Cincinnati Metro Promotes Khaled Shammout To Deputy Innovation And Vision Officer

Khaled Shammout

Cincinnati (OH) Metro has announced that Khaled Shammout has been promoted to Deputy Innovation and Vision Officer, effective immediately. Shammout will continue to oversee strategic planning, transit network planning and scheduling, transit infrastructure fund program, right-of-way and transit centers design and construction.

“Shammout has more than 30 years of transit experience in the public and private sectors — both nationally and internationally — and has been instrumental in the implementation of the agency’s Reinventing Metro service improvement plan, which launched in 2021,” according to a press release. “His experience includes transit planning, advanced data collection and analysis techniques, short-term and long-term public transit studies, Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) technologies (development and implementation), transit facility design and project management.”

He is a graduate of The Ohio State University where he earned a BS in architecture, master’s in city planning, and master’s in transportation engineering.

Shammout is appointed to the Transit Research Analysis Committee, which advises FTA on transit-research related matters. He is also the author of “The Implosion of Public Transit and the Case for an Infinite Game” and is an adjunct professor at the University of Cincinnati.

Established in 1973 as a tax-funded, not-for-profit transportation provider by the Southwest Ohio Regional Transit Authority, Metro is celebrating 51 years of fixed-route, paratransit, and on-demand service to Hamilton County, OH. Visit www.go-metro.com.