- Frederick P. Salvucci
Frederick Peter Salvucci is a
civil engineer specializing intransportation , in particularinfrastructure ,urban transportation ,public transportation andinstitutional development in decision-making. He was the Secretary of Transportation for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts under Governor Dukakis. He was born, and still lives, inBrighton, Massachusetts .Career
Most of his
career has been in thepublic sector , having served from 1970 to 1974 astransportation advisor toBoston mayor Kevin White and then from 1975 to 1978 and 1983 to 1990 as Secretary of Transportation for theCommonwealth of Massachusetts undergovernor Michael Dukakis . In those roles he has participated in much of thetransportation planning andpolicy formulation in theBoston urban area and theCommonwealth of Massachusetts over the past twenty years. Particular emphasis was given to the expansion of the transit system, the development of the financial and political support for the Central Artery/Tunnel Project (see Big Dig) and thedesign of implementation strategies consistent witheconomic growth incompliance with theClean Air Act . Other efforts included the extension of the Red Line inSouth Quincy andAlewife ; the relocation of the Orange Line in Boston'sSouthwest Corridor ; the acquisition and modernization of theCommuter Rail Network ; the restructuring of theMBTA ; the formulation of noise rules to halt the increase inaircraft noise atLogan Airport ; the development of strategies to achieve a high-speed rail service betweenBoston andNew York ; and planning for the redevelopment of the Park Square section of Boston by locating and building theState Transportation Building there.More recent activities have included participation in the restructuring of
commuter and rapid-transit services inBuenos Aires ,Argentina , using concession contracts withprivate-sector companies; participation with theVolpe Center in a review of the transportation planning process inUnited States metropolitan area s of over 1 million people; and participation in an innovative research and educational collaboration with theUniversity of Puerto Rico and thePuerto Rico Highway and Transportation Authority , focused on the development of a newtransit system forSan Juan, Puerto Rico . The project, calledTren Urbano , is the firstdesign-build-operate system in the United States. Mr Salvucci is also a key participant in majorMassachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) research projects with theChicago Transit Authority andTransport for London , patterned on the Tren Urbano program.Mr Salvucci teaches courses in
Urban Transportation Planning ,Institutional and Policy Analysis andPublic Transportation at MIT. A graduate ofBoston Latin School , he attended MIT both as anundergraduate and graduate student ofCivil Engineering , earning hisBachelor of Science in 1961 and hisMaster of Science in 1962. His international education includes a year at theUniversity of Naples as aFulbright Scholar from 1964 to 1965, where he studied the use oftransportation investment to stimulateeconomic development in areas of highpoverty inSouthern Italy .Sources
[http://epw.senate.gov/ United States Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works]
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