About Mark

Mark Stout is an independent transportation consultant. His consulting practice addresses a wide range of transportation policy issues, including climate change, transportation and land use, and state and federal funding challenges.  His clients include state transportation departments, national and state nonprofit and advocacy groups, and metropolitan planning organizations. His work is supported by a network of specialists in such disciplines as air quality, traffic engineering, safety engineering, aviation planning, transit planning, bridge design, and historic preservation.

Mark previously served more than 25 years with the New Jersey Department of Transportation. As Assistant Commissioner for Planning and Development he was responsible for the divisions of planning, capital programming, project development, local aid, freight services, aeronautics, and environmental resources, and for managing relations with the state’s three metropolitan planning organizations. At NJDOT he was a pioneer in promoting progressive, sustainable, land use and transportation policies. He has also served as a legislative assistant in the U.S. Congress and for a national labor union.

Mark is based in Old Town, Alexandria, Virginia, an historic, walkable community just across the river from Washington, D.C.