Tien-Tien Chan
Co-chair, TRB TDM Committee
Technical Project Manager, MBTA
Krute Singa
Principal Planner
Metropolitan Transportation Commission
Sarah Kaufman
Associate Director
NYU Rudin Center for Transportation
About the panel
Tien-Tien Chan is a national expert in TDM where she currently co-chairs TRB’s Committee on Transportation Demand Management, as well as sits on the board for the Center for Transportation Demand Management. She has lived and worked in San Francisco, Austin, and Boston and has experience as a private sector consultant (Fehr & Peers) and public sector employee from both a local municipality (City of Austin) and public transit agency perspective (MBTA). In her five years in Austin, she created the City of Austin’s first TDM program driving new internal commute programs and community facing programs and developing local and regional policy. In her current role at MBTA, she works on improving riders’ access to real-time transit data and sits on the department’s DEI Committee.
Sarah M. Kaufman is the Associate Director of the NYU Rudin Center for Transportation, where she researches, advocates for and educates about cutting-edge technologies in transportation. She is also an Adjunct Professor of Planning, teaching Intelligent Cities and Advanced Projects in Urban Planning. Ms. Kaufman directs several projects related to Covid’s impacts on mobility and improving transportation for all: The Pink Tax on Transportation, an analysis of how safety concerns impact women’s travel patterns in New York City; Intelligent Paratransit, to rethink how we transport seniors and the disabled; and the Emerging Leaders in Transportation Fellowship, a program to enhance innovation at all levels of transportation planning and policymaking. Ms. Kaufman was honored with a Responsible 100 Award by City & State New York in December 2018 and a Tech Power 50 Award in February 2019. She is a member of The List and a contributor to Forbes.com.
Krute Singa is a principal planner in the Planning section at Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) and the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG). Her projects include the Climate Initiatives program and the Carsharing and Mobility Hubs pilot project. Before coming to MTC/ABAG in late 2016, she managed the CommuteSmart program at the San Francisco Department of the Environment. In both positions, her objective is to help reach the state’s greenhouse gas emissions targets by creating policies, partnerships and behavior change programs to reduce solo driving trips. Krute received her Master’s in City and Regional Planning from UC Berkeley.