Transportation Service Plan for Disaster Survivors

Presenter: Eric Plosky
Institution / Organiztion / Agency: U.S. DOT Volpe Center

Bio: Eric J. Plosky is the Volpe Center’s chief of transportation planning. He leads a team of more than 25 planners, working on some of DOT’s highest-priority efforts, and supporting public-lands agencies, DOT offices, and other organizations on many different kinds of transportation-planning initiatives: data analysis, systems, and visualization; policy, program, and project development, management, oversight, and evaluation; infrastructure and service planning; and public communications and outreach. Since starting at the Volpe Center in 1999, he has carried out several detail assignments. In Baton Rouge, Louisiana, he served for five months after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita as a disaster-recovery coordinator for DOT, working collaboratively with the Federal Emergency Management Agency and other agencies both to develop national policies and programs and to conduct location-specific recovery operations. He has deployed on several subsequent disasters, most recently Hurricane Michael in Florida in 2018 and the Camp Fire in California in 2019. He completed undergraduate and master’s degrees in planning at MIT.