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Frederick
P. Salvucci
Senior Lecturer, Center for Transportation and Logistics,
MIT; principal architect of the “Big Dig”
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Fred
Salvucci is a Civil Engineer specializing in Transportation,
with particular interest in infrastructure, urban transportation,
public transportation, and institutional development in
decision making.
Most
of his career has been in the public sector, having served
as transportation advisor to Boston Mayor Kevin White between
1970 and 1974, and then as Secretary of Transportation of
the Commonwealth of Massachusetts under Governor Michael
Dukakis between 1975 and 1978 and again from 1983 to 1990.
In those roles he has participated in much of the transportation
planning and policy formulation in the Boston urbanized
area and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts over the past
twenty years, with particular emphasis on the expansion
of the transit system, the development of the financial
and political support for the Central Artery/Tunnel Project,
and the design of implementation strategies to comply with
the Clean Air Act consistent with economic growth. Other
efforts include the extension of the Red Line in South Quincy
and Alewife, the relocation of the Orange Line in Boston's
Southwest Corridor, the acquisition and modernization of
the Commuter Rail Network, the restructuring of the MBTA,
the formulation of noise rules to halt the increase in aircraft
noise at Logan Airport, the development of strategies to
achieve high speed rail service between Boston and New York,
and the planning for the redevelopment of the Park Square
section of Boston through the location and construction
of the State Transportation Building there.
More
recent activities have included participation in a restructuring
of commuter and rapid transit services in Buenos Aires,
Argentina, using concession contracts with private-sector
companies (the new system has improved both efficiency and
effectiveness); participation with the Volpe Center in a
review of the transportation planning process in US metropolitan
areas of over 1 million people, and participation in an
innovative research and educational collaboration with the
University of Puerto Rico and the Puerto Rico Highway and
Transportation Authority, focused on the development of
a new transit system for San Juan, Puerto Rico. The project,
called Tren Urbano, is the first design-build-operate system
in the United States, and is scheduled to commence operation
in late 2003. Mr. Salvucci is also a key participant in
another major MIT research project with the Chicago Transit
Authority, patterned on the Tren Urbano program.
Mr.
Salvucci teaches courses in Urban Transportation Planning,
Institutional and Policy Analysis, and Public Transportation.
He attended MIT as both an undergraduate and graduate student
of Civil Engineering, earning his Bachelor of Science in
1961 and his Master of Science in 1962. International education
includes a year at the University of Naples as a Fulbright
Scholar from 1964 to 1965, studying the use of transportation
investment to stimulate economic development in high poverty
regions of Southern Italy.
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