AASHTO Journal, 4 September 2015
Association President John Cox appointed two officials from state departments of transportation to serve on panels of the Standing Committee on Highways.
Cox, who is also director of the Wyoming DOT, named Steven Lund from Minnesota as co-vice chair of the Highways Subcommittee on Maintenance. The president tapped the Michigan DOT’s Mark Van Port Fleet to be the Region 3 representative to the Highways Special Committee on U.S. Route Numbering.
Lund’s is a two-year term through the end of the 2017 AASHTO annual meeting. Van Port Fleet will serve a four-year term through the annual meeting in 2019. Both appointments are effective immediately, and subject to confirmation by the association’s executive committee.
Lund is director of the Minnesota DOT’s Office of Maintenance and Security. On the AASHTO subcommittee, he will work with the current chair, Mark McConnell, and the other co-vice chair, Jennifer Brandenburg.
Lund has long been active in association committee activities, and in leadership roles. He has been a member of materials subcommittee since 2006 and chair of the Highway Safety and Reliability Technical Working Group since 2009. He is a member of the Snow and Ice Pooled Fund Cooperative Program, and was vice chair of the Performance Management Task Force in 2007 and 2008.
At the Michigan DOT, Van Port Fleet was named chief operations officer on Aug. 16, after more than six years as deputy chief engineer and director of the MDOT Bureau of Development and 35 years of experience at the department.
At the Special Committee on U.S. Route Numbering he will also work with McConnell, who recently became its chair.
Van Port Fleet has chaired several AASHTO technical committees, the SHRP-2 Technical Committee on Capacity and was a member of the AASHTO SHRP2 Implementation Task Force. He currently sits on the Technology Implementation Group and Standing Committee on Performance Management.