John Corbin has been appointed to serve a two-year term on the FY25 Board of Governors, with term beginning on October 1, 2024. Mr. Corbin is the Emerging Mobility Technologies Program Manager within the Office of Operations of the Federal Highway Administration. He is also adjunct faculty in engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He previously served as the Director of Traffic Operations in Wisconsin and Iowa Departments of Transportation. While with Wisconsin, he had also served as the State Traffic Engineer, and as the Freeway Operations Engineer and Intelligent Transportation Systems Program Manager for Metropolitan Milwaukee. Earlier in his career, he worked as a Traffic Control Engineer for the City of Milwaukee, and as a Construction Engineer for the Illinois Department of Transportation.
Mr. Corbin completed his undergraduate work in Transportation Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 1986, obtained a Master of Civil and Environmental Engineering through the University of Illinois-Chicago and UW-Madison, and earned a UW Certificate in Public Administration. He is a Fellow Member of the Institute of Transportation Engineers, as well as a Fellow Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers. He is the Digital Infrastructure Initiative Leader within the Transportation Research Board Intelligent Transportation Systems Committee. His previous national professional community roles included membership in the formative leadership group of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials Committee on Transportation Systems Operations, and the leadership team of the Strategic Highway Research Program Reliability Technical Coordinating Committee.