Sentence examples for transportation professionals from inspiring English sources

But some transportation professionals said they feared that Mr. Foye, despite his solid credentials, lacked the vision of some of his predecessors.

Actually, an increasing number of public and private transportation professionals around the country are seeing the benefit of going back to the future by making train stations centers of community activity in towns that grew up around them.

Rather than an N.Y.P.D.-designed site, such a solution will require cooperative efforts with planners, architects, landscape designers and transportation professionals, with the input of local residents and businesses.

"It's very forward thinking and perhaps a bit rosy in its projections but then again transportation professionals thought we were crazy when we started up 15 years ago," said Arthur Imperatore Jr., president of New York Waterway, whose nine Hudson and East River routes now carry 32,000 passengers a day, up from 18,000 five years ago.

But Robert Cotter, the vice president of SkyTran of Raleigh, N.C., which is developing a monorail system that it intends to market as a flexible mass transit option, said that it was such thinking among transportation professionals, policy planners, and engineers that has kept monorail technology from soaring as high as the political rhetoric that extols it.

Transportation professionals are sometimes required to make difficult transportation safety investment decisions in the face of uncertainty.

The rail link between North Station and South Station in Boston has never been taken seriously by any transportation professional for several reasons.

Aside from school transportation, professional drivers are also in demand for delivery companies and for coach operators, like those that run trips to Atlantic City, Mr. Martin said.

The former official suggested that Mr. McGreevey wanted a seasoned transportation professional in the post and would rely on James P. Fox, the transportation commissioner, as his key political operative on these issues.

But a transportation professional who is close to the project said the Trenton-Camden line would not be likely to meet criteria for federal help because of its cost per rider.

"He is smart, a transportation professional, accessible and rider-oriented," Gene Russianoff, staff lawyer at the Straphangers Campaign, said of Mr. Walder, adding that his nomination is "good news for transit riders".