Travis Pollack, AICP

Department: Transportation
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 617-933-0793

Biography:

Travis is the Assistant Director of Transportation Planning at MAPC. He assists the Transportation Director in managing aspects of the agency’s transportation planning, transportation technical assistance to municipalities, and regional and statewide transportation policy initiatives.

Travis has been with the agency since 2016 focusing on regional transportation planning, including transit planning in urban, suburban, and rural communities. As Assistant Director, he participates in the Urban Planning Work Plan (UPWP) Committee of the Boston MPO. His other work at MAPC includes helping towns and cities work together to solve first- and last-mile connections, as well as multimodal planning. Recently, his work includes research on sustainably managing the impacts of e-commerce.

Prior to joining MAPC in 2016, Travis was a Senior Planner in the private sector in North Carolina, working on transit and rail studies, complete streets, greenways, and environmental planning. He began his planning career as an intern for the North Carolina Department of Transportation managing historic rail station renovation projects.

Travis earned a Master of Regional Planning degree from the University of North Carolina and a Bachelors of Arts in History and German from Grinnell College. He is a member of the American Planning Association and the American Institute of Certified Planners.

Areas of Expertise: Bus and rail transit planning, community transit, complete streets, transportation policy, e-commerce.