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Technical Session: Polishing the Transportation Network to Reflect the People It Serves
Incorporating Equity in Goods Movement Planning: The LA Metro Experience
About the Presenter
Jim Brogan
Executive Vice President
Cambridge Systematics, Inc
Jim Brogan is an Executive Vice President of the firm and leads CS’ integrated planning and policy business line, which consists of three national practice areas: Freight and Economics; Planning and Performance Management; and Transit and Shared Mobility. He has more than 25 years of experience in freight planning and operations, and has helped state DOTs, MPOs, ports, railroads, and regional coalitions across the country more effectively identify and address freight issues within their planning and investment activities. He has led or supported long range and strategic freight, rail, and truck parking plans in a dozen states, and in some of the largest metropolitan areas in the country, including Los Angeles, Houston, and New York City. He also has supported the freight planning activities of the country’s largest multi-state coalitions, including the Eastern Transportation (formerly I-95 Corridor) Coalition, the West Coast Corridor Coalition, and the Gulf of Mexico States Partnership, and has led groundbreaking national freight research activities for the National Highway Cooperative and National Freight Cooperative Research Programs (NCHRP and NCFRP), including a Guidebook to Integrate Freight within the Transportation Planning and Programming Process (NCHRP Report 594) and a Guidebook and Tools to Estimate the Economic Benefits of Specific Freight Network Investments (NCFRP Report 12). He recently completed a first-of-its-kind statewide Vehicle Inventory and Use Survey (VIUS) for the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans), a Goods Movement Strategic Plan for Los Angeles County, and is currently overseeing the Caltrans Statewide Truck Parking Study.
Prior to joining Cambridge Systematics, Mr. Brogan was a commissioned officer in the U.S. Coast Guard, serving on both afloat and shore units. He received a Master’s degree in Civil Engineering (Transportation Systems and Management) from the University of Virginia and a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy
Prior to joining Cambridge Systematics, Mr. Brogan was a commissioned officer in the U.S. Coast Guard, serving on both afloat and shore units. He received a Master’s degree in Civil Engineering (Transportation Systems and Management) from the University of Virginia and a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy
Michael Cano
Michael Cano serves as the first Deputy Executive Officer for Goods Movement Planning and State Policy and Programming for Los Angeles County Metro’s Countywide Planning Department. In this capacity he developed and authored Metro’s LA County Goods Movement Strategic Plan which is centered on equity and supports the region’s economic vitality and environmental sustainability goals. He also leads Metro’s planning efforts in the development of comprehensive multimodal highway corridor planning, federal and state grant applications, and local-state-federal policy analysis for all things goods movement-related at Metro.
Michael also leads Metro’s Freight Working Group, which brings together key stakeholders from state, local, and private entities directly involved with goods movement in LA County. He will help lead Metro’s new I-710 South Corridor Task Force that will develop multimodal, equitable and sustainable solutions for the challenges faced by communities along the corridor.
Michael previously was a Deputy Supervisor for the LA County Board of Supervisors, overseeing transportation policy for the county’s 5th District (2+ million residents). A native Angeleno, Michael received his Bachelor of Arts from Georgetown University and his Master of Public Administration from the University of Southern California’s Sol Price School of Public Policy.
Michael also leads Metro’s Freight Working Group, which brings together key stakeholders from state, local, and private entities directly involved with goods movement in LA County. He will help lead Metro’s new I-710 South Corridor Task Force that will develop multimodal, equitable and sustainable solutions for the challenges faced by communities along the corridor.
Michael previously was a Deputy Supervisor for the LA County Board of Supervisors, overseeing transportation policy for the county’s 5th District (2+ million residents). A native Angeleno, Michael received his Bachelor of Arts from Georgetown University and his Master of Public Administration from the University of Southern California’s Sol Price School of Public Policy.
Presentation
Incorporating Equity in Goods Movement Planning: The LA Metro Experience
Description
Date: Thursday, September 9
Time: 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM