DRY RUN: Lessons Learned from Post-9/11 World Trade Center and Lower Manhattan Transportation Planning and Design

Darryl W. Moser, AIA, SAME, GPCP, CQM, DSW is a business leader in the federal market sector, architect, planner, and design team lead with over 35 years of experience. His resume includes award-winning planning, building design, and project management of government, military, commercial, educational, hospitality, manufacturing, health care, and cultural projects in the US and internationally. He has designed projects throughout the US, in Europe, and in the Middle East. He is the current Chair of the SAME National Architectural Practice Community of Interest and a member of the SAME National Leadership Assembly. He is also a member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) where he served on the AIA Federal Architects Working Group and is a member of the Public Architecture Knowledge Committee. Mr. Moser is Vice President and a Federal Account Manager with GFT, based in Virginia/US.

Mr. Davidson, an award-winning architect, and Fellow of the American Institute of Architects (FAIA) is nationally recognized for his expertise in developing and managing large complex multimodal transit and aviation projects. Completing a 34-year career at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ) in 2004, he served as Chief Architect for 14 years – in addition to Program Architect for the Authority’s transit and aviation redevelopment programs.

As the Authority’s Chief Architect and Program Architect, he developed projects in-house with his architectural staff, while also providing management and oversite of consultant teams for large scale transit and aviation projects. Most notable in-house programs were: the World Trade Center (WTC) Temporary PATH Station, followed by the Lower Manhattan Transportation Master Plan that became the WTC Transit Hub on the post-9/11 WTC site; the World Financial Center (WFC) Ferry Terminal that provides the western terminus of the Master Plan along the Hudson River; AirTrain JFK, including the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) Jamaica Station and New York City Transit (NYCT) Howard Beach Station Airport Gateway Programs; the Newark Liberty International Airport Redevelopment Program, including International Terminal B and AirTrain Newark, incorporating the Northeast Corridor (NEC) Airport Gateway Station; and the LGA Redevelopment Program, including redevelopment of the original Central Terminal Building.

After retiring from the Authority, he spent 19 years leading STV Inc.’s Aviation + Multimodal Practice, his array of transportation programs and projects included intermodal rail, bus, waterborne, light rail and airport gateway transit stations; most notably, the Amtrak Gateway Program’s NY Penn Station District 32nd Street Corridor Master Plan, and the George Washington Bridge Bus Station Redevelopment Program – bringing his experience in developing and managing large scale transit projects and a dedication to enhanced customer experience coupled with exceptional design direction for quality transit infrastructure.