Bijan Sartipi with over 36 years of civil service with two state agencies prior to his retirement in 2018 from the California Department of Transportation where he served in a number of high profile engineering, management and executive leadership positions.
He was the Caltrans District 4 Director since 2002, serving for over 15 years. As District 4 Director, Sartipi was responsible for managing the day-to-day operation of state highway systems in the nine Bay Area counties covering over 6,500-lane miles of state freeways and highways, seven toll bridges, numerous drawbridges, ferries and tunnels, with close to 3,300 employees, an annual budget of $500 million for salary and operating expenses, and a construction program exceeding $6.3 billion at its highest point. During his 15 years service as the District Director, Sartipi oversaw the delivery of over $17 billion in new construction in Bay Area.
A graduate of the University of the Pacific in Stockton with a degree in civil engineering, Sartipi has extensive experience in design, program/project management as well as construction and capital program delivery. Sartipi has been involved in the design, development, delivery and management of major transportation infrastructure improvement projects in Bay Area, such as the Central Freeway, the San Francisco International Airport expansion project’s ramps and roadway improvements, the Devil’s Slide tunnels, Presidio Parkway P3 Projects, the Caldecott Tunnel 4th Bore, the Marin-Sonoma Narrows projects, Interstate 580 Freight Corridor Improvement Projects, the I-80 and US-101 (ICM) SMART Corridor projects, Jameson Canyon in Solano and Napa Counties and other major transportation infrastructure improvements in the Bay Area. Sartipi successfully managed to deliver 100% of all Capital Improvement Projects in the Bay Area each fiscal year for over 8 years. Sartipi has broad knowledge of Intelligent Transportation System (ITS), Transportation Infrastructure Technology and how deployment of autonomous and connected vehicle can help shape the future mobility and address our transportation needs.
Sartipi also led successful responses to major emergencies such as the collapse of the MacArthur Maze, the Russian River Bridge, tanker truck fires in San Mateo and Alameda counties plus numerous other regional emergencies. Sartipi served as a Commissioner of the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) the regional planning organization representing the California State Transportation Agency. Sartipi also served as a Commissioner of the Bay Conservation Development Commission (BCDC), as an ex-officio member of the board of directors of the Transbay Joint Powers Authority (TJPA), a member of the AC Transit BRT Policy Steering Committee, and the Bay Area Joint Policy Committee. Sartipi is a registered Professional Engineer, a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and Women’s Transportation Seminar (WTS).