INSTRUCTORS:
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Jill Liu, Senior
Transportation Engineer, Fehr and Peers, Santa Monica, CA, USA
Ms. Liu has over five years of experience in
transportation planning with Fehr & Peers. She has completed various
traffic engineering and multimodal transportation planning projects in
California and Hawaii. Her recent project work includes the
environmental analysis for the Honolulu High Capacity Transit Corridor
project on Oahu, Hawaii and for several transit corridor studies in the
Los Angeles area, including the Crenshaw-Prairie Boulevard Transit
Corridor, the Westside Subway Extension and the Expo Phase II Extension
to the City of Santa Monica.
William J. Carry, Senior Project Manager, New York City DOT,
New York , NY, USA
William Carry is an urban planner at the New York
City Department of Transportation (NYCDOT), where he conducts planning
studies and manages the implementation of transit and pedestrian
improvement projects, including Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) corridors. He
has seven years of experience in transportation planning, sustainable
transportation policy, and community-based planning. Prior to joining
NYCDOT, he worked for Mayor’s Office of Long Term Planning and
Sustainability on the City of New York’s congestion pricing proposal and
for New Jersey Transit on transit-oriented development and BRT projects.
Mr. Carry has a Master in City Planning from the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology and an A.B. in Public Policy from Princeton University.
Norene Pen, Signal Operations Engineer, City of Seattle DOT,
Seattle, WA, USA
Mr. Pen has over 15 years of experience in the
traffic engineering, transportation planning, and construction
management fields. He is currently a Design Engineer for the Seattle
Department of Transportation Capital Projects and Roadway Structures and
has been with the City since early 2009. He was the signal timing
engineer for the southeast region of Seattle, which includes the Central
Link system. He was responsible for monitoring the traffic signals along
the light rail corridor so as to balance the needs of light rail
operations, intersection delays, signal coordination for both the light
rail and vehicles, and vehicle and pedestrian safety. Mr. Pen is
knowledgeable in traffic signal timing and engineering related to
transit operations, including TSP timing, light rail priority and
recovery methods, wireless access point design, and basic transit
traffic controller requirements.
In addition to working on the Central Link system, Mr. Pen has
experience on other type of transit projects. Recently, he was the
traffic operations engineer for the Rainier Transit Priority Corridor
Improvement (TPCI) project, West Seattle TPCI project, and the West
Seattle RapidRide C-Line project at the City of Seattle.
Joaquin T. Siques, Engineer, City of Pasadena DOT, Pasadena,
CA, USA
Joaquin Siques
is a Traffic Engineer for the City of Pasadena, where he has
worked for eight years. Mr. Siques manages the Traffic Management Center
where traffic operations play a critical role in the safe and efficient
movement of people and goods within the City. Prior to working for the
City, Mr. Siques was a Traffic Engineer for Korve Engineering, Inc. for
six years specializing in at-grade crossing design, pedestrian safety
and light rail transit projects. Mr. Siques has an MS in Transportation
Engineering from UC Berkeley and a BS from the University of Southern
California.
Joaquin is a past-President of the ITE Southern California
Section.
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