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Nicole McAden has

"I [used to] serve as the deputy project manager for the

been with Greenlink since
December 2015. She currently
serves as the marketing and
public affairs manager.

my five-year tenure with SRTS, I became passionately

In 2017, Greenlink completed
a Comprehensive Operations
Analysis (COA) and McAden
helped the consultants
facilitate a customer survey,
collecting 1,371 responses.
She led outreach efforts that
included a public open house
and 10 focus groups. She also
coordinated 16 public meetings
to get public input on the
proposed recommendations
from the COA study.
Also, in 2017, the Federal
Transit Administration awarded
Greenlink a Low or No
Emission Vehicle grant. McAden
was an integral member of
the grant application team,
soliciting 57 letters of support
from community partners
endorsing the project. She
also solicited 49 letters of
support for Greenlink's
Bus and Bus Facilities grant
awarded in 2018 and solicited

Ahmadreza
Mahmoudzadeh is a Ph.D.
candidate in Civil Engineering
at Texas A&M University.
He began working as a
graduate research assistant in
the Transit Mobility Program
at Texas A&M Transportation
Institute in fall 2018, where
he learned different modeling
techniques, statistical and
optimization methods,
machine learning tools and
programming languages.
He developed a new
methodology for assigning
buses to the campus shuttle
system by evaluating the
annual ridership data in terms
of service efficiency and then
proposed a new scheduling
system based on a clustering
methodology, which showed
the system could operate more
efficiently during the time when
class changes take place.
The main focus of his work
with the Transit Mobility
Program has been developing
mathematical and statistical

SC Safe Routes to School (SRTS) Resource Center. In
aware of how the built environment plays such a vital
role in personal transportation behaviors. The skills I
learned, specifically conducting walkability and bikability
audits, transferred to the transit industry as we discuss
bus stop accessibility. That position opened my eyes
to the importance of alternative transportation."
41 letters of support for the
agency's Bus and Bus Facilities
grant awarded in 2019.
In early 2019, McAden led
an effort to recruit 92 beta
testers to test Greenlink's new
TouchPass fare collection
system before launching to
the public in July 2019.
McAden has also focused
on increasing community

engagement and awareness
by launching programs
such as the Citizens Transit
Academy, the Bike vs. Bus vs.
Car Race and Adopt-a-Stop.

Nicole
McAden
Marketing & Public
Affairs Manager
City of Greenville
on behalf of the
Greenville Transit
Authority

She's often sought to provide
educational presentations
and she provided trainings
at the Transportation
Association of South Carolina
2019 Annual Conference.

Fact: McAden is a Class 46 graduate of the Greenville
Chamber's Leadership Greenville program for committed
leaders to look at community needs and develop social capital.
MassTransitmag.com/21149966

"Listening well and trying to implement the lessons
I have learned are the most powerful tools that put
me on the right path to walk and make progress."
modeling. He also developed
multiple automated toolboxes
from scratch for analysis of
transit agency operational
and financial data, which
have been key for projects in
transit budget allocation, trip
sampling, route scheduling,
service provision and data
evaluation that his group
conducts. The projects have
been sponsored by the Texas
Department of Transportation,
Transit Cooperation Research
Program and multiple transit
agencies. He currently
contributes to technical
assistance projects related
to transit cost allocation and
financial management.

He supported the Texas
Transit District Profiles and
Performance Dashboard
project to create a consistent
set of profiles for each transit
district and build an online
information center for all
state-funded transit districts
in Texas. He contributed to
spatial data management,
survey design and macro
programming. This project aims
to provide an understanding
of the current status of Texas
transit districts regarding
a multitude of factors.

Ahmadreza
Mahmoudzadeh
Ph.D. Candidate,
Graduate Assistant
Research, Texas A&M
Transportation Institute
and Ph.D. Candidate,
Texas A&M University,
Zachry Department of
Civil & Environmental
Engineering

He has been recognized by
APTA as an American Public
Transit Foundation Scholar.

Fact: He serves as the chair of technical activities for the
Transportation Research Board Young Members Council of
Public Transportation Subcommittee.
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