Cliff Chambers

Cliff Chambers is a recently retired transportation planner with over 40 years of experience as a consultant. He utilized a mobility management ethos to match mobility services to market needs without a bias to a particular mode. Projects have ranged from preparing a long-range mobility and land use plan for Champaign-Urbana, IL; designing the first-generation rapid bus on El Camino for VTA; developing a vanpool program for the Houston area; developing 30 short-range transit plans for communities, rural regions, and National Parks; and managing a 10-year effort to broker $10 million annually in transit passes from all Bay Area transit operators to 200 employers for the Metropolitan Transportation Commission. He started his career forming the nation’s first transportation management association in San Francisco before receiving his Master’s Degree in City and Regional Planning from UC Berkeley and then joining Crain & Associates in 1986. For the last 11 years of his professional career, he owned Mobility Planners LLC where he collaborated with several of Principals of TCSC.

Cliff was the Principal Investigator or co-authored four Transit Cooperative Research Program research efforts on the topics of addressing institutional barriers to multimodal planning; evaluating the economic and social costs of personal immobility; mobility management; and developing a cost model for evaluating bus propulsion and fuel technologies. The research findings were often successfully applied to many of his consulting assignments.

Cliff is on the Executive Committee of the Mountain View Coalition for Sustainable Planning. For over 10 years he has collaborated with Google and other major employers and the City of Mountain in developing plans for a major mixed-use development with 10,000 homes in North Bayshore. Cliff and his family live in Mountain View, is addicted to playing pickleball is Vice-President of the Mountain View Pickleball Club.