Edwin N. Hard

Hard, Ed

Program Manager

Transportation Planning - Gilchrist, Room 380
Texas A&M Transportation Institute
The Texas A&M University System
3135 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-3135
ph. (979) 845-8539 Ext. 58539 · fax (979) 845-7548
e-hard@tamu.edu

Short Biography

Mr. Hard is Program Manager for the Texas A&M Transportation Institute's Transportation Planning Program in College Station. He has over 20 years of experience as a professional transportation planner, including 10 years in the public sector, 9 years in university research, and 2 years in consulting. His areas of expertise include travel surveys to support urban transportation models and corridor management and preservation.

Mr. Hard serves as TTI's manager and coordinating researcher for the conduct and analysis travel surveys in Texas, which has one of the most active travel survey programs in the United States. He oversees the development of survey designs, methods and development of bid specifications for household, work place, and commercial vehicle travel surveys. Since 2001, he has been involved in the management, data review, and/or analysis of origin-destination travel surveys for all Texas' urban areas as well as two statewide border crossing surveys.

Mr. Hard has lead research on state-of-the-practice methods for conducting external surveys on high volume facilities using intercept and video license capture methods. He co-authored Guidelines and Recommendations for Household and External Surveys and has co-instructed NHI Course Development and Implementation of Travel Surveys. In April of 2010, he traveled to Beijing, China to serve on an international panel for the development of a household travel survey to support travel demand models for this city of 20 million. More recently, he developed and will moderate a session on Current and Emerging Practices in Collecting and Estimating External Travel at TRBs 2011 meeting in Washington, DC.

Mr. Hard has experience in coordinating transportation and land use planning as a researcher and a practitioner. He's led research projects in the areas of corridor management and preservation, DOT/local coordination in the land development process, and preserving the functionality/asset value of highways. In each of these efforts, Mr. Hard has developed guidebooks and outreach workshops as a means to coordinate DOT and local planning policies and activities. In 2008, he served as lead author on Guidelines on Corridor Management in Texas, and more recently he led the development of a Guidebook on Preserving and Enhancing the Functionality of Highways in Texas. Since 2005, Mr. Hard has conducted over 45 outreach workshops on corridor management and DOT/local involvement in development review throughout the state of Texas.

Mr. Hard has years of hands-on experience in the development and implementation of transportation plans and development ordinances. He has authored and applied municipal plans and ordinances on access management, street design standards, bikeways, streetscape, and corridor overlay districts. Prior to his current position, he was the Transportation Planner for the City of College Station, Texas - home to Texas A&M University - where he was responsible for the city's short- and long-range transportation planning function and land development proposals.

Education

  • Master, Urban Planning, Texas A&M University, 1988.
  • B.S., Geology, Texas A&M University, 1986.

Experience

  • Program Manager, Transportation Planning, Texas A&M Transportation Institute, February 2009 - Present.
  • Research Scientist, Transportation Planning, Texas Transportation Institute, September 2006 - February 2009.
  • Associate Research Scientist, Transportation Planning, Texas Transportation Institute, January 2001 - August 2006.
  • Transportation Planner, City of College Station, 1990 - 2000.
  • Associate Transportation Planner, Wilbur Smith and Associates, 1989 - 1990.
  • Transit Systems Analyst, Metropolitan Transit Authority, Houston, Texas, 1988 - 1989.

Affiliations

  • American Institute of Certified Planners, 1994.
  • Member, Transportation Research Board, Transportation and Land Development Committee (ADD30).
  • Friend, Transportation Research Board, Survey Methods Committee (ADJ40), 1998 - 1999.
  • Technical Advisory Committee, Bryan-College Station MPO, 1992 - 2000.
  • Leadership Brazos, 1998 - 1999.

Short Courses Developed

Pilot Workshop on Preserving and Enhancing the Functionality of Highways in Texas. Texas Transportation Institute. College Station, TX, September 2010.

Workshop on Corridor Management and Preservation in Texas. Texas Transportation Institute. College Station, TX, September 2010.

Workshops to Promote the Benefits of TxDOT Involvement in Local Development Review. Texas Transportation Institute. College Station, TX, September 2006.

Selected Publications

E.N. Hard. Updated Workshop Materials for Preserving and Enhancing the Functionality of Highways in Texas. 5-6208-01-P1. Texas Transportation Institute, College Station, TX. March 2011.

E.N. Hard, B.S. Bochner, Y. Li. Delivery of Pilot Workshop on Preserving and Enhancing the Functionality of Highways in Texas. 5-6208-01-1. Texas Transportation Institute, College Station, TX. March 2011.

E.N. Hard, B.S. Bochner, Y. Li, I. Damnjanovic, W.E. Frawley, Y. Qi. Preserving Functionality / Asset Value of the State Highway System. 0-6208-S. Texas Transportation Institute, College Station, TX. 2010.

S.P. Farnsworth, E.S. Talbot, P.R. Reeder, D.F. Pearson, P. Songchitruksa, E.N. Hard. Methods for Developing External Travel Survey Data. 0-6583-S. Texas Transportation Institute, College Station, TX. 2010.

E.N. Hard, B.S. Bochner. Delivery of Workshops on Corridor Management and Preservation in Texas. 5-5606-01-1. Texas Transportation Institute, College Station, TX. December 2010.

E.N. Hard, B.S. Bochner. Workshops on Corridor Management and Preservation in Texas. 5-5606-01-P1. Texas Transportation Institute, College Station, TX. December 2010.

E.N. Hard, B.S. Bochner, Y. Li. Workshop Materials for Preserving and Enhancing the Functionality of Highways in Texas. 0-6208-P2. Texas Transportation Institute, College Station, TX. September 2010.

E.N. Hard, B.S. Bochner, Y. Li. Guidebook on Preserving the Functionality of State Highways in Texas. 0-6208-P1. Texas Transportation Institute, College Station, TX. May 2010.

D.F. Pearson, E.N. Hard, S.P. Farnsworth, T.L. Forrest, D.L. Spillane, M.I. Ojah, K.N. Womack, S.A. Boxill, C.A. Lewis. Guidelines and Recommendations for Household and External Travel Surveys. 0-5711-P1. Texas Transportation Institute, College Station, TX. March 2010.

E.N. Hard, B.S. Bochner, Y. Li, Y. Qi, I. Damnjanovic, W.E. Frawley. Preserving the Functionality/Asset Value of the State Highway System: Technical Report. 0-6208-1. Texas Transportation Institute, College Station, TX. February 2010.

D.F. Pearson, E.N. Hard, S.P. Farnsworth, T.L. Forrest, D.L. Spillane, M.I. Ojah, K.N. Womack, S.A. Boxill, C.A. Lewis. Improving Accuracy in Household and External Travel Surveys. 0-5711-1. Texas Transportation Institute, College Station, TX. January 2010.

B.S. Bochner, L.L. Higgins, W.E. Frawley, R. Cheu, K. Fitzpatrick, E.N. Hard, R.R. Longmire, D.R. Middleton, C. Morgan, A.J. Wimsatt. Guidance on Mitigating Impacts of Large Distribution Centers on Texas Highways. PSR. 0-5335-S. Texas Transportation Institute, College Station, TX. October 2009.