ABOUT PHIA

PHIA is Pennsylvania’s leader in educating the public on the importance of a safe and modern highway system. Our mission is to help policymakers, the media, and the public understand that economic prosperity and a good quality of life simply cannot exist without a sound highway system.

PHIA fulfills its mission through a number of communication channels, including E-motion, a bi-monthly newsletter with a circulation of approximately 1,200. The organization also actively engages in public discourse through letters to editors, editorials, columns and news releases. It also commissions public policy research and disseminates information to various groups.

PHIA was formed in 1960 when various highway-related industry groups saw the need for increased highway funding and the elimination of the peaks and valleys of the highway construction program.

PHIA truly is a “highway users” organization. Its members consist of highway construction companies, design engineering firms, highway material suppliers, freight trucking companies, AAA, local and state chambers of commerce, local government associations, tourism promotion associations and agricultural groups.

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BOARD OF DIRECTORS

OFFICERS

President

James W. Van Buren
PennStress

Vice Presidents

Heinrich Bonstedt, P.E.
CABA (retired)

Michael M. Ryan, P.E.
Michael Baker Jr., Inc. (retired)

Anthony Bednarik
Wagman Heavy Civil

TREASURER

Robert E. Latham
Associated Pennsylvania Constructors

SECRETARY

Andrew Swank
Swank Associated Companies, Inc.

MANAGING DIRECTOR

Jason Wagner
jwagner@pahighwayinfo.org

IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT

Thomas Lawson, P.E.
PLS Borton-Lawson, Inc.

BOARD

  • John L. “Jack” – Baker McCormick Taylor, Inc.
  • John Becker – American Concrete Pavement Association (PA)
  • John L. Burkhardt, Jr. – Geo-Explorers Inc.
  • James C. Byerly – HDH Byerly
  • Christopher Capp – PA State Association of Boroughs
  • Jay W. Cleveland, Jr. – Cleveland Brothers Equipment Co., Inc
  • Ronald J. Drnevich – Gannett Fleming (retired)
  • Troy M. Holloway, P.E. – Century Engineering
  • Gary L. Hoffman, P.E. – PA Asphalt Pavement Association
  • Joseph P. Kirk
  • Ted Leonard – PA AAA Federation
  • Mark Kinnee – Urban Engineers, Inc.
  • Mark Murawski – Rt. 15 Coalition and Appalachian Thruway Association
  • Seth Myers – Allan Myers
  • Kevin Stewart – PA Motor Truck Association
  • Brian St. John – McCormick Taylor
  • Sam Kieffer – PA Farm Bureau
  • David Sanko – Pennsylvania State Association of Township Supervisors
  • Craig Shuey PA Turnpike Commission
  • Kevin Sunday – PA Chamber of Business & Industry
  • Peter Vlahos – PA Aggregate and Concrete Association
  • Michael P. Welsh – Greater PA Regional Council of Carpenters
  • David E. Zazworsky, P.E. – Transportation Consultant (retired)

PAST PRESIDENTS

(1961-1965) Edwin W. Parkinson – Pennsylvania Automotive Association
(1965-1969) William R. B. Froehlich – Pittsburgh Regional Planning Association
(1969-1972) Robert S. Holmes – United States Steel Corporation
(1972-1976) John R. Dietz – Gannett Fleming
(1976-1980) Roy E. Cleveland – Cleveland Brothers
(1980-1986) Robert G. Bartlett – L. B. Smith, Inc.
(1986-1993) Ralph E. Peters – Benatec Associates, Inc.
(1994-1999) John Burkhardt – Urban Engineers
(2000-2001) Joseph P. Kirk – Mon Fayette Expressway and Southern Beltway Alliance
(2002-2005) H. Michael Liptak – Highway Equipment & Supply
(2006-2010) Ronald J. Drnevich, P.E. – Gannett Fleming, Inc.(retired)
(2010-2011) Barry J. Schoch, P.E. – McCormick Taylor, Inc.
(2012-2016) Thomas E. Lawson, P.E. – Borton-Lawson, Inc.

Chairman, Board of Trustees
(1960-1978) Michael Baker, Jr.