Allen D. Biehler was Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, a position he held between 2003 and 2011.
[1] Barry Schoch was designated as his successor by Governor Tom Corbett.
[3] From 1996 to 1997, Biehler served as interim CEO of the Port Authority of Allegheny County.
[6] He is also an adjunct professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at Carnegie Mellon University.
As Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department Transportation for eight years, Biehler was an advocate for highway funding, which led to him becoming head of an organization that was in charge of highway systems, and enabled him to administer "one of the nation’s largest grant programs for mass transit, rail freight, and aviation."