ITS-CA Northern Section Business Breakfast

with Art Dao

The Northern California Section is proud to announce our first business breakfast series of 2011. These events are designed to provide a meeting ground for local leaders and the intelligent transportation systems community. Each breakfast features a guest speaker whose voice is influential in shaping transportation policies and investments in the state of California, and participation is limited to 10-20 members so that an authentic conversation can take place.

Our next guest will be Art Dao*, Executive Director of the Alameda County Transportation Commission.  The breakfast will take place at the Lake Chalet, at Lake Merrit in Oakland, from 7:30 am to 8:30 am on Tuesday, June 21^st

* Arthur L. Dao

Arthur L. Dao was appointed as the first Executive Director of the Alameda County Transportation Commission on August 9, 2010, and began service on September 1, 2010.  He is leading the integration of both the Alameda County Transportation Improvement Authority (ACTIA) and the Alameda County Congestion Management Agency (ACCMA), which began the first formal merger stages in June 2010.

The Alameda CTC assumes all functions of ACTIA and ACCMA, and Art will work with the 22-member Commission to integrate the agencies for planning, funding and continued delivery of a broad range of transportation projects and programs to throughout Alameda County. He was formerly the Deputy Director at the Alameda County Transportation Improvement Authority from 2001 to 2010. In that capacity, he was responsible for the delivery of the Measure B-funded Capital Program, and is credited with developing and overseeing the early delivery of nearly all Measure B capital infrastructure projects. He brings over 24 years of transportation engineering and management experience to the Commission. He holds a bachelor's degree of science in civil engineering from the University of California at Davis, and he is a registered engineer.