Patrick Decorla-Souza

About Patrick Decorla-Souza

Patrick DeCorla-Souza is the Public-Private Partnerships Program Manager at the USDOT\'s Build America Bureau and FHWA\'s Center for Innovative Finance Support. Over his 35-year career at the US Department of Transportation, Patrick has led research and training activities in transportation policy, planning, operations and innovative finance. He currently oversees research and provides training and technical assistance on public-private partnerships. At FHWA, Patrick has developed new approaches to address public acceptance issues related to road pricing, including credit-based pricing concepts such as FAIR lanes, new performance-based public-private partnership approaches for implementing pricing with complementary transit services; and simplified analytical tools such as STEAM, TRUCE and P3-VALUE that make it easier to provide critical impact information on transportation policies to decision-makers. His technical papers and articles have been published in various professional and trade journals, on a wide range of topics including road pricing, public-private partnerships, multi-modal transportation evaluation using benefit-cost analysis, travel demand modeling, air quality analysis and public involvement. Patrick is a former co-chair of the Transportation Research Board’s Congestion Pricing Committee, and is currently a member of its Economics and Finance Committee. He has a Masters degree in Transportation Planning from Florida State University, a Masters degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Toledo, and a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture from the University of Bombay, India.

Experience

1. Public-private Partnerships Program Manager

   Federal Highway Administration

   Dec 1987 — Present · Washington, DC, US

Education

• The University of Toledo

  M.S. in Civil Eng.

  1983 — 1987

• Florida State University

  M.S. in Planning

  1974 — 1977

• University of Mumbai

  Bachelor's degree