Mr. Rubin has more than 30 years of experience performing and supporting transportation planning projects for local, metropolitan, state, federal and international agencies having overseen major studies in system planning, intercity transportation planning, policy development, and regulation formation. He has been involved in rail planning in New Jersey, New York, Shanghai, and Calcutta; bus rapid transit studies in New York and Minnesota; and mode share analysis in Baltimore, Washington D.C., and Florida. Mr. Rubin recently supported the development of a regional transit system plan for the Indian Nations Council of Governments (Tulsa, Oklahoma).

Mr. Rubin served as the Chairman of the Institute of Transportation Engineers’ (ITE) Systems Planning Technical Committee and the Airport Access Planning Technical Committee as well as a member of ITE’s High-speed Rail Passenger Forecasting Technical Committee. Mr. Rubin received a Master’s degree in Administration Science from John Hopkins University, a Master’s degree in City and Regional Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from MIT.

Mr. Peterson has more than 15 years of transportation experience and specializes in system planning, travel demand modeling, emissions forecasting, and environmental justice analysis. His expertise is in using the various data sets and models as a tool to tell a story about transportation projects that local and federal stakeholders can easily understand. He recently supported the development of passenger forecasts for the Keystone West High-speed Rail corridor for the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT).

Mr. Peterson is currently a member of the Transportation Research Board’s (TRB) Transportation and Air Quality Committee (ADC20) and has been an active speaker and participant in the Association of Metropolitan Planning Organizations (AMPO) and the American Planning Association (APA). He received a Master’s degree in Urban Affairs from Boston University and a Bachelor’s degree in Cartography from Salem State College.

Ms. Vargas has more than 10 years of professional experience coordinating with human services providers, transit agencies, hospitals and other public service providers in the areas of transportation, identification of critical services and service delivery. She brings an acute awareness of the needs of dependent populations in both transportation and general service delivery. Ms. Vargas recently completed an assessment of several suburban Philadelphia shared-ride transportation providers for the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT).

Ms. Vargas is a licensed social worker and has been an active participant in transit dependent population research for the Transportation Research Board (TRB). She received a Master’s degree in Social Work from Washington University in St. Louis and a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Colorado State University.