The following are biographies of contributing authors of the ISTEA Planner's Workbook.

Philip H. Braum is Eastern Regional Manager for the transportation consulting firm Barton-Aschman Associates, Inc. He provides transportation planning assistance to state, regional, and local governments for program development, public transportation, and land-use and transportation relationships.

Mr. Braum has Master of City Planning and Master of Civil Engineering degrees from the University of Pennsylvania. His career includes previous employment by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the American Public Transit Association, and the Metropolitan Transit Commission in Minneapolis-St. Paul.

Mr. Braum is a member of the Planning Committee of the Surface Transportation Policy Project.

Hank Dittmar has been the Executive Director of the Surface Transportation Policy Project since August 1993. Prior to assuming his present position at STPP, Mr. Dittmar had fifteen years experience in transportation policy and operations, most recently as Manager of Legislation and Finance for the Metropolitan Transportation Commission in Oakland, California, where he was responsible for both legislative and policy development activities and the programming of the region's $11 billion transportation budget. While at MTC, Mr. Dittmar promoted the use of performance-based standards to evaluate transportation priorities in the context of other community goals, particularly environmental protection and congestion management.

Prior to his post at MTC, Mr. Dittmar was the Director of the Santa Monica Airport, from 1984 to 1989. Mr. Dittmar also served as Senior Administrative Analyst for Santa Monica Municipal Bus Lines, and as an outreach worker with street gangs in Chicago's inner city.

Mr. Dittmar received his Masters degree in Community and Regional Planning from the University of Texas at Austin in 1980 and his Bachelor of Science degree from Northwestern University in 1976.

David Murray manages the $14 billion Transportation Improvement Program for the nine-county San Francisco Bay Area. He has been working at the Metropolitan Transportation Commission for eight years. Before becoming involved in transportation, David worked for the Federal Bank in San Francisco. Mr. Murray has a Masters degree in City Planning from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Masters degree in Economics from the London School of Economics.

Julie Hoover is a senior vice president of Parsons Brinckerhoff, an international consulting firm specializing in transportation. She is the principal-in-charge of a project for the National Transit Institute, co-sponsored by FHWA and FTA, to develop a manual and implement training courses for MISs. She also serves as technical advisor for several ongoing major MIS projects and heads her company's MIS practice area nationwide. As the chair-elect of APTA's Policy and Planning Committee, Ms. Hoover has long worked to achieve greater practitioner input to federal transportation planning regulations and procedures. An equally strong advocate for participatory planning, she promotes more effective public involvement at every opportunity.

Sarah Siwek has thirteen years of experience in the development, implementation and financing of transportation and air quality programs in county, regional and state agencies on the East and West Coasts of the United States. Her recently created consulting business specializes in advising public and private sector organizations on transportation and air quality issues. Prior to starting her own business in March, 1994, Ms. Siwek served in a variety of management positions in major transit properties including the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BART), New Jersey Transit, and the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority. She also served as the first Director of Transportation Programs for the South Coast Air Quality Management District in Los Angeles, California. Ms. Siwek earned a Bachelor's Degree in Political Science and a Master's Degree in Public Administration at Syracuse University. She also completed management training at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Ms. Siwek was also selected as a German Marshall Fund Environmental Fellow for 1994.

Bob Stanley is a Senior Associate in the Washington, D.C. Office of Cambridge Systematics, Inc. Mr. Stanley is actively involved in the design and development of ISTEA management systems in Delaware, Hawaii, Michigan, New Jersey, Puerto Rico and several states and has carried out assignments in air quality planning and management in California. Prior to joining Cambridge Systematics, Inc. Mr. Stanley directed policy activities of the American Public Transit Association, including APTA's Transit 2000 strategic planning effort.

Kristina Younger is currently a Senior Planner with the Capital District Transportation Committee in Albany, New York. She started her professional career as an organizer and developer of community gardens in low-income neighborhoods in Ithaca, NY and San Francisco. She worked for the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, the designated metropolitan planning organization for the nine-county San Francisco Bay Area, from 1988-1992. In that position, she was responsible for the development of the $11 billion Transportation Improvement Program (TIP), including the implementation of the flexible programming provisions created by the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (ISTEA). Her work at the CDTC has applied a similar public participation process to a smaller metropolitan area. The long-range transportation plan now under development is striving to create a "New Vision" for the Capital District. Ms. Younger is a member of the Women's Transportation Seminar (WTS), the Planner's Network, and the American Planning Association. Ms. Younger graduated from Cornell University and the University of California at Berkeley and is the proud mother of two beautiful daughters.