Matthew Coogan, Director

Over the past two decades the Institute's Director, Matthew Coogan, has focused on the deployment of integrated multimodal mobility strategies, and with the application of these strategies to rural environments. He graduated from Harvard College in 1969, and later served as a Loeb Fellow in Advanced Environmental Studies at Harvard's Graduate School of Design. Between 1970 and 1972 he helped establish and served on the Boston Transportation Planning Review, the first major multimodal transportation study in the United States. Between 1983 and 1991, Mr. Coogan served as Undersecretary of Transportation for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and as Project Director of the Central Artery Tunnel Project. In this role, Mr. Coogan was in charge of all planning by the agencies of the Commonwealth for improved airport ground access to Logan International Airport. He was appointed by the National Academy of Science to both the Committee on High Speed Ground Transportation and the Committee to Critique the National Maglev Initiative. He has been featured in Engineering News Record, Architectural Record, The New York Times, USA Today, Bloomberg News Service, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post,and has appeared on The Today Show, CBS News National Public Radio and WNYC.

Board of Directors, The New England Transportation Institute and Museum

Phillip Renz, (Chair- NETIM)

Daniel Brand, (Chair- NETI)

William Lipfert,(Treasurer)

Peter Gregory

Donald Cooke

Eugene Vigneault

Pat Stark