Eva Lerner-Lam has 33 years of experience in transportation planning, operations, research, and policy-making. As founder and President of the Palisades Consulting Group, Inc., she specializes in leading strong, multidisciplinary approaches to solving problems in complex transportation systems in the US and China. She was Director of Planning and Operations for the San Diego Metropolitan Transit Development Board during the startup of the San Diego Trolley in the early 1980s, and later was appointed to the New Jersey Transit Corporation Board of Directors.