Susan J. Binder

As the CS Client Relationship Manager, Susan brings her "insider's" understanding of government to her CS clients based on her interdisciplinary skills and customer perspective developed during a unique public service career at USDOT, the US House of Representatives, the US Senate, and OMB. She broke the glass ceiling as the first woman to lead an FHWA field office as Division Administrator -- giving her insights into strategic management, program delivery and problem solving that are valuable to her clients. Her focus on funding and financing, performance-based needs analysis, legislation, and transportation policy analysis have been successfully applied in an eclectic portfolio of national and state clients such as TRB's Interstate Futures Study, FHWA "reinvention" of the Conditions and Performance Report, exploration of road user charging via a New Zealand study tour and analyses of education strategies for VMT strategies, and studying the implications and current use of program flexibilities under the Federal-aid Highway Program.