Jose Luis Moscovich

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José Luis Moscovich has been Executive Director of the San Francisco County Transportation Authority for over eight years. He has nearly thirty years' experience in transportation planning and engineering, including project development and oversight, environmental studies and strategic planning, both in the public and private sectors. As Executive Director of the Authority, he spearheaded the development of the 30-year Countywide Transportation Plan for San Francisco, in 2004, and the reauthorization of the local transportation sales tax in 2003, approved with a 75% vote. Under his leadership, the Authority has developed the city's nationally known activity-based travel demand model; prepared a 30-year Strategic Plan for transportation investment; completed the award-winning Octavia Boulevard project; initiated implementation studies for two BRT projects in major city corridors; initiated seminal studies on parking pricing and congestion charging and spearheaded the replacement of Doyle Drive, the south access to the Golden Gate Bridge. In 2008, the Authority was granted the Employer of the Year award by the Bay Area Chapter of WTS. Moscovich chaired the Self-Help Counties Coalition (California's local transportation sales tax counties) between 2005 and 2007, and was President of the Board of the California Transportation Foundation between 2006 and 2008. He serves on the Advisory Boards of the Lake Arrowhead Transportation and Land Use Program at UCLA, and the University of California Transportation Center. He holds a degree in Urban Planning from the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana, and a master's degree in Transportation Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley. He is a member of the Institute of Transportation Engineers, the Transportation Research Board, and the American Planning Association. When he's not thinking about transportation and urban issues, he's usually conducting operas. He has two commercially released CDs including a new opera which received a GRAMMY nomination for Best Contemporary Classical Composition in 2005. He is a member of the National Academy of Recording Artists.