Ken Cervenka has worked at the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) since 2007. His major responsibilities include technical assistance to MPOs, transit providers, and other agencies interested in preparing transit rider surveys and transit ridership forecasts, with a new emphasis on the relevance of travel forecasting to support performance-based planning. For New Starts and Small Starts transit projects, his responsibilities include a formal assessment of the plausibility of the ridership forecasts used in FTA's project evaluation process. Prior to joining FTA, he worked as the travel forecasting manager at the North Central Texas Council of Governments, the MPO for the Dallas-Fort Worth area, and prior to that worked as a transportation consultant at a traffic engineering firm in Dallas. He is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, with a Master in Civil Engineering.
Mei Ingram is a senior research associate at the Triangle Regional Model Service Bureau, Institute for Transportation Research and Education, located at the North Carolina State University, North Carolina. Her key role is to develop and maintain the Triangle Regional Model and provide technical support to the stakeholders and other users. Prior to the current position, she worked two years at North Carolina Department of Transportation as a senior transportation engineer and eight years with the Parsons Transportation Group/Barton-Aschman. She has over twenty years of experience in multimodal regional traffic demand model development and application for various urban sizes, travel behavior related survey design and analysis, regional economic development and socio-economic data forecast, air quality conformity study, and highway safety. She has Master degrees in Urban Studies from the University of Maryland at College Park and Transportation Economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a Bachelor of Science in Physics from the Beijing Normal University, China.
Howard Slavin is the founder and president of Caliper Corporation. He has more than thirty years of experience in travel demand modeling, geographic information systems, and the development of software for transportation forecasting. Dr. Slavin initiated and has guided the development of all Caliper’s software products including TransCAD, MAPTITUDE, and TransModeler. He holds an AB degree from Yale College in Mathematics and Urban Studies, a Master’s degree in Urban and Regional Planning from Harvard University, and a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge in England.
