 CH2MHILL
Telephone: 503-736-4019
E-Mail: Sam.Seskin@ch2m.com
Years experience in current field: 28
Position/Title: Transportation Planning Director
EDUCATION: Princeton University, Masters in Public Affairs and Urban Planning, 1973-1975; Yale College, A.B. in American Studies, 1968-1972
EXPERTISE: Community Impacts and Indirect and Cumulative Impacts
RELATED TOPICS/EXPERIENCES: Working as Transportation Planning Director at CH2M HILL, from Portland Oregon, Sam Seskin consults widely and has focused his career on the relationships between transportation, land use and economics. He has been involved with projects at the local, regional, state, national and international levels, and has managed numerous interdisciplinary planning projects.
Over the past three decades, Sam has analyzed transportation systems – their costs, benefits, environmental and social impacts – and has helped individuals make more informed decisions about transportation planning and metropolitan growth and development. His accomplishments include serving as 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. He has also served 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 also on the editorial advisory board of Transportation, an international journal devoted to the improvement of transportation planning and practice.
Recent Projects, Publications and Accomplishment Include:
- Estimating the Benefits and Costs of Public Transit,” National Academy Press (TCRP Report 78 and CDROM 2002, with ECONorthwest, et al)
- Land Use Impacts of Transportation: A Guidebook,” National Academy Press, 1999
- “Costs of Sprawl-2000” National Academy Press, 2002
- “The Costs of Sprawl Revisited,” National Academy Press, 1998
- “Consequences of the Interstate Highway System for Transit: Six Case Studies,” National Academy Press, 1998
- “Impacts of Urban Form on Travel Behavior,” The Urban Lawyer, Vol. 29, #2, Spring 1997
- “Transit and Urban Form, Volume 2,” National Academy Press, 1996
- “Transit and Urban Form, Volume 1,” National Academy Press, 1996
- “An Evaluation of the Relationship Between Transit and Urban Form,” TCRP Research Results Digest, June 1995
- “Comprehensive Framework for Highway Economic Impact Assessments: Methods and Results” Transportation Research Board Record, 1990
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