Profile: Incoming Board Member, Hasan Ikhrata
posted: Oct 15, 2009

Hasan Ikhrata has served as Executive Director of the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) since January 2008. His responsibilities include implementing the policies of an 83-member Regional Council and directing day-to-day operations of the nation’s largest Metropolitan Planning Organization. Ikhrata has over 25 years of public and private sector experience in Transportation Planning in the Southern California region.

Prior to joining SCAG in 1994, Ikhrata worked for the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) for four years. While there, he developed a comprehensive Transportation Control Measure/Transportation Demand Management program for the MTA and 88 cities in the County. While at the MTA he also developed multi-modal performance measures for use in updating the MTA Long Term Capital Plan. Ikhrata worked for the South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) for two years managing transportation and air quality related projects. He headed the evaluation of various components of Regulation XV, the nation’s first mandatory employer based trip reduction program designed to reduce commute related automobile travel. Holding a Research Assistant position for six years with the University of Southern California (USC) and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Ikhrata investigated three main areas: land use and transportation planning; harnessing the energy of tidal waves; and pile foundations under dynamic loads. He also worked abroad for the USSR government, Moscow Metro Corporation, where he conducted subway ridership forecasting, engineering design and analysis of TDM programs for the Moscow Subway system.

Hasan Ikhrata holds PhD Candidacy in Urban Planning and Transportation from USC, a Masters degree in Civil Engineering from UCLA, and Bachelors and Masters degrees in Civil and Industrial Engineering from Zaporozhye University in the former Soviet Union.

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