North Central Texas Regional Transportation and Stormwater Management Integration (TSI) Study
Date and Time: Tuesday, November 14, 2023: 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Location: NAS Members' Room
Presenter
Jeffrey Neal
North Central Texas Council of Governments (NCTCOG)
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Biography
Jeffrey Neal is a Senior Program Manager with the Transportation - Streamlined Project Delivery Team for the North Central Texas Council of Governments (NCTCOG), the Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) for the 12-county Dallas-Fort Worth Metropolitan Area. Mr. Neal has been employed with NCTCOG since 1999, gaining extensive transportation planning experience through work with multiple teams and disciplines. Mr. Neal has led the Streamlined Project Delivery Team since 2018 in efforts to integrate and optimize environmental data/analysis resources, enhance stakeholder collaboration and equitable mitigation initiatives, expand asset management and resilience capabilities, coordinate technical assistance and advanced programming for USDOT competitive grant proposals, and expedite multimodal project implementation on behalf of numerous local governments, regional transportation providers, and various public-private partnerships.
Mr. Neal holds a Bachelor of Science degree (Geography) and Master of Science degree (Regional and City Planning) from the University of Oklahoma, and he is a licensed Professional Transportation Planner (PTP).
Co-presenter(s)
Nick Fang
University of Texas at Arlington (UTA)
Biography
Dr. Nick Fang is an associate professor in Civil Engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA). With over 17 years of experience providing solutions for surface water and groundwater problems, Dr. Fang has conducted floodplain studies, hydrologic/hydraulic modeling, reservoir operations/management analyses, and numerous water infrastructure, treatment, and quality assessments across many watersheds and municipalities across the states of Texas, Florida, Connecticut, California, and Louisiana. Additionally, he has actively worked in the development of real-time flood prediction and warning systems, including an operational web-based alert system for the Texas Medical Center in Houston, TX which successfully provided precise and timely information during the last 50 storm events reducing significant damage costs and disruption. Dr. Fang's work is being expanded/incorporated as a prototype to other flood-prone areas nationwide.
Dr. Fang obtained his Ph.D. degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Rice University, where he also served as a project manager and assistant to the director at the institution's Severe Storm Prediction, Education, and Evacuation from Disasters (SSPEED) Center.
Matthew Lepinski
United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE)
Biography
Kate Zielke
North Central Texas Council of Governments
Fouad Jaber
Texas A&M University - AgriLife Research
North Central Texas Regional Transportation and Stormwater Management Integration (TSI) Study
Category
Resilience Adaptive Planning and Projects