Mr. Harpal S. Kapoor was appointed Director of Miami-Dade Transit in June 2007.

Mr. Kapoor has more than 28 years of professional experience, with 22 years in public transportation - 15 of those at Miami-Dade Transit. He most recently held the position of MDT's Deputy Director for Operations, having rejoined the department in February 2006 after serving as the Assistant Manager of Bus Engineering at the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority for six years.

Mr. Kapoor has expertise in heavy rail, development of technical specifications for buses and direct maintenance operations. He first joined MDT in 1985 as a Rail Vehicle Electronic Technician and rose through the ranks to Assistant General Superintendent of Bus Maintenance. He left the department in 1999 to join WMATA, where he was credited with enhancing the system's performance and reliability and saving millions of dollars through improvements in efficiency.

As MDT's Director, Mr. Kapoor heads the largest transit property in Florida and the 14th largest in the United States, with a fleet of more than 1,000 buses, the 23.5-mile Metrorail system and the 8.5-mile downtown Metromover system.

Mr. Kapoor has been charged with the creation of a proactive environment in all elements of his administration, with the goal of achieving departmental budget savings by improving administrative and operations efficiencies while continuing to enhance customer service. His immediate objectives include optimizing resources through adjustments in bus routes, completing an overhaul of Metromover vehicles, improving on-time bus and rail reliability and aggressively implementing the People's Transportation Plan - the multibillion-dollar transportation improvement plan funded by the voter-approved half-penny sales surtax.

Mr. Kapoor is a member of the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) and the American Public Transportation Association (APTA), where he sits on committees dealing with developing brake, undercarriage and climate control standards and diesel hybrid-electric bus specifications. He holds a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from Kurukshetra University in India, as well as a degree in business administration.