STV National Planning Director Phillip Hanegraaf Named a Fellow at the Chaddick Institute for Metropolitan Development

Chaddick Institute for Metropolitan Development at DePaul University is pleased to announce that Phil Hanegraaf, FAICP, STV’s National Planning Director and Vice President, has been named a Fellow.


As a Fellow, Hanegraaf will contribute to the Institute’s leadership, program development, and academic interests. In addition to researching and writing on current national transportation trends and issues, he will support transportation and land use planning advocacy through education, outreach, and training. He will also be involved with connecting the Institute more directly to the transportation industry, increasing the organization’s community presence both in the Chicago community and nationally.


“I have supported the work of the Chaddick Institute directly and indirectly since its inception in 1993,” said Hanegraaf. “To become a Fellow and be directly engaged with the team and its programs offers me a unique channel to engage and support our communities through creative planning and programming.”


Hanegraaf is an accomplished leader in planning with over 40 years of experience in transportation planning, multimodal planning regional and community planning and project development. With a focus and passion for transportation, land use planning and civic purpose. Hanegraaf works with STV’s rail, transit, highway, MPO/regional and multimodal planning clients on developing and integrating new future-focused transportation and community plans.


The Chaddick Institute, located on DePaul’s Loop Campus in Chicago, is a respected forum for planners, attorneys, developers, and entrepreneurs to share expertise on emerging transportation and land use issues. Founded in 1993, The Institute offers technical programs, workshops, conferences, policy studies, and civic engagement for community and regional planning. In addition to its professional and academic programming, the Institute is also a leading publisher of academic scholarship and reports on urban planning, transportation, and the economics of cities.  

About Phil

Phil has extensive career experience in improving communities through thoughtful planning. His pioneering work has won state and national awards for regional land use and transportation plans such as Chicago, Illinois, Charleston SC, and northwestern Indiana. 

 

His work focuses on community building through improving transportation, land use, and socio-economic conditions in ways that advance equity and help community’s meet their goals. He has led multidisciplinary teams to deliver transit alternatives analyses, New Starts projects, project development, roadway and highway major investment studies, regional and community plans, complex master planning and project financing. Select projects include the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey (PANYNJ) Cross Harbor Freight Program, Charleston South Carolina US 52 Multimodal Corridor Study, Montgomery County, MD, BRT system planning and PMC, Dallas-Fort Worth Airport (DFW) Landside PMC, and the GoTriangle Commuter Rail Alternatives Analysis, in Raleigh, NC.

 

He is a member of the American Planning Association (APA), American Public Transportation Association (APTA), Institute of Traffic Engineers (ITE) and Lambda Alpha International (LAI) a land economics fraternity.