Tom Laws
Transportation Planning & Programming Leader | Capital Investment, Active Transportation & Regional Collaboration | AICP
- Role
- Planning Manager at Ada County Highway District (ACHD)
- Location
- Boise, ID, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Tom Laws
I am the Planning Manager at the Ada County Highway District, leading a team focused on our five year capital improvement plan, pavement management, federal funding, bicycle and pedestrian planning, project scoping, and partner agency coordination.AICP designated and a League Certified Instructor. I hold a Master\'s degree in Geography with a focus in Transportation Planning and Natural Resource Management from Western Washington University, Bachelor\'s Degrees with honors in Geography and Environmental Studies with a focus in Planning, Public Policy, and Management from the University of Oregon, and a Graduate Certificate in Community and Regional Planning from Boise State University.
Experience
Planning Manager
Ada County Highway District (ACHD)
Jun 2022 — Present · Garden City, ID, US
Manages a team of engineers, coordinators, and transportation planning professionals focusing on access and mobility, pavement management, and project programming. Responsible for the creation and adoption of the Five-Year Plan, consisting of over 500 individual transportation projects with a budget of $904 million. My team is also responsible for facilitating the American with Disabilities Act, Bicycle, and Pedestrian Advisory Committees, and are liaisons for our partners including the six Cities, County, Transit Agency, and Metropolitan Planning Organization.
Education
University of Oregon
Bachelor of Science (BS), Environmental Studies, Geography with Honors. Minor in German
2007 — 2011
Western Washington University
Master of Science (MS), Geography
2011 — 2013
Boise State University
Graduate Certificate, Community and Regional Planning
2015 — 2016
University of Tübingen
Study Abroad, Focus in German and Cultural Geography
2009 — 2010
Skills
- Spatial Analysis
- Transportation Planning
- Research
- Data Collection
- Trafx
- Spss
- Urban Geography
- Arcmap
- Urban Planning
- Gis
- Geography
- Arcgis
- Environmental Policy
- Ecology
- Environmental Awareness
- Transcad
- Policy
- Remote Sensing
- Field Work
- Environmental Science
- Environmental Education
- Spatial Databases
- Cartography
- Geographic Information Systems (Gis)
- Public Policy
- Natural Resource Management
- Microsoft Office
- Hydrology
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