Jon Markt, P.E., RSP1

"My work focuses on implementing safety projects and strategies to save lives and make communities places people want to be."

Like many engineers, Jon likes solving problems — but first, he likes identifying them. He helps transportation agencies focus on projects that embrace changes in policies and priorities to save lives. He has collaborated with communities to develop safety strategies for design and analysis that are centered on transportation safety.

Jon's work emphasises data-driven solutions and pragmatic strategy. He has led or overseen more than 40 safety action plans, focused on tackling high priority networks of safety projects and changing the standard for safety in agency designed projects. He has also championed safety approaches by building multidisciplinary safety teams with emergency medical services, law enforcement and maintenance staff, as well as developing intuitive safety dashboards targeted to executive agency leadership and enhancing practitioners' safety tools through smart spreadsheets, design aids and training programs.

Jon is a member of the Institute of Transportation Engineers. In 2024, he moderated a knowledge session called "The Real ‘How-to’ on Translating Roadway Safety Ideas into Practice" at the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials annual meeting. He has also volunteered with the National Cooperative Highway Research Program, acting as a panelist on projects to improve transferability of crash prediction models between states and on a panel to develop trainings and briefings for the second edition of the Highway Safety Manual.