Douglas A. Kerr provides the firm's clients with technical assistance in mass transportation. An engineer and transportation planner, Doug recently retired from a twenty-eight year career with the Federal Transit Administration (FTA). He has broad range of knowledge in all aspects of mass transit, including new starts, light, rapid and commuter rail, fixed route bus, paratransit, facilities planning and disability access.

During his career with the FTA, Doug served as chief planner in a regional office, director of a metropolitan office, and division chief and office director in the planning, engineering and program management offices in headquarters. He has worked with transit operators of all sizes, planning organizations, and state and local government agencies. He has developed and approved large and small transit grants, negotiated full funding agreements and managed oversight contractors reviewing grant recipients' compliance with regulations. In headquarters he managed the preparation of regulations, policies, circulars and procedures for making, managing and overseeing transit grants. He also managed the engineering oversight consultants program, real estate and joint development policies, implementing instructions for the Americans with Disabilities Act and policies on the use and life of buses and rail cars. He worked with transit industry organizations and transit manufacturers and suppliers on policy issues, procurement and the health of the industry. He established and maintained regular communications between FTA headquarters and the agency's ten regional offices.

Prior to joining FTA, Doug worked for a consulting engineering firm in New York and Pennsylvania involved in bus planning, rapid transit design, community development, and port and highway planning projects. Previously, he worked for a state highway department and a rural regional planning study.

Doug holds Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Engineering and Master of Engineering degrees from Dartmouth College and is a graduate of the Federal Executive Institute. He is a registered professional engineer in New York and a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers.