JEFFREY L. ROSENBLUM, P.E., President and co-founder

Mr. Rosenblum has 15 years experience in research, consulting, training & education, public policy, and community advocacy at the intersection of environment, business, and community engagement. For the past two years, he has focused on conducting a needs assessment for the creation of an advocacy group focusing on improving urban life in Boston by improving transportation options beyond the tradition use of the automobile. He is co-founder and Executive Director of the LivableStreets Alliance.

As part of this effort, he launched a Boston-focused bicycle advocacy group, "Boston Bicycle Planning Initiative," in November 2004 in response to an opportunity to bring together a cohesive presentation at a City Council hearing.

He consults part-time with the Cadmus Group in Watertown, MA, conducting training programs and provided consultation for USAID (US Agency for International Development) and UNEP (United Nations Environment Program) on Cleaner Production programs (i.e., pollution prevention), environmentally sound design, and environmental impact assessment (mostly in Africa and Asia Near East).

Previously with Tellus Institute, a not-for-profit research and consulting organization in Boston which is affiliated with the Stockholm Environment Institute, Mr. Rosenblum’s work focused on research and analysis, implementation of innovative business pilot programs, and development and delivery of training programs. Project areas included: Implementation and evaluation of “Servicizing” pilot programs a business model, chemical management services (CMS), proven to cut costs and optimize chemical use in manufacturing (www.chemicalstrategies.org) [1]; Environmental Management Accounting / Pollution Prevention (www.emawebsite.org) [2]; The Costs and Benefits of Green Affordable Housing (http://tinyurl.com/ajcuj) [3]; collaboration with ITDP (Institute for Transportation & Development Policy, www.itdp.org [4]).

Prior to his work in Boston, Mr. Rosenblum was at Carnegie Mellon University pursuing his Masters in Environmental Engineering. He was a part of the Green Design Initiative research group conducting research using EIO-LCA (economic input-output life cycle assessment) methodology to investigate and characterize the environmental impacts of "service" industries in the U.S. economy (http://tinyurl.com/crn8k) [5]. He also contributed on a National Science Foundation project, "Environment Across the Curriculum," intended to incorporated environmental/green design concepts into traditional curriculum with intention to reach all disciplines, and culminated in the publication of a college-level textbook by McGraw Hill (http://tinyurl.com/86h4n) [6].

Mr. Rosenblum’s previous engineering experience includes environmental consulting activities for commercial and government clients throughout the Eastern U.S. and Canada. Projects included: contaminated site investigations and cleanup feasibility studies (RCRA and Superfund); industrial facility compliance audits; paper mil air emission inventories; technical advisor for a legal case; various on-site air, soil, water environmental monitoring and sampling programs with subsequent data analysis and report writing; meteorological data collection/analysis.

Mr. Rosenblum holds a Masters degree in Environmental Engineering and a Bachelors degree in Civil Engineering and Engineering & Public Policy both from Carnegie Mellon University. He currently holds a Professional Engineering License with the State of Maine. In addition, he holds science and math teaching certificates for grades 8-12 in the State of Maine.

He was formerly the President of the Board of Harvest Coop Markets in Boston and currently serves on the board of Sustainable Travel International (www.sustainabletravelinternational.org) [7]. He participates in a variety of community initiatives in Boston. Not owning an automobile, his primary modes of transport are bicycle, foot, transit, and Zipcar.

LARRY SLOTNICK, Co-founder

Larry Slotnick is currently in his third career – as Director of Fleet Operations for Zipcar. He was a founding employee of Zipcar in 2000 and helped launch Zipcar’s flagship Boston carsharing operation as Fleet Manager. He has also served as Director of Business Development and has performed supporting roles in Sales and Customer Service. Prior to joining Zipcar Larry served as Executive Director of MassBike and helped the organization though a difficult period in its history. He grew the membership base and stabilized the organization’s finances, recruited many productive Board members, and established better ties to the local bicycle retailer industry. While also serving as a MassBike Board member for six years, Larry created or co-founded several signature events, such as the MassBike Tour, Bike Night, and the WBOS EarthFest Bicycle Valet Parking Project.

Prior to joining MassBike, Larry was Marketing Director for Conley & Hodge Associates, a litigation/technology support firm that served more than half of Boston’s top 25 law firms. During his four years with Conley and Hodge, the firm more than doubles in size. While there he founded a Litigation Support Software User Group that served litigation paralegals in the Boston legal community.

Larry earned a BS in Industrial Engineering from Syracuse University and worked for companies such as Intel, Raytheon and Prime Computer in facilities design, manufacturing and prototype/producibility environments.

Larry currently serves on the Board of Directors of Fields Corner Main Street and is a resident of Dorchester, MA.

MARK CHASE

Mark has more than ten years of experience working on transportation planning and policy issues in the Northeast Corridor. Mark’s professional experience has focused on educing the number of cars on our roadways and parking facilities. Mark was on the management team that helped to start Zipcar where he developed partnerships with universities, property managers and governments to help build membership.

Prior to his work at Zipcar, Mark has worked as a consultant to municipalities and companies on parking, transit and bicycle and pedestrian issues. Mark directed the Alliance for Transportation Choice (ATC), a non-profit transportation advocacy group in Portland, Maine. At ATC he was instrumental at building political support for bicycle lanes which resulted in the several miles of bike lanes in the greater Portland area.

As Director of Boston's Seaport District Transportation Management Association (TMA), Mark worked with businesses and developers to reduce the number of single occupant vehicles in Boston’s Seaport District.

Mark holds an undergraduate degree in Business Administration from the University of Southern Maine and a Masters Degree in Urban and Environmental Policy from Tufts University.

ONA FERGUSON

Ona Ferguson is an Associate at the Consensus Building Institute (CBI), a not-for-profit organization that provides mediation and dispute system design services to public and private clients worldwide.

At CBI, she has facilitated a national network meeting of the National Association of Community Land Trusts as they have formed a new national organization. She manages a coalition of private and public agencies working together to improve air quality in the Boston area through voluntary programs, convening and facilitating meetings and calls. Ms. Ferguson assists the lead facilitator of a community advisory group that works with EPA and GE to design the dredging of PCBs from the Hudson River. Ms. Ferguson has facilitated small group dialogues on issues as diverse as managing federal lands, diversity among high school students, and regional collaboration across state and municipal boundaries.

Ms. Ferguson has co-authored multiple situation and conflict assessments, including an assessment of a multi-stakeholder urban development dispute and a stakeholder assessment for the North American State of the Carbon Cycle Report. She has developed and delivered courses on communication skills for land trust employees, and managed an ongoing series of courses on resolving land use mediation that is supported through the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. Ms. Ferguson has assisted with the development of training materials for an international program on sustainable development and has developed and prepared an MIT graduate research project on land use planning in Massachusetts. Ms Ferguson has also helped develop case studies for trainings on natural resource disputes and consensus building. She has co-written role-plays about joint fact-finding, environmental disputes and corporate negotiation.

Prior to joining CBI, Ms Ferguson convened and facilitated ongoing meetings of a group of government and non-profit agencies providing health and social services to a Mexican border town in Arizona. She has completed research on organizations aiding municipalities with innovative strategies for development and conservation, a plan for development in a Puerto Rican province, and incentives for dense urban growth.

Ms. Ferguson has a Master of Environmental Management from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, where she studied land use law and policy, and a B.A. from Smith College.

PHIL GOFF

Phil Goff has dedicated his life to creating sustainable communities. He has over 14 years of experience in the fields of architecture, urban design, and planning and currently designs mixed-use, pedestrian-oriented development projects for Goody Clancy in Boston.

Phil has been a tireless advocate for bicycling since 1981, when he orchestrated a petition drive in his Junior High School to encourage the City of Keene, NH to build a BMX track. Later, while living in Manhattan, Phil was a key member of the environmental group Times Up! whose primary campaign was to eliminate vehicle traffic from Central Park.

From 1996 to 2004, Phil lived in Portland, Oregon and helped plan and design downtown masterplans, transit projects, parks and greenways, bicycle infrastructure, and urban infill projects. He worked his final three years with the Portland Bureau of Planning’s Urban Design Group. On the advocacy side, Phil spent 7 years on the city’s Bicycle Advisory Committee, and worked closely with the state-wide Bicycle Transportation Alliance (BTA). Orchestrating the Morrison Bridge campaign, Phil succeeded in bringing $1.5 million in federal money to transform a bridge nearly inaccessible to pedestrians and cyclists to one with a broad esplanade on one side. For this effort the BTA awarded him the Alice B. Toeclips award in 2001.

Phil has lived in the Boston area just over a year, but has already engaged both the bicycle and urban-design advocacy communities. He is also a member of both the Congress for New Urbanism and the Boston Society of Architects Urban Design Committee.

CHRIS HART

Chris is a Project Coordinator at the Boston nonprofit Adaptive Environments (AE). He is AE's lead staffer for public transit issues as well as the Universal Design at the Urban Scale project. He has cerebral palsy and uses a power wheelchair user. He has used public transit as a key to independence since childhood. Since 2000, he has participated in Adaptive Environments' transit and pedestrian strategies, tripling AE's library collection of transit and pedestrian related reports, books and media. His work on pedestrian issues extends back to adolescence when he served on his town's Commission on Disabilities and the Municipal Space Needs Committee.

Chris has made presentations on pedestrian design at numerous conferences including ICADI, Build Boston, Designing for the 21st Century and America Walks. In Boston, he has worked on and reviewed numerous proposed street designs as well as resolved past work that presented accessibility problems. He has also led AE's inquiry into pedestrian surfaces and created the draft Surfaces Fit for People CD-ROM with Kristin Schneider.

Currently, Chris works on the Central Artery ("Bg Dig") project where he reviews the remaining contracts, trains field engineering staff, and catalogs poor construction or non-code compliant sections of the project. He also is AE's lead intermediary between the disability community and the various responsible agencies or design teams in matters of transportation.

Prior to joining Adaptive Environments, Chris worked at the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA) on accessibility related matters. His MBTA work was primarily focused on the accessibility of the 150+ bus routes for compliance with responsibilities for stop announcements as well as station access problems. This knowledge was especially helpful as he co-wrote last year's Getting Around: A Guide to Riding the MBTA for People of All Abilities. Augmenting his background is his travel throughout 45 states and his visits to numerous transit systems across the country and internationally. He has documented in photos accessibility features of public transit systems in nine U.S. cities and numerous cities around the world.

Chris's passion for public transit that works for everyone, his extensive exploration of both exemplars and failures in all aspects of public transit and his remarkable grasp of the complex process of making pedestrian environments will provide invaluable assistance to the tasks necessary to complete this project. He will assist with gathering US and international material, identifying gaps and recommending the audiences that should be targeted. A primary emphasis will be in the analysis of existing resources.

KEN KRUCKEMEYER

Kenneth E. Kruckemeyer is a Research Associate at the Center for Transportation and Logistics and a Lecturer in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is also a private consultant specializing in the design of civil infrastructure, focusing on integrated public transport systems, pedestrian and bicycle facilities, and roadway and bridge design. In his life and in his profession he is closely connected with urban neighborhoods and civic design.

His current work combines theory and practice, and centers on public transportation, most recently for the design of a new system, Tren Urbano, in San Juan, Puerto Rico and the rehabilitation and expansion of the Chicago Transit Authority’s facilities. As part of MIT's collaboration with the University of Puerto Rico and The University of Illinois at Chicago, Mr. Kruckemeyer teaches and supervises student research on transportation facilities and urban design.

Mr. Kruckemeyer served as Associate Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Public Works from 1983 to 1991, where he was responsible for bridge and highway engineering, and where he co-authored the book: Bridge Design--Aesthetics and Developing Technologies. In the 1970’s and early 80’s he was Project Manager of the Southwest Corridor Project in Boston, a $750 million investment in railroad and rapid transit facilities, city streets, parkland and urban revitalization that received a Presidential Design Award and was named the Outstanding Engineering Achievement of 1988 by the American Society of Civil Engineers.

Mr. Kruckemeyer is an Architect with degrees from Princeton University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was a Loeb Fellow in Advanced Environmental Studies at Harvard University.

STEVEN MILLER

Steven E. Miller is the Executive Director of Boston’s Hub On Wheels Bike festival, a member of the Cambridge and MBTA bicycle advisory committees, and on the Executive Committee of the NE Governor Council-affiliated Healthy Weight Coalition.

His campaigns to create school networks involved over 2/3rds of Massachusetts’ districts and 20,000 volunteers utilizing over $35 million in private donations. Miller’s work in technology-facilitated education reform was recognized by an invitation to present to President Clinton’s 1999 National Education Summit.

He served as Director of Strategic Planning for the Commonwealth’s Office of Management Information Systems, directed the creation of the first Lotus 1-2-3 Reference Manual, was Editor-in-chief of LOTUS Magazine, and a co-founder of the Lotus Philanthropy program. He consultants for the Ford Foundation/Harvard Kennedy School Innovations in American Government Program.

Miller has served on the national boards of the Consortium for School Networks (CoSN), Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR), and as chair of Grassroots International (GRI). His media credits include four books, numerous articles, TV commentator, host of radio interview show, and stage performances.

SCOTT MULLEN

Scott spent nearly five years covering the politics of bicycling as editor of The Ride Magazine, the Journal of East Coast Bike Culture. In 2003 he began freelancing for the Associated Press where he has covered such events as the 2004 Massachusetts Constitutional Convention and the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston. Also an experienced freelance photographer, his images have appeared in The New York Times, The Boston Globe among other national, regional and local publications.

Scott has given talks to several advocacy groups on the topic of dealing effectively with the media, including the League of American Bicyclists, the Connecticut Bicycle Coalition and MassBike. In addition, he has twice attended the annual National Bike Summit to lobby Congress for better bicycling.

A staunch supporter of non-profits, Scott licks stamps for several Boston-based organizations, including MassBike and the Museum of Fine Arts. In addition, he has provided free or discounted photographic services for the America Bikes Campaign, the Bikes Belong Coalition, the Massachusetts Breastfeeding Coalition and MassBike, among others. In addition, he leads urban bicycle tours for Brookline Adult Education.

The Thunderhead Alliance, a national coalition of statewide bicycle advocacy groups, recognized Scott for excellence in bicycle journalism in 2002. The following year Bicycle Retailer and Industry News nominated him for a BRAINY Award.

In 2003, Scott co-founded Stoodio53, a Somerville-based art gallery that promotes local artists and musicians and has curated several successful shows to date, galvanizing a vibrant local scene.

Scott holds a B.A. in Philosophy from Merrimack College and recently completed the Web Design Certificate Program at the American Graphics Institute. He currently works for the car-sharing company, Zipcar, where he maintains a fleet of 250 vehicles by bicycle.

HOLLY (BOGLE) PARKER

Holly Parker has been working at Harvard University as manager of their CommuterChoice Program for five years. In that capacity, she has been responsible for encouraging Harvard’s commuters to use sustainable transportation modes. Holly has been involved in many collaborative efforts including: Coordinating an online transit pass ordering system that provides Harvard’s employees with discounted monthly transit passes, which are mailed to their home; conducting annual transportation surveys; outfitting Harvard shuttles with external bike racks to increase multi-modality; increasing the number of car-sharing members on campus; and creating secure, sheltered bike parking areas inside Harvard’s Parking Garages. Prior to working at Harvard, Holly worked for the "Commuter Solutions" Program at Lane Transit District in Eugene, Oregon and as a Senior Transportation Coordinator for TransAction Associates in Waltham, MA. Holly has a BA in Political Science and an MS in Environmental Studies. She has been challenged and intrigued by alternative transportation for almost 10 years.

BHUPESH PATEL

An avid bicyclist, pedestrian, and Zipcar member is the backbone of most of my work. As a practicing architect working in the metropolitan area for the last 12 years, Bhupesh has worked with many planning departments to further smart density housing, and traffic calming initiatives. By initiating several coalitions of marginalized advocacy groups he has brokered many changes in cities and towns as well as being awarded several grants and city sponsored initiatives.

His professional objective is advocating for addressing the crisis of policy, housing, and transportation simultaneously is the crux of my objectives. Referred to as the “love triangle” of crisis these three facets if confronted simultaneously lead to more acute and effective initiatives.

For example development at transit in Revere Blue line station cannot address these issues with as much impact as transit development at Alewife or Davis Square. This exponentially becomes evident when all three facets are inherent to the initiative. “Microhousing” housing units for middle income families adjacent to transit with innovative zoning policy would be much more viable from the point of view of all the players such as the city, the developer, the community, and the financial borrowing institutions for an inner city site like Davis Square.

Granted development and smart growth can happen at the outer “inner core” communities such as Revere or Woburn. However, it is premature to attempt to engage such sites without any experience has been illustrated to result in very much “half baked” initiatives. Rather “cutting your teeth” on inner “inner core” communiteis such as Brookline, Cambridge, Somerville, East Boston, and Chelsea, and Everett would carry much more impact and innovation.

WILLIAM REYELT

As a Technical Assistance Program Coordinator within the Policy Division of the Massachusetts Department of Housing & Community Development (DHCD), Bill's work at is largely focused on helping administer the Commonwealth's unique affordable housing law and associated planning and housing production programs. He works directly with municipal officials, housing developers, local residents and households in need of affordable housing to insure that these groups understand the law and the various relevant processes associated with its implementation.

Bill's training is primarily in urban planning with additional specific background in transportation, community design, real estate and education. His experience working under William-Whyte-protégé Fred Kent of the New York-based Project for Public Spaces fueled his interest in transforming urban streets from mere transportation infrastructure into distinct places that serve a range of users and restore vitality to our communities.

On the advisory board of MassBike, the board of WalkBoston, and the MBTA's Bikes on the T Advisory Committee, Bill is also a former chair of the City of Boston's Bicycle Advisory Committee.

CHELLA RAJAN

Chella Rajan is a Senior Fellow at Tellus Institute and leads its Program on Global Politics and Institutions. He has a strong research background in transportation, energy systems, and the institutional and political context of environmental policymaking. He is broadly concerned with the interactions among social, political, technological and environmental factors relating to sustainable development and has worked on a wide range of projects under this umbrella. These include energy and environmental scenario analyses, studies on the politics of power sector reform in developing countries, and analysis of institutional reform measures to reduce corruption.

Dr. Rajan’s current work includes the development of alternative scenarios for the Boston metropolitan region using a consultative process, national transport scenarios for a hydrogen future, and alternative energy assessments at the state and provincial levels in the United States and Canada, respectively.

Prior to joining Tellus Institute, Dr. Rajan worked at the California Air Resources Board, the International Energy Initiative, and as an independent consultant for the United Nations Development Programme. He has numerous publications, including a book on automobility and environmental policy (The Enigma of Automobility: Democratic Politics and Pollution Control, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996).

Dr. Rajan holds a bachelor's degree in Aeronautical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, a master's in Meteorology from the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, and a doctorate in Environmental Science and Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles.