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 (
Mexico City-Huehuetoca Commuter
Railroad (
Tacoma
– Everett WA Commuter Rail Service (Sounder)
• Infrastructure
Planning
Development of
infrastructure plans and capital improvement programs to increase capacity for:
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Port of Tacoma,
WA
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Port of
Portland, OR
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King Street
Station, Seattle, WA
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Seattle WA
Amtrak maintenance facility
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Vancouver
Passenger Terminal, British Columbia
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Seattle-Vancouver
Intercity Passenger Service (Pacific Northwest Rail Corridor)
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Washington County OR commuter rail service
• Operations
Planning/Feasibility Analyses
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Washington State DOT
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Sound Transit
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Metrorail, South Africa
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Triangle Transit Authority
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MBTA Fitchburg Line extension, Wachusett MA
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I-91 Corridor passenger service improvement, MA and VT
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Springfield-Greenfield MA new commuter service
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King County BNSF Corridor Preservation Study
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Southeast King County Commuter Rail Feasibility Study
• Operational
Evaluations and Assessments
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Sound Transit
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Chicago Planning
Study
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Metrorail,
Johannesburg, South Africa
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Pacific
Northwest Rail Corridor
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Alaska Railroad,
Anchorage, Alaska
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Port of Seattle
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I 91 Knowledge
Corridor (Massachusetts, Vermont)
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MBTA Fitchburg –
Gardner (Massachusetts) commuter rail extension
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Port of Oakland
inland port (California)
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Port of
Vancouver WA
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BNSF Arizona and
New Mexico passenger train speed and running time analysis
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BNSF Pacific
Northwest delay analysis
• Operating Rules
development and Federal Regulations Compliance
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Northern Indiana
Commuter Transportation District
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Red Car Line
(Long Beach CA)
• Emergency Response
Planning and Reference
- Sound Transit
• Publications,
Lectures & Training Programs
Textbooks:
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Elements of Train Dispatching, Vol. 1
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Elements of Train Dispatching, Vol. 2
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Managing Railroad Transportation
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The Railroad, What it is, What it Does, 5th
Edition (Contributing Author)
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Railway Signalling and Interlocking, International
Compendium (Co-author)
Publications
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International
Heavy Haulage Association
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Transportation
Research Board
Lectures
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University of
Washington, Seattle, WA
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Institute for
Railway Systems Engineering, Braunschweig, Germany
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Guest Speaker
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Friedrich List
Faculty of Transportation and Traffic Sciences,
Organizations
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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: