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Anthony E. Shorris, Director of the Rudin Center for Transportation Policy and Management, Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service, New York University

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Anthony E. Shorris is Professor of Practice at the Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service and serves as Director of the Rudin Center for Transportation Policy and Management. He is also a Fellow at The Century Foundation in New York City. Previously, he served as the Executive Director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the nation's oldest public authority, managing the region's five airports, four port facilities, six interstate bridges and tunnels, the PATH commuter railroad, and the World Trade Center. He served as a senior policy adviser to the Spitzer-Paterson 2006 New York gubernatorial campaign and to governor-elect Spitzer's transition office. From 2003 to 2007, he served as the Director of Princeton University's Policy Research Institute for the Region at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs where he taught graduate courses in urban economic development, education policy, poverty, and crisis management.

Shorris has also served as Deputy Chancellor of the nation's largest school system, New York City Board of Education, from 2001 to 2003. From 1990 to 1995, he was the First Deputy Executive Director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, and he also has been chief operating officer of a multi-billion dollar nonprofit healthcare organization. He served as New York City's Commissioner of Finance from 1988 to 1989, and as the city’s deputy budget director from 1984 to 1988. Shorris has more than thirty years of experience in public and nonprofit management and has consulted for national and international foundations and nonprofit organizations on public management, education, public finance, health care, tax policy, economic development, housing, and infrastructure. He holds an AB from Harvard College and a Masters in Public Affairs from Princeton University.

Recent Responses

August 31, 2009 09:49 AM

RE: Funding The Aviation Industry's Conversion To NextGen

While there is little question that airline passengers benefit from a safer and more efficient air transportation system, the over-riding benefits to the larger nation make this a clear example of a public good deserving of public funding.  Not only do safer and busier skies offer signficant potential economic benefits for every region of the country as well as the nation as a whole, but thanks to insurance and public investment, the costs of accidents and delays are broadly distributed rather than being confined to passengers or the workers and shareholders of the carriers.  Further, there is evidence of market failure here, based on the unwillingness or…  Read more

June 1, 2009 09:01 AM

RE: Time For Feds To Fund Mass Transit Operating Expenses?

 It's time to re-think the Federal government's failure to support mass transit operating expenses. The reasons are simple: the beneficiaries of mass transit ridership rider extend well beyond the riders themselves. Good old fashioned micro-economics would tell us that when people are affected by a transaction other than the buyer and seller, there need to be ways to capture the value and costs external to the deal.  In the case of mass transit, the riders certainly benefit -- and should pay some portion of the cost -- but others benefit too:  commuters who gain more road space when people use…  Read more
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