Bonnie Nelson, Founding Principal

Bonnie is a founding partner of Nelson\Nygaard and brings significant experience in transit operations, mobility studies, and consensus building around complex and complicated transportation projects. Her experience includes a wide range of multimodal transportation projects including virtually all modes of transit from bus rapid transit and urban streetcars to school bus services and paratransit. In addition, Bonnie is a specialist in developing holistic and practical solutions for enhancing urban mobility, including demand management, parking policy, and increasing mobility options. She is well known for her facilitation and consensus building skills, as she has led some of the most controversial transportation planning projects in the country, including development of sales tax expenditure plans for two counties that have passed their taxes by well over the required 2/3 vote in the State of California.
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Linda Rhine, Principal

Linda has over 25 years of experience in transit system funding, financial and fare analysis, small city and rural service planning and transit system coordination and consolidation. She has managed dozens of transit and transportation projects for large and small transit systems, and is familiar with public transit services and resources.

Linda has managed a wide variety of projects where she led focus groups, facilitated advisory committees and public meetings, and conducted stakeholder and management interviews. She is fully current on many innovative public-private partnerships and has extensive knowledge of federal and state funding programs.
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Thomas Brennan, Principal

Tom manages the firm’s Northwest Practice. Mr. Brennan has special expertise in transit service design and policy, parking management, TDM and strategic planning. He has worked on a number of complex urban mobility, TOD and parking plans in cities ranging in size from Boise, ID to Seattle. His recent work in Seattle includes work on Seattle Department of Transportation’s Center City Circulation Report, which identified the vehicle capacity constraints in the City’s transportation network and calculated the person capacity improvements that were needed to accommodate the planned growth.
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Patrick Siegman, Principal

Patrick has created innovative parking and transportation strategies for downtowns, transit oriented developments, and entire cities. All of these plans combine innovative traffic reduction strategies and parking management techniques, resulting in built projects that have delivered greater economic vitality, with less traffic and pollution. Trained originally as an economist, he has also developed groundbreaking impact fees, such as the San Joaquin Valley's first-in-the-nation air-quality impact fee for new development, which was designed specifically to fairly assess the impacts of transit-oriented development and traditional neighborhood developments versus conventional suburban projects. In addition to his work as a practitioner, he also teaches the American Institute of Certified Planners’ short courses on parking.
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Richard Weiner, Principal

Richard has over 25 years of experience in transportation planning, primarily in the areas of accessible transportation, paratransit, and small and medium-size transit service planning. After working for a variety of public transportation agencies in New York City (including helping to set up the city’s paratransit program in the late 1980’s), Richard joined the private sector in 1992. Since that time he has provided technical expertise to dozens of transit agencies that are developing creative ways of serving people with disabilities and older adults, including enhancing the productivity and customer-friendliness of paratransit programs, planning hybrid services, developing a range of senior mobility options, refining paratransit eligibility screening programs, and enhancing the delivery of taxi services to all sectors of the public. Consensus building is a hallmark of Richard’s transportation practice, and he has used this skill in projects throughout the U.S. and Canada.
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David Fields, AICP, Principal

David manages the New York office and has more than 14 years of transportation planning experience as both a consultant and public sector employee. David's work focuses on transportation planning that supports communities' long-term goals, including multiple modes (heavy rail, light rail, and on-street bus services); parking and park-and-ride facilities; policy (Transit Oriented Development, Parking Management, and Transportation Demand Management); and environmental review. David also specializes in public outreach and participation, having led and participated in charrettes and workshops on topics ranging from TOD at Mockingbird Station in Dallas to transportation planning in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. David serves as the Secretary of the American Planning Association's Transportation Planning Division, and Co-Chairman of the Transportation Committee and Director of the New York City Section of the American Planning Association New York Metro Chapter.
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Geoff Slater, Principal

Geoff has managed transit projects as both a consultant and as transit agency staff, and has been involved in the development and major expansion of a number of new transit systems. Geoff has extensive experience throughout the United States and internationally that he brings to all of his projects, many of which have transformed transit services from very basic operations to mature, dependable transit systems. Notable projects have included the development of one of the country's first BRT lines (Boston's Silver Line) and the redesign of commuter rail service throughout post-apartheid South Africa. Other projects have included the redesign of bus services in many American cities, and the development of new rail, BRT, and bus services.
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Colin Burgett, Principal

Colin manages projects that place a strong emphasis on facilitating the interactions between transportation systems, land use patterns, and urban design components.  He has managed the traffic engineering components of numerous projects and developed a sophisticated understanding of traffic operations and travel demand forecasting tools, including the use of Synchro and TRAFFIX software for analyzing traffic operations and level of service (LOS).   Colin develops transportation plans and multi-modal street design solutions for various traffic engineering and comprehensive planning efforts including citywide general plans, campus plans, large-scale redevelopment efforts, bicycle and pedestrian plans, corridor and intersection studies, and transit-oriented development (TOD) plans.
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Brian Canepa, Principal

Brian Canepa is a transportation planner specializing in innovative parking strategies, transit-oriented development (TOD), and Transportation Demand Management (TDM) programs. He has developed parking management and alternative mode plans for downtowns, transit centers, and individual developments in conjunction with members of the public, city and county planning staff, and transit officials. Brian emphasizes planning approaches that include cost-effective policies, multi-modal connectivity, and community participation. He has recently developed several parking and TDM plans for districts and developments in Marin County, Newport Beach, Sacramento, San Clemente, and other cities both inside and outside California. Brian's experience also includes the crafting of transportation form-based codes and campus transportation plans for academic institutions.
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Chester "Rick" Chellman, P.E., L.L.S., Principal

Chester "Rick" Chellman has more than thirty years experience in civil engineering, engineering consulting, traffic engineering and land surveying, land use regulations and development planning. Mr. Chellman has site planning, civil and forensic engineering, zoning, expert testimony and land use experience throughout the United States of America and to lesser extents in Canada, the United Kingdom, Romania, Central America the Middle East and India. In recent years, Mr. Chellman has also worked extensively on the engineering and traffic engineering aspects of Traditional Neighborhood Development (TND), and New Urbanism (NU) particularly in connection with the matters of street design, vehicular and human-powered traffic control and external transportation connections. Mr. Chellman has authored and co-authored numerous works on topics related to the traffic and transportation aspects of TND/NU design.
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Randy Farwell, Principal

Randy Farwell joins Nelson\Nygaard with over 25 years experience in transportation and transit planning and operations management. Randy has  wide ranging expertise in programs, services, and projects including: commuter rail, light rail, BRT, human service, flexroute, and fixed route services; corridor analysis; alternatives analysis; NEPA documentation (CE, EA, EIS); TDM strategies. Randy  was Director of Planning at the Central Florida Regional Transportation Authority in Orlando (LYNX) from 1998-2003 during the planning and final design of the Central Florida Light Rail project.   Randy was Planning Manager at the Potomac & Rappahannock Transportation Commission and was instrumental in the creation and start-up of the Virginia Railway Express commuter rail.  With PRTC Randy  planned, developed, and implemented the OmniLink Flexroute in 1994 – the first ITS enhanced flexroute in the US. 
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Joey Goldman, Principal

Joey has more than 15 years of experience directly related to planning for public transit and transportation programs. He is a specialist in transit service planning, outreach, and engaging the public and stakeholders for transit system planning, with additional experience in accessible transportation, transit facilities, shuttles, marketing, and urban design. He is a leader in the use of focus groups for transportation planning, and has led training and conference sessions on the topic. His wide array of skills is reflected in some of his recent work, including a regional transit feasibility plan in West Michigan; management of the Senior Mobility Action Plan for the San Francisco Jewish Community Federation; rural and urban human service-public transportation coordination plans in California, Texas, Minnesota, Illinois, New York, and Oregon; and fixed-route transit service planning for the Comprehensive Transit Plan in Pittsburgh, Penn. Joey is a member and sub-committee co-chair of the Transportation Research Board Committee on Accessible Transportation and Mobility.
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Michael King, RA, Principal

Michael works in the New York City office and specializes in multimodal transportation for livable communities. He works at the intersection of transportation and urban design, with a particular emphasis on pedestrian safety, bicycle facilities, traffic calming, and street architecture.

Michael has been at the forefront of mobility, accessibility and sustainability: he was the first director of traffic calming for New York City, he was involved in the first Safe Routes to School program in the USA (in the Bronx), he helped bring “flexible design” to New Jersey’s main streets, he has designed “shared space” and “curbless streets” in Santa Monica and Trenton, and he designed pedestrian and bicycle facilities for the first Bus Rapid Transit systems in Mexico City, Dar es Salaam, Delhi, and Jakarta.

He recently served as the Vice President of the Association of Pedestrian and Bicycle Professionals, and was appointed by the federal government to serve on the national Safe Routes to School Task Force.
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David Koffman, Principal

David conducts research and planning on paratransit for people with disabilities, providing mobility options for older people, flexible transit services, and taxicab regulation. He has been consulting on these issues since 1977. David’s approach to consulting emphasizes attention to clients’ needs, clear written and verbal communication of complex ideas to the public and agency staff, and skilled application of quantitative analysis where it is needed. David is the author of highly regarded reports published by the Transit Cooperative Research Program on flexible transit services and estimating the demand for ADA paratransit service. He developed and taught National Transit Institute courses on flexible transit services and managing the cost of ADA paratransit.
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Paul Lutey, Principal

Paul is based in Nelson\Nygaard's Portland office and has been with the firm for over nine years. He specializes in all elements of transit service planning, including feasibility studies, service evaluations and community outreach. Paul has utilized his skills on a number of planning projects around the country ranging from very small rural communities to large urban areas. Recent projects include a series of coordinated transportation plans in northern California, a Transit Development Plan in Trinity County, California and a regional transit study in Prescott/Prescott Valley, Arizona. Paul has also been heavily involved in several streetcar feasibility studies in Minneapolis and Everett, Washington, as well as evaluations of high capacity transit service in Seattle and Portland. In addition to his planning background, Paul has assisted transit agencies with various marketing efforts, including the development of transit brochures and websites.
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Paul Moore, Principal

Paul Moore is involved in the oversight and management of major urban design, land use and transportation planning and engineering projects. He has nearly 25 years of experience in developing major transportation and transit planning projects, small area planning and redevelopment studies, traffic engineering and design manuals and studies, and livable transportation solutions.
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Michael Moule, PE, PTOE, Principal

Michael has over 17 years of progressive traffic and transportation engineering experience, including traffic calming, conceptual design for “Complete Streets,” and planning improved bicycle and pedestrian facilities. His projects accommodate all modes of transportation in order to help cities and states meet their mobility, economic development, safety, and quality of life goals. He has significant innovative design experience and specializes in improving conditions for non-motorized users without degrading motor vehicle capacity. Michael routinely leads community planning processes and training sessions to give citizens the basic skills they need to develop and review street design solutions. 
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Jeremy Nelson, Principal

Jeremy Nelson has 10 years of experience as a transportation researcher, planner, and policy analyst in the public-, private-, and non-profit sectors. Mr. Nelson has extensive knowledge of the impact of parking policies on transportation choices, land use patterns, urban design, and environmental quality.

Jeremy has significant experience identifying best practices and case studies and developing parking management recommendations that are tailored to unique community circumstances and support larger community goals.
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Tim Payne, Principal

Tim is a professional transit practitioner with 32 years of on the ground experience, Tim heads up Nelson\Nygaard's Seattle office. Tim is a specialist in all aspects of transit planning. His extensive experience in operations planning, scheduling and runcutting, spans more than 25 years. In addition to day to day operation of a transit system he is experienced in the conduct of extensive short-range and long range transit planning. Early on, he took on planning for paratransit operations under the Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act and the American's with Disabilities Act. As a result he has a great breadth of experience in special needs transportation coordination and planning. Tim is an avid cyclist and has ventured into multi-modal planning personally and professionally. He has many years of experience as a project manager and frequently fills that role. Active projects include Project Manager for a Long Range Transit Improvement Plan for Community Transit in Snohomish County, a Local Transit Policy Plan for the City of Redmond, WA, A Short Range Plan for Long-Distance Commuter Service in Victor Valley, CA, Implementation plan for operational strategies for Washington State Ferries, Deputy Project Manager for the Urban Mobility Plan for the City of Seattle and Transit Operations lead for King County Metro Performance Audit.
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Karina Ricks, Principal

Karina Ricks is a creative and candid planner and policy leader with 20 years experience in the public and non-profit sectors at the city, state, and national  levels as well as internationally.  Karina has led multiple plans that have built or revived dynamic, diverse, walkable, and prosperous neighborhoods and communities.  Her career has encompassed and united multiple disciplines including transportation, public finance, land use planning, economic revitalization, community development and environmental excellence.  She prides herself in creating holistic policies and balanced, implementable, realistic, and affordable solutions for cities and communities.
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Will Rodman, Principal

Will heads the firm’s Boston office, and has over 30 years of experience in planning, evaluating, and procuring paratransit and coordinated community and human service transportation services, call center, brokerage, and mobility management services, taxis and taxi subsidy programs, rural and small urban public transit services, and student transportation services. In the last few years alone, Will has managed or assisted with paratransit projects in Boston, Chicago, Honolulu, Los Angeles, New Jersey, North San Diego County, and Washington, DC.  He was the Principal Investigator for TCRP B-30 on non-dedicated paratransit service and was a key contributor to TCRP F-13 on paratransit driver recruitment and retention.  For CalACT, Will is the developer and instructor of an RTAP workshop on paratransit reservations, scheduling, and dispatching. He is national expert on coordination, having recently conducted or helped with statewide coordination plans for Colorado, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Utah, Washington, and Wisconsin, and will soon be embarking on similar projects for Georgia and Rhode Island.  Will has also prepared coordination plans and strategies for multiple county regions centered about Chicago, New York City, Salt Lake City and Albuquerque, as well as coordination plans for individual counties across the US: from rural Tehama County, CA to suburban Will County, IL to urban Hudson County, NJ.   He has also helped facilitate state coordinating councils in Colorado, New Hampshire, Utah and Wisconsin, and county/regional coordinating councils in suburban Chicago and Denver.  Will recently directed taxi studies for Arlington County, VA, the City of Portland, OR, and the City of Los Angeles.  In addition, he recently provided key contributions to a TDP for JAUNT in Charlottesville, and assisted with an efficiency study for the San Diego school system.
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Jason Schrieber, Principal

Jason Schrieber, AICP, is a Principal with over 14 years of private and public sector experience in the Boston area and nationally. He provides multi-modal planning and design skills with a unique understanding of municipal needs, private development priorities, and local neighborhood concerns. One current focus in on unlocking the costs of parking provision to enable a better balance between cars and other modes of transportation in small downtowns, private developments, major cities and universities. Jason comes to Nelson\Nygaard from the City of Cambridge where he managed all planning activities for the City’s transportation department. Known for its progressive transportation planning policies and leading infrastructure installations, Cambridge’s historic street layout and land uses were an excellent laboratory for testing multi-modal access strategies for infill development, developing commercial and residential TDM plans, and installing traffic calming measures. Today, Jason leads downtown planning projects in places like Portland ME, Ithaca NY, Reading MA, and Denver CO.
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Jessica ter Schure, Principal

Jessica ter Schure, Principal, has ten years of experience as a transportation planner for numerous communities, transit-oriented developments and mixed-use projects in North America. She specializes in assisting clients to reduce trip generation, parking demand, and GHG emissions by encouraging physical improvements in pedestrian, bicycle and transit access, while also incorporating a mix of parking management techniques and transportation demand management strategies. In recent years she has conducted land use and circulation evaluations for general plan updates, incorporated the effects of parking and transportation demand management programs in city-wide travel demand models, and completed large research projects for various federal, regional and local agencies. Jessica has been the lead transportation planner on several campus and medical center master plan projects, most recently in the later stages of the San Francisco State University Master Plan development. She has also developed and reviewed dozens of transportation demand management plans. Jessica is highly involved in projects with focus on safely moving road users of all ages and abilities along and across complete streets. She was the project manager for the final design development of a shared space (wohnerf) in a residential neighborhood in south Santa Monica and is currently developing Mountain View’s Pedestrian Master Plan.
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Bethany Whitaker, Principal

Bethany works from our Vermont office and is a multi-disciplinary planner with experience in a range of transportation and public transportation modes, systems and projects. Bethany brings a strong background in managing projects that develop new organizational structures and systems that involve coordinated efforts across agencies. She has experience planning and designing public transportation systems and has implementation experience developing coordinated transportation systems. Bethany is also a skilled project manager and meeting facilitator. She brings extensive experience and knowledge of New York State, gained through project work in Cortland County, Albany, Glens Falls and New York City.
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Thomas Wittmann, PE, Principal

Thomas Wittmann is a Principal with more than 15 years of experience in transportation planning specializing in transit operations and capital planning. He has worked with urban systems throughout the country. His transit operations experience includes comprehensive operational analyses, transportation development plans, optimization studies and management performance reviews. Thomas’s transit capital facilities experience includes park-and-ride feasibility studies, park-and-ride operations plans, transit center planning, ridership forecasts, and in-line stop feasibility studies.  Thomas has had particular success in leading the public processes necessary to a successful service change implementation, and has developed an iterative process that incorporates community needs and builds consensus.
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