The Village of Schaumburg is enhancing its ability to plan for the community's future growth by broadening the role of its transportation planner.

Tom Dabareiner, the Village of Schaumburg's transportation planner since 1986, has been given the responsibilities of assistant director of the Village's planning department.

"Schaumburg's transportation issues will continue to be aggressively addressed by Tom," said Director of Planning Thomas C. Koenig. "By expanding Tom's role we are telling the community that meeting the challenges of future growth, through planning, is a task which we take very seriously."

As transportation planner, Dabareiner recently completed the Village of Schaumburg's application for personal rapid transit (PRT). He also oversees the Schaumburg Municipal Helistop, Illinois' "1990 Heliport of the Year" and the award-winning Woodfield Shopper's Shuttle.

In a related move, the Village of Schaumburg hired Leanne Redden to assist Dabareiner with Schaumburg's transportation projects. Redden is a University of Illinois graduate with a master's degree in planning. When Redden starts in June, the Village of Schaumburg will be the only Chicago suburb with two full-time transportation planners on staff.

According to Dabareiner, "Leanne will add new strength to our transportation team as we continue to offer creative and realistic ways of solving transportation issues in the growing Schaumburg area. Her addition will help the Village in its attempts to secure the proposed PRT project."

The Village of Schaumburg is one of six suburbs competing to be selected as host site for the demonstration PRT. The Regional Transportation Authority has completed site visits of the proposed routes and is expected to narrow the list of applicants in July. The winner will be announced in about one year.

The PRT system would employ individual cars that seat up to five people and move along one-way guide- ways directly to the destination specified by the cars' passengers. The waiting time for the PRT cars will be no more than three minutes and the system will be constantly monitored to ensure safety.

For more information, or to arrange an interview with Tom Dabareiner, please call Media Strategy, Inc. at 312/944-7398. •

Page 10 / Illinois Municipal Review / July 1991