Metrocard trailblazer to lead PB transportation leader.

Lawrence Reuter, former president of MTA-New York City Transit (NYCT), has been named a senior vice president of PB (Parsons Brinckerhoff).

"Larry's 35 years of experience managing transit systems in New York, California and Washington, D.C. has given him a background that is unparalleled in the industry and will help us better understand our clients' goals and how to achieve them," said Tom O'Neill, chairman and chief executive officer of PB.

Reuter will serve as PB's project manager for the People's Transportation Plan, a multi-billion-dollar rail, highway, bus and neighborhood improvement program for Miami-Dade County, Florida, for which PB is providing program management consuiting services to Miami-Dade Transit.

Reuter served as president of NYCT from 1996 through February 2007, and was senior vice president of operations responsible for all subway and bus service from 1982 to 1990. NYCT is North America's largest public transit system carrying approximately 7.3 million customers on an average weekday. He managed 48,000 employees with an annual operating budget of $5.2 billion and a capital budget of $2.2 billion per year.

He also served as general manager of the Santa Clara Valley County Transportation Authority in San Jose, California from 1990 to 1994, during which time he completed the county's first light rail line, and as general manager of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority in Washington, D.C. from 1994 to 1996, where he was responsible for an agency with 9,000 employees, an operating budget of $700 million and a capital budget of $800 million.

Among his many contributions to NYCT, Reuter implemented a $700 million automated fare collection system known as MetroCard and oversaw the completion of capital projects including the 63rd Street Connector, which linked the existing 63rd Street Tunnel with the Queens Boulevard subway line; the JFK AirTrain, which connects the airport to the subway and Long Island Rail Road; the rehabilitation of the Atlantic Avenue and Stillwell Avenue terminals in Brooklyn; and the reconstruction of the subway line damaged in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. He also managed the largest purchase of subway cars in the agency's history and spearheaded an aggressive emissions reduction and clean fuel program.

Under Reuter's leadership, NYCT was the recipient of numerous industry awards. In 2002, the agency's Department of Buses received a Clean Air Excellence Award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. In 2001, the American Public Transportation Association (APTA) cited NYCT as "the most efficient and effective transit system" in North America. APTA also presented its 2000 Gold Award to the NYCT Department of Buses for having the best customer-safety record among transit agencies with more than 30 million customers annually

Reuter received a B.S. degree in engineering from Florida Technological University. He is a member of the American Management Association.