportation forum participants will include more than 200 state and county highway engineers, UK engineering faculty members and engineering students.

The forum is sponsored by the Kentucky Transportation Center which is housed in the UK College of Engineering. During the forum, center Director Paul Toussaint also will announce the 1999 Kentucky Transportation Hall of Fame inductees and Roads Scholars and Road Masters. Roads Scholars and Road Masters are persons who have been students in the center's extensive education programs during the year.