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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.
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