Consultants to the transit industry
·
· About · Services · Projects · Staff · Contact	KFH Group Staff Jill Chen Transportation Analyst Bethesda Office As a Transportation Analyst, Jill Chen supports projects by collecting and analyzing data, conducting research, writing reports, and creating Geographic Information Systems (GIS) maps. Since joining KFH Group in 2007, she has participated in a variety of planning projects. Ms. Chen has significant experience in developing transportation coordination plans. While a large part of her work is analyzing and portraying transit needs through GIS, she also collects data on available transportation resources and unmet transportation needs. She has worked on coordinated transportation plans in Arkansas, Maryland, and Virginia. At regional workshops for coordinated transportation, Ms. Chen helped lead breakout sessions with participants to determine the area’s local needs and identify potential strategies to meet these needs. Other projects that Ms. Chen has worked on include intercity bus studies, bus stop inventories, and transportation development plans (TDPs). Ms. Chen provided extensive GIS work for a statewide intercity bus study in Colorado, which recommended several intercity bus routes based on needs and local input. As part of a regional effort to standardize bus stop identification, she updated the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority’s bus stop database in Fairfax County, Virginia as well as along Circulator and Maryland Transit Administration routes within the District of Columbia. She is currently working on a short-range TDP for Anne Arundel County, Maryland, and helping develop a rideshare strategy to accommodate the influx of employees and new residents to the Central Maryland Region due to the Base Realignment and Closure process at Fort George G. Meade. At the Potomac and Rappahannock Transportation Commission (PRTC), a multi-jurisdictional agency based in Woodbridge, Virginia, Ms. Chen analyzed survey data to evaluate the effectiveness of existing local and commuter services and to determine potential destinations for new service. She also assembled demographic details obtained from passenger surveys to analyze transit needs and determine service potential. In support of operations, she compiled and analyzed ridership data for overcrowding on existing services. Ms. Chen also worked with county planners to inventory available parking at commuter lots in Prince William County. She analyzed parking capacity with regards to trends of increasing ridership on PRTC’s commuter buses, and helped determine parking needs for the implementation of new and expanded services. Ms. Chen also examined regional multi-modal transfer policies to help determine PRTC’s participation in the regional SmarTrip transfer system. Return to staff page	Education · B.A. Environmental Science and Policy, Duke University Previous Positions · Transportation Planning Apprentice – Planning and Operations Department, Potomac and Rappahannock Transportation Commission