Hasan Ikhrata
Executive Director
Prior to joining SCAG in 1994, Hasan worked for the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) for four years. While there, he developed a comprehensive Transportation Control Measure/Transportation Demand Management program for the MTA and eighty-eight cities in the County. While at the MTA, he also developed multi-modal performance measures for use in updates to the MTA Long-Term Capital Plan.
Hasan worked for the South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) for two years as a senior staff person responsible for managing transportation as well as air quality-related projects. He headed the evaluation of various components of Regulation XV, the nation’s first mandatory employer-based trip reduction program designed to reduce commute-related automobile travel.
Hasan held a Research Assistant position for six years with the University of Southern California (USC) and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). While there his research included work in three diverse areas: land use and transportation planning; harnessing the energy of tidal waves; and file foundations under dynamic loads.