Erik Ferguson

Erik Ferguson is Principal of ETF Associates, a Southern Nevada transportation planning consultancy specializing in the development and implementation of sustainable transportation policies, transportation system performance monitoring, evaluation and modeling. His professional interests include advanced transportation, information technologies, congestion control, demand modeling, mobility enhancement, transportation systems and parking management, travel behavior analysis (including disaggregate discrete choice analysis and aggregate time series analysis) and market research, energy planning and air quality protection.

Ferguson has extensive experience working with key stakeholders in the public and private sectors on 1) demand modeling and ridership forecasting, 2) multimodal transportation planning, 3) air quality analysis, transportation conformity, and SIP development, 4) land use policies, planning and regulation, 5) economic, social, and environmental impact assessment, and 6) transportation, land use and air quality integration. In addition, he has a good working knowledge of state, regional and urban transportation planning processes, including long range forecasting methods and models, financial analysis and review techniques.

Previous clients include a wide range of public agencies, including: USDOT, FHWA, FTA, state DOTs, MPOs, COGs, cities and counties. He has worked with representatives of private industry, neighborhood and community groups, and other professional firms as well. Recent projects involve: 1) parking policies development, 2) review of regional land use and travel demand forecasts, 3) large scale master plan review, 4) alternative fuels implementation, and 5) review of planning methods.

Ferguson coined the term “transportation demand management” in 1985. He has published extensively in the literature on transportation planning since. His book, TDM and Public Policy (Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. 2000) provides a template for developing, implementing, and evaluating demand-oriented transportation strategies in the public and private sectors. Martin Wachs (University of California) writes, “this book helps to establish the subject as one worthy of further serious study and analysis.” Sandra Rosenbloom (University of Arizona) writes that it “has value to both practitioners and academics”. William R. Black (Indiana University) describes it as “a useful book that should find its way into every urban planning office.”

Ferguson has served on committees, councils, task forces and boards at the chapter, division and national levels on behalf of the American Planning Association, the Institute of Transportation Engineers, the Transportation Research Board, and the Association for Commuter Transportation. He has been honored as a Lilly Teaching Fellow, a Haynes Foundation Research Fellow, a German Marshall Fund Fellow, a National Merit Scholar and a California State Scholar. He has received service awards from the American Planning Association, the Women’s Transportation Seminar and the Western Governmental Research Association.

Ferguson has over 30 years of experience working with the U.S. Department of Transportation, John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center, the American University of Sharjah, the University of California, Irvine, the Georgia Institute of Technology, the Orange County Transit District and Commuter Transportation Services, Inc., among others. He holds a BA in Social Sciences and Communications and a Ph.D. in Planning from the University of Southern California and an MCRP from Harvard University.