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KFH
Group Staff Samantha Erickson Transportation
Planner As a
transportation planner, Samantha
Erickson has provided support in a variety of projects including
development of local transit and coordinated human service transportation
plans, statewide transportation studies, intercity bus studies, performance
evaluations, and data reporting and monitoring for public, non-profit, and
private agencies. Selected Experience Transit Planning and Coordination Studies: Ms. Erickson gathered data on the existing
services and demographic trends for the development of the 5-year
Transportation Development Plan (TDP) for Queen Anne’s County, Maryland, and
is currently developing recommendations.
She has participated in developing transit and coordination plans in
Georgia, Hawaii, North Carolina, and Virginia, including inventorying and
assessing current transportation services, and mapping transportation
dependency demographics, trip origins and destinations, and route
information. Ms. Erickson helped
assess coordination opportunities between the many specialized transportation
services and Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority’s Americans with
Disabilities Act (ADA) paratransit program targeted to improve the
cost-efficiency of services in the Washington D.C. region. Transit Research: Ms. Erickson conducted the literature review in order
to learn about safety issues that operators deal with on the job, as well as
collect and analyze incident reports from selected systems around the U.S.
and Canada for Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Project A-28:
Guidebook for Mitigating Fixed-Route Bus-and-Pedestrian Collisions, resulting
in TCRP Report
125: Guidebook for Mitigating
Fixed-Route Bus-and-Pedestrian Collisions. For TCRP Project B-31: Guidebook for
Measuring, Assessing, and Improving Performance of Demand-Responsive
Transportation, she reviewed state practices for measuring performances for
demand-responsive transportation, and has explored issues concerning employee
recruitment and retention in the transit industry for a literature review for
TCRP F-12: Employee Compensation Guidelines for Transit Providers in Rural
and Small Urban Areas. Bus Stop Facility Assessments: Ms. Erickson collected bus stop
information by GPS, hand-held digital unit, and digital camera for Montgomery
County, Maryland’s 5,400 Ride-On stops.
In Corpus Christi, Texas, a system with 1,400 bus stops, she managed
and trained employees on safely and accurately collecting bus stop
information. In the Washington, D.C.
metropolitan area, Ms. Erickson helped develop the survey instrument, train
employees, and perform quality control checks on the data for WMATA’s 8,000
stops. She also inventoried stops in
Arlington, Virginia for the same project.
In Maui, she inventoried 60 stops and made stop location recommendations.
Data Collection and Assessment: Ms. Erickson has a solid background in
survey methods. She compiled a
statewide inventory of Section 5311 service in Georgia, and is currently
analyzing Coastal Georgia surveys in order to evaluate coordination
opportunities. She helped to develop,
administer, and compile surveys for both the Maryland and National Rural
Transit Assistance Programs. For an
intercity bus study in New Hampshire, she compiled and analyzed surveys from
Park and Ride users who commuted to work by intercity bus. For the Maryland Transit Administration
(MTA), Ms. Erickson has collected trip-duration, and trip-length data for a
large sample of randomly selected paratransit trips in the Baltimore region,
also compiled and analyzed trends in accidents and incidents among MTA and
contractor vehicles. Ms. Erickson also
provided support for collecting on-time performance measures for SEPTA’s ADA
paratransit service in Philadelphia, and evaluated the on-time performance
measurement program of locally operated transit systems in Maryland. |
Education ·
M.C.P. Community
Planning, University of Maryland, College Park ·
B.A. Geography and
Sociology, Cum Laude, University of Maryland, College Park Previous Positions ·
Planner – Building
and Development, Loudoun County,
Virginia ·
Transportation
Analyst, KFH Group, Incorporated ·
Intern – Department
of Community Development, City of Salem, Oregon |
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