Nicole Longoria

Federal Liaison

Nicole has served the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) for more than 22 years. Her career began in 1998 as a student assistant in the Division of Mass Transportation, where she worked on the development and implementation of the new federal Job Access and Reverse Commute (JARC) Program. Her comprehensive federal background includes working for eight years on federal transit policy and legislation in the Division of Mass Transportation, and ten years as the Chief of the Planning and Policy Research Branch in the Division of Research, Innovation and System Information. Here, Nicole led the annual transportation planning, policy, and multi-modal research selection process, and managed California’s federal University Transportation Center (UTC) Program. For the past five years, Nicole has served as the Assistant Federal Liaison where she fostered her federal transportation policy knowledge and worked on transportation performance management policy coordination and implementation.

Nicole graduated from the California State University, Sacramento with a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration. In her free time, she enjoys spending time with her husband and their three children, traveling, and taking spin classes.