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WTS: Heart of Texas Chapter
May Meeting:
Rob Spillar, City of Austin
The Operational
Challenges of Growth
Rob Spillar
City of Austin Transportation Department Director
The WTS – Heart of Texas Chapter is honored to present Robert Spillar, P.E. the City of Austin Transportation Director.
As the lead transportation professional for the City of Austin, he is responsible for the City’s multimodal transportation portfolio, including transportation planning, traffic engineering and operations, parking enterprise, right-of-way permitting, special events management, and more. Under his leadership as the Transportation Director, he has developed numerous regional partnerships to improve the transportation system conditions not just in Austin, but in Central Texas. These partnerships have resulted in projects including the completion of the Ben White/Loop 1 interchange using pass through financing, interim improvements to the Oak Hill “Y” employing innovative intersection design, modernization of parking operations with a complete new system, and a renewed energy and focus on the I-35 corridor through Central Texas.
Prior to the City of Austin, Mr. Spillar served as Vice President with Parsons Brinckerhoff and as the Director of Traffic Management for the City of Seattle. Rob holds a Bachelor and Masters of Civil Engineering from the Universities of Texas and Washington respectively.