Elizabeth Thompson has joined VHB New York City transportation team as a transportation planner, supporting the Northeast region’s growing transit and rail practice. After seven years in the public sector, Thompson joins VHB from New York City Transit’s Division of Operations Planning, where she served as senior transportation planner for long-range bus service planning. Thompson was instrumental in evaluating the performance of existing select bus service routes and planning new routes for implementation. Prior to that, she served in a variety of roles with the North Jersey Transportation Planning Authority including Principal Planner and project manager for the Capital Programming Department and principal planner and senior planner for the Regional Planning Department where she oversaw development of numerous federally funded transportation planning studies for local and county agencies.
“I am incredibly pleased to welcome Elizabeth to VHB’s Transit and Rail Team. Her contributions to federally-funded transportation planning studies at the NJTPA and bus rapid transit planning at the MTA will help our clients identify, evaluate, and plan for transportation investment priorities,” said Northeast Director of Transit & Rail, Lisa DiTaranti.
Thompson’s diverse public transportation background working on bicycle/pedestrian, complete streets, bus rapid transit, commuter rail station access, and economic planning projects will yield creative, practical, and sustainable solutions to enhance access, safety and mobility for our clients.
