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2008 Transportation Choices Forum
Friday, March 28, 2008
8am - 2pm
International Center
203 South St. Mary´s St.
San Antonio, TX
FORUM SPEAKERS
Lyndon Henry
Lyndon Henry has served as a Data Analyst for Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Capital Metro) since 2002. He holds a Master of Science in Community & Regional Planning, with a focus in Transportation, from the University of Texas at Austin, 1981. From 1973 to 1989 he was executive director of the Texas Association for Public Transportation. From 1981 to 1985 he served as a transportation consultant to the Hajj Research Centre at King Abdul Aziz University, in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. He has also served as a transportation planning consultant on several other transit projects in the USA. In 1983-84 has was a member of the Austin-Travis County Transit Task Force which recommended a transit authority for the Austin area. That agency, eventually named Capital Metro, was created in 1985. From 1989 to 1993, Mr. Henry served as a board member and vice-chairman of Capital Metro. From 1990 to 1992 he was an Adjunct Faculty member at St. Edwards University, teaching a course in public policy. Since 2000 he has served as a technical consultant to the Light Rail Now Project. He is also a member of APTA's Vintage Trolley and Streetcar Subcommittee.
Reid Ewing
Reid Ewing is a Research Professor at the National Center for Smart Growth, associate editor of the Journal of the American Planning Association, columnist for Planning magazine, and Fellow of the Urban Land Institute. Formerly, he was Director of the Voorhees Transportation Center at Rutgers University, and earlier in his career, he served two terms in the Arizona legislature and worked on urban policy issues at the Congressional Budget Office. He holds master degrees in Engineering and City Planning from Harvard University and a Ph.D. in Transportation Systems and Urban Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
He has authored books for the major planning and development organizations: Developing Successful New Communities for the Urban Land Institute; Best Development Practices and Transportation and Land Use Innovations for the American Planning Association; and Traffic Calming State-of-the-Practice for the Institute of Transportation Engineers. The two books for the American Planning Association made him APA's top selling author for many years. His study of sprawl and obesity received more national media coverage than any planning study before or since, and at one time, was the most widely cited academic paper in the Social Sciences, according to Essential Science Indicators.
His most recent book, written for EPA and published by the Urban Land Institute, is Growing Cooler: The Evidence on Urban Development and Climate Change. Also due out this year, and published by the American Planning Association, is National Traffic Calming Manual. His prior work on smart growth development includes the U.S. Green Building Council's LEED-Neighborhood Development guidelines, the Institute of Transportation Engineers' Recommended Practice for Context-Sensitive Thoroughfares, the National Wildlife Federation's Endangered by Sprawl, and dozens of consulting projects around the United States.
Michael Replogle
Transportation Director
Living Cities Program
Environmental Defense
Washington, DC Office
Michael Replogle manages Environmental Defense's initiatives to link transportation, land use, and natural resource plans and programs to enhance public health, equity and environmental quality. He is an expert on federal transportation law and policy, transportation impact analysis, and strategies to reduce traffic and pollution through incentives, smart growth, marketing and improved accountability. He works with federal and state agencies, Congress, local officials, business and activists to promote reform. He has worked extensively in metropolitan Washington/Baltimore, New York, Atlanta, Denver, Portland, Oregon and other regions. His work in Atlanta helped redirect $300 million from sprawl-inducing roads to transit and safety projects.
M.S.E., B.S.E. cum laude, Civil and Urban Engineering, and B.A. cum laude Sociology, all from the University of Pennsylvania. As a civil engineer and transportation modeling expert, he has served as an expert witness in several major environmental and transportation law cases. He conceived and helped win a 50% Maryland tax credit for employer-provided transit and cash-in-lieu-of-parking benefits. He produced three award-winning television ads encouraging employees to ask their employer for these benefits. Treasurer (1990-present) and a co-founder of Clean Air and Transportation, which educates the public about how transportation choices affect the environment. Co-founder and president (1984-present) of the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy, which promotes sustainable transportation reforms in developing and newly industrialized economies. Author of numerous reports and articles on transportation strategies in Europe, Asia and the United States. Consultant, U.S. Federal Highway Administration and the World Bank on non-motorized transportation, planning methods, and sustainable transportation strategies (1992); transportation coordinator, Montgomery County (MD) Planning Department (1983-1992); transportation research associate, Public Technology, Inc., technical arm of US National League of Cities, Washington, DC (1979-1982).
David Hitchcock
Director, Sustainable Transportation Programs
HARC
Mr. Hitchcock is an urban and regional planner with more than 25 years of experience addressing a wide range of urban development, energy and environmental issues. Since joining HARC in 1989, he has served as the Associate Director of the Center for Global Studies, the Deputy Director of the Environment Group and Senior Project Director. Mr. Hitchcock is involved in transportation, environmental and energy projects and programs that address sustainable development and air quality. Currently he is directing the Transportation and Air Quality Forum, part of the Texas Joint Center for Air Quality. He is also Project Director for HARC's Cool Houston Project which seeks to advance the understanding of urban heat island effects through increased vegetation and use of reflective materials for roofing and paving. Mr. Hitchcock has served on the Regional Air Quality Planning Committee for the Houston region and the Transportation Research Board's Alternative Fuels Committee. He has authored several acclaimed reports on sustainable development and environmental improvement in the Houston region. He previously served as the Director of the Joint Center for Urban Mobility Research at Rice Center in Houston.
Education: B.A., Sociology, Oklahoma State University; M.R.C.P. (Regional and City Planning), University of Oklahoma; Ph.D. (coursework only), Environmental Health/Urban Affairs, University of Pittsburgh, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs
Bill Barker, AICP
Bill moved to San Antonio in 1997 to serve as the Director of Planning at VIA Metropolitan Transit. He went back into consulting in 2002. Bill has served as the Director of Transportation of the North Central Texas Council of Governments in the Dallas-Fort Worth area where he was in charge of the Metropolitan Planning Organization, or "MPO," for the Dallas-Fort Worth region. He has also been part of the management teams of a transportation engineering firm and a transit management company. He was previously employed as an analyst with the U.S. Department of Transportation.
As a consultant, he has helped public and private clients in seven states, Canada and Mexico. His federal clients have included the U.S. Departments of Transportation and Energy as well as the Agency for International Development. Since leaving VIA, he has completed projects for the Center for Urban Transportation Research at the University of South Florida, the Houston Advanced Research Center and other public and private clients.
Bill has a bachelor's degree in physics and a master's degree in urban affairs. He has been recognized as a Fellow by the Institute of Transportation Engineers, has been nationally certified as an urban planner, and is an active member of the Transportation Research Board, a division of the National Research Council, which serves as an independent advisor to the federal government and others on scientific and technical questions of national importance. For that organization, he chaired the Transportation Programming, Planning, and Systems Evaluation Committee, the Energy Considerations in Urban Transportation Planning Subcommittee, and national cooperative research projects on alternative fuels and benefit-cost analysis. Bill currently is applying his familiarity with energy issues at Solar San Antonio.
Marc Melaina
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Marc Melaina is a senior engineer with the Hydrogen Technologies and Systems Center at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). His research addresses early hydrogen infrastructure development dynamics. Before coming to NREL, he worked as a research track director at the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California at Davis. Melaina completed his Ph.D. through the School of Natural Resources and Environment at the University of Michigan. His work experience includes consulting for Argonne National Laboratory, an internship at the National Transportation Research Center at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and teaching undergraduate energy courses at the Residential College at the University of Michigan. He has a master's in civil and environmental engineering from the University of Michigan and a bachelor's in physics from the University of Utah. |
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