A "far out" take on transportation planning

As a boy, Eric Plosky '99, MCP '00, rode the New York subway with his grandmother to every city attraction on the map. "Whenever anyone asks me how I got into transportation, I always ask them, 'How did you get out of it?'" he says. "Every little kid seems to love trains and subways and buses and cars and planes, and for some reason they'grow out of it.' Now, as chief of transportation planning at the Volpe National Transportation Systems Center in Kendall Square, Plosky and his team put their imaginations to work reenvisioning what transportation can be. It's people, it's decision-making, it's history and culture," he says.