About Andrew Nash

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Andrew Nash is managing director of Vienna Transport Strategies. He specializes in transportation and city planning project development and management. Including: conceptual development, project planning and evaluation, information technology applications in planning, multi-media communications, technical editing and translation.

Nash's current project GreenCityStreets.com project uses an on-line game, social network and best practices library (wiki) to help improve citizen involvement in public transport planning. The project was awarded a prize as the most innovative project submitted for the Die Stadt 2020 Program in Vienna.

Nash's clients include WienerLinien, ETH Zurich IVT, European Union DG-MOVE, Thales Austria, Rail Technology Cluster Austria, TINA Vienna, Austria Tech, Austrian Federal Ministry of Transportation (BMVIT), Mineta Transportation Institute, San Francisco Planning Urban Research and numerous consulting firms.

Between 2001 and 2007 Nash was a researcher at the ETH Zurich's Institute for Transport Planning and Systems (IVT). He focused on public transport efficiency, railway planning and operations, communications and public involvement, and the relationship of transport policy to urban development.

In 2000 and 2001 Nash served as executive director of the San Francisco County Transportation Authority, where he directed the city's long-range transportation planning and financing programs. Previously he worked as a project manager for the Caltrain commuter rail system, the Santa Clara County Congestion Management Agency, and for several consulting firms.

Nash is a registered professional civil engineer. He is a member of the US Transportation Research Board's Transportation Research Board's Transportation Research Board's Intercity Passenger Rail Transport Committee and Commuter Rail Subcommittee.

Nash obtained his Master of Engineering and Master of City Planning degrees from the University of California, Berkeley, where he specialized in transportation policy. He also received a Master of Science in civil engineering from Northeastern University, where he specialized in public transport operations. He received his Bachelor of Science in civil engineering (focus: architecture and management) from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Before moving to Europe, Nash was a leader in several San Francisco Bay Area non-profit organizations including Greenbelt Alliance and the San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association ((SPUR)). In 1990, Nash helped draft a citizen's initiative requiring long-range waterfront planning and helped lead the successful campaign. Nash was honored by the San Francisco Women's Transportation Seminar (WTS) as Member of the Year in 1989. He also received over 30,000 votes in an unsuccessful run for election to the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) District Board of Directors in 1992.

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