Robert A. (Bob) Crum, Jr.

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Robert A. (Bob) Crum, Jr., Executive Director 

Hampton Roads Planning District Commission (HRPDC) 

Hampton Roads Transportation Planning Organization (HRTPO) 

Mr. Crum began his tenure as Executive Director of the HRPDC/HRTPO on July 1, 2015. He has approximately 42 years of professional community planning experience with a focus on regional planning efforts. In his role with the HRPDC and HRTPO, he is responsible for coordinating cooperation among the region’s 17 local governments in areas such as regional consensus building; legislative affairs; and transportation, community, environmental, housing, economic, and emergency management planning. Examples of current regional initiatives include the Regional Fiber Initiative, Regional Economic Development Sites Inventory, Regional Legislative Agenda, Trail757, and collaborating with HRTAC in the planning, prioritization, and coordination of over $5 billion of interstate transportation improvements in the Hampton Roads region. 

From 2008 to 2015, Mr. Crum was the Executive Director of the Richmond Regional Planning District Commission and Transportation Planning Organization. His major accomplishments with the RRPDC included: 

  • Formation of the Capital Region Collaborative, a strategic partnership between the RRPDC and the Greater Richmond Chamber  
  • Preparation and approval of the community’s first regional Economic Development Strategy 
  • Formation of a regional emergency management planning program 
  • Regional investments in the Port of Richmond to leverage this facility as an economic development amenity 

Prior to his work at the RRPDC, now called Plan RVA, Mr. Crum worked for 20 years at the Centre 

Region Council of Governments in State College, Pennsylvania, most recently as the agency’s Planning Director. Between 1988 and 2008, he was responsible for coordinating all aspects of the agency’s regional planning program, including the preparation and maintenance of the regional comprehensive plan and sewage facilities plan, and oversight for the Region’s transportation, land use, community facilities, housing, water resources, and environmental planning programs. He completed planning and consensusbuilding for a nationally recognized water reuse project and an award-winning inter-municipal zoning effort. 

Prior to his work in State College, he was Chief of the Planning Division for Indiana County, Pennsylvania, where he coordinated county-wide community and solid waste planning activities. 

Mr. Crum holds a bachelor’s degree from Mansfield University of Pennsylvania in geography and regional planning. He and his wife Patty have been married for over 40 years and have two sons – Bryan and Brandon.