 Cambridge systematics, Inc.
Telephone: 608-845-2616
E-Mail: kleonard@camsys.com
Years experience in current field: 35
Position/Title: Project Manager
EDUCATION: M.S., Urban and Regional Planning, Southern Illinois University – Edwardsville, 1971; B.S., Geography, University of Wisconsin – La Crosse, 1969
EXPERTISE: Public Involvement/Agency Coordination
RELATED TOPICS/EXPERIENCES: Mr. Leonard has more than 35 years of experience in the fields of transportation planning, policy, environment, public involvement, safety, economic development, Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), transit and freight issues. He also has extensive experience in agency coordination, statewide planning, urban planning, corridor planning and using performance measures and asset management as part of the planning process. While at Cambridge Systematics, Mr. Leonard has been involved in numerous projects including state long range planning, freight planning, developing congestion management systems, trade-off analysis between modes, asset management, safety planning and public involvement. He is the CS project manager for the development of the Kansas Long Range Transportation Plan that includes an analysis of future needs, future revenues, and extensive public involvement including regional meetings and stakeholder interviews. Mr. Leonard is also the project manager of the Alaska Strategic Highway Safety Plan that includes stakeholder interviews, advisory committees and public meetings. He conducted a study for the Federal Highway Administration that included a workshop on the new planning provisions in the new law Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (SAFETE-LU). As part of the workshop, FHWA and states discussed how to incorporate the new planning provisions into their statewide plans including public involvement and consultation with local governments, land use agencies and resource agencies. Mr. Leonard is also the project manager of a Gulf Coast Study (Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama) analyzing the transportation impacts of potential global climate change. This study is working with a federal advisory committee.
Prior to joining Cambridge Systematics, Mr. Leonard served as a manager with the Wisconsin Department of Transportation (DOT) for 24 years. Most recently, he served as the Deputy Administrator of the Division of Transportation Investment Management, respon¬sible for statewide and metropolitan planning, and programming. He also directed the development of a DOT plan to implement the reconstruc¬tion of 270 miles of freeway in Southeastern Wisconsin. Before that, Mr. Leonard was Director of Planning at Wisconsin DOT and responsible for the development of the statewide multimodal transportation plan. He worked with Wisconsin’s metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs) and regional plan¬ning commissions (RPCs) in the cooperative development of metropolitan and regional plans. Mr. Leonard was the project manager in developing the Wisconsin State Highway Plan 2020 which included an update of Corridors 2020 and the prioritization of the state’s major highway projects. The State Highway Plan included the analysis of pavement, safety, geometric and capacity deficiencies and future needs. It also included an analysis of environmental, economic, air quality, land use, social and financial impacts of the recommendations. He conducted the public involvement on the State Highway Plan that included an advisory committee of major stakeholders and over thirty public meetings across the state at various stages in plan development. This included working closely with the state’s MPOs, RPCs, and local governments including tribal governments. Mr. Leonard also directed staff on the development of the State Bicycle Plan, Pedestrian Plan, and Rail Planning efforts. These plans identified statewide needs and made recommendations to address those needs. As a manager at Wisconsin DOT, he chaired numerous multi agency and divisional teams and taught face2face communication.
Mr. Leonard is an active member of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) and is a member of the TRB committee on Statewide Multimodal Planning Committee and the TRB Committee on Programming, Planning and Systems Evaluation. He has chaired and been involved in numerous National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) projects dealing with the topics of statewide, metropolitan, corridor planning, freight, and safety planning as well as congestion, asset management, perform¬ance measures, environmental, air quality, and economic topics.
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