Thomas White

Summary of Experience
Thomas White has over 40 years of experience in railroad operations, including over 20 years in operations management and traffic control and over 15 years in infrastructure design, service and operations planning, and capacity analysis. Significant projects include:

1997 – Present
Transit Safety Management — Senior Operations Specialist

• New Starts Planning and Implementation

Pacific Northwest Rail Corridor (Washington, Oregon, British Columbia)
Mexico City-Huehuetoca Commuter Railroad (Mexico)

Tacoma – Everett WA Commuter Rail Service (Sounder)

• Infrastructure Planning

Development of infrastructure plans and capital improvement programs to increase capacity for:

-          Port of Tacoma, WA

-          Port of Portland, OR

-          King Street Station, Seattle, WA

-          Seattle WA Amtrak maintenance facility

-          Vancouver Passenger Terminal, British Columbia

-          Seattle-Vancouver Intercity Passenger Service (Pacific Northwest Rail Corridor)

-          Washington County OR commuter rail service

• Operations Planning/Feasibility Analyses

-            Washington State DOT

-            Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission

-            Sound Transit

-            Metrorail, South Africa

-            Triangle Transit Authority

-            MBTA Fitchburg Line extension, Wachusett MA

-            I-91 Corridor passenger service improvement, MA and VT

-            Springfield-Greenfield MA new commuter service

-            King County BNSF Corridor Preservation Study

-            Southeast King County Commuter Rail Feasibility Study

• Operational Evaluations and Assessments

-          Sound Transit

-          Chicago Planning Study

-          Metrorail, Johannesburg, South Africa

-          Pacific Northwest Rail Corridor

-          Alaska Railroad, Anchorage, Alaska

-          Port of Seattle

-          I 91 Knowledge Corridor (Massachusetts, Vermont)

-          MBTA Fitchburg – Gardner (Massachusetts) commuter rail extension

-          Port of Oakland inland port (California)

-          Port of Vancouver WA

-          BNSF Arizona and New Mexico passenger train speed and running time analysis

-          BNSF Pacific Northwest delay analysis

• Operating Rules development and Federal Regulations Compliance

-          Northern Indiana Commuter Transportation District

-          Red Car Line (Long Beach CA)

• Emergency Response Planning and Reference

- Sound Transit

• Publications, Lectures & Training Programs

Textbooks:

-          Elements of Train Dispatching, Vol. 1

-          Elements of Train Dispatching, Vol. 2

-          Managing Railroad Transportation

-          The Railroad, What it is, What it Does, 5th Edition (Contributing Author)

-          Railway Signalling and Interlocking, International Compendium (Co-author)

Publications

-          International Heavy Haulage Association

-          Transportation Research Board

Lectures

-          University of Washington, Seattle, WA

-          Institute for Railway Systems Engineering, Braunschweig, Germany

-          University of Wisconsin School of Engineering, Madison WI

Guest Speaker

-          Friedrich List Faculty of Transportation and Traffic Sciences, Dresden Technical University, Dresden Germany

Organizations

-          Board member, International Association of Railway Operations Research (Netherlands and Germany)

1976 – 1996
Burlington Northern / Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad

• Four years capacity planning and management, scheduling, passenger startup programs, IT systems development, IT systems implementation, and training.

• Sixteen years of hands-on railroad operations experience as an Operator, Train Dispatcher and Chief Train Dispatcher.

1967 – 1975
Served in various field operations positions (e.g., Yard clerk, Crew clerk, Operator, Train Dispatcher, Chief Train Dispatcher for several railroads: Baltimore and Ohio Chicago Terminal,  Southern Pacific, Alameda Belt Line, The Oakland Terminal Railroad, and Milwaukee Road).