Meet Our Senior Staff
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Ryan Harris, Senior Associate
Experience
Nelson\Nygaard Consulting Associates
Senior Associate, March 2008
Mr. Harris recently joined Nelson\Nygaard to expand the firm’s east
coast transit service planning practice. Ryan has experience consulting
to small, medium and large transit systems, and has completed planning
studies on local, express and rapid bus services, and light and
heavy rail services.
Previous Experience
Jacobs, Edwards & Kelcey, Inc – New York, NY
Principal Planner, 2006 to 2008
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Responsible for leading transit alternatives
analyses and service planning studies
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Led the development of preliminary designs,
schedules, costs, ridership and evaluation of multiple rail
and bus rapid transit alternatives, and coordinated outreach
for the Kendall-Link study in southwest Miami-Dade County
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Completed a detailed operational analysis
of the Port Authority Bus Terminal in New York City using real-time
checkpoint and gate data captured by wirelessly equipped surveyors
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Provided technical and professional support
to a commuter rail restoration study in Bucks and Montgomery
Counties in Pennsylvania, and a range of short-term transit
service planning studies in the New York Metropolitan area.
San Francisco County Transportation
Authority –
San Francisco, CA
Senior Transportation Planner, 2005 to 2006
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Represented the Authority and coordinated
with city staff and community activists on all aspects of the
planning process for the city’s Congestion Management Agency
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Oversaw the Folsom Boulevard traffic-calming
feasibility study the On-Street Parking Management and Pricing
Study and the Columbus Avenue Neighborhood Transportation Study
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Instrumental in the development of the Van
Ness BRT alternatives analysis, and a wide range of transit
and community-based transportation plans.
Cambridge Systematics, Inc – Chevy Chase,
MD
Transportation Planner, 2004 to 2005
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Worked directly with state, regional and
local planners in support of neighborhood, metropolitan and
statewide transportation planning studies
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Responsible for sophisticated geospatial
data analyses and the creation of a statewide map for the Maryland
GreenPrint multi-use trails program
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Developed a long range transportation plan
for the Hagerstown, MD/Eastern Panhandle, WV MPO, completed
a local traffic study in Tyson’s Corner, VA, and an access and
reuse study for the Port of Baltimore.
Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments –
Washington, DC
Regional Planner III, 2000 to 2004
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Provided technical and professional support
to policy, technical and citizen advisory committees
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Assumed a lead role in the creation of the
"Regional Activity Centers" project, development of
a Smart Growth educational CD-ROM, and redesign of the organization’s
web site
Central Transportation Planning Staff -Boston, MA
GIS Planner, 1996 to 1998
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Responsible for design, development, maintenance,
analysis and documentation of regional geographic data
Technical and Professional Achievements
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Extensive Geographic Information Systems
experience; ArcView, ArcGIS and Web-GIS (12 years)
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Advanced website development experience;
HTML, Javascript, CGI, ASP, PHP and MySQL (15 years)
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American Institute of Certified Planners
(AICP) (2003 – present)
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Vice President of Communications, American
Planning Association, National Capital Area Chapter (2001 –
2005)
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Webmaster, American Planning Association,
Regional and Intergovernmental Planning Division (2003 – present)
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American Planning Association, National Student
Project Award (2000)
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A transportation planner with eight years
experience developing transit corridor and service plans,
traffic calming and parking management studies, and sophisticated
GIS analyses.
Master of City and Regional Planning,
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Bachelor of Arts, Urban Affairs and
Planning
Boston University, Boston, MA
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