Peter Haliburton has led dozens of transportation and transit planning and engineering studies in South Florida over the past 14 years for a variety of public and private clients.  His experience includes all aspects of work, including technical analysis, project management, team coordination, and public outreach.  His prior career experience includes projects in the Pacific Northwest, the United Kingdom, and South Africa.  He has maintained a focus on multimodal and non-motorized transportation for sustainable communities.  Mr. Haliburton currently is managing a transit support contract for the Florida Department of Transportation (DOT) District Four Office of Planning and Environmental Management, and is supporting a new Transportation System Management and Operations program in the District’s Office of Traffic Operations. 

Mr. Haliburton can be reached by telephone at (954) 315-3817 or via e-mail at phaliburton@camsys.com.

Mark Jensen has 23 years of experience working on projects at the Federal, state, and local/regional level, including major freight technology projects for the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Office of Freight Management and Operations (OFM), U.S. DOT Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) Joint Program Office (JPO), Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) Office of Research and Analysis, Office of the Secretary of Transportation (OST), and for several Department of Homeland Security (DHS)/Transportation Security Administration (TSA) offices related to freight security and technology.  Over the past decade, Mr. Jensen has played a management or senior leadership role on more than 30 freight research projects, focusing on a diverse set of technical areas, including research program management, freight corridor planning, freight benefit-cost assessment, freight operations research, intermodal freight congestion management, commercial vehicle operations (CVO), freight data and information systems, truck modeling, freight forecasting, and freight security.  Currently, he is leading a groundbreaking truck global positioning system (GPS) data collection effort in the Los Angeles region that will support the enhancement of the Southern California Association of Government’s (SCAG) heavy-duty truck (HDT) model to support the development of the next regional transportation plan (RTP).  For the FHWA-OFM, he recently led the development of an online compendium of information and lessons learned concerning the sharing of freight data between the private and public sectors, and currently is leading the independent evaluation of an intermodal information and tracking system in Kansas City to support railyard and trucking company asset visibility and improved intermodal operations. 

Mr. Jensen can be reached by telephone at (805) 474-8483 or via e-mail at mjensen@camsys.com.

David Kurth has more than 30 years of experience in travel demand modeling and forecasting, model development and application, and project management.  He also is the manager of Cambridge Systematics’ Denver office.  Mr. Kurth’s experience includes the development of full, four-step models for metropolitan areas; updating and validation of existing multimodal travel demand models; development of specialized models in support of traffic and transit ridership forecasts; and application of travel demand models for the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) New Starts process, major investment studies (MIS), alternatives analyses (AA), and preliminary engineering/environmental impact statements (EIS).  He also has developed and managed various types of travel surveys, including regional household, transit on-board, commercial vehicle, and vehicle intercept surveys.  Mr. Kurth currently serves on the Transportation Research Board (TRB) Committee on Transportation Planning Applications (ADB50) and has recently been appointed to the TRB Special Committee for Travel Forecasting Resources (ADB45). 

Mr. Kurth can be reached by telephone at (303) 832-2998 or via e-mail at dkurth@camsys.com.

Christopher Porter has more than 16 years of experience in the areas of transportation and land use, air quality and greenhouse gas (GHG) analysis, transit planning, nonmotorized travel, environmental justice, economic impacts of transportation, program evaluation, and performance measurement.  He has developed guidebooks, best practice case studies, and training courses on linking transportation and land use planning, air quality evaluation methods, and a variety of other planning topics.  Mr. Porter recently led the development of the technical material for the U.S. DOT Report to Congress, Transportation’s Role in Reducing U.S. GHG Emissions.  He has supported the FTA’s New Starts program for more than 12 years, assisting the FTA in developing land use and economic development evaluation methods and assessing the transit-supportive land use of more than 35 projects considered for Section 5309 funds.  Currently, he is leading Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Project H-41 to develop measures of the environmental performance of transit projects, and is supporting the Commonwealth of Massachusetts’ efforts to meet 2020 and 2050 GHG reduction targets required by the 2008 Global Warming Solutions Act. 

Mr. Porter can be reached by telephone at (617) 354-0167 or via e-mail at cporter@camsys.com.

Joanne Potter specializes in interdisciplinary approaches to transportation, climate change, sustainability, and other emerging environmental issues. Ms. Potter was Project Manager for Moving Cooler, a national multisponsor study released last summer that assessed the effectiveness of transportation activity strategies in reducing GHG emissions. She also led the development of the U.S. DOT Report to Congress on Transportation’s Impact on Climate Change and Solutions, a report that addressed technology, fuel, and behavioral approaches to reduce GHGs. This report was submitted to Congress in April 2010. Ms. Potter was a lead and editing author of the “The Impacts of Climate Change and Variability on Transportation Systems and Infrastructure: Gulf Coast Study Phase I” (March 2008), a joint study of the U.S. DOT and the U.S. Geological Survey conducted under the auspices of the U.S. Climate Change Science Program. This study assessed the implications of a range of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) emissions scenarios on regional climate and sea levels and the resulting risks to transportation infrastructure and services. The study also identified a range of adaptation options that could be selected based on risk levels and system performance criteria. Ms. Potter is a member of the ITE Sustainability Committee, and a member and former Chair of the TRB Committee on Transportation and Sustainability.

Ms. Potter can be reached by telephone at (301) 347-0100 or via e-mail at jpotter@camsys.com.

Kenneth Voorhies has more than 35 years of experience in traffic engineering and transportation planning.  He has managed a wide range of projects, including traffic management center (TMC) operations, ITS planning and architecture studies, ITS design, ITS policy studies and training manuals, congestion management analysis, corridor analysis with alternative modes, and traffic operations plans for corridors.  Currently, Mr. Voorhies is the Project Manager for a Georgia DOT project to develop a Strategic Plan for the radial freeways in the Atlanta region.  He also is working with Missouri and Kansas DOTs to develop a TMC data archive and performance measures data collection and reporting methodologies.  In addition, Mr. Voorhies is the Cambridge Systematics’ Project Manager for the design of a data archive for the I-95 Corridor Coalition.  For the Florida DOT Central Office, he is serving as a Task Manager for the development of a statewide performance monitoring program. 

Mr. Voorhies can be reached by telephone at (404) 443-3200 or via e-mail at kvoorhies@camsys.com.

Ronald West manages the business development efforts for the firm’s Western Region travel demand forecasting business line and has more than 24 years of professional experience in transit forecasting, travel demand model development, corridor studies, and regional analyses.  Mr. West currently manages a number of statewide initiatives for the Caltrans Office of Transportation Systems Information, including the California household travel survey, travel demand guidelines for regional transportation plans in response to SB 375 requirements, and the statewide travel model users group.  Mr. West has extensive experience with multimodal transportation analyses, particularly in the areas of transit ridership forecasting and truck modeling.  

Mr. West can be reached by telephone at (510) 873-8700 or via e-mail at rwest@camsys.com.