Scott Lane is the owner and principal of J.S. Lane Company, LLC, a planning, economics, and grant development consulting firm headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina. With 35 years of experience across urban planning, transportation, and economics, he has served communities from rural mountain towns to major metropolitan areas — and from Raleigh to Alaska.
Scott has led or contributed to hundreds of projects: metropolitan transportation plans, bicycle and pedestrian master plans, corridor studies, comprehensive plans, economic impact analyses, and benefit-cost analyses for federal infrastructure grants. He has helped clients secure more than $200 million in project funding through federal and state programs including RAISE, BUILD, CRISI, INFRA, HUD, and the US Department of Commerce.
He holds the AICP (American Institute of Certified Planners) and CGP (Certified Grant Professional) designations, is a LAB-certified Master Instructor in bicycle safety education, an ISSP Sustainability Excellence Associate, a certified professional editor, and has served as a Principal Investigator for the National Cooperative Highway Research Program. Scott is an accomplished writer whose work includes technical reports for the National Academies of Science, planning documents, and long-form creative writing. He has spoken about projects and best practices at national, state, and local conferences.
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"How do we begin to express our gratitude for the tremendous products Scott Lane and the team put together for this grant submission. Consummate professionals who were able to articulate our vision, needs, and do it under a compressed timeline. The result was what we believe to be an incredibly competitive grant."
— Dane Rideout, Town Manager, Elizabethtown, NC
“This was a fantastic report. This was right at the top of anything I’ve seen since I’ve been on the City Council. The combination of the specificity, the way you drilled down to the intersections in combination with the broad strokes represented by the 11 Topics that provided some political context…I thought it was just wonderful…. I want to congratulate all of you…it’s just a great report.”
— Steve Schewel, Councilmember, City of Durham, NC