Graham Cavanagh
Senior Planner, New Mobility @TransLink
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WORK HISTORY
Senior Planner, New Mobility @TransLink
CA
TransLink has created a New Mobility team which is spearheading innovation practices to move both people and goods. New mobility leverages developments in automated, connected, electric and shared (ACES) mobility, communications and payment technology, travel demand management and user experience research within a multi-modal and multi-partner environment. The evolving innovation program is composed of pilots demonstration projects and innovation calls, with a wide array of communication interfaces for ideation including events, roundtables, working groups, and an engagement web portal. The New Mobility team are responsible for ideation, evaluation, and implementation of new ideas. To succeed, the New Mobility Team need to maintain rich and frequent communication with various parts of TransLink\'s functional areas, as well as with external private and academic sector actors. The ultimate goal is to keep TransLink innovative in a rapidly changing mobility landscape, in order to enable seamless and efficient door-to-door mobility for people and goods, ensure affordable and equitable access for all, and promote safe, healthy, clean and compact communities.The Senior Planner manages projects in development, piloting, evaluation and implementation of new mobility options, new partnerships, and business models to deliver a seamless user focused end-to-end mobility experience. Current and planned projects/pilots include a TransLink-managed vanpool program, on-demand flexible micro-transit, integrated mobile payment, trip planning and rewards/incentives for multiple service providers on a single Mobility as a Service (MaaS) platform. In addition, the role includes oversight of the New Mobility Lab academic engagement portal for post-secondary institutions and researchers across Canada that provides multi-year funding towards applied research aimed at addressing new mobility challenges and opportunities.
EDUCATION
Pratt Institute
Master of Science (MS), City and Regional Planning
Boston University
Bachelor of Arts (BA), History of Art and Architecture
Danish Institute for Study Abroad (DIS)
Urban Design Studio, City and Regional Planning
SKILLS
ABOUT GRAHAM CAVANAGH
Graham Cavanagh is a City & Regional Planner with 15 years professional experience working in public, private, and non-profit roles that span parks, land use and transportation. Graham has worked on projects in the U.S, Canada, Europe and the Middle East to enhance sustainable transportation policy, strategy, and implementation. He has coordinated metro expansion projects, bus network services, road upgrades with active and smart mobility solutions and is motivated by improving quality of life in cities and regions drawing inspiration from international best practices. Graham holds an Masters in City and Regional Planning from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York and a BA in Architectural History from Boston University. He was also an NYU Emerging Leader in Transportation Fellow and an Alexander von Humboldt German Chancellor Fellow.
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