Richard Barone is RPA's principal research and policy planner for transportation. Since joining RPA in 2007 as a Senior Transportation Planner, he has been charged with advocating RPA's mobility campaign, enhancing RPA's technical mapping and transportation data repository, and is the subject matter expert on freight/logistics, urban transportation systems, and aviation. During the past year Richard has taken a leading role in studies on Goods Movement through I-278 in NY and NJ and the on The Future of the New York Region's Airports. He has co-authored Tomorrow's Transit, a major study recommending over 40 potential transit improvements in the New York region.

Richard was a participant in the I-95 Corridor Coalition's 2008 Freight Academy, a one-week immersive training on all facets of the region's freight system.

Richard was one of four 2006-2007 recipients of the September 11th Memorial Program for Regional Transportation Planning. The award was a one-year academic scholarship and paid internship at the New York Metropolitan Transportation Council (NYMTC). While at NYMTC Richard was exposed to regional planning and federal transportation funding processes and was tasked with several projects as part of the technical group.

He received his Master of Science in Urban Planning from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Science in Labor and Industrial Relations from the Pennsylvania State University.