Foursquare ITP is thrilled to welcome Dalia Leven, AICP as director & senior project manager. A proud DMV (District of Columbia–Maryland–Virginia) native, Dalia has spent the last two decades contributing to multimodal planning across the region and brings a deep, long‑standing commitment to improving how people move through their communities.
Dalia brings extensive experience in transit planning and analysis, long‑range planning, bus rapid transit (BRT) and corridor planning, and travel demand forecasting. Her work has supported agencies across the region, including the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA), the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT), the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments (MWCOG), the Maryland Transit Administration (MTA), the Virginia Department of Rail and Public Transportation (DRPT), the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority (NVTA), the Northern Virginia Transportation Commission (NVTC), and other local governments.
Throughout her career, Dalia has led multi-layered, high‑impact projects of all sizes across the country. She has managed multiple large‑scale regional bus system redesigns, corridor studies, and long‑range scenario‑planning efforts. In her long‑range planning work, she has developed tools that help agencies understand how emerging technologies (such as automated vehicles), new policies (such as congestion pricing), and infrastructure investments (such as dedicated transit lanes) may influence the future performance of transportation systems. She is known for blending forecasting, planning, and engineering to distill complex analyses into clear, actionable insights for decision‑makers and the public.
In recent years, she has led major bus network redesigns that have reshaped transit systems across multiple regions. In Massachusetts, she led the comprehensive redesign for the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) and the Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT), resulting in a promised 25 percent increase in bus service across the Boston region. After the redesign was approved in 2022, the team, which included Foursquare ITP, began implementing it as resources became available. Back in the DMV, Dalia managed WMATA’s first redesign of its bus network in 50 years—the WMATA Better Bus Network Redesign—working closely with Foursquare ITP, who led the service planning work and co-led public and stakeholder engagement. The new network, which has been in service for nearly a year, provides seven percent more service to customers with the same resources. The project has earned multiple industry awards, including the American Public Transportation Association (APTA) Honors Award for Outstanding Partnership in Public Transportation.
Dalia’s work is grounded in clarity, collaboration, and a deep respect for the communities and agencies she serves. We are excited to welcome her expertise, her leadership, and her thoughtful approach to problem‑solving as she joins the Foursquare ITP team. Her impact is already felt, and we look forward to the many ways she will help shape our work in the years ahead.