Robert Schiffer

Background

About Robert Schiffer

With 41 years of experience in transportation consulting, Mr. Schiffer is a proven leader in the transportation planning community. From his experience at consulting, engineering, and software firms, to his leadership roles and volunteer work in national organizations like the Transportation Research Board, the Institute of Transportation Engineers, and the American Planning Association, he is an acknowledged expert in transportation planning and travel demand modeling. He is an experienced project manager/director with a diverse background in all areas of transportation planning and an author of publications that stand the test of time. His experience encompasses travel demand models and multi-modal transportation planning studies in 28 states and commonwealths for national, statewide, regional, municipal, subarea, rural and private clients. He is guided by the tenets of honesty, integrity, discipline, responsiveness, and fiscal responsibility. He possesses a wide range of expertise in all areas of transportation planning with a special emphasis on: · developing, validating, and calibrating statewide, urban, and regional travel demand models; · researching best practices for studies on national, statewide, long-distance & rural travel; · preparing comprehensive, multi-modal long-range transportation plans; · forecasting travel demand for highway and transit projects; · conducting travel behavior and origin-destination travel surveys of all transportation modes; · authoring and delivering training workshops/courses in travel demand modeling; · studying site impacts (e.g, developments of regional impact and concurrency management); · assessing the feasibility of expressways, bridges, managed lanes, and interchanges; · compiling and analyzing socioeconomic/demographic data for travel demand models; and · providing leadership on national and regional transportation planning conferences.