Team

Dr. Carl Berkowitz has held various managerial and administrative positions in the transportation industry, government, private, and academic sectors. He has extensive multi-modal experience in planning, design, engineering, safety, security, construction, maintenance, operations, and management.

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Dr. Berkowitz holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Civil Engineering and a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from The City College of New York and a Master’s Degree in Transportation Planning and a Ph.D. in Transportation Planning and Engineering from Polytechnic University (NYU-Poly).

Eric Berkowitz, MBA, responsible for managing operations and global business.  Extensive experience assessing accident cases involving slip, trip and falls; pedestrians; railroads, vehicles; buses & trucks; bicycles & motorcycles; industrial equipment; bio-mechanics; regulations, standards & codes; and FELA & OSHA. 

 Bachelors Degree in Engineering from Princeton University and a MBA from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

Louis Rubenstein, PE, F.ITE, has more than 45 years’ experience in traffic engineering safety and transportation systems engineering.   His professional experience includes working as the Director Intermodal Transportation Studies at the New York City Department of Transportation, and a Senior Traffic Engineer and Consultant for the Port of Long Beach, California.  Mr. Rubenstein serves on the Institute of Transportation Engineers committee that reviews proposed changes to the Federal Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices.  He has a  Master of Transportation Planning and Engineering from New York University and a Master of Mechanical Engineering from City College of the City University of New York.

Gus Da Silva, M.S. Transportation, P.E. has held various managerial and administrative positions in the transportation industry and government in his 40 plus years professional career, as well as extensive multi-modal experience in planning, design, engineering, safety, security, operations simulations and management for the largest commuter railroad in the New York metropolitan area. He has written and edited numerous reports, studies, articles for major conferences and journals.

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Over the last 15+ years, his area of practice also encompasses the study of and reporting of safety/injury related cases of passengers and workers in the transportation environment. This includes investigating and analyzing incidents on or about the railroad right-of-way, track maintenance shops, and other facilities. This also includes the study of personal injuries suffered in buses, trains, station platforms, airports, escalators, elevators, etc., and caused by slips, trips and falls, overcrowding, defective stairs, platform gaps, sudden stops, defective doors and stairs, workplace hazards, etc.

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A recent case, involving on-the-job railroad injuries, resulted in a $7.3 million award to the Plaintiff, upheld on appeal, and considered a precedent case in the state of Pennsylvania.

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He is a Professional Engineer in New York and has also held professional registrations in the states of New Jersey and Connecticut. He is a member of the Institute of Transportation Engineers; and a past member of American Railway Engineering and Maintenance of Way Association.

He has a bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from New Jersey Institute of Technology and holds a master’s degree in Transportation Planning and Engineering from Polytechnic University (now the NYU-Tandon School of Engineering).

Glen Berkowitz has held various managerial positions in transportation field in the government and non-profit sectors. He has extensive multi-modal experience in construction, design, legal affairs, operations, and planning of highway, mass transit, bicycle, and pedestrian projects.

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Mr. Berkowitz holds a B. A. in Human Ecology from College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine, a M.A. in Public Administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and a J.D. in Law from Suffolk University in Boston, Massachusetts. He has been a member of the Massachusetts Bar Association since 2002. 

Jay Berkowitz has over forty years of leadership experience in the program management of major systems for the Department of Defense.  He has served on numerous committees that addressed national infrastructure, weapon design and innovative research.   Following his government service he worked as an independent consultant and as an Outside Director of various hi-tech companies.

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Jay Berkowitz has a Bachelor of Engineering from Stony Brook University and a Master of Science from the University of Southern California. He also completed the Program for Management Development at the Harvard Business School and the Leadership Program at the Federal Executive Institute.

Experience as legal researcher at Roth & Roth, LLC. Graduate of Bingahmpton University.