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During the past 18 years, Mr. Pigman has directed the development
of Transit Resource Center into a highly recognized leadership position in North
America in the fields of advanced bus technology, maintenance consulting,
transit management, and strategic planning. Mr. Pigman has 29 years
of hands-on experience in transit management, transit maintenance,
research, strategic planning, and policy development. He has served
as CEO of two bus operations contractors, as the head of two state
public transit departments, and as a consultant with private engineering
consulting organizations.
Cliff Chambers is the Principal in charge of TRC’s Western
States practice. Mr. Chambers has over 25 years experience in short
and long-range transit planning, and transit performance audits.
He has conducted operations analyses of dozens of transit systems
throughout California and surrounding states. He has also served
as the Principal Investigator for the Transit Cooperative Research
Program (TCRP) on institutional barriers to intermodal planning
and policies in urban and rural areas (TCRP – Report 14).
He was also the Project Manager for TCRP research effort of the
best public transportation practices that address the mobility
issues of transit-dependant populations (TCRP Report 49). Mr. Chambers
developed strategies to assist local transportation agencies in
becoming mobility managers as part of another Transit Cooperative
Research Program (TCRP Report 21).
John Schiavone, TRC’s Senior Consultant on Advanced Bus
Technology is a nationally recognized leader in the U.S. in the
field of transit bus technical design and maintenance. Prior to
joining TRC, Mr. Schiavone served for eight years as the Director
of Bus Technology for the American Public Transit Association (APTA)
where he provided technical support nationally to APTA’s
transit members. For APTA he developed more than 25 national workshops
on such topics as alternative fuels for buses and exhaust emissions
reductions.
Currently Mr. Schiavone manages TRC’s contract with TCRP
(E-5) to investigate and document best maintenance practices in
the U.S. transit industry. He is also TRC’s Project Manager
on the TCRP C-15 Project for the evaluation of hybrid bus technology
in the North American market. Mr. Schiavone previously served as
the Project Manager for TRC’s contract to provide final engineering
and quality assurance on the Las Vegas Civis BRT project in France
during a 2-year project period.
Mr. Denman recently joined the staff of TRC after 21 years with Neoplan USA where he last served as Chief Engineer in charge of bus engineering and design. Dan is experienced in working on virtually every functional system used in transit bus and highway bus design.
He is fully fluent in all of the major bus software design products for use in CAD design applications. He is thoroughly experienced in bus product testing, product research, and regulatory compliance on the federal and state level in the field of bus manufacturing.
Dan has bee initially assigned to bus maintenance projects in Rochester, NY; Gendale, CA; and bus design projects in Asia.
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