Mr. Lawrence Fabian is an innovative regional land use and transportation planner, writer, thinker and visionary. With world-level information on automated people movers (APMs) and APM-based strategies to better configure land use and sustainable density, he is well published and helps organize conferences, seminars, and workshops in this field.

In 1983, Mr. Fabian founded Trans.21, a technical information clearinghouse on world APM developments that performs research, publishes newsletters and case studies, and organizes workshops and seminars. He is an active committee officer in the American Planning Association (APA) and the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).

He is also treasurer of the Advanced Transit Association (ATRA)and is active in the U.S. Transportation Research Board (TRB). Mr. Fabian graduated from Dartmouth College summa cum laude in 1967.

He holds a Masters in City & Regional Planning from the University of Pennsylvania and has over thirty years of experience in both private consultancies and the public sector. Benefiting from service as a Peace Corps Volunteer, he is comfortable in most cultural and multi-disciplinary settings. He is conversant in French and Persian (Farsi), and familiar with German and Turkish.