Integrating Sustainability into the Transportation Planning Process (2005)

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5 3 Committee Member Biographical Information David L. Greene, Chair, is Corporate Research Fellow at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He has long been regarded as a leader in sustainability as it pertains to transportation. He has spent 25 years in researching transportation energy and environmental policy issues. His research interests include analysis of policies to mit- igate greenhouse gas emissions from transportation, the development of theory and methods for measuring the sustainability of transportation systems, the modeling of energy demand, economic analysis of petroleum dependence, and the modeling of market responses to advanced transportation technologies and alternative fuels. Dr. Greene has been active in the Transportation Research Board (TRB) and the National Research Council for more than 25 years and has served on sev- eral standing and ad hoc committees dealing with energy and environmental issues and research needs. He is past chair and an emeritus member of TRB’s Energy Committee, past chair of the Section on Environmental and Energy Concerns, and a recipient of the TRB Pyke Johnson Award. Dr. Greene is a lifetime National Asso- ciate of the National Academies. He was a U.S. partici- pant in the second and third assessments of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as a lead and contributing author. Dr. Greene received a B.A. from Columbia Univer- sity, an M.A. from the University of Oregon, and a Ph.D. in geography and environmental engineering from the Johns Hopkins University. After joining Oak Ridge National Laboratory, he founded the Transporta- tion Energy Group and later established the Transporta- tion Research Section. He has published more than 150 articles in professional journals, contributed to books and technical reports, and authored or edited three books (Transportation and Energy, Transportation and Global Climate Change, and The Full Costs and Bene- fits of Transportation). He served as the first editor-in- chief of the Joumal of Transportation and Statistics and currently serves on a number of editorial boards, includ- ing that of Energy Policy. William R. Black is Professor of Geography and Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University. After receiving his doctorate from the University of Iowa, he joined the faculty of the Department of Geography at Indiana University. He also taught at Miami University of Ohio and Purdue University. At Indiana University he served as Director of the Center for Urban and Regional Analysis, Chairman of the Urban and Regional Analysis Faculty, Chairman of the Department of Geography, and Acting Director of the Transportation Research Center. He is currently serving a second term as Chair- man of the Department of Geography. He directed rail planning for the state of Indiana during the rail restruc- turing in the Midwest and Northeast United States in the 1970s. Subsequently, he served as a member of the Philadelphia-based activation task force that created the Consolidated Rail Corporation (better known as Con- rail) in 1976. He served as the first Director of the Indi- ana Department of Transportation in 1980. Dr. Black has been a transport adviser to the state of Indiana for the past 30 years, and he is the recipient of a Sagamore of the Wabash Award from that state for his public service. He has been a member of TRB for more

than 30 years. He served for 6 years as Chairman of the TRB Social and Economic Factors of Transportation Committee. He continues as a member of that commit- tee, the International Activities Committee, and the Task Force on Sustainable Transportation. He served two terms as Chairman of the Transport Research Group of the Association of American Geographers (AAG) and is the 1995 recipient of that group’s Edward L. Ullman Award for contributions to transport geogra- phy. He presented the Fleming Transportation Lecture at the 2000 meeting of AAG. From 1995 to 1998 he was North American Associate Editor of the Journal of Transport Geography. Dr. Black continues to serve on the journal’s editorial board as well as the boards of two international environ- mental journals. He is currently Coordinator of STAR, a National Science Foundation thematic research network on sustainable transport, and North American Coordina- tor of STELLA, a thematic research network on sustain- able transport of the European Commission. He has directed 20 research projects for state and federal trans- port agencies. He is the author or coauthor of five books and the principal author of more than 150 research papers and reports. His current research interests are in the areas of sustainable transportation, indicators of sus- tainability, environmental impacts of transport, state and regional flow modeling, the use of network autocorrela- tion analysis for examining motor vehicle accidents, and full-cost analysis of alternative modes. David G. Burwell is a Senior Fellow in the Prague Insti- tute of Global Urban Development, a Washington think tank, where he is an observer of transportation and envi- ronmental policy. He was President and CEO of the Sur- face Transportation Policy Project (STPP), a nationwide network of more than 250 organizations devoted to improving the nation’s transportation system. He directed STPP’s New Directions Initiative, a multiyear campaign that makes federal and state transportation policies better serve families and communities. Mr. Burwell cofounded STPP and served as its chair from 1990 to 1997. Mr. Burwell was cofounder of the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy, a nonprofit organization devoted to the conversion of abandoned rail corridors to public trail use, and served as its president for 15 years. Mr. Burwell worked as legal counsel for the National Wildlife Feder- ation, where he specialized in transportation, land use, and air quality issues. He has authored several books and articles on transportation law and policy. He was the initial recipient of the Transportation Achievement Award, an annual STPP award for outstanding achieve- ment in transportation policies. Thomas M. Downs was appointed President and CEO of the Eno Transportation Foundation in 2003. He has worked most of his life in transportation or general gov- ernment. In a career that spans more than 30 years, he has served in general government as a city manager in the Midwest, as a White House Fellow, and as City Administrator of Washington, D.C. In transportation he has served as an Executive Assistant to the U.S. Sec- retary of Transportation, as Associate Administrator of the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) for Plan- ning and Budget, as Executive Director of the Federal Transit Administration, and as Director of the Washing- ton, D.C., Department of Transportation. He has served as Chair of the Washington Transportation Planning Board, the metropolitan planning organization for the Washington metropolitan area. Dr. Downs left the Washington area in 1988 to become the President of the Triborough Bridge and Tun- nel Authority in New York City. He later served as the Commissioner of Transportation for the State of New Jersey. In that role he also served as Chairman of the New Jersey Transit Corporation. During this time he also served as Chairman of the Northeast Association of State Transportation Officials and as a member of the Executive Committee of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials. He has also served as a member of the Executive Committee of TRB and on numerous advisory committees at TRB and the U.S. Department of Transportation. He was one of the founders of the I-95 Corridor Coalition and the regional E-ZPass coalition in New York. In 1993 Dr. Downs was appointed Chairman and CEO of Amtrak, the nation’s passenger railroad. He substantially completed the electrification of the North- east Corridor and completed the purchase of high-speed train sets. He helped Congress create a $2.4 billion trust fund for the railroad. After leaving Amtrak, he became the CEO of the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB). He left NAHB to join the faculty of the Uni- versity of Maryland, where he served as Professor and Director of the National Center for Smart Growth. He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration and is the author of numerous articles and monographs. He has advanced degrees from the University of Missouri and the University of Kansas. Richard Gilbert is an urban issues consultant who focuses on transportation, waste management, energy systems, and urban governance, with clients in North America, Europe, and Asia. He serves as transport con- sultant to the Paris-based Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and to Civic Exchange, a Hong Kong–based think tank; as part-time research director of the Toronto-based Centre for Sus- tainable Transportation (CST); and as adjunct profes- sor in the University of Sherbrooke’s Faculty of Administration. 5 4 INTEGRATING SUSTAINABILITY INTO THE TRANSPORTATION PLANNING PROCESS

Dr. Gilbert received a Ph.D. in 1966 in experimental psychology and in an earlier career was a psychology professor and researcher. He taught at universities in the 1960s and 1970s in Ireland, Scotland, the United States, Mexico, and Canada and was associated with the Addiction Research Foundation of Ontario from 1968 to 1991. In the 1990s he taught graduate courses in planning and urban governance at York University’s Faculty of Environmental Studies. He served as a member of the councils of the City of Toronto and Metropolitan Toronto from 1976 to 1991 and as president of the Federation of Canadian Munici- palities from 1986 to 1987. On retiring as a municipal politician, he became the first president and CEO of the Canadian Urban Institute, a position he held from 1991 to 1993, and has worked as an independent consultant since then. Major reports published during the past 2 years include Electrifying Hong Kong: Making Transport Sus- tainable for Civic Exchange; Soft Measures and Trans- port Behaviour for Umweltbundesamt, the German Federal Environment Agency, and OECD; Energy and Smart Growth for the Neptis Foundation and the gov- ernment of Ontario; Policy Instruments for Achieving Environmentally Sustainable Transport for OECD; and Sustainable Transportation Performance Indicators for CST (supported by four departments of the government of Canada). Kevin E. Heanue consults on transportation planning, environmental analysis, organizational development, and related issues. He began his consulting practice after a 40- year career with FHWA. Clients have included TRB, the Eno Transportation Foundation, Cambridge Systematics, the Northern Virginia Planning District Commission, the American Highway Users Alliance, OECD, the Civil Engineering Research Foundation, and FHWA. Mr. Heanue has consulted on topics including induced travel, a bridge feasibility study, transportation research priori- ties, international freight movement, intermodal trans- portation, and the role of metropolitan planning organizations in planning for freight movements. In his most recent assignment with FHWA, Mr. Heanue served for 8 years as Director of the Office of Environment. During this time he administered the statewide, intermodal, and urban planning programs of the agency, as well as the environmental programs and requirements relating to the National Environmental Policy Act, the Clean Air Acts, and the Clean Water Acts. In addition, he had a major role in the develop- ment and implementation of the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act and in the development of the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century. Mr. Heanue is active in TRB. He has served on numer- ous committees, research panels, and conference steering committees and on the Group 1 Council. He is founding chair of the Task Force on Transportation and Sustain- ability. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers and serves on the membership advisory review committee. He has been a member of the Road Gang since 1984 and was its chairman in 1998. He has been a member of Lambda Alpha, an international honorary land economics society, since 1990. He is a registered Professional Engineer in the District of Columbia. Mr. Heanue recently served on the International Steering Group for the World Bank. He directed the Dublin, Ireland, Transportation Study from 1970 to 1971; in 1986 he served as a consultant to the World Bank in China. Mr. Heanue has traveled extensively on FHWA missions to Mexico, England, France, and Ger- many. Between 1989 and 1995, he represented the United States as a member of the Permanent Interna- tional Association of Road Congresses Committee on Urban Roads. He served as the U.S. representative on the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Urban Trans- port Forum from 1996 to 1998. Mr. Heanue is the coauthor of a recently published textbook, Road Ecology: Science and Solutions. He received his B.S. in civil engineering from Tufts Univer- sity (cum laude) and his M.S. in civil engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology. Marianne Millar Mintz is Transportation Systems Engi- neer at Argonne National Laboratory. She has worked with several offices of the U.S. Department of Energy and with the Federal Emergency Management Agency. She is focused on evaluating opportunities and investi- gating the impacts associated with the deployment of advanced engine and fuel technologies into the light- and heavy-duty vehicle fleet, expanding and recalibrat- ing transportation energy forecasting and impact assess- ment models, and developing methods to identify market segments and estimate the likely penetration of alternative- and flexibly fueled vehicles into the U.S. transportation fleet. She is Chair of TRB’s Transporta- tion Energy Committee. Ms. Mintz received a B.A. from the University of California and an M.A. from Loyola University, Los Angeles. Arthur (Chris) Nelson is Professor and Founding Direc- tor of Graduate Studies in Urban Affairs and Planning at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University’s Alexandria Center. Before this appointment, he served for 15 years as Professor of City and Regional Planning in the College of Architecture at Georgia Tech, where he was also appointed to the faculties in public policy and international affairs in the Ivan Allen College. In addi- tion, he served in the Transportation Research and Edu- cation Center in the College of Engineering. He was an Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgia State University. 5 5COMMITTEE MEMBER BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

Dr. Nelson is recognized broadly for his work on the relationship between metropolitan development patterns and economic development, use and depen- dency on alternative transportation modes, and social equity. His work in metropolitan governance has shown the benefits of federal-style governance systems in managing growth and investment at the metropoli- tan scale. That has led to current work on the rela- tionship between metropolitan planning organization voting structure and transit investment, with implica- tions for long-term metropolitan economic develop- ment, social justice, and fiscal stability. Dr. Nelson is one of the world’s leading experts on impact fees, espe- cially transportation impact fees, and he has pioneered methods of calibrating impact fees to account for social and economic equity, location efficiency, and economic development. Over the past two decades, Dr. Nelson’s work has been supported by such organizations as the National Science Foundation; TRB; the Federal Transit Adminis- tration and other federal agencies; the Brookings Insti- tution; the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy; the American Planning Association; numerous foundations; and local, regional, and state agencies. He has more than 150 publications to his credit. Dr. Nelson’s stu- dents have won numerous national awards in planning, policy, and design, and he has won awards as teacher of the year, professional educator of the year, and researcher of the year. John P. Poorman has 30 years of experience in trans- portation planning with the Capital District Trans- portation Committee (CDTC), where he has been Staff Director since 1981. CDTC is the designated metropol- itan planning organization for the four counties con- taining the Albany and Saratoga Springs, New York, urbanized areas. CDTC was selected by the Association of Metropolitan Planning Organizations for its 1997 National Award for Outstanding Achievement and was selected as the 1997 Employer of the Year by the Women’s Transportation Seminar of New York’s Capi- tal District. Mr. Poorman has been Chairman of the New York State Metropolitan Planning Organizations (NYSMPOs) since 1995. NYSMPOs was selected by the Association of Metropolitan Planning Organizations for the 2000 National Award for Outstanding Achievement in Special Projects for its statewide shared-cost initiatives. He was a member of the Board of Directors from 1995 to 1998 and was Vice Chairman from 1996 to 1997. Mr. Poorman has been an adjunct faculty member in the State University of New York at Albany’s graduate Urban and Regional Planning Program, a member of the Board of Advisors of the Eno Transportation Foun- dation, a member of TRB’s Executive Committee, and a member of the National Research Council’s Surface Transportation Environmental Cooperative Research Program Advisory Board. He is the recipient of a 1996 Environmental Fellow- ship from the German Marshall Fund of the United States to study European approaches to full-cost accounting of transportation impacts. From 1991 to 1992 he was Direc- tor of the Urban Planning Section of the New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) as part of an executive exchange between CDTC and NYSDOT. In 1988 he was honored by NYSDOT, and in 1989 honored by New York State County Highway Superintendents. In 2003 Mr. Poorman was named “Ally of the Year” by A Regional Enterprise to Support Empowerment, Albany. Mr. Poorman has a bachelor of arts in economics from Haverford College and a master of science in transportation from Northwestern University. Daniel Sperling is Professor of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science and Policy and is founding Director of the Institute of Transportation Studies (ITS- Davis) at the University of California, Davis. He is also codirector of the Fuel Cell Vehicle Center and Hydrogen Pathways research program at the University of Califor- nia, Davis. ITS-Davis specializes in advanced trans- portation technologies, energy and environmental impacts, and travel behavior. It was selected as a finalist for the 2003 World Technology Energy Award. Dr. Sperling is recognized as a leading international expert on transportation, energy, and environmental policy, particularly with respect to advanced vehicle technology and alternative fuels. In the past 20 years, he has authored or coauthored more than 160 technical papers and eight books. Dr. Sperling is Associate Editor of Transportation Research D (Environment) and is a current or recent edi- torial board member of five other scholarly journals. He is a recent member of 10 National Academies commit- tees, including Hydrogen Production and Use, Highway Finance, Biomass Fuels Research and Development, and Transportation and a Sustainable Environment. He is founding chair and emeritus member of the Alternative Transportation Fuels Committee of TRB and serves on many advisory committees and boards of directors for environmentally oriented organizations. He consults for international automotive and energy companies, major environmental groups, and several national governments. Dr. Sperling has testified numerous times to Con- gress. He has provided advice to various government agencies and has provided keynote presentations and invited talks in recent years at international conferences in Asia, Europe, and North America. Dr. Sperling was nominated for the 2003 World Tech- nology Energy Award (individual). He was awarded the 5 6 INTEGRATING SUSTAINABILITY INTO THE TRANSPORTATION PLANNING PROCESS

2002 Carl Moyer Memorial Award for Scientific Lead- ership and Technical Excellence by the Coalition for Clean Air; the 1998 Employer of the Year Award by the Women’s Transportation Seminar of Sacramento; the 1997 Clean Air Award by the American Lung Associa- tion of Sacramento; the 1996 Distinguished Public Ser- vice Award by the University of California, Davis; and the 1993 Gilbert F. White Fellowship by Resources for the Future, Washington, D.C. Before obtaining his Ph.D. in transportation engi- neering from the University of California, Berkeley (with minors in economics and energy and resources), Dr. Sperling worked 2 years as an environmental plan- ner for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and 2 years as an urban planner in the Peace Corps in Hon- duras. He earned an undergraduate degree in engineer- ing and urban planning from Cornell University. 5 7COMMITTEE MEMBER BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION