Christof Spieler, PE, AICP, LEED AP is director of planning at Huitt-Zollars, a lecturer in transportation at the Rice University School of Architecture, and the author of Trains, Buses, People: An Opinionated Atlas of US Transit (Island Press, 2018). His planning work includes reimagining regional rail in Philadelphia, bus transformation in Boston, bus network redesign in Fort Worth, a rail station in Austin, alternatives to a proposed freeway expansion, a community vision for Galveston, commuter rail planning in Albuquerque, greenways in Houston, street design manuals for Dallas, and flood resilience in Houston. (Spring 2025)