Since 1988, when he founded HSH's New York Office, Arnie has helped grow the firm's overall transportation planning, public involvement, and training expertise and experience.  His considerable experience in the private, public, and academic sectors gives him an in-depth understanding of what it takes to undertake and complete a successful project.  Arnie's strong facilitation skills allow clients, teammates, stakeholders, and the general public to feel included in the study process. As an experienced trainer, he has been able to pass on his skills to others in the transportation field. 

SPECIALTIES

• Transportation Planning
• Public Involvement
• Strategic Planning
• Training
• Meeting Facilitation

EXPERIENCE
Howard/Stein-Hudson Associates, Inc.

Arnie leads a wide range of efforts for HSH, including the following key areas and examples.

• Public involvement programs using innovative techniques. Arnie has facilitated issue group meetings of project stakeholders and/or area residents for New York State Thruway Authority, New Jersey Department of Transportation (DOT), New Jersey Office of State Planning, Delaware DOT, New York State DOT, and the Port Authority of NY & NJ. His media projects include public meeting teleconferencing, video, and computer presentations for Delaware DOT, New York State DOT, and Bergen County, New Jersey.  He also provides targeted products, including Web sites, fact sheets, newsletters, brochures, etc.
• Market research activities using focus groups to determine willingness to pay for ITS services (I-95 Corridor Coalition), interest in new rail/bus services and service improvements (NJ TRANSIT, Long Island Rail Road, and Bergen County, New Jersey), and reaction to HOV and parking policies (New York State DOT and Wilmapco, Delaware).  They also use survey tools and quick response market forecast techniques to predict transit ridership.
• Strategic and long-range planning projects, including long-range planning efforts for state DOTs (New York, New Jersey, and Delaware); metropolitan planning organizations (North Jersey Transportation Authority; Southwest Regional Planning Authority in Connecticut; and Wilmapco, Delaware); transit properties (Long Island Rail Road, NJ TRANSIT, and Long Island Bus); and other organizations (I-95 Corridor Coalition).
• ITS-related efforts, including multi-modal, multi-agency strategic deployment plans in the New York City metropolitan area; Rochester, New York; and New Jersey.  They also include transit early deployment (Westchester County, New York), VMS plans for Lincoln Tunnel (Port Authority of NY & NJ), and incident management (Nashville, Tennessee).
• Transit planning efforts such as new rail starts, rail rehabilitation, and rail service reassessment studies; innovative bus service and system-wide bus reorganization studies; and ridesharing/HOV lane projects.  The clients for these projects include New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority, New York City Transit, Long Island Bus, Long Island Rail Road, Metro-North, NJ TRANSIT, Port Authority of NY & NJ, Westchester County, and other agencies.
• Highway planning/environmental/major investment studies (MIS) projects for major rehabilitation projects (New York City's Gowanus Expressway, Route 9A, and Cross Bronx Expressway) and new capacity projects (Buffalo's Southtowns Connector and Long Island Expressway HOV lanes).
• Transportation planning studies, including studies of land use/transportation connections (New Jersey Office of State Planning, Middlesex-Somerset-Mercer Regional Council, and Delaware DOT); travel demand management efforts (New Jersey DOT); and transportation safety studies (MTA Tunnels and Bridges and New York State DOT).
• Management training, including developing and delivering a public involvement course for the New Jersey DOT Context Sensitive Design program, as well as a 3-day public involvement course for the National Transit Institute (NTI).  Also for NTI, Arnie co-developed and taught a 2-day course on ITS for Transit.  He delivered management courses for public-sector supervisors and managers at New York Metropolitan Transportation Council, New York City Transit, New York MTA, and other agencies.  In addition, Arnie implements agency "inreach" efforts concerning major agency policy and planning projects (Delaware DOT, NJ TRANSIT, and NYMTC).

Prior Experience

• As Assistant Commissioner for Planning for New York City DOT, Arnie directed a 60-person unit responsible for federally funded planning studies, traffic studies and impact reviews, surface transit improvements, and formulating city transportation policies.
• As Director and Deputy Director of 35-person Transportation Division of New York City Department of City Planning, he was responsible for city-wide and neighborhood planning studies, environmental assessment reviews, and policy development for the Planning Commission.
• Arnie directed transportation and environmental projects in the New York metropolitan area for engineering and planning firms.
• As Research Associate in Polytechnic Institute of New York's Transportation Research Center, he managed and worked on projects for federal, state, and local agencies

YEARS OF EXPERIENCE

• With HSH: 22
• Other: 13

EDUCATION

• Polytechnic Institute of New York
  New York, New York
  Ph.D., Transportation Planning and Engineering, 1984
• Cornell University
  Ithaca, New York
  M.S., Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1977
• State University of New York at Albany
  Albany, New York
  B.A., Geography, 1973

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

• Member, Institute of Transportation Engineers
• Member, Transportation Research Board

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

• "Educating and Marketing to the ITS Customer."  Presented at the ITS-New York Annual Meeting, July 2000.
• "ITS and Transit." Presented at the ITS-New York Annual Meeting, July 1999.
• "Marketing HOV in a Suburban Setting: The Long Island Expressway Experience" (with others).  Presented at Transportation Research Board (TRB) 73rd Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, January 1994.  Published in Transportation Research Record No. 1446, 1994.
• Panelist, "Competition or Skimming the Cream? Is There a Role for Commuter Vans?"  UMTA Conference on Creating a Competitive Transportation Environment, New York City, September 21, 1987.
• Panelist, Forum on "The Regional Transportation System City University of New York," Industry Forum Series, New York City, October 14, 1986.
• Panelist, "The Future of New York City Transit."  Midday Live, WNEW-TV, New York City, June 3, 1986.
• "New York City's For-Hire Van Services: Blessing or Curse?" (with others). Presented at TRB 65th Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, January 1986.  Published in Transportation Research Record No. 1103, 1986.
• "Alternative Fuels for Buses: Current Assessment and Future Perspectives" (with Louis Pignataro).  Presented at TRB 64th Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, January 1985.  Published in Transportation Research Record No. 1049, 1985.
• Oil Supply Uncertainty and its Effects on Public Transportation.  Ph.D. dissertation, Polytechnic Institute of New York, May 1984.
• "Block Grant Transportation Financing: The Interstate Trade-in Experience" (with William Crowell).  Published in Transportation Research Record No. 967, 1984.
• "Transit Fuel Supply during Oil Disruptions: Coping with Uncertainty."  Presented at the TRB Conference on Energy Contingency in Urban Areas, Houston, TX, April 8, 1983.  Published in TRB Special Report No. 203.
• "Energy and Public Transportation: Current Findings and Pursuits."  Presented at joint U.S.-Brazil Workshop on Transportation Energy, Brooklyn, NY, January 14, 1983.
• Proceedings of the Joint U.S.-Brazil Workshop on Transportation Energy (co-editor).  Polytechnic Institute of New York, January 12-14, 1983.
• "Public Transportation and Urban Decentralization: Conflict or Accord?" (with Louis Pignataro).  Presented at TRB 61st Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, 1982.  Published in Transportation Research Record, No. 877, 1983.
• "Physical and Operating Characteristics of Ferry Vessels."  Presented at TRB 60th Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, 1981.  Published in Transportation Research Record, No. 824, 1981.
• "Future Directions for Public Transportation: A Basis for Decision" (with others).  Presented at TRB 60th Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, 1981.  Published in Transportation Research Record, No. 797, 1981.
• Testimony before Manhattan Borough President's Hearing on Midtown Congestion, City Hall, December 11, 1980, concerning economic impacts of reducing congestion.
• "Planning Urban Ferry Services: Issues and First Year Results" (with others).  Presented at International Marine Transit Association 5th Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA, November 1980.
• "Response to EPA Proposed Rule Making Rejecting New York State Moynihan-Holtzman Amendment Submittal" (with Sheldon Pollack).  New York Citizens for Balanced Transportation, September 3, 1980.
• "Transport Regulations in an Urban Economy: A Dynamic Model of Their Impacts" (with William Crowell).  Presented at TRB 59th Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, 1980.  Published in Transportation Research Record, No. 747, 1980.
• "Economic Impacts of TSM Actions" (with William Crowell).  Presented at Institute for Management Sciences Annual Meeting, Honolulu, June 1979.
• "Impacts of Transportation Services and Control Measures on the Economy of the Manhattan Central Business District" (with William Crowell).  Presented at TRB 58th Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, 1979.
• "Economic Consequences of Goods Movement Restrictions in the Manhattan CBD."  Presented at Engineering Foundation Conference on Goods Transportation in Urban Areas, Sea Island, GA, December 1977.  Published in Proceedings Report, FHWA-PL-78-012, June 1978.
• "Importance of Travel-Time Considerations in the Mode-Choice Decisions of Small Shippers" (with Arnie Meyburg).  Presented at Engineering Foundation Conference on Goods Transportation in Urban Areas, Sea Island, GA, December 1977.  Published in Proceedings Report, FHWA-PL-78-012, June 1978.