John Edmondson
John Edmondson
Transit Coordination Assistant, ARRA
Illinois Institute for Rural Affairs/Western Illinois University
IDOT, DPIT
J.R. Thompson Center, Suite 6-600
100 W Randolph Street
Chicago, IL 60601
(312) 793-0011
JD-Edmondson@wiu.edu
John.Edmondson@illinois.gov
John Edmondson is the Transit Coordination Assistant for the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) programs which is housed at the Illinois Department of Transportation's Chicago office under the Division of Public and Intermodal Transportation. John attended Ohio University in Lancaster, Ohio where he earned membership to the Phi Theta Kappa Honors Society.
Employment Experience
John joins the IIRA team after serving as an associate with RLS & Associates, Inc., a private transit consulting firm out of Dayton, Ohio. As a consulting associate, John served as the lead Technical Assistance Consultant for IDOT and as principal compliance investigator evaluating activities of grantees under the nonurbanized area formula program (Section 5311). John has conducted more than 30 Section 5311 compliance assessments on Illinois public transit systems and more than 100 FTA regulatory compliance assessments throughout the country.
John has served as a Project Manager for multiple coordination planning efforts throughout the country and has co-authored the Designated Employee Representative/Drug and Alcohol Program Manager Testing Handbook for distribution by departments of transportation in West Virginia, Minnesota, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, and Arkansas.
Primary Responsibilities
John currently directs statewide activities for Section 5316 (Job Access Reverse Commute), Section 5317 (New Freedom), Section 5333(f) (Intercity Bus), and Human Services Transportation Planning (HSTP) programs.
In addition, John manages and directs the activity of the 9 statewide HSTP Coordinators to ensure that the ARRA rural capital projects are derived from on-going local coordinated public transportation initiatives, manage the compliance oversight of the ARRA funded capital projects to ensure they meet federal and state regulations, and oversees the statewide effort to procure vendor(s) to supply Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) equipment (such as automated dispatching and reporting) to the rural public transportation providers through various federal funding programs.
