Adam has more than two decades of experience across planning and policy, finance and investments, and research and analysis. His advisory work lies at the intersection of transportation business strategy, operating cost forecasting, and finance and procurement advice.
As a consultant, Adam has guided state DOTs through policy changes in transportation finance and helped them think strategically about emerging public private partnerships. In his roles with governmental agencies and transportation operators, he helped develop an enterprise-level strategic railroad plan and capital investment prioritization methodology and coordinated between multiple agencies in the development of major infrastructure initiatives for New York City.
At Steer, Adam provides public and private sector clients with commercial advisory services, helping them understand operations and maintenance costs at the planning level to consider financial feasibility and alternatives analysis for service changes, new services, or new projects, as well as advice on procuring such services. He has supported a finalist consortium bidding for the multi-billion-dollar Sepulveda Corridor transit new build P3 in California, including analysis and evaluation of potential operators and rolling stock providers, analysis of competing proposals and general commercial and procurement advisory support. Similarly, he advised the Canadian government’s High Frequency Rail (HFR) project, evaluating and analysing interim bidder submittals during the bidder engagement phase.
Adam leads our business and financial analysis work for clients across North America, directing the development of, and ongoing support for O&M models and ancillary revenue models and reports for public and private sector clients. Through this work he has advised Caltrans and Virginia on navigating budget and service alternatives for their in-state Amtrak services, directed the modelling of O&M expenses to support the evaluation of P3 business model submissions for the HFR project, supported MBTA in evaluation of O&M cost implications of technology alternatives for commuter rail improvements. His work has supported financial models identifying funding gaps, financing needs for proposed intercity rail services and airport terminal alternatives analyses and financings.
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