Javier Aguilar is a regional planner with over 25 years of experience in transportation and urban planning, community development, and environmental justice. His transportation planning work has encompassed pedestrian, bicycle, transit, ferry, rail, roadway (including ITS, TSM, and TDM elements), and multi-modal facilities. During this time, he has gained experience in the development, management, and use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and relational databases, economic and transportation models, and socioeconomic analyses. In addition, he has worked extensively with diverse methodologies and data sets, including the U.S. Census of Population and origin and destination travel data collected by regional and metropolitan organizations. His experience includes the preparation of environmental assessments and impact studies, site feasibility studies, corridor studies, socioeconomic analyses, and teaching geospatial methods using GIS. He has an in-depth understanding of the public participation process through his work with public agencies, non-profits agencies, and community groups, and is fluent is both Spanish and English. He has project managed SCAG’s two largest planning projects: the Regional Data Platform and the Regional Aerial Imagery Project(s) and stood up one of SCAG’s longest running and successful programs, SCAG GIS Services. Through the SCAG GIS program, Javier has trained over 1,000 professionals and has disseminated nearly 50 computers with GIS software and data to disadvantaged local jurisdictions. In sum, Javier is passionate about diversity and equity issues which he has studied and work on since he was 18 years old and continues to do so. He has two master’s degrees: Latin American Studies and in Urban and Regional Planning from UCLA. Currently, he is earning a doctorate in Data Science from Claremont Graduate University.
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