Watch Dorval R. Carter, Jr.'s, 2021 Thomas B. Deen Distinguished Lectureship on Equity in Public Transportation

Dorval R. Carter, Jr., President, Chicago Transit Authority, is the 2021 recipient of the Thomas B. Deen Distinguished Lectureship. Carter is recognized for his leadership in the transit industry and legal community, and for spearheading significant advances to public transportation.

He delivered his lecture, “Our Work is Never Done: Examining Equity Impacts in Public Transportation,” on Monday, January 25, 2021 as part of TRB’s 2021 Annual Meeting and it is now available online.

As a nationally-recognized transit legal and policy expert, Carter helped develop the national transit safety program instituted by the FTA, led the use of performance measures to implement public transportation projects, enhanced State of Good Repair programs at the local and national level, and implemented the nation’s first multi-modal real-time trip planner for transit riders.

Carter is an active TRB volunteer and has uninterrupted service as a member of a TRB committee, section, group, or panel since 1992. He is a past chair of the Standing Technical Committee on Transit and Intermodal Transportation Law and served as a member of the Standing Technical Committee on Emerging Technology Law, the Legal Resource Group, and the Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Project Panel on Legal Aspects of Transit and Intermodal Transportation Program. He currently serves as a member of the Legal Resources Section and the TCRP Oversight and Project Selection Commission.

He is a member of the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of the American Public Transportation Association (APTA) as well as Chairman of APTA’s Legislative Affairs Committee. He is also a Senior Fellow from the Council for Excellence in Government Fellows Program and Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors for Saint Anthony Hospital in Chicago, Illinois.