Transportation Policy, Operations, and Logistics Master's Degree Program, School of Public Policy

Transportation Policy, Operations, and Logistics

Stand-out School of Public Policy Student, Matthew Hardy

Hardy’s paper chosen as Transportation Policy Winner by Virginia Department of Transportation

Matthew Hardy, Mason Transportation Policy ’02 graduate and current Public Policy PhD student, prepared his paper "A Case Study in Addressing the 2005 BRAC Recommendations: Implementing Bus Rapid Transit in the Route 1 Corridor" for Dr.

Roger Stough’s Macro Policy class at George Mason’s School of Public Policy. His winning paper examines how Fairfax County can mitigate the impact of the 2005 BRAC recommendations through the use of Bus Rapid Transit.

As a part-time PhD student in the School of Public Policy working full time at Noblis, a non-profit science and technology company, Hardy chose the topic because he was able to use in his analysis the same sketch planning software tool, IBAT, that he helped develop at Noblis.

“Preparing the research paper for Dr. Stough’s class was an excellent opportunity to leverage my knowledge of public transportation systems with what I learned in class as well as applying what I learned in class to my projects at work,” says Hardy.

Highways are becoming more and more congested and transportation systems more complex. Mason School of Public Policy students like Matthew Hardy are researching current factors and learning methods of analysis in order to further succeed in their careers.

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