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KFH
Group Staff Jill C. Stober Transportation
Planner Jill Stober
works on a wide range of projects as a Transportation Planner at KFH
Group. Her background includes needs
assessments, transit service (rural, small urban, and intercity) planning,
and transportation coordination. She
is also conducting work on the role of transit in climate change mitigation. Selected Experience Needs Assessments: Ms. Stober has significant experience in
analyzing transportation needs through demographic data, public outreach, and
survey work. She utilizes Census data on potentially transit dependent
populations to conduct a relative ranking of areas to determine those with
the highest transportation needs within a jurisdiction, state, or region. Ms. Stober is adept at using ArcView GIS to
create maps that clearly portray demographic data, transit trip generators,
gaps in transit service and opportunities for additional or new service. Ms. Stober
has also conducted needs analyses using data from travel demand models at the
transportation analysis zone- and zip code-levels. For a study of potential High Occupancy
Toll lanes on Interstate 95 in northern Virginia, she created maps to portray
projected home-based work trips in the study corridor. Ms. Stober has also analyzed transit needs
by zip code for the Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) process at Fort
Meade, Maryland. Ms. Stober
also has experience in conducting and analyzing on-board rider surveys,
including recent projects in Lynchburg, Virginia and Annapolis, Maryland. Service Planning: Ms. Stober utilizes the needs assessments
and input from stakeholders to develop service alternatives for various types
of transit plans as described above.
In Bulloch County, she developed a small fixed-route system for the
city and Georgia Southern University.
For Anne Arundel County’s transportation development plan, she helped
create a countywide network that included local circulators, feeder routes to
regional rail systems, and commuter bus routes. Several of these alternatives were
developed to accommodate the anticipated growth in the County due to BRAC at
Fort Meade. In Colorado, she helped
develop alternatives for intercity and regional bus services to meet long-distance
transportation needs, particularly for tourism and employment. For Minnesota’s intercity bus study, Ms.
Stober analyzed ridership data on existing routes to determine the
utilization of existing stops and to plan service expansion and new services
accordingly. In
addition to developing physical routes to meet transit needs, Ms. Stober has
experience developing the implementation plan, outlining operational details
such as service spans and headways, the required capital, the associated
costs, and potential funding sources.
She has also worked on ridership and productivity estimates for
proposed routes and analyzed the pros and cons of alternatives in
recommending the implementation timeline or phasing. Transportation Coordination: Ms. Stober has also utilized needs
assessments to develop coordinated public transit-human services
transportation plans, according to SAFETEA-LU requirements, for Maryland,
Arkansas, and Virginia. At regional
forums for Maryland’s plans, she helped lead breakout sessions with
participants to determine the area’s local needs and identify potential
solutions. She then used this data to
develop coordination strategies and work with stakeholder groups to
prioritize and finesse strategies to best meet local and regional needs. In Virginia, she developed GIS maps of the
needs analysis for each Planning District Commission (PDC) and worked with
stakeholders to identify additional needs, service gaps, and suitable
strategies to ascertain funding and meet needs. Other Experience: As part of the service planning process,
Ms. Stober has evaluated the operations and performance of existing services
to determine areas for improvement and opportunities for increased
efficiencies. In Anne Arundel County,
she identified existing routes from different providers that were not meeting
the Maryland Transit Administration’s performance standards for fixed-route
and demand-response service provided by Locally Operated Transit
Systems. Ms. Stober has also used GIS
to conduct cost analyses, determining the cost allocation of inter-jurisdictional
services based on route distance or time in each jurisdiction. The results were used to evaluate the
transit system’s existing financing mechanisms and to propose alternatives
for funding route expansions or new services. Ms. Stober
has also worked on the transit component of implementing Maryland’s Climate
Action Plan, the goal of which is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 25
percent from 2006 levels by 2020. She
worked with stakeholders to develop transit-related strategies and estimate
the reductions in greenhouse gas emissions that could be achieved in
implementing these strategies. |
Education ·
Master of Urban and
Regional Planning, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University ·
B.A. Environmental
Science and Policy, Duke University Previous Positions ·
Transportation
Planning Apprentice – Planning and Operations Department, Potomac and
Rappahannock Transportation Commission |
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