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KFH
Group Staff Frederic D. Fravel Vice
President Fred Fravel is a transportation
planner with almost 30 years of experience in transit planning and policy
development. His background includes
intercity bus planning and research, coordination and consensus building,
state-level transit planning and program development, human service
transportation coordination, and local public transportation operational and
facility planning in both rural and urban areas. In addition to local and statewide public
transportation planning projects, Mr. Fravel has led a number of
transportation research projects for the Transit Cooperative Research Program
(TCRP) and the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment (OTA). He serves on the Transportation Research
Board (TRB) Committee on Rural Public and Intercity Bus Transportation, and
is a member of the American Planning Association, Transportation Planning
Division. Selected Experience Intercity Bus Planning and Research: Mr. Fravel is a
nationally-recognized expert in the intercity bus industry, and has served as
the project manager or principal investigator for over 30 intercity bus
planning studies. These studies have
included the full spectrum of the industry, everything from route-level bus
route planning to Congressionally-mandated policy studies. Mr. Fravel has conducted statewide
intercity bus studies in Colorado, Georgia, Nebraska, Michigan, Minnesota,
New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Vermont, Virginia,
and Washington, addressing service and facility needs, program design,
performance measures, intermodal connectivity, and funding. At the national-level, he completed studies
as an industry expert for the American Bus Association, Greyhound Lines, the
Office of Technology Assessment of the U.S. Congress, the U.S. Department of
Transportation, Office of the Secretary, and the Interstate Commerce
Commission. As a consultant to the
Motor Carrier Rate-Making Study Commission of the U.S. Senate, he assisted in
the development of their reports to Congress on the impact of bus
deregulation on rural areas and the elderly, and on the role of antitrust
immunity in bus rate-making. Local Transit and Transportation Services
Planning: Mr. Fravel
has almost 30 years of experience in developing local transportation services
including fixed-route services, paratransit, and coordinated human service
transportation. He has directed more
than 50 transit development plans in communities ranging from rural to
suburban to large urban areas, including cities and counties in Georgia,
Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Vermont, and Virginia. Many of these projects addressed developing
specialized transportation solutions and increasing coordination of such
services with more generalized public transportation services. Statewide Planning Projects: In addition to his extensive statewide
intercity bus planning experience, Mr. Fravel has managed and participated a
number of other statewide projects, including a review and evaluation of
Georgia’s rural transit program, a statewide public transportation policy
plan for Vermont, and a needs assessment and six-year plan for the rural,
small urban, specialized, and intercity bus programs in Virginia. Mr. Fravel played a major role in
Maryland’s transportation coordination program, including work on developing
a coordination manual, regional coordination workshops, and development of
local plans addressing specialized transportation needs. He also led firm’s work on the Maryland
Comprehensive Transit Plan. He is
currently involved in the United We Ride planning effort in Georgia, working
at the state level to increase state program coordination. Facility Assessment and Planning: Mr. Fravel has directed a number of
facility assessment and planning projects, including a study for the Texas
Department of Transportation to inventory intercity bus facilities statewide
and develop a policy plan for future facility investment, a study for
Greyhound Lines and the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation to
inventory intercity bus facilities statewide and develop a policy plan for
future state and carrier investment, and a project to develop a statewide
intermodal services plan for the State of New Hampshire, including a plan and
policies for park and ride lots, commuter bus services, intercity bus
services, and intermodal facilities.
Mr. Fravel was the Project Manager on the feasibility work for the
Central Maryland Transit Operations Facility, currently anticipated to be
located on Fort Meade property. National Transit Research and Technical
Assistance: Mr.
Fravel’s national-level project experience includes: ·
Principal Investigator for TCRP Project B-37: Estimation of Demand for Rural Intercity
Bus Services (underway) ·
Principal Investigator for TCRP Project B-21, resulting
in TCRP Report 79: Effective Approaches to Meeting Rural
Intercity Bus Transportation Needs ·
Principal Investigator for TCRP Project J-6 Task 33,
resulting in TCRP
Web Document 13: Cost of Meeting
Accessibility Requirements for Over-the-Road Buses ·
Lead author on consulting reports to the Office of
Technology Assessment on the issues associated with the provision of
accessible intercity bus service ·
Contributed to TCRP Project G-5, resulting in TCRP Report 54: Transit Manager Tool Kit for Rural and
Small Urban Transportation Systems. |
Education ·
M.R.P. Regional
Planning, University of North Carolina ·
B.A.
Interdisciplinary Social Science, Duke University Previous Positions ·
Senior Planner,
Ecosometrics, Incorporated ·
Consultant, Motor
Carrier Ratemaking Study Commission ·
Intercity Program
Manager, North Carolina Department of Transportation ·
Research Associate,
University of North Carolina |
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