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Sam Seskin is one of America’s keenest analysts of transportation systems — their costs, benefits, environmental and social impacts. A resident of Portland Oregon, he is director of CH2M HILL’s transportation business group. He was formerly a principal professional associate of Parsons Brinckerhoff Quade & Douglas, Inc., the nation’s largest transportation planning and infrastructure company. He consults widely on relationships between transportation, land use and economics.
In three decades of consulting and research, Sam has helped citizens, elected officials and business leaders to make more informed decisions about metropolitan growth and development. He was the consultant project manager for the award-winning LUTRAQ Project (”Making the Land Use/Transportation/Air Quality Connection”) for 1000 Friends of Oregon, which demonstrated a decade ago the benefits of transit-oriented development. In his professional work, Sam has advanced the process of metropolitan planning through developing new analytic tools and applying new research results. Sam is a contributing author of the following publications of the National Research Council, National Academy Press, among them Transit and Urban Form (1996), The Costs of Sprawl (1998, 2002), and Estimating the Benefits and Costs of Public Transit Projects (2002). Sam’s commitment to metropolitan development has led him to serve both on the Board of Trustees for two community land trusts, and on the Board of Regents of the American Economic Development Council. He is on the editorial advisory board of Transportation, an international journal devoted to the improvement of transportation planning and practice. Last updated June 22, 2004 |