RICHARD WILSON & ASSOCIATES LLC - 2014

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Richard Willson & Associates LLC 4249 Sea View Lane Los Angeles, CA 90065 323 251 -0721 — rwwillson @csupomona.edu Richard Willson & Associates LLC is a planning consulting firm with research and policy expertise in transportation planning, parking demand analysis and management, transit access planning, and transit - oriented development. Dr. Willson is also a professor in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at Cal Poly Pomona. Dr. Willson's research in transportation planning addresses parking policy and pricing, transit access planning, greenhouse gas mitigation, land /use transportation relationships, travel demand management, and transit - oriented development. His book, Parking Reform Made Easy, was published by Island Press in June 2013. It provides a methodology for establishing minimum parking requirements. Dr. Willson's research has appeared in the Journal of Planning Education and Research, the Journal of the American Planning Association, Transportation, Transportation Quarterly, Regional Science and Urban Economics, Transportation Research A and other journals. Dr. Willson holds a Ph.D. in urban planning from the University of California, Los Angeles and a Masters of Planning from the University of Southern California. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners. His Ph.D. dissertation assessed the impact of parking pricing on parking demand among downtown Los Angeles commuters. Dr. Willson consults with regional transportation agencies, transit providers and cities on issue of parking requirements, management, and pricing. He also provides parking shared parking analysis services to developers of urban infill and transit - oriented development projects. Dr. Willson has worked on parking requirement, management and pricing issues in public or private projects in the Cities of Anaheim, Culver City, Irvine, Laguna Beach, Los Angeles, Santa Clarita, Santa Cruz, Temple City, Whittier, and others. He teamed with [then] Wilbur Smith Associates on a Parking Strategic Plan for the City of Denver, the downtown Los Angeles Parking Ordinance Implementation project, and the Metropolitan Transportation Commission Smart Parking initiative. Dr. Willson has extensive experience in conducting parking demand analysis and rail station area access planning. In addition assisting BART in parking and access planning over more than a decade, he participated in access planning for the BART extension to San Jose, Caltrain, and the ARTIC multimodal transit terminal in Anaheim. Dr. Willson's approach is to link the cutting edge research with practical proposals that help improve the chances of implementation. Building on a background in academic, consulting, and public agency work, he is effective working in a team setting with staff and other consultants.