Partnerships in Urban Mobility

Rob Klee is a Lecturer at the Yale School of the Environment.  He holds a Ph.D. from Yale School of the Environment in industrial ecology, a law degree from Yale, and an undergraduate degree from Princeton in geology and environmental science.

Dr. Klee most recently served as the Commissioner of Connecticut’s Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP), from January 2014 until January 2019, for former Connecticut Governor Dannel P. Malloy.  DEEP is the state agency charged with conserving, improving and protecting the state’s natural resources and environment; providing first-rate outdoor recreation opportunities; and integrating energy and environmental policies to build a sustainable and prosperous 21st-century economy for Connecticut.  Dr. Klee originally joined DEEP in April 2011 as chief of staff to then-Commissioner Daniel C. Esty.

Prior to his state service, Dr. Klee was an attorney with Wiggin and Dana LLP, in New Haven, where he specialized in appellate and complex litigation, and energy and environmental law.  He also served as a law clerk for both the U.S. District Court in Connecticut and the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals.

Dr. Rachel Weinberger is the Peter W. Herman Chair for Transportation at Regional Plan Association. She has over 30 years of transportation planning experience in the public and private sectors and in academia. Weinberger is an internationally recognized expert in sustainable transportation with specializations in travel behavior, land use transportation interactions, economic impacts of the transportation system, and parking policy.

As the former Senior Policy Advisor on transportation to the New York City Office of Long Term Planning and Sustainability, she was a key contributor to the first PlaNYC and has since assisted the New York City Department of Transportation with their current strategic plan, an on-going curb management study, and an analysis of commuter vans. She was the Director of Research and Policy Strategy for Nelson\Nygaard Consulting Associates, and she is the Founding Principal of Weinberger & Associate, LLC.

She has published dozens of journal articles and book chapters covering topics as disparate as racial and gender differences in commuting behavior, peer pressure in auto ownership decisions, land value capitalization of transportation infrastructure investments and the use of Big Data in analyzing travel patterns. Along with her book Auto Motives: Understanding Car Use Behaviours. Weinberger has contributed over 25 chapters to various books including ​“Parking: Not As Bad As You Think, Worse Than You Realize”, ​“Is the Curb 80% Full or 20% Empty? Assessing the Impacts of San Francisco’s Parking Pricing Experiment”, and ​“Death by a Thousand Curb-cuts: Evidence on the effect of minimum parking requirements on the choice to drive.” She has been invited to speak on sustainable transportation in Zurich, Bogota, Budapest, Istanbul, and Guangzhou and Dongguan, China, and across the United States.

Weinberger holds her Ph.D. in Urban Planning and a M.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. A native New Yorker she has her B.A. and M.U.P, from Hunter College of the City University of New York. Weinberger served on the urban planning faculty at the University of Pennsylvania, she is currently a member of the adjunct faculty at Columbia University.

Weinberger lives in Brooklyn with her two children.

Garrett Eucalitto was confirmed as Commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Transportation in January 2023. He also currently serves as Vice President of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) and President of the Northeast Association of State Transportation Officials (NASTO). Prior to becoming Commissioner, Eucalitto served as Deputy Commissioner of the CTDOT from 2020 until 2023. Before joining CTDOT, he worked as Transportation Program Director for the National Governors Association, Undersecretary at the Connecticut Office of Policy and Management, and began his career as a Legislative Assistant on Capitol Hill. Eucalitto earned a bachelor’s degree from the College of the Holy Cross and a master’s degree from Boston University. He is a native of Torrington and currently lives in New Haven.