The Role of Transit, Shared Modes, and Public Policy in the New Mobility Landscape (2021)

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159 Gary C. Thomas (Chair) is president/executive director of Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART). He is responsible for a 13-city transit system cover- ing a 700-square-mile service area with bus, light rail, commuter rail, and paratransit services. Under his leadership DART has doubled its light-rail system—twice—to become the nation’s longest at 93 miles. The agency has been recognized for innovation in developing a progressive clean fuels pro- gram for its bus fleet, advancing new models for local bus and paratransit service and customer-facing communication technology and service. DART is also a recognized leader in the global advancement of the mobility as a service movement with its use of targeted demand–response transit service matched with new customer tools for fare payment and trip planning. Mr. Thomas administers the goals and policies of the DART board of directors and directs the agency’s top managers and approximately 4,000 employees, emphasizing a strong customer focus. He works closely with service area city governments and the public in developing short- and long-term trans- portation and mobility goals. Mr. Thomas joined DART in November 1998. He was a consulting engineer for 19 years prior to that. He has a B.S. in civil engineering and a B.Arch. from Texas Tech University. He served on the Transportation Research Board (TRB) Executive Committee and the Subcommittee on Planning and Policy Review for the TRB. He is also a past chair of the American Public Transportation Association, Rail~Volution, and the South West Transit Association. Regina R. Clewlow is the chief executive officer and the co-founder of Populus, a data platform for private mobility operators and cities to deliver Appendix A Study Committee Biographical Information

160 THE ROLE OF TRANSIT, SHARED MODES, AND PUBLIC POLICY safe, equitable, and efficient streets. She has more than a decade of experience in transportation, where she is a leading expert on innovations in public tran- sit, shared mobility, and autonomous vehicles. Dr. Clewlow formed Populus after serving in executive roles at Ford Smart Mobility investment and moovel North America (previously RideScout and GlobeSherpa). She received her Ph.D. in transportation and energy systems from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). As a research scientist at Stanford; the University of California (UC), Berkeley; and UC Davis, she developed and led research on the travel behavior impacts of shared mobility services (e.g., Uber, Lyft, car sharing) and autonomous vehicles. Dr. Clewlow was the lead author of the recent groundbreaking UC Davis study Disruptive Transportation: The Adoption, Utilization, and Impacts of Ride-Hailing in the United States. She has received several awards and distinctions, having been honored as a National Engineers Week “New Face of Engineering,” U.S. Environmental Protection Agency STARS Fellow, MIT Energy Fellow, and Department of Transporta- tion Eisenhower Fellow. As a transportation researcher, Dr. Clewlow’s work focused on developing and harnessing new data sets to measure the adoption and impacts of shared-use mobility (ridehailing) and automated/autonomous vehicles on travel behavior, vehicle purchase, and energy use. She is passion- ate about developing innovative transportation technologies that provide net positive social and environmental benefits: reduced congestion, improved accessibility, and a lower carbon footprint. Marlene Connor is the principal/manager of Marlene Connor Associates, LLC, and has 30 years of experience in transportation management and planning. She blends private- and public-sector experience with an intense personal commitment to improving transportation policy. Ms. Connor was previously the chief executive officer of the Pioneer Valley Transit Authority in Springfield, Massachusetts. She has experience in a wide range of public transportation policy and planning projects in modes from transportation network companies to bus rapid transit, as well as studies that include opera tions, policy development, management and organization, informa- tion technology, and financial analysis and review. Ms. Connor has both led and participated in a range of national research efforts in areas that include mobility services and policy development, performance measurement, as well as operational issues. She has taken a leadership role in coordinating components of integrated mobility with broader technology applications to provide seamless services to customers and communities—first/last mile, mobility as a service, mobility on demand, and others. Ms. Connor cur- rently is a member of the American Public Transportation Association’s Legislative Steering Committee, the Access Committee, in leadership as chair of the Subcommittee on Emerging Technologies, and the former chair of the Mobility Management Committee.

APPENDIX A 161 Carlos Cruz-Casas is the assistant director over strategic planning for Miami-Dade County’s Department of Transportation and Public Works. His primary focus is to introduce mobility innovation and plan for a fully integrated transportation system. His career includes both public- and private-sector experience ranging from conceptual design to implementa- tion of pedestrian, bicycle, transit, and traffic projects. As a professional engineer dedicated to the development of livable transportation, Mr. Cruz- Casas seeks to achieve the right balance between mobility and livability. He received his master’s degree in urban transportation planning from the University of Florida College of Engineering and his BSCE from the Uni- versity of Puerto Rico. Sharon Feigon is a founder and the executive director of the Shared-Use Mobility Center (SUMC), a non-profit, public-interest organization work- ing to foster collaboration in shared mobility and help connect the growing industry with transit agencies, cities, and communities across the nation. As executive director, Ms. Feigon leads SUMC’s work, which includes conduct- ing innovative research around the impacts of shared mobility, developing pilot projects to test shared mobility strategies, and providing advice and technical assistance to cities and regions in order to help extend the benefits of shared mobility for all. SUMC was also recently awarded a contract to develop the Innovation Knowledge Accelerator in partnership with the Fed- eral Transit Administration to assist cities undertaking Mobility on Demand projects. Ms. Feigon was previously the chief executive officer of IGO Car- sharing, the non-profit organization that started carsharing in the Chicago region. She worked with the Chicago Transit Authority to create the only combined carshare/transit fare card in North America, which continues to serve as a model for the possibilities between shared-use companies and public transit. Ms. Feigon was a founder of the National Carsharing Asso- ciation and has served as co-chair of the Transportation Research Board’s Shared Vehicle Committee and as a member of the U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED-ND Committee, which created LEED standards for neigh- borhood developments. She holds an M.B.A. from DePaul University and a B.A. in economics from Antioch College. Jonathan Hall is an applied microeconomist at the University of Toronto, with appointments in the Department of Economics and the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. His research focuses on urban trans- portation, and his recent work has addressed how to design road tolls and the effects of new transportation technologies. His work has been published in the Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Urban Economics, and Transportation Research Part B. His dissertation was honored with the Best Dissertation Award by the Transportation and Public Utilities Group and

162 THE ROLE OF TRANSIT, SHARED MODES, AND PUBLIC POLICY the Best Paper Award at the Kumho-Nectar Conference on Transportation Economics. Dr. Hall received his B.A. from Brigham Young University and his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. Before coming to the Univer- sity of Toronto he completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Northwestern University. Brad Miller is the chief executive officer at Pinellas Suncoast Transit Author ity (PSTA), a position he has held since 2011. The Transit Author- ity has instituted an innovative pilot program with Lyft, Uber, and United Taxi and successfully negotiated with the Service Employees International Union representing about 500 PSTA employees. Before joining PSTA, Mr. Miller worked 5 years as general manager of the Des Moines Area Regional Transit Authority in Iowa, 6 years at the Charlotte Area Transit System in North Carolina, and 7 years at the Virginia Railway Express commuter rail in Northern Virginia. Deb Niemeier is the Clark Distinguished Chair in Energy and Sustain- ability at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is a professor in the Depart ment of Civil and Environmental Engineering. She has exten- sive expertise in understanding the spatial properties of mobile source emissions, new methods for developing vehicle emissions inventories, and improving regulatory guidance, including better identification of vulner- able populations and environmental health disparities. Her research is currently focused on understanding infrastructure features that give rise to inequitable outcomes in the built environment, particularly with the onset of climate change. She partners with sociologists, planners, geographers, veterinarians, and education faculty to study such topics as formal and informal governance processes in urban landscapes and how to characterize risk associated with outcomes in the intersection of finance, housing and infrastructure, and environmental hazards. Her international development work is aimed at agricultural sustainability and her education research is focused on data science in engineering and the operational challenges of K–12 infrastructure. Dr. Niemeier was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for “distinguished contribu- tions to energy and environmental science study and policy development.” She is a Guggenheim Fellow for foundational work on pro bono service in engineering and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. Corinne Ralph is the chief of transit at the Department of Transportation in Los Angeles, California. With more than 25 years of experience, she has worked in the City of Los Angeles as a land use planner and later joined the Department of Transportation as a transit planning associate. She is responsible for all of the fixed-route and paratransit bus services in the city.

APPENDIX A 163 Ms. Ralph currently oversees all aspects of transit including operations, facility acquisition and infrastructure development, planning, marketing and outreach, procurement, and grants. She is leading the effort to imple- ment the expansion of the city’s transit bus service and to transform its bus fleet from primarily compressed natural gas to a zero-emission elec- tric bus fleet by 2028. Bruce Schaller, a principal of Schaller Consulting, is a nationally recognized expert in transportation policy and operations with specialized expertise in taxicab and vehicle-for-hire operations and regulation. He has worked throughout North America on projects to improve urban transportation ser- vices and enhance the efficiency and sustainability of transportation opera- tions. Mr. Schaller is the author of several reports on app-based ride services such as Uber and Lyft, covering their impacts on traffic and transit; oppor- tunities for collaboration with transit agencies and cities; and regulatory policy at the state and local levels. He also served on a Transportation Research Board policy committee and co-authored the committee’s policy study of emerging mobility services. He served as the New York City (NYC) Depart ment of Transportation’s Deputy Commissioner for Traffic and Plan- ning (2012–2014) and Deputy Commissioner for Planning and Sustainabil- ity (2007–2011), providing senior executive leadership for development and implementation of the Department’s innovative, world-class programs for the safe, efficient, and environmentally responsible movement of people and goods on the city’s streets. He has also worked for Metropolitan Transit Authority NYC Transit, the NYC Taxi and Limousine Commission, and several other NYC agencies. A 30-year resident of Brooklyn, Mr. Schaller has an M.P.P. from the University of California, Berkeley, and a B.A. from Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio. He is currently working on a book on reshaping cities in an age of inequality and climate change. Kirk T. Steudle is the senior vice president of Econolite Systems. In his role, Mr. Steudle leads the company’s Transportation Systems Group, as well as its subsidiary CAVita. He joined Econolite following decades with the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT). Mr. Steudle served as the director of MDOT from 2006 through 2018, where he oversaw MDOT’s more than $4 billion budget, and was responsible for the con- struction, maintenance, and operation of nearly 10,000 miles of state highways and more than 4,000 state highway bridges at a department with 2,500 employees. He was also responsible for overseeing the administra- tion of a variety of multi-modal transportation programs and projects. Mr. Steudle is a surface transportation expert and national leader in the integra- tion of technology into the transportation system and the development of connected and automated vehicle technologies. He chaired the Intelligent

164 THE ROLE OF TRANSIT, SHARED MODES, AND PUBLIC POLICY Transportation Society of America board of directors in 2014–2015. He also is a member of the Intelligent Transportation Systems Program Advi- sory Committee to the U.S. Department of Transportation. Mr. Steudle is a past president of the American Association of State Highway and Trans- portation Officials, a member of the National Research Council for the National Academy of Sciences, and the 2014 chair of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) Executive Committee. He also chaired the second Strategic Highway Research Program Oversight Committee for TRB. He was also a member of numerous National Cooperative Highway Research Program panels and committees on asset and performance management. Mr. Steudle is a graduate of Lawrence Technological University, where he received a B.S. in construction engineering, is in its engineering hall of fame, and serves on the university board of trustees.