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Group Staff Elisabeth R. Fetting Senior
Transportation Planner Elisabeth (Lib) Fetting is a
transportation planner with 22 years of research and practical experience in transit
planning, operations and research. Her
background includes the development of plans and studies for local transit,
regional coordination studies, performance assessment, human service
transportation coordination, college transportation, intercity bus,
facilities, state-level programs, and Medicaid transportation. Ms. Fetting is a member of the American
Institute of Certified Planners (AICP). Selected Experience Local Transit Plans and Management
Performance Reviews: Ms.
Fetting has extensive experience in the preparation of rural and urban
Transportation Development Plans (TDPs) and Management Performance Reviews
(MPRs), having completed several in North Carolina, Maryland, and Virginia.
Most recently, Ms. Fetting has completed TDPs for the City of Harrisonburg,
Virginia, and the City of Winchester, Virginia. Ms. Fetting has also recently
completed Community Transportation Service Plans (CTSPs) for Greenway Public
Transportation (Hickory, NC), AppalCART (Boone,
NC), and the Wilkes Transportation Authority (Wilkes County, NC). In 2009, Ms. Fetting completed a TDP for
the Fayetteville (NC) Area System of Transit (FAST), having completed an MPR
for FAST in 2008. The 2008 MPR
discovered that the City needed to increase its investment in FAST and the City
Council voted to do so in the FY2009 and FY2010 budgets Coordination and Consolidation Studies: Ms. Fetting has directed and participated in
a number of coordination studies, some of which involved single counties and
others that were multi-jurisdictional.
In 2008, Ms. Fetting was the Project Manager for the Western Piedmont
Regional Transportation Implementation Study, which resulted in the creation
of the first urban-rural, multi-jurisdictional transit authority in the State
of North Carolina. Ms. Fetting also
led the development of the Washington County, Maryland Transportation
Coordination Plan. This plan resulted
in the development of a new human service coordinated transportation program,
aimed at assisting local human service agency programs and area residents
with mobility limitations. Ms. Fetting
was also involved with the development of the State of Maryland’s Coordinated
Human Services Transportation Plan, serving as the project manager for the
Western region, including Frederick, Washington, Allegany, and Garrett
Counties. She was also involved as the
project manager for the East and West regions of the Arkansas Public
Transit-Human Services Coordinated Transportation Plan. Ms. Fetting has also prepared coordination
plans for counties in Michigan, Texas, and Virginia. She was also a co-author of the Maryland Coordination Manual. Technical Assistance: From 2005 through 2009, Ms. Fetting was the
editor and primary author for the Maryland
Transit Update, a quarterly newsletter that highlighted community
transportation news and events for the Maryland Rural Transit Assistance
Program and the Transportation Association of Maryland. Earlier in her career, Ms. Fetting worked
on the New York State RTAP program as well as the National RTAP program. College Transportation: Ms.
Fetting recently provided guidance for George Washington University, helping
the administration devise a scope of services for their shuttle contractor to
follow (the Vern Shuttle, which connects their two Washington, DC campuses). Several years ago, Ms. Fetting was the
project manager for the Colltown Transportation
Study, which looked at ways to provide transportation services among 12
colleges and universities as well as other points of interest in the
Baltimore, Maryland area. The study
included a survey of 1,600 college students and the writing of a draft
Request for Proposals to solicit a contractor to provide transportation to
some of the schools that were not served by the public transit system. Ms. Fetting also provided route planning
guidance for Shuttle-UM, the transit system of the University of
Maryland. She completed a Master’s
Thesis entitled, “Characteristics of and Demand Estimation Techniques for
University Transit Systems.” Intercity Bus Studies: Ms. Fetting participated in the New
Hampshire Intermodal Transportation Study, the focus of which was to provide
recommendations for the improvement of the park and ride, intercity bus, and
commuter bus network in the State of New Hampshire. She also participated in the Statewide
Assessment of Texas Intercity Bus Facilities and Needs and the Pennsylvania
Intercity Bus Facilities and Needs Study. Ms. Fetting also surveyed State
Section 5311 program managers, state rail program managers, and intercity bus
carriers to collect data on effective intercity bus projects for the Transit
Cooperative Research Program’s Project B-21: Effective Approaches to Meeting
Rural Intercity Bus Transportation Needs.
National Transit Research and Program
Evaluation: Ms. Fetting’s national-level research experience includes
participation in the following studies: ·
TCRP Project H-43, “Transforming Public Transportation
Institutional and Business Model,” currently in progress ·
TCRP Project F-12, resulting in TCRP Report 127: Employee Compensation Guidelines for
Transit Providers in Rural and Small Urban Areas ·
NCHRP Project 20-65(7), resulting in NCHRP Research
Results Digest 314: State DOT Staff
Resources for Administering Federal Public Transportation Programs ·
TCRP Project J-7 (Topic SB-13), resulting in TCRP Synthesis
65: Transit Agency Participation in
Medicaid Transportation Programs ·
Managed project for the American Public Works
Association (APWA) to conduct a survey and analysis of both the national and
state components of the Federal Transit Administration’s Rural Transit
Assistance Program in 1994 and again 2002, published by APWA as Rural
Transit Assistance Program at Work - The State of the States Community Planning: As a volunteer citizen planner, Ms. Fetting
was an appointed member of the Frederick City, Maryland, Planning Commission
from 2006-2009 and has recently been re-appointed (2011). She is also a
member of the Frederick County Transit Services Advisory Committee. |
Education ·
M.S., Transportation
Studies, Morgan State University, Outstanding Scholar ·
B.S., Kinesiological Sciences, Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa Previous Positions ·
Owner/Manager, Emma,
An American Bistro ·
Senior Operations
Planner, Montgomery County Department of Public Works and Transportation,
Transit Division ·
Associate, Ecosometrics, Incorporated ·
Information
Specialist, Community Transportation Association of America ·
Supervisor, Trainer,
Dispatcher, Driver, Shuttle-UM, The University of Maryland |
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