Education:
1983 BS Engineering
1983 BA Economics
Swarthmore College, Swarthmore Pennsylvania
Affiliations/Membership:
Institute of Transportation Engineers, Utah Chapter
Professional Engineer, Utah
Selected Papers and Presentations:
Park City Summit: TDM Presentation
APA Western Planners Least Cost Trans Planning
Professional Background:
Matt has twenty-six years of transportation engineering and planning experience. His talent is in transportation planning with expertise in travel demand modeling, traffic engineering, access management, land use planning, and public involvement. Matt brings a wealth of corridor study experience including purpose and need analysis for environmental documents, freeway and arterial traffic forecasts, multi-modal alternatives analysis, and other related experience. He was the Project Manager for the Statewide Access Management Program and has been involved in or managed several high-profile transportation planning studies. Matt has also assisted on approximately thirty city transportation plans for including, but not limited to Park City, Draper, Riverton, Salt Lake, Sandy, Springville, Syracuse, and West Jordan, Utah as well as Rupert, Paul, and Twin Falls, Idaho. Prior to forming InterPlan, Matt was a Senior Associate with a national traffic engineering firm and before that spent ten years as a transportation engineer for the Wasatch Front Regional Council. Over the past ten years since founding InterPlan, Matt has been involved in almost twenty environmental studies for transportation projects, over a dozen community Master Transportation Plans and circulation elements of general plans, and several corridor studies in high growth areas.
Personal Interests:
As the founder of InterPlan, Matt brings a passion to his professional expertise. Transportation helps to set the tone of how “livable” a place feels, and Matt’s goal has been to improve the communities where he lives, works, and plays. Like any experienced transportation planner, Matt has seen that a balanced transportation system encompassing all travel modes is an important and continuing goal for any area to achieve. Matt’s work, as well as the work of InterPlan, is targeted toward transportation improvements throughout Utah and the Rocky Mountain West. When not at work, Matt enjoys running, biking, skiing, walking his two dogs, camping, and along with his wife, supporting the needs of two young adult daughters.