ACT Names Bill Anderson Executive Director
The Association for Commuter Transportation (ACT) has named Bill Anderson executive director effective June 1.
"We are thrilled to have Bill join ACT as our executive director," says ACT President Rob Henry, Greater Valley Forge Transportation Management Association. "As ACT celebrates its thirtieth anniversary, we are in perfect position to influence not only the TDM community but the transportation community as a whole. Mobility is changing rapidly with technology leading the way and we are very excited to have Bill at the helm of ACT so we can continue to be a leader and a visionary association for our members."
A recognized facilitator of public and private collaboration, Anderson comes to ACT with 17 years of not-for-profit and government experience in the areas of community sustainability, regional resilience, and transportation system operations and management.
Anderson began his transportation career in the U.S. Coast Guard's Office of Standards Development and Evaluation, serving as a regulatory and communication expert addressing the safety and security of commercial facilities and vessels. He then used his expertise for the Transportation Security Administration establishing the Office of Maritime and Land Security, successfully representing TSA and the U.S. Department of Transportation in both U.S.-Mexico and U.S.-Canada Binational Critical Infrastructure Protection Steering Committee meetings to identify and jointly secure critical infrastructures with bi-national implications.
After the TSA, Anderson served as Director of Operations and Program Assessment for the Intelligent Transportation Society of America (ITS America). As a representative of ITS America he chaired the National Associations Working Group (NAWG), and was on the executive committees of both the National Transportation Operations Coalition (NTOC) and the Highway and Motor Carrier Sector Coordinating Council in the federal National Infrastructure Protection Plan (NIPP) public and private partnership. Anderson most recently served as director and chief operating officer of The Infrastructure Security Partnership (TISP), a not-for-profit coalition of homeland security and emergency management stakeholders. Among its many successes, TISP helped to incorporate the concepts of regional public privative collaboration for security and resilience within the 2010 National Security Strategy, the 2013 National Infrastructure Protection Plan, and the Regional Disaster Resilience Guide.
"ACT has many talented leaders — and many opportunities — to coordinate different mobility management sectors with innovation and problem-solving techniques that will drive dependable community transportation policy and practice improvements," says Anderson. "Commuter transportation is all about the safe and secure movement of people in connected/synchronized national, state, regional, and local transportation systems. ACT can convene the stakeholders of these systems."
Anderson holds degrees from Roger William University and the University of Maryland in College Park, and is a member of the Transportation Research Board, the International Association of Emergency Management, and the Society of American Military Engineers. In his spare time, he enjoys running and is president of a bowling league.
