CJI RESEARCH - Key Persons


Cliff Chambers

Job Titles:
  • Expert
  • Planning
Mr. Chambers is an expert in community-oriented mobility services in rural, small-urbanized and urban areas. He has more than 25 years of experience in utilizing a mobility management ethos in matching mobility services to market needs without a bias to a particular mode. Mr. Chambers utilizes his extensive financial planning skills to craft community mobility plans within available resources. He has prepared over 30 short-range transit plans for communities, rural regions, and recreation destinations. Mr. Chambers has also led multidisciplinary teams to ensure that good mobility is maintained in coordinating long-term land use and transportation decisions. Mr. Chambers has led or played major roles in four national research efforts from mobility management to more recently evaluating bus propulsion and fuel technologies. Mr. Chambers has a Masters in City and Regional Planning from U.C.

Dr. Hugh M. Clark

Job Titles:
  • Owner
Dr. Clark is the owner of CJI Research, LLC. He conducts primary research in attitudes and behaviors involved in public transportation, civic affairs, health care, and not-for-profit enterprise. He has more than thirty years of experience in market research of these kinds. He teaches Survey Design at the John Glenn College of The Ohio State University. He has also taught at Michigan State University, Miami University of Ohio, and Ohio Wesleyan University.

Karen Basinger

Job Titles:
  • Design
Dr. Basinger holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from The Ohio State University. Her expertise is in data mining of very large data sets. She gets data to talk. For CJI's work with the American Public Transportation Association (APTA), she recently developed a national database of passenger surveys that serves as the basis for the 2015 Transit Passenger Characteristics Study.

Ronny Kraft

Job Titles:
  • Transit Project Manager
Ronny Kraft, operates Ronny Kraft Consulting. She has many years of experience working with public sector clients to address the mobility challenges faced by many different communities. She manages transit data collection projects for CJI. She also excels at developing cost effective and innovative transportation solutions for seniors, people with disabilities, and low-income populations through a combination of careful analysis and extensive community outreach.