The Council of University Transportation Centers (CUTC) recently honored Rod Diridon Sr., executive director, Mineta National Transit Research Consortium and Mineta Transportation Institute, San Jose, CA, with its 2014 Lifetime Achievement Award.

Diridon was APTA chair in 1993-94 and headed CUTC in 2007.

The award recognizes his role in support of public transportation in the Silicon Valley as a member and six-time chair of the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors and Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority.

Diridon is also the only person to have chaired the San Francisco Bay Area’s three regional governments—the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, Bay Area Air Quality Management District, and Association of Bay Area Governments—and was a 10-year member and chair of the California High-Speed Rail Authority.