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Highway Occupancy Permit Program - Updates and Improvements
Thursday December 12, 2024 3:30pm - 5:00pm EST
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Governor Shapiro’s Executive Order 2023-07 established the Office of Transformation and Opportunity (OTO), which has been established to work with Commonwealth agencies to eliminate barriers to economic development and increase the efficiency in processing permits. As part of the effort, both OTO and PennDOT have established various teams to identify and implement improvements to the highway occupancy permit (HOP) program to streamline the permitting process. This session looks to provide an update on those improvements.

Topic 1:   OTO’s Coordination and Collaboration with Stakeholders                 
Speaker: Eliza Erickson

Topic 2: Customer Service Team Achievements
Speaker: Eric Kinard

Topic 3: Traffic Engineering Team Achievements
Speaker: Steve Gault
Moderators
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Michael Dzurko

Manager, Highway Occupancy Permit (HOP) Unit, PennDOT, Bureau of Operations
Mike Dzurko has over 25 years of experience in both the private and public sector in the Traffic Engineering field. He has served as the Highway Occupancy Permit Program Manager in the Bureau of Operations for the past 14 years. Prior to this he held positions in PennDOT’s Engineering... Read More →
Speakers
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Steve Gault

Chief, TSMO Arterials & Planning Section, PennDOT
Steve Gault strives to ensure smooth mobility throughout Pennsylvania with new approaches to using technology to safely and efficiency move humans. As PennDOT’s chief of TSMO Arterials and Planning, Gault uses his passion by overseeing traffic signals, arterial operations, and planning... Read More →
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Eric Kinard

District 8 Permit Manager, PennDOT
Eric Kinard currently serves as the District Permits Manager within the Traffic Unit of PennDOT’s District 8 Engineering Office. He supervisors a team of Engineers and Specialists which work with the public and private sectors in regard to traffic signal, highway occupancy and special... Read More →
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Eliza Erickson

Director of Permit, License and Certification (PLC) Innovation, Office of the Governor / Office of Transformation and Opportunity
Eliza Erickson is the Director of PLC Innovation in the newly created Office of Transformation & Opportunity in the Office of Governor Josh Shapiro. In this role, Eliza focuses on driving process improvement and culture change around some of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania’s most... Read More →
Thursday December 12, 2024 3:30pm - 5:00pm EST
206
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