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Group Staff Jason Quan Senior
Transportation Planner Jason Quan is a senior transportation
planner with 15 years of research and practical experience in transit and coordinated
transportation services planning, bus stop facilities assessments,
operational and performance evaluation, research and analysis, data
collection, database development, and Geographical Information System (GIS)
and intelligent transportation systems (ITS) applications. Selected Experience Transit and Coordinated Transportation
Services Planning: Mr. Quan has planned local transit
and human service transportation coordination services in Maryland, Michigan,
North Carolina, Ohio, Texas, Vermont, and Virginia. He was Project Manager to develop plans for
Queen Anne’s and Washington Counties, Maryland, the Two Rivers-Ottauquechee
region in Vermont, and Ottawa and Shelby Counties, Ohio, and was assistant
project manager for plans in Randolph and Davidson Counties, North
Carolina. Mr. Quan also managed a
project for the Department of Social Services to estimate the short-term need
for transit work trips by its Transportation Assistance to Needy Families
(TANF) clients and developed the JOBS transportation program in Washington
County, Maryland. Bus Stop Facility Assessments: Mr. Quan has pioneered the way bus stop
facilities are inventoried and assessed.
Since 1999, he has worked with cities and counties across the country
in inventorying and assessing their bus stop facilities for safety and
accessibility using GIS and Global Positioning System (GPS) technology. He
has overseen the inventory and assessment of over 20,000 bus stops
nationwide, including six jurisdictions across the Washington Metropolitan
region. As a result of Mr. Quan’s
project for Montgomery County, Maryland, the county received $11 million
spread over five years to make all of the necessary safety and accessibility improvements
at each bus stop. Mr. Quan recently
developed a methodology to assess the walk pathways for the Washington
Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) to transit. The methodology consisted of using a combination
of field survey and GIS to identify and assess the accessibility of the walk paths.
Also for WMATA, Mr. Quan developed regional bus stop design and spacing guidelines.
The guidelines included appropriate stop placement, design, amenities allocation,
and a bus stop spacing analysis to identify potential bus lines for possible
bus stop consolidation and redistribution. Other Technology Applications: Mr. Quan assisted transit systems in
Maryland and Texas in the implementation of Advance Vehicle Locators (AVL),
Mobile Data Terminals and Computers (MDTs and MDCs), and scheduling and
dispatching software. He developed
automated operational monthly summary reports for 14 departments the Maryland
Transit Administration (MTA), and also developed a relational database for
MTA to centralize the storage of operating data from the locally operated
transit systems. Mr. Quan has extensively
used GIS applications to plan transit services as well as coordinated human
service transportation. National Transit Research and Technical
Assistance: Mr Quan’s
national-level project experience includes: · Developed and
deployed a web-based survey to capture compensation data from transit systems
for Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Project F-12, resulting in TCRP Report 127: Employee Compensation Guidelines for
Transit Providers in Rural and Small Urban Areas · Developed and
deployed a web-based survey for TCRP Project H-34, Local and Regional Funding Mechanism for Public Transportation,
published as TCRP
Report 129. · Conducted
significant portions of the literature review and helped develop the guidebook
for TCRP Project A-28, resulting in TCRP Report 125: Guidebook for Mitigating Fixed-Route
Bus-and-Pedestrian Collisions · Created the
database of accessible public and private transportation services nationwide
that became Easter Seal Project ACTION’s National Accessible Travelers
Database · Researched and
analyzed the cessation of driving by older drivers and the mobility
consequences of stopping driving for the National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration · Researched and
analyzed existing transportation options in transporting End Stage Renal
Disease patients to dialysis facilities for the Department of Health and
Human Services |
Education ·
B.S. Urban Planning,
University of Maryland Previous Positions ·
Transportation
Planner, Ecosometrics, Incorporated |
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