ACT Expo 2017

Kirt Conrad
Executive Director/CEO
Stark Area Regional Transit Authority


Kirt Conrad has been the chief executive officer of the Stark Area Regional Transit Authority (SARTA) in Canton, Ohio since 2009. SARTA operates 100 buses with 220 employees. Nearly 2.8 million passenger trips are transported by 30 fixed routes or demand response service throughout Stark County. Currently, 40 vehicles are powered by CNG. SARTA also operates electric hybrids, biodiesel, and dual fuel GNC/DIESIL vehicles. They are deploying 11 fuel cell buses, which will be the largest fleet in the country outside of CA. Together with Ohio State University’s Center for Automotive Research, SARTA lunched the Midwest Fuel Cell Center of Excellence. Conrad is on the board of Clean Fuels Ohio and Vice Chair of the Ohio Fuel Cell Coalition. He serves on Calstart’s fuel cell infrastructure advisory board. He also served on the Center for Transportation and the Environment/FTA Procurement Risk Reduction for Zero Emission Vehicles committee and a member of American Public Transportation Association’s Zero Emission Bus Specification committee. He received a Bachelor in political science from Kent State and a Master of public administration from the University of Akron. He completed a graduate certificate in finance from the Grenoble Ecole de Management in Grenoble France.

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