Arthur Prokosch
About Arthur Prokosch
Arthur Prokosch is the Senior Manager of Fare Tariff at MBTA, with a background in transportation planning and cognitive science. He has contributed to sustainable urban transportation policies and developed a comprehensive fare tariff strategy to enhance public transportation usage.
Title
Arthur Prokosch serves as the Senior Manager of Fare Tariff at MBTA, a position he has held since 2020. His responsibilities include developing and implementing fare tariff strategies that integrate policy and behavioral insights to enhance public transportation usage in Boston, Massachusetts.
Previous Roles in Urban Planning and Transportation
Before his current role, Arthur Prokosch served as a Senior Policy Analyst at MBTA from 2015 to 2020. His career includes a three-month position as a Transit Planning Intern at Rhode Island Public Transit Authority, as well as work as a Planning Consultant for the City of Ann Arbor and Allen Creek Greenway Conservancy in 2014. He also gained experience as a Performance-Based Programming Intern at Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning (CMAP) in 2014 and as a Research Assistant in Transportation Evaluation at the University of Michigan in 2013.
Education and Expertise
Arthur Prokosch holds a Master of Urban Planning with a focus on Transportation Planning from the University of Michigan's A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture & Urban Planning. He also earned a Master of Science (M.S.) in Behavior, Education, and Communication from the University of Michigan's School of Natural Resources and Environment. Further, he completed his undergraduate studies at Brown University, where he achieved a B.S. in Cognitive Science.
Background in Research and Teaching
Arthur Prokosch has a background in academic research and teaching. He briefly worked as a Graduate Student Instructor at the University of Michigan in 2015. Additionally, he was a Sustainability Fellow at the Graham Sustainability Institute at the University of Michigan in 2013, engaging in research that explores the intersection of transportation planning and behavioral science.
Technical and Managerial Roles
Early in his career, Arthur Prokosch worked in various technical and managerial roles. From 2007 to 2012, he was a System Administrator at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab. Prior to that, he served as the Online Services Manager at Third Sector New England from 2002 to 2007. His multidisciplinary approach in these roles has influenced his current work in transportation planning.