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KFH
Group Staff Daniel Dalton Senior
Transportation Planner Dan Dalton is a transportation planner
with over 13 years of experience at the local, state and national levels in the
operations and administration of public transit services and human services
transportation, and has an additional 11 years in the transportation
industry. His background includes
local and statewide coordination efforts, program development and evaluation,
service planning, operations management, and training and technical
assistance. Since
joining KFH Group in 2006, Mr. Dalton has played a major role in the
development of coordinated public transit-human services transportation plans
required by SAFETEA-LU, serving as project manager for regional plans in
Maryland and Arkansas and participating in the development of 18 Coordinated
Human Service Mobility Plans in Virginia.
At Easter
Seals Project ACTION, Mr. Dalton provided training and technical assistance
to the disability community and transportation industry in their efforts to
expand accessible transportation and meet and go beyond the requirements of
the Americans with Disabilities Act.
He facilitated training sessions across the country as well as at the
ESPA Mobility Planning Services Institute.
Mr. Dalton also served as a State Ambassador through the United We
Ride initiative and provided technical assistance to several states with
their coordination efforts. With the
Maryland Transit Administration, Mr. Dalton led the state’s efforts to
improve the coordination of human service transportation. Working with the Maryland Coordinating
Committee for Human Services Transportation, he initiated and oversaw coordination
efforts in various regions and counties and administered grants in support of
initial coordination activities. Along
with the Coordinating Committee and local partners, he developed Maryland’s
Five Year Human Services Transportation Plan that detailed programs funding
public transit and human service transportation and recommended strategies
for improving coordination at the state and local levels. In 2004, Maryland’s coordination efforts
were recognized by the Federal Government with a United We Ride State
Leadership Award. Mr. Dalton also
administered the MTA’s Job Access and Reverse Commute (JARC) Program. He developed application procedures,
evaluation criteria, and reporting forms for the program, monitored local
funding recipients, and worked with state agencies and local transit
providers and social service agencies to combine different funding sources to
expand transportation options for welfare recipients and other low-income
individuals. The value of this program
was recognized by the Maryland General Assembly with the passage of
legislation establishing a state-level Job Access program, and was
highlighted during Congressional hearings on the reauthorization of the
federal JARC Program. As the
assistant director for a county transit system, Mr. Dalton planned,
implemented, marketed, and evaluated public transit and paratransit services
in a small urban/rural area. Prior to
this, Mr. Dalton served as the operations manager for a non-profit agency
that provided transportation for older adults and people with disabilities to
local senior centers, medical appointments and other community services,
supervising a staff of drivers, dispatchers and mechanics. He also managed the distribution network
for a Meals on Wheels program. Mr. Dalton
is a Certified Community Transportation Manager through the Community
Transportation Association of America, serves on the Board of Directors for
his county’s transit system, and represented Easter Seals Project ACTION on
Transit Cooperative Research Program panels overseeing projects for improving
demand-response transportation and effectively meeting ADA paratransit
demand. |
Education ·
B.S., Behavioral and
Social Sciences, University of Maryland University College Previous Positions ·
Training and
Technical Assistance Specialist, Easter Seals Project ACTION ·
Statewide
Transportation Coordinator/Chief, Statewide Programs, Maryland Transit
Administration ·
Assistant Director,
Transit Services of Frederick County, Maryland ·
Operations Manager,
Urban-Rural Transportation Alliance ·
Distribution
Manager, Meals on Wheels of Central Maryland ·
Operations
Supervisor, Network Courier Service |
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