Articles by Leo Hanifin

Brighton Township resident Dr. Leo E. Hanifin, a member of the M-1 Rail Board of Directors and chairperson of the Livingston County Transportation Coalition, is Dean Emeritus, University of Detroit Mercy (UDM), having served as Dean its College of Engineering and Science for 21 years. He also served as the leader of UDM's Transportation Research Program and the Michigan-Ohio University Transportation Center (a coalition of five universities). He led several major studies of transportation in southeast Michigan and across the country, was co-PI on a study of public opinion in the RTA region, and has hosted advocacy workshops in Detroit and its suburbs. He served on the RTA's Citizens Advisory Committee and teaches Transit as a Critical Element of Community Development in UDM's Masters in Community Development Program.