Appendix A

Scan Team Data

David R. Geiger (FHWA Co-Chair)
Director
Office of Asset Management
Federal Highway Administration
HIAM-1 (Room 3211)
400 Seventh Street SW.
Washington, DC 20590
E-mail: david.r.geiger@fhwa.dot.gov

Paul T. Wells (AASHTO Co-Chair)
Chief Engineer
New York State Department of Transportation
50 Wolf Road
Albany, New York 12232
E-mail: pwells@dot.state.ny.us

Dr. Michael Meyer (Report Facilitator)
Professor
School of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
790 Atlantic Drive
Atlanta, GA 30332
E-mail: michael.meyer@ce.gatech.edu

Patricia Bugas-Schramm
Assistant to the Director
Portland Transportation Maintenance
2929 North Kerby Avenue
Portland, OR 97227
E-mail: patricia.bugas-schramm@pdxtrans.org

Lacy D. Love
Director, Asset Management
North Carolina Department of Transportation
Raleigh, NC 27699-1538
Mailing Address: 1 South Wilmington Street
Transportation Building, Room 106
Raleigh, NC 27601
E-mail: llove@dot.state.nc.us

Dr. Sue McNeil
Director and Professor
Urban Transportation Center
University of Illinois at Chicago
412 South Peoria Street, MC 357
Chicago, IL 60607

Address after Aug. 1, 2005:
Dr. Sue McNeil
Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
301 West Dupont Hall
University of Delaware
Newark, DE 19716-3120
E-Mail: mcneil@ce.udel.edu

Dennis L. Merida
Division Administrator
New Jersey Division, Federal Highway Administration
840 Bear Tavern Road, Suite 310
West Trenton, NJ 08628
E-mail: dennis.merida@fhwa.dot.gov

Robert Ritter
Office of Planning, HEPP
Federal Highway Administration
400 Seventh Street, SW.
Washington, DC 20590
E-mail: robert.ritter@fhwa.dot.gov

Kirk T. Steudle
Chief Deputy Director
Michigan Department of Transportation
425 West Ottawa Street
PO Box 30050
Lansing, MI 48909
E-mail: steudlek@michigan.gov

Donald R. Tuggle
Director, Program Administration
Federal Highway Administration
Eastern Federal Lands Highway Division
21400 Ridgetop Circle
Sterling, VA 20166
E-mail: donald.tuggle@fhwa.dot.gov

Larry Velasquez
District Engineer
New Mexico Department of Transportation
PO Box 1149
Santa Fe, NM 87504-1149
E-mail: larry.velasquez@nm.state.us

Biographic Sketches

David R. Geiger (FHWA Co-Chair) is director of the Office of Asset Management for FHWA in Washington, DC. He is responsible for promoting the concept of asset management in the agency and for working with State departments of transportation to develop the necessary engineering and economic analysis tools and management systems to successfully implement asset management as a standard for making investment decisions and managing transportation systems. Geiger has a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from Michigan Technological University and has held several management-level positions in FHWA's field and headquarters offices. He is a member of the American Public Works Association, American Society of Civil Engineers, and Transportation Research Board Committee on Asset Management. He serves as secretary of the AASHTO Subcommittee on Asset Management, and he is a licensed professional engineer in Wyoming and Louisiana.

Paul T. Wells (AASHTO Co-Chair) is chief engineer for the New York State Department of Transportation. Pavement, bridge, and safety management systems are part of his responsibility. With a large, complex, but aging infrastructure, cost-effective investments are critically important to the New York State DOT, especially when transportation funding is uncertain. Before becoming chief engineer, Wells was the department's chief engineer for construction and oversaw the annual $1.65 billion statewide construction program, including complex projects in the New York City metropolitan area. Some of the most difficult asset management issues involve rehabilitation and preventive maintenance approaches for the large urban viaducts and East River Bridges in New York City. Wells graduated from State University of New York at Buffalo with a civil engineering degree and is a licensed professional engineer in New York State. He is a member of the AASHTO Standing Committee on Highways, Standing Committee on Research, Technology Implementation Group, and Joint AASHTO/ARTBA/AGC Committee. He also serves on a number of NCHRP panels, such as the Research and Technology Coordinating Committee that oversees FHWA research programs and NCHRP Panel 20-36 on Highway Research and Technology—International Information Program.

Dr. Michael Meyer(Report Facilitator) is professor and former chair of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. From 1993 to 1998, Meyer was director of transportation planning and development for the State of Massachusetts, where he was responsible for statewide planning, project development, traffic engineering, and transportation research. Before that, he was a professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Meyer has written more than 160 technical articles and has authored or coauthored numerous textbooks on transportation planning, policy and education, environmental impact analysis, and intermodal transportation. He received a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from the University of Wisconsin, a master's degree in civil engineering from Northwestern University, and a Ph.D. in civil engineering from MIT. He is a registered professional engineer in Georgia.

Patricia Bugas-Schramm is assistant to the director of the Portland Transportation Maintenance Bureau in Portland, OR. Bugas-Schramm has coordinated development of seven strategic transportation asset-specific management plans for Portland Transportation since 2000. As infrastructure management system (IMS) project manager, she coordinated consultant and staff efforts through the 1990s that resulted in the integration of asset inventories, work management tools, maps, and financial systems in 2000. She initiated Portland Transportation's annual Status and Condition Report, now in its 19th year of publication. She has made presentations on Portland's asset management work at the American Public Works Association (APWA) Oregon Conference, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Conference in Portland, and the National Highway Institute's Transportation Asset Management workshop for the Oregon Department of Transportation leadership. She is a member of APWA and has a bachelor's degree from the University of Oregon.

Lacy D. Love is director of asset management for the North Carolina Department of Transportation. Love oversees NCDOT's statewide operational programs and administrative units for bridge maintenance, pavement maintenance, roadway maintenance, equipment and inventory control, intelligent transportation systems office, secondary roads, and oversize/overweight permits. In addition to managing these units, he develops performance standards and implements monitoring/management systems for the various highway infrastructure assets. In the past, Love has served in various field and central operations positions with maintenance responsibilities for various highway assets and maintenance programs. He graduated from North Carolina State University in 1979 with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering. He serves on the AASHTO Highway Subcommittee on Maintenance as vice chair of the Management Systems Focus Group. He also served as a member of the panel that developed the AASHTO Guidelines for Maintenance Management Systems.

Dr. Sue McNeil is director of the Urban Transportation Center and professor in the College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). Her research and teaching interests focus on transportation asset management with emphasis on the application of advanced technologies, economic analysis, analytical methods, and computer applications. Before joining UIC, she was a professor of civil and environmental engineering and engineering and public policy at Carnegie Mellon University. McNeil graduated from the University of Newcastle in Australia, and has a master's degree and Ph.D. in civil engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA. She is a registered professional engineer. McNeil chairs the Transportation Research Board Asset Management Committee and serves on the Executive and other committees. She is associate editor of the Journal of Infrastructure Systems and a member and former chair of the Infrastructure Committee of the American Society of Civil Engineers.

Dennis L. Merida is administrator of the FHWA New Jersey Division in West Trenton, NJ. He is responsible for administering an $800 million Federal-aid program in New Jersey. He directs a staff of 27 professionals in engineering, structures, planning, finance, safety, and environmental analysis. He has served in this capacity for the 10 years. Merida is a member of the division administrators' advisory group for asset management policy for FHWA. He has 30 years of experience with FHWA in a variety of engineering, planning, and environmental assignments in headquarters and field offices. He has bachelor's and master's degrees in civil engineering from the University of Michigan. He is a licensed professional engineer in Virginia and a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers.

Robert Ritter is team leader of the Planning Capacity Building Team in FHWA's Office of Planning. The Transportation Planning Capacity Building program provides training, technical assistance, and support to help decisionmakers resolve the increasingly complex issues of addressing transportation needs in their communities. Before joining FHWA, Ritter was director of policy activities for the Eno Transportation Foundation, where he was responsible for bringing together government, academic, and industry representatives to address topics such as intermodal freight issues, global climate change, and induced demand. Ritter has a master's degree in transportation from Morgan State University and a bachelor's degree in civil engineering degree from Rutgers University. He is a licensed professional engineer and certified planner. He is a member of the Transportation Research Board's Intermodal Freight Transport and Metropolitan Policy, Planning, and Processes committees, and is FHWA liaison to the NCHRP project panel on research for the AASHTO Standing Committee on Planning.

Kirk T. Steudle is chief deputy director of the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) in Lansing, MI, and is engaged in all aspects of transportation in the State. Steudle represents MDOT on the Michigan Transportation Asset Management Council and chairs the AASHTO Subcommittee on Asset Management. In August 2004, Steudle participated as a member of the National Asset Management Delegation conducting a transportation asset management seminar in Riga, Latvia, for transportation professionals from Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. In his previous jobs as bay region engineer for the 13 counties in the Saginaw/Bay City area and deputy region engineer for the Detroit metropolitan region, he was responsible for strategically managing regional assets in a cost-effective and efficient manner, concentrating on planning and programming, program delivery, and monitoring and reporting results involving road and bridge assets. This was long before asset management became known as a discipline. Steudle has served with MDOT for more than 17 years. He has a bachelor's degree in construction engineering from Lawrence Technological University and is a registered licensed professional engineer in Michigan.

Donald Tuggle is director of program administration in the Eastern Federal Lands Highway Division in Sterling, VA, a post he has held since 2001. Before that, he was special assistant to the FHWA executive director. He is now the Federal Lands leadership sponsor of a multidivision team on context-sensitive solutions. His 28-year FHWA career has included field assignments in Ohio, Michigan, Chicago, IL, and headquarters assignments in the Pavement Division, Construction and Maintenance Division, and Office of Asset Management. He has a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from the University of Wisconsin Platteville and is a registered professional engineer in Wisconsin.

Larry Velasquez has served the New Mexico Department of Transportation as the engineering/design division director and infrastructure coordination engineer, and is now district engineer for the largest metropolitan area in New Mexico. As district engineer, he is responsible for construction and maintenance operations of a metropolitan and rural transportation system. Velasquez, who has been with the NMDOT for 5 years, has more then 20 years' experience in the transportation field. Before joining NMDOT, he spent many years in transportation engineering and management for municipal and county governments. He has a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from the University of New Mexico. He is a licensed professional engineer in New Mexico. He has served on the AASHTO Standing Committee on Highways and two of its subcommittees. He is on the TRB Synthesis (20-5) Panel. He is a member of the Institute of Transportation Engineers and American Society of Civil Engineers.