D6-3-Discipline 6 PM Laura Brown Resume.pdf
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This is a resume for Laura Brown, Director of Planning Initiatives at RLS & Associates, Inc., submitted in response to the Arizona Department of Transportation's Request for Proposal for On Call Transit Consultant Services (Solicitation BPM007068). Ms. Brown brings 23 years of transportation experience with a Master of Public Administration from Wright State University and a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from The Ohio State University. Her professional background demonstrates extensive expertise in transit planning, service design, organizational governance evaluation, and public outreach across rural, urban, and mixed transit environments. Her relevant experience includes project management for multiple state departments of transportation, regional coordinated transportation plans, transit development plans, fare structure analyses, governance restructure studies, and specialized transportation implementation initiatives across numerous states including Tennessee, Ohio, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Maine, and Utah.
Ms. Brown's quality control practices emphasize quality assurance reviews, client dialogue, continuous oversight, regular progress reporting, and adherence to industry standards. Her publications include contributions to the CTAA Transit Fare Pass Toolkit, FTA Prescription and Over-the-Counter Toolkit, and two NCHRP tasks focused on state DOT bus fleet replacement needs and federal transit administration resources. Her recent project portfolio demonstrates active engagement with transit authorities, state departments of transportation, and regional planning organizations, with concurrent assignments spanning 2023 through 2025, indicating her capacity to manage multiple on-call consulting tasks simultaneously across diverse transit planning and operations disciplines.
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RLS & Associates, Inc.
Ms. Laura Brown has a diverse background of transit planning and financial management and analysis experience as well as a solid history of experience with rural and urban transit systems planning. An experienced Project Manager, Ms. Brown is RLS’ Director of Planning Initiatives, with a concentrated focus in transit service in rural areas and regions with a mix of rural and urban conditions. In addition to service design, she focuses on organizational or governance structure evaluation and design. In this regard, Ms. Brown has directed dozens of high profile projects across the country resulting in the development of short and long range transit plans, State, regional, and statewide and locally developed coordinated transportation plans, service evaluations, service assessments, and public outreach activities, including passenger and public surveys.
LAURA BROWN
Chief of Strategic Partnerships/Director of Plan-ning Initiatives
EDUCATION
• M.P.A., Masters of Public Administration, Wright State University, 2000
• B.A., Sociology, The Ohio State University, YEARS OF TRANSPORTATION EXPERIENCE
PUBLICATIONS
• CTAA Transit Fare Pass Toolkit
• FTA Prescription and Over-the-Counter Toolkit
• NCHRP Task 20-65, Task 65: Best Practices for State DOTs to Meet Bus Fleet Replace-ment and Expansion Needs
• NCHRP Task 20-65, Task 66: State and Local Use of Administrative Resources Provided by the Federal Transit Administration
QUALITY CONTROL PRACTICES
Quality Assurance Reviews
Open Dialogue with Clients
Continuous Oversight Ensuring Consistency, Clarity and Accuracy
Regular Updates and Progress Reports
Exceeding Expectations on Tasks and Deliver-ables
Adhering to a Strict Plan for Quality
Commitment to Continuing Education for All Staff Members
Exceeding Industry Standards
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Chief of Business Development/Director of Planning Initiatives, RLS & Associ-ates, Inc. 2000-2004; 2007 to Present – Ms. Brown’s forte is in consensus build-ing and the development of implementable plans with practical solutions at the local, regional and Statewide levels. A few examples include:
• Project Manager/Lead Planner, Tennessee DOT Office of Mobility and Ac-cessible Transportation Strategic Plan, (2020-2022 and 2024-current)
• Project Manager/Lead Planner, NOACA Regional Coordinated Transporta-tion Plan (2024)
• Project Manager, CityBus Comprehensive Operations Analysis and Fare Structure Analysis (2024-2025)
• Project Manager, Fayette-Madison Transit Transit Development Plan (2025)
• Project Manager, Lorain County Transit Transit Development Plan (2025)
• Project Manager, Midland, Michigan, Transit Governance Restructure Study (2024-2025)
• Planner, FAST Transit Fare Structure Analysis (2025)
• Project Manager, Bowling Green and WKU Transit Consolidation Feasibility Study (2024-2025)
• Project Manager, West Virginia Department of Transportation On-Call Plan-ning (2022-ongoing)
• Project Manager, Minnesota Department of Transportation Rural Transit Labor Market Analysis (2023-2024)
• Project Manager, Minnesota Department of Transportation Rural Transit Policy Review (2023-2024)
• Lead Planner, Central Ohio Employer Transit Route Study (Intel), (2023)
• Project Manager, Ohio Department of Transportation On-Call Transporta-tion Development Plan Task (2023-ongoing)
• Project Manager, Knox County Fixed Route Study (2023)
• Project Manager, Seminole Nation of Oklahoma Transit Development Plan, (2023)
• Project Manager/Lead Planner, Regional Coordinated Transportation Plans for Southwest, Southcentral, and Southeast TN HRAs (2022-2023)
• Project Manager/Lead Planner, Central Chicago RTA Regional Coordinated Transportation Plan Update. (2021)
• Project Manager, Wausau, Wisconsin/Metro Ride Transportation Develop-ment Plan (2021)
• Project Manager, Bangor Community Connector Regional Transit Structural Analysis,(2021)
• Project Manager/Lead Planner, Maine DHHS Transportation Program Evalu-ation (2020)
• Project Manager/Lead Planner, Utah Transit Authority Specialized Trans-portation Implementation Plan (2019-2020)
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