Eva Lerner-Lam - Team Management
Send Email / View Resume
Eva Lerner-Lam has 29 years of experience in transportation planning, operations, security, research and policy making. Founder and President of the Palisades Consulting Group, Inc., she is the Past Chair of the Transportation Security Committee and Past President of the American Society of Civil Engineers’ Transportation and Development Institute. She serves on numerous professional society and homeland security-related committees and panels dealing with national and regional transportation security issues.

Eva was Project Director of the US Department of Transportation’s Transit Communications Interface Profiles (TCIP) standards development project, was a founding member of the Transit Standards Consortium, Inc. (TSC), and currently serves as Chair of the TSC Board of Trustees.

As a planner for the San Diego Metropolitan Transit Development Board in the early 1980’s, she worked on the start-up of the San Diego Trolley and became Director of Planning and Operations for MTDB.

In 1988, Eva was appointed by Governor Thomas H. Kean of New Jersey to serve on the New Jersey Transit Corporation’s Board of Directors. She also served as Interim Executive Director of Princeton University’s Intelligent Transportation Systems Program and taught a popular course on Urban Transportation Planning at the New Jersey Institute of Technology Graduate School.

Eva is a Fellow of the Institute of Transportation Engineers, chaired the Institute’s Transit ITS Joint Committee and was the recipient of the ITE 1991 Best Paper Award. She was a charter member of IVHS America and chaired its APTS Task Force on Spatial Data Standards. She served as Chair of the Executive Committee of the Urban Transportation Division of the American Society of Civil Engineers, and is Past Chair of the Transit IDEA Panel for the Transportation Research Board, a division of the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences.

She has received numerous professional recognition awards, including the 1995 ITE Metropolitan Section New York/New Jersey Engineer of the Year, the 1998 ASCE Frank M. Masters Engineering Achievement Award and the 2004 International Chinese Transportation Professionals Association Outstanding Achievement Award.