Jon A. Carnegie, AICP/PP, was the executive director of the Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey and an adjunct member of the faculty at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers until his retirement in 2024. Mr. Carnegie had more than 18 years of experience in the fields of land use and transportation planning and policy at the municipal, county and regional level. He was the principal investigator for a variety of research and planning projects involving a range of transportation policy topics. His experience included managing research projects involving transit-oriented development; the relationship between land use and transportation; long-range vision planning; transportation capital finance; transportation equity; driver’s licensing; workforce transportation options for low-income individuals and persons with disabilities; senior mobility; as well as transport security, emergency management and evacuation planning.

In addition, in 2007, Mr. Carnegie was the lead instructor for six deliveries of the National Transit Institute’s (NTI) Land Use and Transportation course around the United States. He also led the development of an NTI course on transit-oriented and joint development for the Federal Transit Administration.