David Berman, Aicp Email & Phone Number

Oakland, California

• Manage AC Transit's network redesign, a comprehensive effort to ensure our transit network is equitably matched to where people need to go in the wake of the pandemic.• Coordinate the quarterly operator sign-up process, facilitating dialogues between the service planning and the scheduling teams and ensuring consistency from design through to implementation.• Manage projects including a service standards update, new service pilots, and microtransit planning efforts.• Conduct Title VI service equity analyses in compliance with FTA rules and AC Transit Board Policy.• Leverage SQL, Python, and GIS skills as data lead within the planning group, developing and maintaining interactive dashboards for monitoring service quality metrics like speed, reliability, and on-time performance.

Oakland, California

• Plan bus service that serves the city of Alameda and the communities of Southern Alameda County, which together make up a population of over 600,000 constituents.• Monitor performance metrics and recommend improvements to bolster service speed and reliability, improve the customer experience, and encourage ridership growth.• Engage with stakeholders and the general public to ensure all voices are heard throughout the service planning process.

Chicago, Illinois

• Planned service for over 20 bus routes, which together carry more than 100,000 average weekday boardings throughout Chicagoland.• Analyzed ridership, crowding, service reliability, and key performance indicators to determine appropriate service levels, evaluate potential service opportunities, and ensure the delivery of high-quality transit.• Provided planning-related updates to the agency's Title VI plan and ensured agency service planning practices complied with federal civil rights and environmental justice guidelines.

Vallejo, California

• Was responsible for fixed-route service and operations planning for the cities of Vallejo and Benicia, with 1.4 million boardings a year between both local and express bus modes• Managed projects to help support continued ridership growth and serve the communities' diverse mobility needs with an eye toward financial sustainability, including an automatic vehicle location (AVL) system implementation, a comprehensive network restructuring, and the maintenance of the agency's data feeds• Developed and implemented new planning policies based on industry best practices to lay the foundation for the nascent agency's continued success

Carlsbad, California

• Specialized in public transit service planning and analysis, including transit market assessments and analyses of service performance incorporating socio-demographic data, ridership, and financial metrics• Developed informed service recommendations for streamlined, productive, and more effective transit service• Conducted policy reviews and major service change analyses in accordance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act and Federal Transit Administration environmental justice guidelines• Composed reports, presentations, and maps summarizing findings for internal and official use• Assisted with business development activities, researching and writing proposals to win new contracts

Los Angeles, California

Utilized ArcMap GIS software to help develop a comprehensive digital catalog of lakes above 45° N and analyze changes in lake size over a period of 30 years using remotely sensed Landsat MSS, TM, and ETM+ data, with funding from the NASA Terrestrial Hydrology Program.

Davis, California

Prepared spatial, demographic, and network datasets for activity-based travel demand models for the San Joaquin Valley Model Improvement Plan and the California High-Speed Rail Authority as a part of the Urban Land Use and Transportation Center (ULTRANS).

Davis, California

Prepared spatial and network datasets for the Caltrans-funded California Statewide Travel Demand Model (CSTDM) in a joint appointment between the Information Center for the Environment (ICE) and the Urban Land Use and Transportation Center (ULTRANS), along with various other day-to-day GIS data management tasks.