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Alan Manners Voorhees
Alan Manners Voorhees
Pages 320-327
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After a brief stint at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Al enlisted in the Navy during World War II and trained as a U.S. Navy frog man (now called Navy Seals)
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He was also a member of a committee that put together a proposal for bringing the Air Force Academy to Colorado Springs. In 1952, he became planning engineer for the Automotive Safety Foundation, a nonprofit corporation in Washington, D.C., where he further developed and applied his novel methodology of forecasting urban travel and assisted the federal government in developing computer programs for American cities that needed metropolitan-transportation plans, which were required by law before federal funds could be used for construction of urban portions of interstate highways.
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The company was also responsible for transportation networks around the New York World Trade Center, which was then in the planning stage. AMV assisted in the development of new rail-transit systems in Washington, D.C., Caracas, Venezuela, Sao Paulo, Brazil, Hong Kong, Atlanta, Georgia, Calgary, Canada, and Newcastle, England, and prepared transportation plans for a number of new towns, including Reston, Virginia, and Columbia, Maryland.
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Voorhees Center for Neighborhood and Community Improvement at the University of Illinois in Chicago and helped establish the Council for Excellence in Government, a nonprofit organization dedicated to results-oriented leadership and innovations in government institutions at all levels. He was a member of the board of Voorhees College, a historically black institution in Denmark, South Carolina, and provided significant financial support for its operation.
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He was chairman of the Executive Committee of the National Research Council Transportation Research Board and president of the American Institute of Planners. He was elected to membership in the National Academy of Engineering in 2000, and he received honorary doctorates from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Voorhees College.
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His daughter remembers that Al and Natalie especially enjoyed spending time on their farm with their children and grandchildren.
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