Members of the Muller Bohlin Team include:
Tiffany A. Bohlin, President
Neil D. Muller AICP, Vice President
James E. Davis, Transit Planning and Information Services
Kelly Murphy, AICP, Housing and Economic Development
Melissa Cooke, Communications and Media Development
- Public and Private Partnerships
- Community Involvements
- Grants Management
- Economic Development
Ms. Bohlin has lead responsibility for community involvement activities and rail freight policy and planning projects and grants management. She is active in the NJ Short Line Railroad Association and has worked closely with the regional representatives of Norfolk Southern and CSX on regional and local freight issues. She is an active participant in the NJ Light Rail Panel and she is a member of the NJ State Chamber of Commerce Transportation Committee. Ms. Bohlin's knowledge of economic development, transportation and environmental planning and her links to government and industry representatives, make her an effective and credible communicator of issues and their implications. Ms Bohlin is currently managing the community involvement process for the public-private partnership advancing the Bergen Cross County light rail initiative. Activities include organizing local consensus, initiating press events to support project efforts, and providing strategic advice for the public-private partners to assist in advancing the initiative. She also works closely with NJ Transit staff and managed consultant support for the NYS&W passenger restoration project between Sparta and Hawthorne. Recently, she developed a consensus between the County of Bergen, City of Hackensack and the NYS&W railroad to repair a rail bridge over a county road that had impeded traffic flow and downtown redevelopment for over thirty years. She is an expert participant in the development of suitable policies governing safety and other issues for shared use of passenger and freight rail services on the same right-of way.
Neil D. Muller, AICP
Vice President
- Transportation and Strategic Planning
- Project Funding Development
- Information Technology and Database Management
Mr. Muller is an innovative, creative planner with a unique blend of technical, policy and planning skills. As director of Planning and Information Technology, he led the development of the ISTEA/TEA21 planning process at the North Jersey Transportation Planning Authority, the third largest metropolitan planning organization in the nation. He is familiar with most federally mandated transportation planning and programming requirements and developed successful processes to address issues such as Air Quality Conformity, Major Investment Studies, Congestion Management Studies and Public Participation. Mr. Muller has worked collaboratively with federal, state and local agencies in regional plan development, project design and interagency consultation. His experience includes working with NJDEP, NJDOT, HMDC, NJ Transit, FHWA, FTA, EPA, Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, New Jersey Turnpike Authority, New Jersey Highway Authority and the thirteen northern New Jersey Counties. He has also worked successfully with local officials and has led over 200 meetings on transportation, economic development and land use issues. Mr. Muller is an expert in key information technologies that support public decision-making. He has worked extensively with the North Jersey Regional Travel Demand model and has led its application to regional air quality and local transportation issues. He developed the innovative "technology library" which promoted the application of geographic information systems to county transportation decision-making in northern New Jersey. He is an expert in the use of demographic, economic and transportation data from federal, state and local databases.
James E. Davis
Transit Planning and Information ServicesMr. Davis leads MBA's services to the transit industry with a particular focus on the application of information technology to improved market identification and service provision. While at the NYSDOT, where he led a number of critical initiatives in the ITS world, he developed a GIS-based toolkit to assist transit operators identify new market opportunities from census data. This innovative approach was recognized by awards from both APTA and the Community Transportation Association of America. Mr. Davis also participated in the development and management of the ITS Model Deployment in the New York Metropolitan area and was instrumental in integrating it with the Transit Standards Consortium. Mr. Davis is familiar with land use and transportation models and has participated in their application to numerous corridor studies.
Kelly Murphy, AICP
Housing and Economic DevelopmentMs. Murphy has worked for more than ten years in the areas of housing, economic development, transportation and land use development gained both as a county planner in northern New Jersey and as a Division Director in the Department of Housing for the City of Chicago, where she also studied for a Masters Degree in Urban Planning. She brings to each project a breadth of perspective that comes from regionally scaled transportation investments, such as the completion of I-287 through Northwest Bergen County, as well as a sensitivity to the concerns of individual residents affected by shifts in federal and state housing policy. She has managed large construction contracts and developed innovative projects to jump- start neighborhood revitalization. She has lead responsibility for MBA's economic development services and provides on-site support in the Hackensack and Bayonne. She is working on a number of neighborhood scaled projects including the Hudson Street Neighborhood Preservation Project and the management of parking around Bayonne's new light rail stations for which she developed a draft parking ordinance.
Melissa Cooke
Communications and Media DevelopmentWith over fifteen years experience in the advertising and design fields, Ms. Cooke has designed logos, brochures, Web sites, posters and advertisements to enhance the communication and marketing efforts of both businesses and organizations. She is an expert in both traditional print media as well as state of the art Web-based technologies. Recent projects prior to MBA include the redesign of Nabisco's corporate Web site; the development of a corporate identity for a start-up wireless technology firm; and the design of a marketing package to promote "Millennium at Morris." She is also involved in various community activities and recently served on the New Jersey Commemorative Coin Design Commission where she participated in choosing New Jersey's quarter in the United States Mint's Commemorative Quarter Program.