Maks Alam
Maks Alam, a civil engineer and senior research scientist with Battelle, in Columbus, Ohio, is responsible for conducting and managing multidisciplinary transportation research projects for the U.S. Department of Transportation. His areas of expertise include transportation planning and policy analysis, freight planning and modeling, and geographical information systems applications.
Kevin M. Barron
Kevin M. Barron is TrafficLand's director of government programs. He is a former assistant director of intelligent transportation systems for the Virginia Department of Transportation. In that capacity he was responsible for the policy, planning, and business-related activities of the department's Smart Travel transportation/operations technology program. In his current position Mr. Barron is responsible for developing the government sector market for TrafficLand—focusing on applications to support highway and transit operations, critical infrastructure security, first responder operations, and homeland security. He holds a bachelor's degree in international studies and a master's degree in political science from Virginia Tech.
Thomas F. Barry Jr.
Thomas (Tom) F. Barry Jr., PE, serves as senior vice president in charge of transportation for the Southeast Region for PBS&J, a national transportation services company. The region covers Florida, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi and has nearly 500 employees. Mr. Barry is responsible for overseeing the operations of the region, including overall client management, business development, and financial management. He is a member of the PBS&J Transportation executive committee and has served as a senior adviser on projects throughout the country.
Mr. Barry has served as secretary of the Florida Department of Transportation and as the department's assistant secretary for finance and administration. Previously he directed DOT operations in ten central Florida counties, as District Five secretary. He has a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from Penn State.
Rick Biery
Rick Biery holds a bachelor's degree from Mansfield University and has accumulated numerous continuing education credits from several colleges and universities.
Mr. Biery has twenty-one years of experience in local and regional government, as county planner, as borough manager, and, presently, as regional planning program manager for the Northern Tier Regional Planning and Development Commission. In the current position he is the program manager for the regional transportation planning program, regional GIS program, and other regional planning initiatives, including telecommunications and regional land use planning.
Mr. Biery is the vice chairman of the Pennsylvania governor's Rail Freight Advisory Committee and has been a member of this organization for ten years. He is also the secretary for the Pennsylvania governor's Aviation Advisory Committee and has been a member of this organization for six years. Mr. Biery is a board member and the secretary for the Endless Mountains Transportation Authority and has been active in numerous work groups established with the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation.
Arthur H. Breneman
Arthur H. Breneman retired from the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation in 2004. Most of his thirty-five-year career was in traffic engineering in the Central Office, working mostly with signs, markings, work zones, and regulations. Mr. Breneman developed statewide policies and guided the department in the elimination of most regulations and in adoption of the MUTCD.
From 1992 through 2004, Mr. Breneman served as the chief of the Traffic Engineering and Operations Division, in the Bureau of Highway Safety and Traffic Engineering. He served on numerous national committees, including the Traffic Engineering Subcommittee of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials and the Markings Technical Committee of the National Committee on Uniform Traffic Control Devices. He was instrumental in obtaining the Federal Highway Administration's interim approval of the Clearview Highway font that increases legibility distance for white letters on guide signs.
Since October 2005, Mr. Breneman has been a senior traffic consultant for Gannett Fleming, Inc., in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania. He is responsible for coordinating traffic engineering reviews and developing new traffic engineering projects involving traffic engineering studies, traffic safety, and the application of traffic control devices. He has prepared several traffic engineering bulletins for the Military Surface Deployment and Distribution Command Transportation Engineering Agency, for applications at all U.S. military installations. He is also developing a Signing and Striping Manual for the New Mexico Department of Transportation.
As a consultant, Mr. Breneman has assisted PennDOT in several efforts, including as assistant project manager for the department's "Railroad Grade Crossing: Traffic Control and Safety Training" and a report on "ITS and the Comprehensive Strategic Highway Safety Improvement Plan"; he is currently updating the Traffic Engineering and Operations Manual (Pub. 46).
Mr. Breneman has a bachelor's degree in civil engineering and a master's degree in traffic engineering, both from Penn State. He is a registered professional engineer and a member of the Institute of Transportation Engineers.
Matthew R. Burd
Matthew R. Burd is a registered professional engineer in Pennsylvania, with ten years of highway design experience. For the last two years he has been a project manager with the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission's Roadway Engineering Unit. He has a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from Penn State.
Gene M. Chabak
Gene M. Chabak is a traffic engineer with Gannett Fleming in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania. He has been employed with this firm for sixteen years. His current responsibilities include traffic impact studies, traffic signal design plans, signing/pavement plans, sign structure designs, traffic simulation modeling, and overall project coordination. Mr. Chabak holds a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from Penn State.
Paul Clark
Paul Clark is manager of the Statewide Traffic Incident Management and Road Ranger programs for the Florida Department of Transportation. He has been with the department since 1994 and in his current position since 2005. Prior to his current position he was one of the department's five full-time emergency managers, coordinating and preparing for response to major events in the state of Florida. He is still involved in statewide evacuation coordination and contraflow in Florida. Mr. Clark recently became a co-chair of the I-95 Corridor Coalition's Safety Task Force.
Kevin Conahan
For almost two years, as a signal systems engineer for the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, Kevin Conahan has managed the planning, design, construction, and maintenance of more than 150 traffic signal systems in the suburban Greater Philadelphia area. He has more than eight years of traffic signal design experience. He holds a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from Drexel University and a master's degree in civil engineering from Villanova University, and he is a registered professional engineer in Pennsylvania.
Sharon A. Daboin
Sharon A. Daboin is the deputy secretary for aviation, rail freight, ports, and waterways at the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation. With nearly twenty-five years employment with the Federal Aviation Administration, Ms. Daboin brings an extensive and diverse background in transportation planning, development, and environmental mitigation. In her current position, she oversees the administration of financial assistance grants and technical assistance, totaling over $61 million annually, to 134 public-use aviation facilities for airport improvement projects, planning assistance, environmental guidance, licensing and inspection, and aviation awareness initiatives. She also provides oversight of flight services for Commonwealth agencies and the general assembly, and 67 regional and shortline railroad operators for maintenance and construction of track projects, rail inspection, and awareness initiatives. Ms. Daboin is PENNDOT's lead on intermodalism, participating in multimodal, multistate transportation studies and initiatives. The deputy secretary is a graduate of Eastern University in St. Davids, Pennsylvania.
Eric Donnell
Eric Donnell, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Penn State. He received his bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees in civil engineering from Penn State. He is currently serving as the principal investigator on research sponsored by the Federal Highway Administration, National Cooperative Highway Research Program, and Pennsylvania Department of Transportation. These projects involve studying the effects of various pavement markings on driver behavior; preparation of the countermeasure chapter in the first edition of the Highway Safety Manual; the safety effects of median cross-section design on divided rural highways; and the safety effects of roadway lighting.
Dr. Donnell teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses in highway and street design, traffic engineering, and roadside safety and management. Prior to his appointment at Penn State he was a transportation engineering and research consultant for Bellomo-McGee, Inc., and prior to that, a research engineer for five years at the Pennsylvania Transportation Institute. He also worked for nearly two years as an engineering intern for PennDOT's Engineering District 3-0.
Dr. Donnell is a member of the Transportation Research Board's Operational Effects of Geometrics Committee. He is also a member of the Transportation Research Board's Geometric Design Committee and chairs the research subcommittee. He is a member of the Institute of Transportation Engineers and a past Fellow of the Eno Transportation Foundation. Dr. Donnell is a registered professional engineer in Pennsylvania.
John Fegan
John Fegan is the bicycle and pedestrian program manager for the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) in Washington, D.C. He has spent eighteen years in FHWA's research office; since 1991 he has been responsible for the development and implementation of nationally applied FHWA policies and programs relating to the safety and accommodation of bicyclists and pedestrians. In conjunction with state DOTs and local transportation agencies, FHWA administers the federal transportation funding for bicycle and pedestrian projects and programs through the federal-aid highway program.
Mr. Fegan has a master's degree in human factors psychology from Catholic University of America and a bachelor's degree from Georgetown University. He has served on the pedestrian and bicycle transportation committees of the Transportation Research Board and represents FHWA on the Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials' Technical Committee on Nonmotorized Transportation.
Jim French
Jim French, Ph.D., has a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from Penn State and a master's degree from the University of Pittsburgh, where he specialized in transportation engineering. After a brief tenure with the Southwestern Pennsylvania Commission, he earned a doctorate at West Virginia University. Dr. French served as a professor at WVU for ten years, teaching undergraduate and graduate courses, including Highway Planning, Urban Transportation Planning and Design, Traffic Flow Theory, Computer Methods in Transportation Engineering, Highway Engineering, and Introduction to Transportation Engineering.
In addition to his academic experience, Dr. French has worked with the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation for nearly fifteen years on numerous traffic studies and signal designs in Districts 1-0, 2-0, 9-0, 10-0, 11-0, and 12-0. He co-founded French Engineering, LLC, in 2004 and serves as its vice president. French Engineering is a certified Disadvantaged Business Enterprise firm specializing in traffic engineering planning and design. Dr. French is a registered professional engineer in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Maryland.
Gavin E. Gray
Gavin E. Gray is a graduate of Penn State. He has eleven years of experience with the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation. The majority of those years have been spent doing geometric reviews of highway designs as a project development engineer in the Bureau of Design. More recently Mr. Gray has been serving as the department's roundabout and open plan coordinator. He is a member of the American Society of Highway Engineers.
Frank Gross
Frank Gross, Ph.D., earned his doctorate in civil engineering, with a specialization in transportation safety, at Penn State. He received a master's degree from Penn State and a bachelor's degree from Clarkson University, both in civil engineering. His current research at Penn State relates to the estimation of crash modification factors for geometric design elements, using statistical methods borrowed from epidemiology. Dr. Gross is currently involved in NCHRP 5-19, which is an effort to develop guidelines for the determination of appropriate roadway lighting for existing and planned facilities, based on safety benefits and total costs. In 2005 he was involved in a project sponsored by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, relating hours of service to the risk of a crash for truck drivers. Dr. Gross is an active member of the Transportation Research Board's Taskforce on Safety Workforce Development, whose goal is to make safety analyses more quantitative and science based.
Dean Gustafson
Dean Gustafson is the regional operations director for the Virginia Department of Transportation's (VDOT) Northwestern Region. His job involves responsibility for operating all transportation facilities in the region, which extends along the northern half of I-81, the western half of I-64, and parts of I-66. This includes a staff of seventy-seven and the Staunton Smart Traffic Center. Prior to his current position, Mr. Gustafson served as the ITS program manager for the Staunton District. Prior to that, he worked for the New York State Department of Transportation in Buffalo, in the Construction, Planning, and Traffic Engineering sections.
Mr. Gustafson is a professional engineer in both New York and Virginia and was the first professional transportation operations engineer with VDOT.
Bill Guy
Bill Guy is a registered professional engineer in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Florida, and a registered professional land surveyor in Pennsylvania. As vice president and manager of highway and program management practices for Gannett Fleming, he is located in the company's headquarters office in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania.
Mr. Guy has more than thirty-seven years of experience in preliminary and final design of highway, transportation, and civil works projects; he is responsible for directing a multidisciplinary team of professional, technical, and administrative staff involved in a variety of projects for the public and private sectors. He is experienced in contract proposal preparation, including conventional design-bid-build, design-build (modified turnkey), and design-build best value. He participates in design-build contracting and execution as a teaming partner with contractors. He is project manager for a current work order assignment with the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation to develop and implement the design-build best-value form of bidding for transportation projects.
John A. Halkias
John A. Halkias, Ph.D., holds the position of system operations and management team leader with the Federal Highway Administration and has been teaching at Johns Hopkins University since 1994.
Steve Herman
Steve Herman is a planner with the Transportation Planning and Public Safety Program at SEDA-COG. In that capacity he is responsible for coordinating SEDA-COG's Transportation Improvement Program; helping administer SEDA-COG's Rural Transportation Planning Program; managing the Transportation Enhancements, Home Town Streets, and Safe Routes to School programs; implementing SEDA-COG's Unified Planning Work Program; performing GIS for transportation activities; and providing services for the SEDA-COG Joint Rail Authority. His position regularly involves offering technical assistance to local governments and nonprofit organizations working on transportation, land use, public safety, or economic development initiatives.
Mr. Herman graduated from Bloomsburg University with a bachelor's degree in geography/environmental planning. Prior to becoming a transportation planner, he worked at SEDA-COG as a GIS technician. He has been involved in a variety of planning projects, including safety reviews, interchange corridor studies, air quality improvement projects, environmental assessments, freight studies, ITS strategic plans, neighborhood revitalization, and rural community planning. Mr. Herman also serves as a planning commissioner for his home township.
Chris King
Chris King is a senior transportation planner with the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission (DVRPC). He has been employed with DVRPC since 1998, in the Office of Transportation Operations Management. One of his main responsibilities has been fostering the planning and interagency coordination of regional intelligent transportation systems (ITS). Mr. King assisted in the development of the regional ITS architecture and provides staff support to various ITS committees, such as the ITS Technical Task Force. Since 1999 he has worked with local emergency responders and the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation in coordinating the I-476/I-76 Crossroads Incident Management Task Force.
At DVRPC, Mr. King is involved in an effort to develop a regional integrated multimodal information sharing system. This is a center-to-center communications system that will provide the region's ITS stakeholders with opportunities to share and disseminate information on travel conditions and coordinate the regional deployment of ITS systems in the Delaware Valley. Mr. King is also involved in an effort to develop a transportation systems management and operations plan along a corridor in both Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Other projects include a land use and access management study along Route 322 in New Jersey, and various transportation corridor studies.
Mr. King has a bachelor's degree in geography from the State University of New York at Geneseo and has done graduate work in city and regional planning at the University of Memphis.
Julia Knudsen
Julia Knudsen has a civil engineering degree from the University of Portland. She is an engineering associate with Kittelson & Associates, Inc., in Portland, Oregon, and has been participating in a variety of transportation planning, traffic engineering, and research projects throughout the nation. Currently she is one of the lead researchers for NCHRP 3-74, which will develop guidelines for selection of speed reduction treatments at high-speed intersections, and test speed reduction treatments in the field.
William P. Longstreet
William P. Longstreet has twenty-four years of experience with the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation. Currently he is serving as a bridge quality assurance engineer in the department's Bureau of Design. For sixteen years he worked in bridge design and construction in Engineering District 8-0. Mr. Longstreet is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers and is co-chair of a task force subcommittee on barrier hardware for the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, the American Road & Transportation Builders Association, and Associated General Contractors.
Chip Millard
Chip Millard holds a bachelor's degree in psychology from Juniata College and a master's degree in geography from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. He has worked as a transportation planner for the Tri-County Regional Planning Commission and the Harrisburg Area Transportation Study for more than six years; his primary job responsibilities include serving as intermodal planning coordinator, TS/operations planning coordinator, transportation enhancements coordinator, and the Bicycle/Pedestrian Program's assistant coordinator, and providing municipal assistance via the Local Planning Assistance Program. Mr. Millard also serves as the project manager for the South Central Pennsylvania Regional Goods Movement Study and is involved in the PennDOT-sponsored study examining freight clearance needs on the Amtrak-owned Keystone Corridor between Harrisburg and Philadelphia; the Lancaster MPO-sponsored study examining goods-movement shipments and patterns on the Wilmington-Lancaster-Harrisburg corridor; PennDOT's statewide intermodal planning efforts, including the Mobility Plan; and PennDOT-sponsored aviation planning sessions.
Brian O'Leary
Brian O'Leary is the section chief of county planning for the Montgomery County Planning Commission. His areas of expertise include growth management, zoning, economic revitalization, farmland preservation, and housing. Mr. O'Leary is a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners and serves as the chair of the southeast section of the Pennsylvania Planning Association (PPA), the chair of the PPA awards committee, a board member of PPA, and a member of the Lower Merion Planning Commission.
Ashwin Patel
Ashwin Patel is an assistant district traffic engineer (Signals and Safety Section) with the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation. With more than ten years of experience in traffic signals and signal systems, he oversees traffic signal design and construction, including traffic signal systems, in the Philadelphia region.
Mr. Patel holds a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from L. Engineering College in India. He is a registered professional engineer in Pennsylvania.
Jim Pinelli
Jim Pinelli is sales manager for the Dialight Corporation, the recognized industry leader in applying light-emitting diode (LED) technology to the entire spectrum of visual applications. These applications include status indication for the communications and industrial markets, signaling for the transportation industry, and the rapidly evolving solid state illumination market. Dialight is the world's leading supplier of LED-based transportation signals. Products include traffic signals, pedestrian crossing signals, rail signals, truck and bus lights, and FAA-certified obstruction lights.
Stan Platt
Stan Platt has a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from the City College of New York and a master's degree in transportation planning and engineering from the Polytech Institute of New York. He is a professional engineer with more than thirty years of experience in transportation planning and engineering, the last twenty-one years with the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission (DVRPC). As manager of DVRPC's Transportation Operations Management unit, he oversees the MPO's ITS and transportation operations activities.
Gerald Rawling
Gerald Rawling is the director of operations analysis for the Chicago Area Transportation Study (CATS). In that position he has been widely recognized for innovative research and analysis of the freight/intermodal industry. The CATS Intermodal Advisory Task Force is considered a model for a successful public-private forum. With this task force Mr. Rawling has hosted exchanges for transportation professionals from around the world and has participated in an intermodal scan of the European Union. He is also part of CREATE (the Chicago Region Environmental and Transportation Efficiency program), an initiative aimed at completely revamping tangled rail and highway systems in Chicago to improve transportation capacity there.
Robyn Ricketts
Robyn Ricketts is the active communities program coordinator for Pennsylvania Advocates for Nutrition and Activity (PANA). She earned a bachelor's degree in kinesiology, with a minor in educational policy studies, at Penn State and a master's degree in public administration at Villanova University. Prior to working for PANA, Ms. Ricketts was a substitute health and physical education teacher in the School District of Philadelphia and worked part-time in the Community Health Department at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. She manages the Keystone Active Zone Campaign and Safe Routes to School initiatives for PANA. Her expertise lies in health and physical activity programming and promotion.
John J. Rudiak
John J. Rudiak is one of the senior-most traffic signal designers currently employed by the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, with more than thirty-five years of experience. His publications include "Cooperation and Compromise Yields Award Winning Streetscape Project in Beaver PA" (IMSA Journal, September-October 2003) and "The Installation and Use of Spread Spectrum Radio in Dormont Borough … and Turtle Creek Borough, Pennsylvania" (IMSA Journal, March-April 2002). Mr. Rudiak is credited with designing Pennsylvania's first traffic signal interconnect systems using fiber optic cable, in 1988, and spread spectrum radio, in 1998. His photography credits include cover and article photos for both publications, as well as those included in local and national publications.
James Runk
James Runk, who has been in the trucking industry since 1972, was named president of the Pennsylvania Motor Truck Association in 1992. He is a member of the following committees of the American Trucking Association: Safety and Engineering, Tax Policy, Highway Watch, and Image and Communications. He is a member of this trucking association's executive council and the American Trucking Research Institute's advisory committee. He is certified to train screening test technicians in accordance with the U.S. Department of Transportation's alcohol-testing rules. He serves as chairman, with the governor's approval, of PennDOT's Motor Carrier Safety Advisory Committee and was a member of PennDOT's Statewide Intermodal Transportation Planning Advisory Committee and the Harrisburg Metropolitan ITS Advisory Committee.
Mr. Runk is a member of the governor's Team Pennsylvania and an executive committee member of the Pennsylvania Highway Information Association. He is a member of the Harrisburg Area Transportation Study's Technical Committee and the Capital Beltway Safety Committee and its Subcommittee on Operation Lifesaver. He also serves on the following transportation committees: the Delaware River Port Authority's Goods Movement Task Force, the Wilmington-Harrisburg Freight Study Steering Committee, and the Route 30 Corridor Study Committee.
George Schoener
George Schoener, executive director of the I-95 Corridor Coalition, is responsible for managing the day-to-day implementation of the coalition's program, projects, and activities. The I-95 Corridor Coalition is a partnership of state departments of transportation, regional and local transportation agencies, toll authorities, and related organizations, including law enforcement, port, transit, and rail organizations, from Maine to Florida, with affiliate members in Canada. Prior to his position with the I-95 Corridor Coalition, Mr. Schoener retired from the U.S. Department of Transportation and the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). Most recently he served as deputy assistant secretary of the U.S. Department of Transportation, with primary responsibility for developing national transportation policy, including the administration's reauthorization legislation for surface transportation. In that position he also worked with public- and private-sector representatives to develop a national freight policy framework and established intermodal teams to facilitate implementation of projects of national and regional significance. While at FHWA, Mr. Schoener's positions included those of director of planning, chief of the Intermodal Division, and chief of transportation system management. Additionally, Mr. Schoener was a professional staff member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works. He holds a master's degree in engineering from Penn State and a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from the University of Minnesota.
Larry Shifflet
Larry Shifflet has been working for the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation for more than fourteen years. He has a bachelor's degree in finance from Penn State and an MBA from Lebanon Valley College. At PennDOT he has worked in the Funds Management Section of the program center and as the department's liaison with the Southwestern Pennsylvania Metropolitan Planning Organization. Currently he is the division chief for the Program Development Division.
Christopher Strong
Christopher Strong is program manager for safety and operations at the Western Transportation Institute at Montana State University in Bozeman. He has more than eleven years of experience in transportation engineering and has worked on several types of projects, including intelligent transportation systems (ITS) planning and evaluation, safety and operations, traffic engineering studies, transportation planning and modeling, and GIS analysis.
Mr. Strong earned a bachelor's degree in civil engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a master's degree in engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. He is a registered professional engineer in Montana and a member of both the Institute of Transportation Engineers and the Transportation Research Board. Currently he serves as secretary of the ITS Benefits Evaluations and Costs Working Group.
Philip Tarnoff
Philip Tarnoff is the director of the Center for Advanced Transportation Technology (CATT) at the University of Maryland. His work includes responsibility for the CATT laboratory, in which research related to vision processing systems, data fusion, and data visualization is conducted. Mr. Tarnoff is also an active participant in the areas of distance learning and providing support to the Maryland State Highway Administration in connection with its acquisition of the CHART Advanced Traffic Management System. He has been involved with many other projects, including as project manager for the development of performance measures for transportation operations, evaluation of traffic signal operations, and development of regional incident management systems.
Prior to his position at the university, Mr. Tarnoff was the founder and president of PB Farradyne, Inc., where he was involved with numerous projects dealing with advanced technology, including the development of an advanced traffic signal control system, the TRANSMIT system, a toll-tag-based traffic surveillance system, and the Pathfinder advanced traveler information system. His previous work experience also includes employment with Alan M. Voorhees and Associates (a division of the Planning Research Corporation) and the Federal Highway Administration. Mr. Tarnoff received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University), and a master's degree from New York University.
Doug Tomlinson
Doug Tomlinson is a civil engineer manager with the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation. His previous experience includes work zone traffic control, traffic signals, congestion management, and traffic calming. His current responsibilities include the coordination of statewide incident management activities, development of the Road Closure Reporting System, and implementation of PennDOT's Transportation Operations Program.
Kenneth G. Tuma
Kenneth G. Tuma has sixteen years of experience as a professional development manager/planner. He is the manager for several municipal clients in Florida, including the counties of Palm Beach, Indian River, Martin, and St. Lucie. Mr. Tuma has an extensive background in traffic and cost analysis studies, DRIs, and special taxing districts He is a panelist for the Daily Business Review discussion on land use and residential development.
Ronald G. Wagenmann
Ronald G. Wagenmann received both his bachelor's and master's degrees from Penn State and is also a graduate of the Kennedy School for senior government executives at Harvard University. He has been the township manager of Upper Merion Township since 1982 and presides over one of the few municipalities in the state with a Triple A bond rating from Moody's. He comes by an interest in transportation naturally enough as his township is located at the crossroads of Routes 202 and 422, the Schuylkill Expressway, and the Pennsylvania Turnpike. Mr. Wagenmann has served on numerous local, regional, and state agencies involved in transportation and has been on the State Advisory Committee for close to twenty-five years.
Robert J. Watts
Robert J. Watts has nearly a decade of experience in traffic engineering, transportation operations, and land development planning. He has provided technical leadership and innovation for McCormick Taylor, Inc., particularly in the practice of computerized travel demand modeling and transportation engineering.
Prior to joining McCormick Taylor, Mr. Watts acquired broad project experience in dealing with the transportation issues associated with land development. He has substantial knowledge of traffic planning and forecasting procedures, traffic demand modeling, and the traffic impact analysis process. Mr. Watts is a licensed professional engineer in Pennsylvania. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees in civil engineering from Penn State, where he focused on the interdisciplinary elements of traffic engineering, urban planning, and landscape architecture.
Danny Whittle
Danny Whittle is an old-line city planner with the Lancaster County (Pennsylvania) Planning Commission and a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners. He has more than forty years of experience in regional, city, and community planning. He believes that collaborative town and neighborhood building through public-private partnerships is the only way to implement comprehensive planning. Mr. Whittle has a bachelor's degree in public administration and has completed work toward a master's degree in urban and regional planning from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
