Summary
David Huffaker is a Managing Associate at the Transport Strategy Centre at Imperial College London. At the TSC, David advises teams for a number of benchmarking groups. He joined the TSC in September 2023 after a twenty year career in transit, most recently as the Chief Finance and Development Officer at Pittsburgh Regional Transit.
In Pittsburgh, David led the Finance, Planning and Engineering functions for this provider of bus, light rail, inclined plane railway, and paratransit services. While there, his team released a twenty five year long range plan called, NexTransit, which was the first long range plan for transit in Pittsburgh in more than 20 years. His team also successfully developed a project plan for a new BRT line, PRTX--The University Line, which received a Federal Transit Administration Small Starts Grant of $150 million. His engineering team also increased capital project throughput by more than three times in an effort to address a state of good repair backlog for this legacy system.
Prior to Pittsburgh, David was the Deputy Executive Director, Operations Support Services at Sound Transit, a provider of light rail, commuter rail, and regional express buses in the Seattle region. At ST, David oversaw service planning, customer service, facilities maintenance, asset management and business support functions. In addition, David’s team helped to navigate the transition to operations for a more than $75 billion light rail expansion in the region.
David is a member of the Leadership APTA Class of 2014 and participated in the Eno Transit Senior Executive Program in 2018. He also participated in the APTA Study Mission to Asia in 2017, where his group toured transit systems in Hong Kong, Singapore and Tokyo, with a focus of Safety Culture and Asset Management.
David has a finance background, having received a degree in Economics from Stanford University and a Masters in Business Administration from the University of Washington. David has previously worked at Price Waterhouse, the Port of Seattle, and Microsoft Corporation in various areas of financial management.