GEORGE GRAY


 

Organizational Affiliations:
Retired District Planner, Caltrans

Work Background:
George Gray has over forty years of experience in transportation. His overseas experience includes four years in Saudi Arabia as U.S. DOT advisor to the Ministry of Communications, and two years in Viet Nam as chief highway design engineer on an USAID Project, and one year in the US Army in Japan

In his capacity as District Planner (Caltrans, District 11, San Diego), George Gray was responsible for all planning, environmental, and privatization activities in the District. His policy responsibilities included four major international projects: 1) Binational Transportation Planning Study- a $2.5 million study involving four U.S. states and six states in Mexico. 2) International Border Transportation Case Study- a joint effort of the San Diego District, the FHWA, and the regional planning agency (SANDAG) to study cross-border planning issues and the transportation planning processes in California and Baja California, Mexico. 3) California Trade Corridors Study- a study to determine the optimum intermodal transportation capital investment strategies for the movement of goods in and through the continental U.S. West Coast Corridor, including operation and regulatory improvements needed to facilitate international trade corridors. And 4) formation of a bi-national advisory committee including California and Baja California representatives.

Mr. Gray served as Deputy District Director of Caltrans (District 4, San Francisco). He was responsible for all the District planning, environmental, public transportation, and transportation studies activities. Mr. Gray was also a liaison with MTC, Commissioner of BCDC, and Board Member of RIDES. He also is very active in the Transportation Research Board where he has served as chair of the Committee on Education and Training, Group Council Member and several other NCHRP and NCTRP committees.

Education:
M.S., San Diego State (Public Administration)
M.S., UC Davis (Civil Engineering)
B.A., Stanford (Civil Engineering)

Research Interests:
* State & Regional Transportation Planning
* Education/Training
* Transportation Demand Management
* International Study Exchanges

Professional Memberships:
American Society of Civil Engineers
Transportation Research Board

Publications:

  1. Conduct of Background Research for the Establishment of an International Surface Transportation Policy Conference in California "Global Cooperation Through Transportation: Joining Forces Across the Borders" (co-author). IISTPS Report 96-2.
  2. Public Transportation (Co-editor textbook), Prentice-Hall, 1992, 2nd Edition
    Over 40 other articles and reports