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Joshua Schank
Director of Transportation ResearchNational Transportation Policy Project
jschank@bipartisanpolicy.org
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Joshua Schank joined the National Transportation Policy Project in 2007. He is an urban planner who has been working on federal and state transportation policy for the last ten years. Joshua previously worked as a consultant with Parsons Brinckerhoff, one of the world’s largest transportation planning and engineering firms. He was also the Transportation Policy Advisor to Senator Hillary Clinton, working on the most recent reauthorization of the surface transportation bill (SAFETEA-LU). Joshua has also worked as an analyst at the U.S. Department of Transportation Office of the Inspector General, and as a transportation planner at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in New York City. He currently serves as the President of the Washington, DC chapter of the Transportation Research Forum. Joshua has a Ph.D. in Urban Planning from Columbia University, a Master of City Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a B.A. in Urban Studies from Columbia University. He has published numerous articles on transportation policy and planning, and his first book - All Roads Lead to Congress: The $300 Billion Fight over Highway Funding - was published in October 2007. He lives in Washington, DC with his wife Lindsey and his son Max.
