Personal Mobility ... People on the Move (Fall '99)
IV Quarterly Issue #3
October 1999

Gordon Linton, Federal Transit Administrator since 1993, is leaving the agency at the end of October to form his own consulting firm specializing in transportation and innovative financing.  Linton was instrumental in advocating FTA’s program in Bus Rapid Transit and supported initiatives in transit IVI.

Eugene Farber, longtime ITS advocate within Ford Motor Company, has announced plans to retire at the end of this year.  Mr. Farber most recently served as the Chair of the ITS America Safety and Human Factors Committee.  His contributions in human factors and deployment issues for driver assistance systems have been key in shaping these emerging products.  Mr. Farber expects to do some consulting after his retirement.

Mac Lister, formerly responsible for Advanced Public Transportation Systems coordination within the USDOT ITS Joint Program Office, is now residing in the FHWA’s Midwest Resource Center and tracks IV activities from his post there in Chicago.

Toni Wilbur is now the Technical Director for the FHWA Office of Operations R&D.  Since the early 90’s, Ms. Wilbur worked in the FHWA Office of Safety and System Applications and pioneered early work and implementation of the ITS program within USDOT.

Greg Larson of the New Technology Division within Caltrans research has been named the new chair of ITS America’s Advanced Vehicle Control and Safety Systems committee, succeeding Bill Stevens of Mitretek.

Frank Melcherts has moved on from his post as project manager of Combi-Road to join the Netherlands CONNEKT organization, which focuses on R&D for automation of goods transport and automation of passenger transport.

Edwin Bastiaansen now heads up the Automated Guided Vehicles program at the Directorate-General of Public Works and Water Management Transport Research Center within the Dutch Ministry of Transportation.  He replaces Han Soeteman, who was promoted into other activities.

Dr. Bart van Arem has been named Head, Department of Traffic, at the Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research (TNO). 

Within FHWA research, Dr. Shahed Rowshan, P.E., has been tapped to head up IVI Special Vehicles research.

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