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Meet Our Senior Staff


David Sharfarz, Principal

Experience
Nelson\Nygaard Consulting Associates
Principal, July 2000–Present

Career background in the public transportation industry with diversified expertise in fixed-route, paratransit and flexible route services development, scheduling and operations; organizational development and training, general management and administration; Transportation Demand Management and Rideshare programs. .

Fixed-Route Transit
  • Current Projects:
    • Sacramento (CA) Transit Service Planning
    • Yale University(CT) Shuttle System Restructuring
    • Pittsburgh (PA) Transit System Restructuring
    • Rochester (NY) Transit Centers Location Study
    • Barnstable County (MA) Transit Development Plan
    • Madison County (IL) Transit Task Order Planning and Scheduling
    • Cortland County (NY) Transportation Needs Assessment
    • TCRP A-29 Transit Scheduling Manual

  • Recently Completed Projects:
    • Albany (NY) Bus Rapid Transit Management & Operations Plan (2007-08)
    • Schuyler County (NY) Transit Needs Assessment (2007)
    • Central Yavapai MPO (AZ) Regional Transit Needs Study (2007)
    • Santa Rosa (CA) Transit Runcutting/Rostering (2007)
    • City of Bend (OR) Transit Runcutting/Rostering (2006)
    • Eastern Contra Costa (CA) Short-Range Transit Plan (2006)
    • Denali National Park (AK) Consolidated Shuttle Plan (2005)
    • Bethel (AK) Transit Feasibility and Development Plan (2005)
    • Santa Maria (CA) Short Range Transit Plan (2004)
    • Ketchikan Borough (AK) Transit Development Plan (2003)
    • Washington University (MO) Campus Shuttle System Analysis and Implementation Assistance (2003)
  • Management Experience:
    • Greater Cleveland (OH) Regional Transit Authority (1991-92)
    • Bi-State Development Agency (MO-IL) (1988-89)
    • Anchorage (AK) Municipal Transit Department (1986-88)
    • Central Contra Costa (CA) Transit Authority (1982-84)
    • Rochester-Genesee (NY) Regional Transit Authority (1979-81)
Paratransit/Flexible Services
  • Current Projects
    • Cortland County (NY) Transit Needs Assessment
  • Recently Completed Projects
    • Schuyler County (NY) Transit Needs Assessment (2007)
    • Douglas County (CO) Coordination Plan (2007)
    • Madison County (IL) Transit EZ Ride Service Design and Evaluation (2006)
    • Springfield (MO) Paratransit Development Plan (2002)
    • On Lok Health Services Client Transportation Analysis (2002)
  • Management Experience:
    • Medina County (OH) Transportation Consortium (1992-93)
    • Anchorage (AK) Municipal Transit Department (1986-87)
    • Rochester-Genesee (NY) Regional Transit Authority (1978-79)
    • Syracuse/Central (NY) Regional Transit Authority (1976-78)
    • Onondaga County (NY) Community Action Agency (1976)
Transit Management/Administration
  • Current Projects
    • Madison County (IL) Transit District Task Order Project Development
      • Organizational development
      • Staff training
      • Grant development
      • Procurement documentation
      • Federal Transit Administration compliance documents
      • Intergovernmental relations
      • Environmental analyses
  • Recently Completed Projects
    • Washington University (MO) Shuttle System Outsourcing Analysis and Procurement Documents (2003)
Transit Demand Management/Ridesharing
  • Management Experience
    • St. Louis (MO-IL) RideFinders Regional Rideshare Program (1994 - 2001)
    • Anchorage (AK) Share-a-Ride Program (1986-88)
Professional Affiliations
  • Lowell (MA) Regional Transit Authority
    Advisory Board member representing Town of Acton
  • Northeast Passenger Transportation Association
  • Associate Member

David Sharfarz
Thirty years of transit and paratransit management, operations and planning experience with large and small transit systems.


MA, Chinese Studies,
Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, 1990


MPA, Community Development,
University of New York at Albany, (1975)


BA, Political Science,
City University of New York, Brooklyn College, (1974)