LONG RANGE TRANSPORTATION PLAN · 2014. 12. 3. · CAMBRIA COUNTY LONG RANGE TRANSPORTATION PLAN SUMMARY ... and Programming. The plan will extend to 2040 and will be developed to

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Cambria County Long Range Transportation Plan

Proposal

CAMBRIA COUNTYLONG RANGE TRANSPORTATION PLAN

SUMMARY

SUMMARYWR&A has directly-relevant experience on projects that are similar to the Cambria County Long Range Transportation Plan. Below are three examples. Additional project write-ups can be found on pages 20-22 of this proposal

1. ERIE COUNTY 2040 LONG RANGE TRANSPORTATION PLAN UPDATE

Client LocationKey Participating Individuals/Project Role

proposed for Cambria Co. LRTPFee Status

Erie County Dept. of PlanningJake Welsh, Director - 814-451-7003

Erie County, PA

Scott Thompson-Graves (Contract Manager)

Chad Reese (Project Manager)

Dan Fritz (Senior Transportation Engineer)

$200,000 Complete

WR&A assisted the Erie County Department of Planning in updating their Long Range Transportation Plan, which serves as a policy statement and a guide for decision-making for Erie County elected officials, funding agencies, stakeholders, and transportation partners, includes an inventory of needs and deficiencies of Erie County’s transportation network, establishes priorities for allocation of transportation funds, and directs transportation improvement programming. WR&A’s community-based approach went beyond determining existing and future transportation needs, assessing the inter connectivity of all modes to help determine how system improvements can work with land use changes to support Smart Transportation, Smart Growth, and Keystone principals.The project involved evaluating three fiscally constrained investment scenarios and two alternate futures and developing customized performance measures to evaluate each project’s and scenario’s impact on economic vitality, multimodal transportation safety, transportation security, choices and connections, system sustainability and livability, and system efficiency and preservation.One of the key elements of Erie County’s 2040 Long Range Transportation Plan update was updating future year demographic forecasts and travel networks and converting the MPO’s travel demand model to a modern software platform. WR&A updated the TAZ structure, calibrated the model, and developed model runs to support the LRTP.The primary goal of the Erie County 2040 Plan update was to develop a locally-derived long range transportation plan that ties in with state/federal planning emphasis areas. With the level of public participation, project prioritization

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process, scenario planning, and policy recommendations, the plan met this goal, representing a departure from business-as-usual LRTPs that receive minimal public input and focus on traditional highway LOS needs. The Erie County 2040 Plan can serve as the basis for updating the county’s Congestion Management Process, project prioritization for TIP updates, and supporting grant applications for discretionary funding of transportation projects. The Erie County Long Range Transportation Plan, adopted March 2012, positioned Erie County to adapt to changes in Federal reauthorization with MAP-21, meet the long term needs of all users of the County’s transportation system, spur economic investment, and reduce mobile source emissions.

2. NEW RIVER 2035 LONG RANGE TRANSPORTATION PLAN UPDATE



New River Valley MPO & VDOT

Dan Brugh, NRV MPO, 540-394-2145

Blacksburg, Christiansburg, Pulaski County, and Montgomery County, Virginia



Emily Waksmunski (Transportation Planner)

$175,00043% Complete

WR&A staff is working with the New River Valley MPO and the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) to update the 2035 LRTP to the year 2040 and to be in compliance with MAP-21 guidelines and performance-based planning. Tasks to date have included extensive document reviews, GIS inventories, and a week-long series of field views and stakeholder meetings with the Towns of Blacksburg and Christiansburg, City of Radford, Montgomery and Pulaski Counties, VDOT Planning and District personnel, area transit agencies, economic development agencies, and Virginia Tech. The resulting input established key needs and issues within broad categories encompassing planning roles, economic vitality, safety and security, mobility, connectivity and accessibility, community and environmental stewardship, system management and operations, system maintenance and preservation, and site/project-specific needs or improvement strategies. Ongoing or future tasks include working with local governments to update land use and employment forecasts, coordinating with VDOT to update and expand the MPO’s regional travel demand model, conducting online public surveys and public meetings, and developing customized screening and prioritization methods that will highlight projects to meet the area-specific transportation needs while simultaneously satisfying state and federal planning requirements.

3. DELMARVA FREIGHT PLAN



Bobbie Geier, Asst. Director, Statewide & Regional Planning, Delaware Dept. of Transportation

302-760-2174

Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia peninsula



Emily Waksmunski (Transportation Planner)

Krae Stieffenhofer (Transportation Planner)

$490,00095% complete

SUMMARY

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WR&A is working with DelDOT in collaboration with MDOT, VDOT, and other partners to develop a multi-state, multi-MPO, MAP-21 compliant regional freight plan for the Delmarva (Delaware, Maryland, Virginia) Peninsula. The plan will provide a better understanding of freight flows along with an assessment of infrastructure and economic based scenarios that will allow state DOTs and other planning partners to make well-informed decisions. The plan will reflect local, intra-regional, inter-regional, and national trends in freight planning. It will culminate in a prioritized action plan that outlines infrastructure and policy-level improvements to enhance the safety, performance, and efficiency of the Delmarva freight network and to help ensure the region’s long-term economic competitiveness.

Key efforts in the project’s initial phase included extensive outreach, an investigation of business/industry trends, inventories of the area’s multimodal transportation systems and over 500 major freight generators, and a review of commodity flows using IHS Transearch and STB rail waybill data. Unique outreach efforts included an online freight survey to gain valuable insights from agencies, industries, and shippers; plus WR&A’s support in helping the DOTs/MPOs to host multiple freight summits that engaged a broad public/private freight planning community.In subsequent phases, project/strategy development and a prioritized action plan are enhanced by scenario planning techniques to assess local and regional changes using a Cube Cargo commodity flow model. The customized model incorporates the Delaware Statewide Travel Demand Model plus those of six other buffer area MPO’s from South Jersey, through the Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington, D.C., areas, to Richmond and Hampton Roads, Virginia.

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APPROACHWR&A’s approach to assisting the Cambria County Planning Commission with the development of the Cambria County Long Range Transportation Plan will be to capitalize on the tools and data available from PennDOT’s ongoing Statewide LRTP Update, active stakeholder engagement, innovative public outreach, and our success completing similar plans elsewhere in the Commonwealth and across the country. Our approach involves working with a steering committee throughout the development of the plan and includes four phases: Establishing Background Conditions, Conducting a Listening Tour, Compiling Needs, and Programming. The plan will extend to 2040 and will be developed to meet all of the criteria established in the Statewide LRTP, referred to as PA On Track, and FHWA’s MAP-21 performance based planning. We will work closely with planning commission staff throughout the development of the plan and will hold monthly status conference calls or meetings throughout the life of the plan.

WORK PLAN

Project Steering CommitteeWR&A will work with the Cambria County Planning Commission to establish a steering committee for the development of the plan. It can either be a stand-alone committee or the MPO Technical Advisory Committee. WR&A will plan on meeting with the Steering Committee at the beginning of each phase of the project to establish the goals for each phase and the approach to each phase and summarize the results from previous phases. In addition, stand-alone steering committee meetings will be held to establish and review project screening and prioritization criteria.

Public InvolvementBased on our prior experience on similar plans, effective public involvement is a significant challenge in areas that lack controversy or severe transportation shortcomings. To this end we have proposed an active stakeholder engagement process that focusses on three listening tours outlined in more detail below. For general public engagement, we have engaged MetroQuest, a company that has designed a modern, online community engagement tool for planning projects. It’s a powerful, flexible, and cost-effective way to collect informed input from the public and stakeholders. MetroQuest software enables the public to learn about a project and provide meaningful feedback using a variety of interesting visual screens. It also builds plan interest and momentum – those who use it feel involved and invested.A MetroQuest configuration is comprised of a series of 4 to 5 screens that lead participants through project details and allows them to provide input. Screens can be mixed and matched to accomplish the engagement goals for each phase of the project, from adding comments on maps, to identifying and ranking priorities, to rating scenarios or strategies, and much more. To ensure the broadest participation, individuals can access MetroQuest on the web or mobile devices, and at touchscreen kiosks. WR&A assumes that the County Planning Commission will integrate links to the MetroQuest site into the County Planning Commission website and provide media releases and public notices including links to the site.MetroQuest has been successfully used by many agencies in PA on such projects as the Statewide LRTP (PA On Track) for PennDOT, the York and Lancaster Transit Connection Study for Rabbit Transit, the Tri-County Long Range Transportation Plan for

APPROACH / WORK PLAN / SCHEDULE

To test a sampling of screens MetroQuest can custom-design for this project, go to

http://metroquest.com/features/screens/

and click “Try It ” under any of the screen types.

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the Harrisburg Area Transportation Study, and the Parkway East Corridor Transportation Network for PennDOT and FHWA in Pittsburgh.WR&A proposes two waves of MetroQuest outreach. We have found in the past that efforts as simple as advertising the site on highway message boards provided by the PennDOT County Maintenance offices can go a long way to drawing people to the site. The first wave would be during the Listening Tour and would include positioning kiosks at two locations in the County for up to one or two-day sessions, most likely at the Johnstown Galleria and Ebensburg WalMart. WR&A assumes that county planning commission staff will host the kiosks during work hours and the kiosks will be able to be navigated independently by the public after-hours.

The second wave of MapQuest involvement will be after the project prioritization to gain public feedback prior to project programming.

PHASE 1: Establishing Background ConditionsThis portion of the plan will extend through the first 3 months of plan development and will include gathering information from current plans and tools, evaluating the current system, and developing future projections for passenger and freight travel. The plan development will begin by reviewing PA On Track, the current Cambria County LRTP, local comprehensive plans, Economic Development Plans, Airport Master Plans, and other plans as necessary. The plans will be reviewed to determine projects, plans, programs, or needs related to the federal, state, and Cambria County LRTP criteria.WR&A will request the latest Statewide Travel Demand Model from PennDOT Central Office and will also request access to RITIS and Freight Planning Tools which have been developed with PA On Track.Our approach assumes that the Cambria County Planning Commission Staff will provide: GIS Base-Mapping that WR&A will use as a basis for the remainder of the project, GIS crash data, review the current transportation system inventory for changes to current conditions, and will review the compiled list of projects, programs, policies, and needs established from WR&A’s document review. WR&A also assumes that the county will request the latest plan information from County municipalities.WR&A will use the plan reviews, GIS information, and planning tools to determine the base year 2014 and future year 2040 transportation conditions and demand for people and freight. It is assumed that 2040 will be the horizon year for the plan in order to take advantage of the data and projections recently completed for PA On Track.

PHASE 2: Listening TourThis portion of the plan will extend for the next four months of plan development and will focus on a listening tour through Cambria County of individual stakeholder interviews. The listening tour will be geared to determining stakeholder needs for each of the planning criteria, verifying and expanding information of existing plans, and determining areas of opportunity. WR&A plans on having three tours focused on different areas of the County. The tours will consist of meeting with local, county, and state officials, field viewing transportation infrastructure, and viewing economic development areas. The first of the tours would include three days in the Johnstown and Richland Township area. The second would be a two-day tour which would focus on Ebensburg and County departments as well as meetings with communities to the south. The third would be a two-day tour which would focus on communities north of Ebensburg and include meetings with PennDOT District 9-0.In addition to the stakeholder tours, WR&A will complete up to 4 additional stand-alone stakeholder interviews

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to gain further insight for the plan.WR&A assumes that the Cambria County Planning Commission will set up the meetings for each tour and provide public announcements for community meetings during stakeholder tours.At the conclusion of this phase of the plan, WR&A will work with the Steering Committee to determine the plan’s goals and objectives and County perspective on PennDOT and FHWA planning areas based on insight from prior plans, stakeholder insight, and public input.

PHASE 3: Compiling NeedsThis phase of the project will extend for the next five months of the plan development. It will focus on project screening and prioritization. WR&A will work with the planning commission to conduct a preliminary screening of all of the projects, plans, programs, and needs determined through the first two phases of the plan development. Once redundant, previously completed, obsolete, and unreasonable elements have been eliminated, WR&A will determine a first-cut approach to qualitative and quantitative project screening and prioritization criteria based upon the project goals and objectives and planning areas. Once the screening and prioritization criteria are established, WR&A will conduct a workshop with the steering committee to refine and adjust the criteria.Once the criteria are established, WR&A will work with the county planning commission to screen and prioritize each project.At the conclusion of this phase of the plan, a list of screened and prioritized projects will be produced for review by the steering committee.

PHASE 4: ProgrammingThis phase of the plan will extend for the next 2 months of the plan development. It will focus on determining fiscal constraint and project programming. WR&A will determine financial forecasting in accordance with PennDOT guidance and assumptions. Project programming will focus on projects broken into implementation groups that synchronize with TIP updates. The groups will be constrained in accordance with financial forecasts and based on project prioritization.At the conclusion of this phase of the plan, a list of financially constrained projects for implementation will be developed in accordance with TIP cycles.Once the project prioritization is complete, WR&A will work with the County Planning Commission to integrate performance measures in accordance with MAP-21 and PA On Track.


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J F M A M J J A S O N D J F M A M JPhase 1: Establish Background ConditionsPhase 2: Listening TourPhase 3: Compiling NeedsPhase 4: Programming

Public and Stakeholder EngagementDocument Preparation

PROJECT SCHEDULE & MILESTONES ‐ 18 MONTHSJAN‐MAR2015

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APR‐JUN2016

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Deliver Draft Financial,

Programming, and

Performance Measure Chapters

Plan Adoption

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TEAM INTRODUCTIONWR&A offers a team with the expertise and experience to complete the Cambria County Long Range Transportation Plan. Based on the request for proposals, as well as our past work on similar transportation planning projects for seven Metropolitan Planning Organizations and Rural Planning Organizations within Pennsylvania, we have assembled a team complete this important project. With our proposed set of resources, the WR&A team has the capacity to complete this project on time and within budget.Because we offer all services needed for this project in-house, in our office near Pittsburgh, WR&A will be the sole consultant on this project. Scott Thompson-Graves, P.E., PTOE, will serve as Contract Manager and Chad Reese, P.E. will serve as the Project Manager. Having completed regional transportation plans for all modes of travel (transit, pedestrian, freight, bicycle, automobile) and implemented projects for all modes of travel (sea, land, and air) we bring a unique perspective to our long range planning activities.WR&A has extensive experience working with MPOs and RPOs in Pennsylvania and around the country. For example, WR&A completed the Long Range Transportation Plan Update for Erie County in 2012. We are currently leading the Delmarva Freight Plan, a multi-state, multi-MPO, MAP-21 compliant regional freight plan for the Delmarva (Delaware, Maryland, Virginia) Peninsula. We are also leading the Centre County MPO Travel Demand Model and Socioeconomic Forecast Database Design in order to support the Centre County Long Range Transportation Plan. Our transportation planning efforts routinely link project planning to NEPA. For example, WRA developed the LRTP update for Erie County and subsequently completed a county-wide traffic signal inventory as part of plan implementation in order to position Erie County and its municipalities to take advantage of Act 89 funding.Resumes of key staff follow.

WR&A Organizational Chart forCambria County LRTP

Scott Thompson-Graves, PE, PTOE

Contract Manager

Estimated percentage of time devoted to project - 1 %

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Chad Reese, PE

Project Manager


Dan Fritz, PE

Lead Transportation Engineer

Estimated Percentage of time devoted to project - 2 %

Ashley Tracy, EIT

Transportation Planner & Public Involvement Coordinator


Emily Waksmunski, EIT

Transportation Planner


Krae Stieffenhofer, EIT

Transportation Planner


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RELEVANT PROJECT EXPERIENCEErie County 2040 Long Range Transportation Plan Update, Erie County, PA: Project Manager for this project to update Erie County’s Long Range Transportation Plan, which serves as a policy statement and a guide for decision-making for elected officials, funding agencies, stakeholders, and transportation partners, includes an inventory of needs and deficiencies of Erie County’s transportation network, establishes priorities for allocation of transportation funds, and directs transportation improvement programming. Project involved extensive municipal, stakeholder, and public outreach and coordination.New River Valley MPO On-Call Engineering and Planning Services, Blacksburg/Christiansburg/ Montgomery, VA: Mr. Thompson-Graves is leading the 2035 Long Range Transportation Plan Update task order under this contract. WR&A will be working with officials from the MPO, Towns of Blacksburg & Christiansburg, City of Radford, Montgomery & Pulaski Counties, and the Virginia Department of Transportation to update the 2035 Long Range Transportation Plan to the year 2040, and to be in compliance with new MAP-21 guidelines. Work will include expanding the model to include new areas contained within the expanded MPO in the City of Radford and Pulaski County, along with updates to areas previously contained in the 2035 Plan. WR&A will work with local governments to update land use forecasts and conduct outreach with key stakeholders and area residents, including Citizen Information Meetings. Delmarva Peninsula Freight Plan, Delaware, Maryland, & Virginia: Project Manager assisting DelDOT, MDOT, and VDOT with the Delmarva Peninsula Freight Plan, a multi-state, multi-MPO, MAP-21 compliant freight plan to provide a better understanding of existing and anticipated freight flows within the Delmarva Peninsula, as well as to and from surrounding areas. The plan reflects intra-regional, inter-regional, and national trends in freight movement and planning, and is consistent with existing plans and the current state-of-the-practice for freight planning to ensure the long term economic competitiveness of the region. The initial phase of the project included outreach, data collection, projections, and analysis; final phase will include development & evaluation of

future scenarios, recommendations, and the preparation of a final report. As part of the study, WR&A helped coordinate multiple freight summits with participants from industry, DOTs, freight shippers, and consultants to discuss the state of freight on the Peninsula.Congestion Management Processes, Mercer County, PA: Project Manager for an update of the official congestion management process (CMP) maintained by the regional planning commission in accordance with federal

EDUCATION 1996 B.S. in Civil EngineeringPurdue University

CERTIFICATIONS

2001 Pennsylvania Registered Engineer #PE058887E2005 Professional Traffic Operations Engineer Certification No. 1862Registered Professional Engineer in Indiana, Maryland, and Virginia

AFFILIATIONS/ORGANIZATIONS

Author and Speaker, Institute of Transportation Engineers and Transportation Research Board (national)Author and Speaker, Penn State Transportation Engineering & Safety Conference (TESC - PA)American Council of Engineering Companies (PA)

YEARS EXPERIENCE

13 Years with firm18 Years in industry

SCOTT THOMPSON-GRAVES, P.E., PTOEContract ManagerMr. Thompson-Graves is a nationally-known transportation planning expert and seasoned project manager with over 18 years of experience in many aspects of transportation planning and engineering, including statewide, countywide, and corridor transportation planning projects. He has led Statewide and Regional Long Range Transportation Plans, Multimodal Freight Plans, Congestion Management Processes, Traffic Signal Inventories/Assessments, Model Development and Maintenance, Truck Circulation, and Transportation and Land use studies for MPOs and RPOs throughout Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, Kansas, Alabama, and Virginia.Having progressed through multiple levels of responsibility with WR&A, from Traffic Engineer to Senior Project Engineer to Associate to Vice President, Mr. Thompson-Graves’ responsibilities have included leading large, complex transportation projects as well as conducting and presenting multifaceted, controversial topics and projects to technical audiences and stakeholders. He leads the 16-person transportation planning and traffic engineering group based in WR&A’s Pittsburgh-area office that has provided transportation planning and multimodal expertise on projects throughout the country, from Kansas City, Missouri to Erie County, Pennsylvania to Birmingham, Alabama.

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requirements. The CMP helps to define, evaluate, and prioritize countywide congestion, identify potential improvement strategies, and monitor the effectiveness of those strategies over time. Travel Demand Model Development and Socioeconomic Database Design, Centre County, PA: Project Manager for this project to upgrade the Centre County MPO travel demand model and convert the model to Cube Voyager format. The project area included a major university (Penn State) and municipalities of various sizes. The socioeconomic database was developed as a series of parcel-based geodatabases within Cube Voyager, which will simplify future model updates by directly using GIS capabilities.US 19 Corridor Study, Butler, Beaver, & Allegheny Counties, PA: Senior Project Engineer assisting PennDOT District 10-0 with a transportation and land use study for a 10-mile stretch of US 19 that spans 3 counties, 7 municipalities, 2 PennDOT districts, and 1 MPO. Tasks included field reconnaissance and traffic data collection, crash analysis, Synchro modeling, area-specific travel demand modeling, detailed operational analyses, VISSIM micro-simulation, and improvement alternatives development.New Hampshire Statewide Freight Plan: WR&A was recently selected to lead the development of the statewide freight plan for New Hampshire Department of Transportation. Serving as Project Manager for this project.City of Sharon Truck Route Plan, Mercer County, PA: Project Manager for this plan to facilitate getting trucks to and through the downtown area. Project included an origin-destination study, evaluating geometric constraints of existing truck routes through the city, and developing an improved truck route using a combination of improved signing, ITS, and geometric improvements. Titusville Truck Study, Crawford County, PA: Project manager for study of truck traffic and circulation that included assessing overall truck travel conditions, identifying system-wide localized truck-related improvement alternatives; and developing cost estimates and priority rankings of final alternatives to allow phased implementation to facilitate efficient planning, programming, and funding. WILMAPCO Freight Travel Demand Model Update, Delaware, & Maryland: Assisted DelDOT with updating the Delaware Peninsula Model freight travel demand forecasting for WILMAPCO using Transearch database and ground truck traffic counts with adaptable assignment method. The project involved application of the model, database development, and incorporation of adaptable assignment methodologies. US 11/78 East Corridor Alternative Analysis, Birmingham, AL: Mr. Thompson-Graves is leading the transportation modeling element for this regional project involving the alternatives analysis for land use, transit, and complete streets improvements along the US 11/US 78 corridors in East Birmingham, Alabama. Alternatives under consideration include Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) coupled with community reinvestment. DelDOT Statewide Planning Open-End, Delaware: Led the transportation analysis services for four Long Range Transportation Plans as part of WR&A’s ongoing statewide transportation planning services open-end contract for the Delaware Department of Transportation: Delaware Statewide Long Range Transportation Plan; Sussex County Comprehensive Plan – Mobility Element; WILMAPCO 2030 Regional Transportation Plan; Dover/Kent County MPO Regional Transportation Plan UpdateGreater Downtown Traffic Simulation Model, Kansas City, MO: Project Manager for this project to assist the City of Kansas City with developing an accurate greater downtown multimodal traffic simulation model. The model for the project area encompassing 10 square miles and over 250 signalized intersections will provide for private motor vehicles, streetcars, buses, and transit, and will provide an accurate representation of traffic throughout the City of Kansas City. The goal of the project is to use the model for the detailed operational evaluation and design of alternatives for streetcar routes and schedules, traffic signals, intersections, bike lanes, and on-street parking in the CBD loop and other areas of the city.DelDOT 3-D Micro-Model for State Smart Transportation Initiative, Madison, WI: Mr. Thompson-Graves managed this project to develop a process for this 19-state consortium that links 3-D GIS analysis of various urban forms, regional travel demand models, and 3-D microsimulation. This process, referred to as the Land Use and Transportation Scenario Analysis and Micro-simulation (LUTSAM) application, establishes a transferable process for planners to perform scenario testing on various residential, commercial, and industrial development scenarios along with multimodal transportation investments. The process allows traditional TAZ based models to operate at the tax parcel level within a project area. The project included developing a population synthesizer to establish the demographics of individual tax parcels.

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RELEVANT PROJECT EXPERIENCEErie County 2040 Long Range Transportation Plan, Erie County, PA: Senior Project Engineer for this project to update Erie County’s Long Range Transportation Plan, which serves as a policy statement and a guide for decision-making for elected officials, funding agencies, stakeholders, and transportation partners, includes an inventory of needs and deficiencies of Erie County’s transportation network, establishes priorities for allocation of transportation funds, and directs transportation improvement programming. Project involved extensive municipal, stakeholder, and public outreach and coordination.New River Valley MPO On-Call Engineering and Planning Services, Blacksburg/Christiansburg/ Montgomery, VA: Associate leading the 2035 Long Range Transportation Plan (LRTP) Update task order, where WR&A staff is working with the MPO and the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) to update the 2035 LRTP to the year 2040 and to be in compliance with new MAP-21 guidelines and performance-based planning interests. Tasks to date have included extensive document reviews, GIS inventories, and a week-long series of field views and stakeholder meetings with the Towns of Blacksburg and Christiansburg, City of Radford, Montgomery and Pulaski Counties, VDOT Planning and District personnel, area transit agencies, economic development agencies, and Virginia Tech. The resulting input established key needs and issues within broad categories encompassing planning roles, economic vitality, safety and security, mobility, connectivity and accessibility, community and environmental stewardship, system management and operations, system maintenance and preservation, and site/project-specific needs or improvement

strategies. Ongoing or future tasks include working with local governments to update land use and employment forecasts, coordinating with VDOT to update and expand the MPO’s regional travel demand model, conducting online public surveys and public meetings, and developing customized screening and prioritization methods that will highlight projects to meet the area-specific transportation needs while simultaneously satisfying state and federal planning requirements.Delmarva Peninsula Freight Plan, Delaware, Maryland, & Virginia: Associate assisting DelDOT, MDOT, and VDOT with this multi-state, multi-MPO, MAP-21 compliant freight plan to provide a better understanding of existing and anticipated freight flows within the Delmarva Peninsula, as well as to and from surrounding areas. The plan reflects intra-regional, inter-regional, and national trends in freight movement and planning, and is consistent with existing plans and the current state-of-the-practice for freight planning to ensure the long term economic competitiveness of the region. The initial phase of the project included outreach, data collection, projections, and analysis; final phase will include development & evaluation of future scenarios, recommendations, and the preparation of a final report. As part of the study, WR&A helped coordinate multiple freight summits with participants from industry, DOTs, freight shippers, and consultants to discuss the state of freight on the Peninsula. Mercer County Congestion Management Processes, Mercer County, PA: Project engineer for an update of the

EDUCATION 1996 B.S. in Civil Engineering Pennsylvania State University

CERTIFICATIONS

2002 Pennsylvania Registered Engineer #PE060385

AFFILIATIONS/ORGANIZATIONS

Author and Speaker, Penn State Transportation Engineering & Safety Conference (TESC - PA)American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC/PA)Mid-Atlantic Section of The Institute of Transportation Engineers (MASITE)

YEARS EXPERIENCE

10 Years with firm 17 Years in industry

CHAD REESE, P.E.Project ManagerMr. Reese has over 17 years of experience in multimodal transportation planning and traffic engineering including operational analyses and calibrated microsimulation; small and large-scale traffic, corridor, or transportation & land use studies; and typical traffic design and plan preparation (e.g. signals, signing & markings, traffic control, incident management, TMP’s). He was the lead transportation engineer on all of WR&A’s relevant projects, including the Erie County LRTP, the New River Valley LRTP, the Delmarva Freight Plan, and the Mercer County Congestion Management Processes.As an Associate with WR&A, Mr. Reese’s experience has integrated many planning and multimodal aspects of transportation (e.g. truck and transit studies, freight plans, Smart Transportation concepts, congestion management processes, pedestrian/bicycle safety) as well as practical design and construction considerations (e.g. design-build support, cost-estimation, project prioritization).

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official congestion management process (CMP) maintained by the Mercer County Regional Planning Commission (MCRPC) in accordance with federal requirements. The CMP helps to define, evaluate, and prioritize countywide congestion, identify potential improvement strategies, and monitor the effectiveness of those strategies over time. Responsibilities included identifying 24 CMP corridors and performing field reconnaissance, GIS-based corridor mapping, GPS-based travel time runs, and integration of Smart Transportation concepts to help mesh the CMP with the specific congestion needs of Mercer County.US 19 Corridor Study, Butler, Beaver, & Allegheny Counties, PA: Senior Project Engineer who assisted PennDOT District 10-0 with a transportation and land use study for a 10-mile stretch of US 19 that spans three counties, seven municipalities, two PennDOT districts, and one MPO. Tasks included field reconnaissance and traffic data collection, crash analysis, Synchro modeling, area-specific travel demand modeling, detailed operational analyses, VISSIM micro-simulation, and improvement alternatives development.New Hampshire Statewide Freight Plan, Statewide, NH: WR&A was recently selected to lead the development of the statewide freight plan for New Hampshire Department of Transportation. Serving as Deputy Project Manager for this project.City of Sharon Truck Route Plan, Mercer County, PA: Project Engineer for this project to analyze truck routes and traffic patterns throughout the City of Sharon with emphasis on local industry truck traffic and regional truck traffic to/from I-80, US 62 and PA 60. Truck route identification included mail-in origin-destination surveys to 13 major and 30 minor trucking stakeholders. Preferred improvements included truck wayfinding signage upgrades, truck route modifications, short-term geometric improvements, and longer-term intersection/interchange modifications.US 11/78 East Corridor Alternative Analysis, Birmingham, AL: Leading the traffic engineering aspects of this regional project involving the alternatives analysis for land use, transit, and complete streets improvements along the US 11/US 78 corridors in East Birmingham, Alabama. Alternatives under consideration include Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) coupled with community reinvestment. Borough of Kittanning Transportation Study, Armstrong County, PA: Senior Project Engineer for this project to assist the Borough of Kittanning & County of Armstrong in determining scenarios and selecting alternatives for the downtown Central Business District that assessed and improved general traffic flow with a focus on congestion hot-spots, one-way street patterns, and parking; improved the pedestrian environment with a focus on safety, accessibility, and connectivity to key destinations; enhanced multimodal connections to community assets; and enhanced multimodal access in relation to traffic, parking, and pedestrian access during special events. The project had a strong community outreach and involvement component.Titusville Truck Study, Crawford County, PA: Project engineer for a study of truck traffic and circulation throughout the City of Titusville. Tasks included development, review, and prioritization of 41 potential improvement options to address localized issues such as intersection geometry, parking restrictions, or industrial park access and circulation, as well as system-wide issues such as truck wayfinding signage, truck routes, and truck climbing lanes. US 113 North/South Study, Sussex County, DE: Assisting with corridor analysis in support of EIS preparation for a 32-mile segment of US 113 from Milford to Selbyville, including over 120 intersections and 29 build options subjected to Synchro modeling, detailed analysis of driveway/access impacts, and development of preliminary interchange/ramp requirements, as well as sidebar tasks to build a 3-D VISSIM model of a heavily-congested roundabout, rail crossing, and downtown area through Georgetown, DE.SR 1 Western Parkway, Sussex County, DE: Project involved arterial analysis and development of purpose & needs statement for 6 miles of congested corridor entering Rehoboth Beach, including 14 signals, extensive data compilation, and Synchro/SimTraffic modeling, as well as creation of 3D VISSIM models for several complex freeway interchange options.I-95 Newark Toll Plaza Studies, Newark, DE: Detailed investigation of toll plaza operations to assist in the development and design of toll plaza improvements including short-term lane modifications, highway-speed E-ZPass lane installation, and long-term consideration of open-road tolling. Specific responsibilities included an in-depth review of significant and seasonally-variable traffic demands along I-95, analysis of hourly queuing and delay through a dynamic and complex toll plaza configuration, and estimation of relevant impacts to toll plaza revenues, road user costs, fuel consumption, and greenhouse gas emissions.

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Venango, Warren, and Clarion Counties, PA: Deputy Project Manager for this project to assist the Northwest RPO with developing a thorough and accurate inventory of the existing 196 traffic signals in the region (equipment and timings), analyzing the data and determining needs, and developing cost estimates for signal improvements. A written report included the inventoried information along with pictures, and recommended improvements and cost estimates for each intersection. The cost estimates were developed in three different

categories: the cost to bring each intersection up to MUTCD requirements, the cost of basic maintenance items for each intersection, and the cost to retime signals and upgrade intersections and/or equipment. The project was completed in September 2014.US 19 Corridor Study, Butler, Beaver, and Allegheny Counties, PA (PennDOT Districts 10-0 & 11-0): The study involves coordinating with three counties, seven municipalities, two PennDOT districts, and an MPO. The project goal is to determine a set of transportation and land use alternatives to solve the complex needs of this highly congested corridor. The project includes developing a VISUM travel demand model, intersection geometry evaluation using AutoTURN, crash analysis, operational analysis, microsimulation using VISSIM, and evaluating land use alternatives and their impact on future travel demand.Manayunk Bridge and Ivy Ridge Trail, Philadelphia, PA: Traffic Engineer for this high-profile, complex trail project along the former R6 SEPTA line over the Manayunk Bridge. This PennDOT PCTI-funded project includes concept and final design of two trail segments, along with connections between the trail and Manayunk’s street network. This trail link is considered by some the “crown jewel” of the Delaware Valley trail network. Responsible for quality control and quality assurance related to various design related features and special provisions. Ensured that project submittals followed PennDOT standards and procedures to ensure timely reviews.Delaware Avenue / Columbus Boulevard Corridor Study, Philadelphia, PA: Project Engineer for a 5.5 mile multimodal corridor study including 20 intersections between Synder Avenue and Allen Street along the waterfront for the Delaware River Waterfront Corporation. Tasks included coordination with the City Streets Department and PennDOT, data collection of existing conditions, general traffic operational observations, engineering studies, Synchro operational analyses, and development of proposed signal timings for 3 peak periods.SR 0051-A63 West Carson Street Viaduct Replacement, Allegheny County, PA (PennDOT District 11-0): Project Engineer who assisted with WR&A’s tasks for the SR 51 Section A63 “West Carson Street Viaduct” project, which includes a variety of improvements along a 1.72 mile stretch of the SR 51 / West Carson Street corridor from approximately the West End Bridge to Stanhope Street in the City of Pittsburgh, Allegheny County. The project’s focal point is replacement of an existing viaduct structure located north of the Corliss Tunnel in the vicinity of the railroad bridge underpass between Telford Street and Earl Street. The 335’ long viaduct structure will be replaced with a new wall system. Work throughout the remainder of the project corridor will include complete roadway reconstruction, sidewalk replacement, PA barrier installation, and miscellaneous improvements to

EDUCATION 2003 B.S. in Civil EngineeringUniversity of Pittsburgh at Johnstown

CERTIFICATIONS

2009 Pennsylvania Registered Engineer #PE076440

YEARS EXPERIENCE


DAN FRITZ, P.E.Senior Transportation EngineerMr. Fritz has more than 11 years of traffic and transportation engineering experience. His experience includes roundabout and highway design, traffic signal design, signal timing analysis and optimization, queuing analysis, traffic impact studies, temporary traffic control plans, signing and pavement marking plans, Incident Management Plans (IMP), and Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). He is familiar with PennDOT, AASHTO and HCM standards, procedures, and manuals, and has project experience using VISSIM, VISUM, Synchro, HCS, AutoTURN, and Microstation.

RELEVANT PROJECT EXPERIENCEErie County 2040 Long Range Transportation Plan Update, Erie County, PA: Project Engineer who assisted on this project to update Erie County’s Long Range Transportation Plan. Project assignments included traffic engineering tasks involving documenting existing traffic signal and operational conditions.Northwest RPO Traffic Signal Inventory & Improvement Program, Crawford,

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utilities, drainage, lighting, traffic signals, signing, pavement markings, and ADA accessibility. WR&A tasks encompassed preliminary maintenance & protection of traffic plan and final traffic control plan, to include sign messages, sign sizes, general sign locations, tapers, lengths, barricades, channelizing devices, impact attenuators, temporary pavement markings, temporary roadway locations, temporary highway lighting locations, detours, portable changeable message signs, and arrow boards.SR 0279 Section A64 Missing Ramp Project, Allegheny County, PA (PennDOT District 11-0): Project designer for a direct connection ramp from S.R. 28 South to S.R. 0279 South on Pittsburgh’s North Side. Specific tasks included the development of signing, pavement marking, delineation, ITS, and temporary traffic control plans, as well as coordination with PennDOT, City, law enforcement, and other agency stakeholders to develop and present a project-specific Incident Management Plan.Regional Traffic Signal Program, PennDOT Districts 10-0, 11-0, and 12-0 (Southwestern Pennsylvania Commission): Currently assisting with WR&A’s efforts on two open end contracts to design and re-time traffic signals for multiple corridors throughout the Greater Pittsburgh Area. Tasks for Cycle 1 include traffic signal design and/or retiming for over 250 signals in western Pennsylvania, managing data collection (ATR machine counts, manual Turning Movement Counts and GPS Travel-Time runs), conducting field studies of current traffic operations (General field observations, queuing studies, saturation flow rate studies and lane utilization studies), reviewing WALK/DON’T WALK, Yellow Change and Red Clearance intervals based on field measurements, permit plans and observed traffic operations, building and calibrating Synchro models, developing optimized timings, making recommendations to further enhance safety and reduce delay and number of stops for motorists on the corridors, documenting the Traffic Engineering studies and methodologies in the form of written reports, and preparing bid documents for ECMS. Tasks to date for Cycle 2 include conducting a field inventory of over 250 signalized intersections within the 29 corridors included in this Cycle, documenting findings, and preparing a review of scope and cost for upgrades.Rochester Roundabout, Beaver County, PA: Lead Project Engineer for traffic and highway design related tasks of a roundabout located at a complex 5-legged intersection in Rochester Borough. The project goals included spurring community revitalization through transit oriented development, increasing safety, improving mobility, and enhancing environmental qualities. The project linked land use planning and transportation improvement decisions via a Transit Revitalization Investment District study. Developed traffic models using VISSIM and Synchro software to determine current and future needs for the study intersection and evaluate Smart Transportation improvement alternatives including a roundabout, to bring the intersection to an acceptable level of service. WR&A’s responsibilities and tasks included public outreach, traffic studies, stormwater management design, roundabout design, pedestrian sidewalk/ADA-compliant design, preparation of construction plans and specifications. WR&A also managed a team of subconsultants, and performed QA/QC and constructability review of final design plans.Borough of Kittanning Transportation Study, Armstrong County, PA: Traffic Engineer for this study to assist the Borough of Kittanning and County of Armstrong in determining scenarios and selecting alternatives for the downtown Central Business District that: assessed and improved general traffic flow with a focus on congestion hot-spots, one-way street patterns, and parking; improved the pedestrian environment with a focus on safety, accessibility, and connectivity to key destinations; enhanced multimodal connections to community assets; and enhanced multimodal access in relation to traffic, parking, and pedestrian access during various festivals or special events. Assisted with an intersection-specific operational analysis and extensive public involvement component.US 6N Corridor Land Use and Transportation Study, Erie County, PA: Corridor analysis and development of low-cost, smart transportation improvements as part of a land use and transportation study along a 5-mile stretch of US 6N through Edinboro and Washington Township. Project goals focused on encouraging growth while reducing traffic congestion, improving safety, managing incidents, and enhancing pedestrian, bicycle, and transit circulation. Extensive municipal coordination occurred through meetings with a Project Advisory Committee, community stakeholders, and the public.

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RELEVANT PROJECT EXPERIENCEGreater Downtown Traffic Simulation Model, Kansas City, MO: WR&A is assisting the City of Kansas City with developing an accurate greater downtown multimodal traffic simulation model. The model for the project area encompassing 10 square miles and 250+ signalized intersections considers private motor vehicles, streetcars, buses, and transit, and will provide an accurate representation of traffic throughout the City. The goal is to use the model for the detailed operational evaluation and design of alternatives for streetcar routes and schedules, traffic signals, intersections, bike lanes, and on-street parking in the CBD loop and other areas of the city. Ms. Tracy was responsible for developing an AM and PM peak period travel demand model in VISUM with timing plans, lane closures, turn restrictions, etc., developing a capacity constrained parking model to redistribute driving trips to parking structures and then represent them as walking trips in the downtown area; developing framework for ArcGIS application a land-use

based model for the client to easily adjust land use; establishing a link between VISUM and microsimulation model VISSIM using ANM adaptive processes for efficiency between models; coding a pedestrian and roadway network in the same downtown model for fine resolution; and creating a microsimulation model in VISSIM to analyze a streetcar scenario.Purple Line Air Quality Final Environmental Impact Statement, Silver Spring, MD: Project engineer assisting with WR&A’s tasks on the Purple Line GEC team to conduct Air Quality analyses for future no-build and build scenarios. The Purple Line is a proposed light rail line extending from Bethesda in Montgomery County to New Carrollton in Prince George’s County. The 16.3-mile line will provide a direct connection to the WMATA’s Metrorail Red, Green, and Orange Lines, to the three MARC rail commuter lines, to the Amtrak Northeast Corridor services, and to local bus services. Project tasks included performing analysis of air pollutant emissions for the interim year 2020 and design year 2040 for non-attainment pollutants, performing CO micro-scale analysis according to EPA guidelines using CAL3QHC, writing the FEIS Air Quality Technical Report and FEIS Chapter, and performing MSAT analysis, mesoscale CO, PM2.5, PM2.5 precursor NOx, and ozone precursor VOC and NOx.North East Smart Transportation Initiative, Erie County, PA: Project engineer assisting the Borough of North East with this comprehensive, multimodal study that generated recommendations to help solve a variety of transportation-related issues in the areas of multimodal linkages, wayfinding, parking, downtown revitalization, and funding. The study linked transportation planning with land use planning, provides a community-specific focus, utilizes extensive public and stakeholder involvement, and developed preliminary planning and engineering for a list of low-cost/short-term to higher-cost/longer-term projects. Ms. Tracy investigated key areas of concern identified by the public, steering committee, key stakeholders, and public officials through an extensive public outreach process that included presentations, open house workshops, charettes, and online surveys. She performed field work including sidewalk inventories, traffic counts, pedestrian counts, saturation flow rate studies, gap studies, speed studies, automatic traffic recorders, signal cabinet equipment inventories, actuation testing, and preemption observation. She evaluated current land use and zoning ordinances and recommended modifications to ensure smart growth happens in this redeveloping historic community, and developed an implementation plan with checklists of projects and their potential funding sources.

EDUCATION 2011 B.S. in Civil Engineering, Transportation

CERTIFICATIONS

2011 Pennsylvania Registered Engineer in Training #ET017027

YEARS EXPERIENCE

3 Years with firm 3 Years in industry

ASHLEY TRACY, EITTransportation Planner & Public Involvement CoordinatorMs. Tracy has knowledge and experience in transportation engineering with a focus on travel demand modeling, simulation modeling, traffic operations analysis, and traffic signal retiming. She is knowledgeable in specialized software such as Synchro/SimTraffic, VISUM, VISSIM, Cube Voyager Version 6, and ArcGIS. Ms. Tracy’s recent work has included developing travel demand models to support the Kansas City Greater Downtown Traffic Simulation Model and performing air quality analyses for the Purple Line Air Quality Final Environmental Impact Statement project in Silver Spring, MD.

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I-99/Waddle Road Interchange, Centre County, PA: Project engineer assisting with WR&A’s tasks on this project. Responsibilities included: extracting a subnetwork around the I-99/Waddle Road interchange from the regional Centre County travel demand model in Cube in support of the traffic report; refining and validating the subnetwork in VISUM to match current traffic counts; developing a future year 2040 scenario; testing various interchange alternatives, including no build, partial cloverleaf, and conventional diamond; and reporting turning movement forecasts to PennDOT and project team in support of the traffic report.DelDOT Peninsula Travel Demand Model Open End, Statewide, DE: Project engineer assisting with WR&A’s tasks under this open end. Personal assignments have included updating the DelDOT Peninsula Travel Demand Model in Cube to include geometry and speed reductions at a recently constructed I-95 toll plaza; creating MOVES data tables for spring, summer daily, summer, fall, and winter to summarize PM2.5, NOx, VOC, and greenhouse gases for New Castle County; executing the modified Cube model for 2015, 2020, 2030, and 2040; and condensing home-based work and total trips matrices into 16 transit “zones” to support the Wilmington Transit Study latent demand analysis.I-64/VDOT High Rise Bridge, Virginia Beach, VA: Project engineer assisting with WR&A’s tasks on this project. Personal assignments have included extracting traffic volumes from the Cube travel demand model to post-process in a balancing spreadsheet to support traffic analysis; balancing the spreadsheet to reflect growth between years and extrapolated to a 2025 and 2040 scenario; balancing the ramp volumes by peak period using ADT data and k-factors; and developing turning movement counts for a 6-lane, 8-lane, and 10-lane scenario.SPC Regional Traffic Signal Program Consultant Services, Southwestern PA: Project Engineer assisting with cooperative efforts of three PennDOT districts within the ten-county Southwestern Pennsylvania Commission (SPC) region to evaluate, design, and provide field implementation for traffic signal timing improvements and related equipment upgrades for over 20 corridors. Responsible for optimizing 21 signals in 3 coordination zones and drafting signal plans for one corridor in Indiana Borough/White Township with varying land uses. Tasks have included performing field inventories of controller cabinet equipment, verifying existing signal timing, conducting saturation flow rate studies, queuing studies, isolated delay, lane utilization studies, optimizing AM, MD, and PM peak timings, processing travel time runs and calibrating the Synchro model, completing a comprehensive review of ATR’s and TMC’s, preparing report summarizing new clearance intervals and pedestrian walk times, performing a signal removal study, and evaluating 9 MUTCD signal warrants and 2 PennDOT signal warrants, as well as crash history analysis, and sight distance measurements.

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RELEVANT PROJECT EXPERIENCE

New River Valley MPO On-Call Engineering and Planning Services, Blacksburg/Christiansburg/ Montgomery, VA: Project Engineer assisting with the 2035 Long Range Transportation Plan Update task order, where WR&A staff is working with officials from the MPO, Towns of Blacksburg and Christiansburg, City of Radford, Montgomery and Pulaski Counties, and the Virginia Department of Transportation to update the 2035 Long Range Transportation Plan to the year 2040, and to be in compliance with new MAP-21 guidelines. WR&A will work with local governments to update land use forecasts and conduct outreach with key stakeholders and area residents, including Citizen Information Meetings. Responsibilities included compiling and mapping currently identified projects from existing LRTP, municipality comprehensive plans, and VDOT Six-Year Improvement Plan and evaluating and documenting multimodal transportation network existing conditions.

Delmarva Peninsula Freight Plan, Delaware, Maryland, & Virginia: Project Engineer assisting DelDOT, MDOT, and VDOT with this multi-state, multi-MPO, MAP-21 compliant freight plan to provide a better understanding of existing and anticipated freight flows within the Delmarva Peninsula, as well as to and from surrounding areas. The plan reflects intra-regional, inter-regional, and national trends in freight movement and planning, and is consistent with existing plans and the current state-of-the-practice for freight planning to ensure the long term economic competitiveness of the region. The initial phase of the project included outreach, data collection, projections, and analysis; final phase will include development & evaluation of future scenarios, recommendations, and the preparation of a final report. As part of the study, WR&A helped coordinate multiple freight summits with participants from industry, DOTs, freight shippers, and consultants to discuss the state of freight on the Peninsula. City of Hermitage Signal Inventory, Mercer County, PA: Field Technician assisting with cooperative efforts of 3 PennDOT districts within the 10-county SPC region to evaluate, design, and provide field implementation for traffic signal timing improvements and related equipment upgrades. Tasks have included balancing corridor volumes by peak periods using TMC Data, conducting saturation flow rate studies and queuing studies, reviewing existing signal phasing, vehicle change and clearance intervals, and pedestrian intervals, and preparing the report summarizing new clearance intervals, pedestrian walk times, signal phasing, and arterial comparison summary.US 11/78 East Corridor Alternative Analysis, Birmingham, AL: Assisting with the traffic engineering aspects of this regional project involving the alternatives analysis for land use, transit, and complete streets improvements along the US 11/US 78 corridors in East Birmingham, Alabama. Alternatives under consideration include Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) coupled with community reinvestment. Tasks have included balancing corridor volumes by peak periods using TMC Data, developing and calibrating AM and PM peak period VISSIM models, evaluating intersection LOS based on HCM 2000 using Synchro, mapping AM and PM peak period LOS by intersection using ArcGIS.

EDUCATION 2014 B.S. in Civil Engineering, Bucknell University

CERTIFICATIONS

2014 Pennsylvania Registered Engineer in Training #ET020477

YEARS EXPERIENCE1 Years with firm 1 Years in industry

EMILY WAKSMUNSKI, EITTransportation PlannerMs. Waksmunski has knowledge and experience in traffic engineering with a focus on sustainable transportation planning, environmental planning, and environmental GIS. She is knowledgeable in specialized software such as Synchro/SimTraffic, VISUM, VISSIM, and ArcGIS. Ms. Waksmunski’s recent work has included developing a sustainability rating system for shared use paths and applied the rating system as a case study to a local rail trail, evaluating geometric improvement alternatives for an intersection north of Wellsboro, Pennsylvania, and surveying the conditions of drainage, shoulder, and guardrail systems in Indiana County, PA.

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Cox’s Corner Intersection Improvements, SR 0228/SR 2005, Clinton Township, Butler County, PA: The purpose of this project is to improve traffic flow, reduce congestion, and improve safety and sight distance. Work to date includes completing an feasibility study for the review of sight feasibility, safety assessment, operational analysis of existing conditions, and analysis of three intersection alternatives, all of which looked at single lane roundabout and signalized intersections. The feasibility study concluded that both roadway widening with incorporating a signalized intersection or construction of a roundabout met the project’s purpose and need, however, the roundabout was determined to be the better alternative based off the cost-benefit ratio and the operational analysis. Responsibilities included investigating the feasibility of four intersection alternatives, performed sight distance, crash history, intersection stopped delay, queueing, and speed studies, developed and calibrated AM and PM peak period VISSIM, Synchro, and HCS models for three of the intersection alternatives, and summarized the findings in a memorandum for PennDOT.I-83 Widening Project, York County, PA: Assisting with the traffic analysis for this PennDOT District 8-0 project to study and design the widening of I-83 to 6 lanes and upgrade 3 interchanges. This was the first project in Pennsylvania to use an innovative Origin-Destination study approach by acquiring AirSage Cell Phone Data. The project includes evaluating the interstate and surface street system through the project area, building custom VISUM and VISSIM models, and evaluating alternatives. Task assignments have included evaluating traffic operations for five interchange alternatives at the intersection of I-83 and SR 851 in Shrewsbury, including a Diverging Diamond Interchange (DDI), developing and calibrating AM and PM peak period VISSIM models of the five alternatives for the base year (2014), opening year (2018), and design year (2038), determining optimized signal phasing for each alternative, and performing a sensitivity analysis of failure year for the DDI alternative.Freedom Road Bridge SR 3020 over Pennsylvania Turnpike, Beaver County, PA: Project engineer assisting with WR&A’s tasks on this project. Personal assignments have included performing TMC’s for three intersections adjacent to the Freedom Road Turnpike Bridge, updating existing VISUM, VISSIM, and Synchro models to match existing conditions, evaluating traffic operations for various Freedom Road Turnpike Bridge closure scenarios.

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RELEVANT PROJECT EXPERIENCENew River Valley MPO On-Call Engineering and Planning Services, Blacksburg/Christiansburg/ Montgomery, VA: Assisting with the 2035 Long Range Transportation Plan (LRTP) Update task order for this open end, where WR&A staff is working with the MPO and the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) to update the 2035 LRTP to the year 2040 and to be in compliance with new MAP-21 guidelines and performance-based planning interests. Tasks to date have included extensive document reviews, developing visualizations of census and socioeconomic data in ArcGIS, and researching current socioeconomic data for implementation to future models.East Campus Building 2 Traffic Impact Study PTN 18235, TTO #8: Task assignments have included assisting with calibration and report preparation.I-66 at Route 28 Interchange/Corridor Improvements, Fairfax County, VA (Virginia Department of Transportation): Assisting with the traffic analysis for this project to modify the Route 28/I-66 Interchange and the Route 28/Westfields

Boulevard Interchange to reduce congestion on Route 28 and improve operations along I-66 in Fairfax County. The project would include the elimination of four existing traffic signals along Route 28; the relocation of the entrance and reconfiguration of local access to Ellanor C. Lawrence Park; and the modification of access to and from Route 28 and Braddock Road to I-66. Task assignments have included data entry, updating VISUM and VISSIM volumes, and preparing spreadsheets for calibration.US 29 BRT Study – Travel Forecast Development; Operational and Safety Analysis (MD SHA): Task assignments have included coding every component of this large network in VISSIM, and assisting in the calibration. MD 97 CSIS Study: Task assignments have included updating the VISSIM model with current and future volumes, and assisting in the calibration.

EDUCATION 2014 M.S. in Civil & Environmental Engineering

2012 B.S. in Civil & Environmental Engineering

CERTIFICATIONS

2014 Maryland Registered Engineer in Training #4573563

YEARS EXPERIENCE


KRAE STIEFFENHOFER, EITTransportation PlannerMr. Stieffenhofer has knowledge and experience in transportation engineering with a focus on travel demand modeling, simulation modeling, traffic operations analysis, and transportation planning. He is knowledgeable in specialized software such as AutoCAD 2013, AutoCAD Civil 3D 2013, Synchro/SimTraffic, VISUM, VISSIM, Cube Voyager Version 6, and ArcGIS, HCS, Matlab, and C++, LaTeX.

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PAST EXPERIENCEIn addition to the projects listed in the Summary section of this proposal, WR&A has completed other regional and statewide long range planning projects that are directly relevant to the Cambria County Long Range Transportation Plan project. We have performed past work on similar transportation planning projects for seven Metropolitan Planning Organizations and Rural Planning Organizations within Pennsylvania: SPC MPO, Erie County MPO, Shenango Valley (MCRPC), Northwest RPO, North Central RPO, Centre County MPO, and DVRPC MPO.

CONGESTION MANAGEMENT PROCESSES, MERCER COUNTY, PA The goal of this project was to apply the requirements for a metro area TMA classification (population >200K) to a practical, easy-to-implement congestion management process for a small-scale rural municipality.Mercer County, Pennsylvania - part of the Youngstown Ohio Transportation Management Area - is required to establish a Congestion Management Process (CMP) for use within the county in accordance with applicable statues and planning regulations. The CMP developed for the Mercer County Regional Planning Commission by WR&A provides the planners and operators of the County’s transportation facilities with a set of tools to help manage or mitigate county-specific congestion and foster better, more informed decision-making.Tasks included GIS-based travel time runs; multimodal review of land use; documentation of congestion-related data; qualitative assessment of potential congested locations and quantitative assessment of high-priority congested locations; and prioritization of congestion concerns. WR&A developed a set of processes that the Mercer County MPO will use on a recurring basis to track and monitor congestion over time as well as the effectiveness of any implemented strategies.An update for this project was completed in 2013.

REGIONAL TRAVEL DEMAND MODEL & SOCIOECONOMIC DATABASE, CENTRE COUNTY, PAWR&A is nearing completion of the upgrade/update of Centre County MPO Travel Demand Model to Cube Voyager format and creation of a socioeconomic forecast geodatabase. The project area includes a major university and municipalities of various sizes. The socioeconomic database is being developed as a series of parcel-based geodatabases within Cube Voyager, which will simplify future model maintenance and updates by directly using GIS capabilities.The updated model will be used for future air quality conformity determinations, project assessment and analyses, and for evaluation of transportation projects for the next major update of their Long Range Transportation Plan. The Centre County Travel Demand Model is being enhanced to provide better data for a wider audience, including modules that are easily modified, improved upon, or replaced as requirements change, additional data becomes available, or evaluation and analysis needs change. Some of the significant updates, aside from fixing structural problems throughout each step of the previous model, include:

• Separating Home Based University Trips from Home Based School Trips, which is a major enhancement due to the presence of Penn State University in the center of the model area.

Staff AssignedScott Thompson-Graves

Chad Reese

Fee $103,700

Client Contact

Matt Stewart, Senior Planner, Mercer County Regional Planning Commission (MCRPC) 724-981-2412 x 3206

Project Status Project Complete

Staff Assigned Scott Thompson-Graves

Fee $70,000

Client Contact

Trish Meek, Senior Transportation Planner, Centre Regional Planning Agency (CRPA)814-231-3050 x 504

Project Status 99% Complete (est. completion March 2015)

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• Including a capacity constrained parking lot module that accounts for the fact that automobile trips drive to parking lots and either walk or ride to buildings rather than driving directly to buildings in University or major CBD settings. This has made significant improvements in the transit assignments for the campus routes and improved traffic assignments near the university.

• Including walking trips in mode choice which is a significant mode of travel for campus & CBD trips in the region.

• Updating the mode choice model to include a full nested logit model for each trip type.

• Updating the model to include the traffic control in place at each intersection in the model area using Cube Voyager’s junction capabilities in traffic assignment. This is important due to the increased emphasis on operational improvements such as signal upgrades and construction of turning lanes rather than major highway widening or construction projects.

NORTHWEST RPO TRAFFIC SIGNAL INVENTORY & IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM, CRAWFORD, VENANGO, & WARREN COUNTIES, PAThis was a project for the Northwest Commission RPO to develop a thorough and accurate inventory of 196 existing traffic signals in three counties (equipment and timings), analyze the data and determine needs, and develop cost estimates for signal improvements. The project included meetings with each municipality to kick off the project and establish the needs. After the kickoff, a two person team completed a field view of the approximately 200 traffic signals in the county. Tasks included identifying and inventorying all components of a traffic signal controller box and manually pulling timings and verifying information against the traffic signal permit plan. Additionally, the signal heads, signage, pavement markings, signal supports were inventoried and all pedestrian push buttons were tested and also verified against the traffic signal permit plan. The data was documented in a written report with appendices that included the inventoried information along with pictures, and recommended improvements and cost estimates for each intersection. The cost estimates were developed in three different categories: the cost to bring each intersection up to MUTCD requirements, the cost of basic maintenance items for each intersection, and the cost to retime signals and upgrade intersections and/or equipment. The project concluded with WR&A presenting the findings to each municipality in the form of written reports presented at meetings.


Dan Fritz

Fee $50,000

Client ContactSue Smith, Regional Planning Manager, Northwest Commission RPO814-677-4800 x 131


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US 19 CORRIDOR TRANSPORTATION & LAND USE STUDY, BUTLER, ALLEGHENY, & BEAVER COUNTIES, PAThe US 19 Corridor Land Use and Transportation Study involved identifying transportation deficiencies and optimal solutions for two heavily congested corridors spanning three counties, seven municipalities, two PennDOT districts, and one MPO. The project-specific VISUM model combines the SPC TP+ travel demand model and Cranberry Township’s Tranplan model to predict growth and traffic. The VISUM model was calibrated using the “t-flow fuzzy” method while incorporating data from an O-D survey, current ATR counts, and intersection turning movement counts.

VISSIM traffic simulation models were developed to replicate operations of the existing, complex travel patterns of this area that includes lane imbalances/drops, lane utilization, arterial weaves, queuing spillback between intersections, and turn lane overflow and its impact on through traffic. VISSIM modeling details included Dynamic Assignment, customized truck classes and routes, and pedestrian and vehicle interactions. Extensive validation statistics (FHWA guidelines) were used including GEH statistics and RMSE for link and turn volumes, Volume scatter graphs and R2 values, and queue length comparisons.

DELDOT STATEWIDE TRANSPORTATION PLANNING OPEN-END, DEWR&A has provided transportation analysis services for Long Range Transportation Plans as part of the firm’s ongoing statewide transportation planning services open-end contract for the Delaware Department of Transportation:Delaware Long Range Transportation Plan (statewide plan) – Supported the transportation analysis of land use shift, No-Build, MPO Plan, added highway capacity, and added transit capacity scenarios to determine their impact on operations, emissions, VMT, and VHT. Applied the Delaware Statewide Travel Demand Model also developed by WR&A for quantitative analyses.Sussex County Comprehensive Plan–Mobility Element – Supported the transportation analysis of the countywide transportation plan using the Delaware Statewide Travel Demand Model. Evaluated transportation needs for the peak and off-peak tourist seasons.WILMAPCO 2030 Regional Transportation Plan – Supported the long range transportation plan for the New Castle County, DE and Cecil County, MD MPO. The plan addressed the impacts on all modes of travel and estimated emissions impacts due to the plan implementation using the Delaware Statewide Travel Demand Model.Dover/Kent County MPO Regional Transportation Plan Update – Supported the regional transportation plan for the Dover/Kent County Delaware MPO. Evaluated multiple land use and transportation investment scenarios to determine their impact on VMT, VHT, LOS, and emissions using the Delaware Statewide Travel Demand Model.


Ashley Tracy

Fee Task orders as part of $1.2M on-call planning services

Client Contact Mike DuRoss, Transportation Planning Supervisor, DelDOT, 302-760-2110



Chad Reese

Dan Fritz

Fee $404,000

Client ContactMark Rozich, Project Manager, PennDOT District 10-0, 724-357-2852


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Current Projects, Workload, and Availability of StaffWe are in the process of finishing up several transportation planning projects and will have immediate availability of the staff members indicated in our organizational chart. Our active project list includes:

Project Staff Members assigned Est. completion date Percent completed

Delmarva Freight Plan, Delaware, Virginia, & Maryland (DelDOT, MDOT, VDOT)

Scott Thompson-Graves

Chad Reese

Emily Waksmunski

January 2015 95%

Regional Travel Demand Model & Socioeconomic Database, Centre County, PA (CRPA)

Scott Thompson-Graves March 2015 99%

2035 Long Range Transportation Plan Update, Blacksburg/Christiansburg/ Montgomery, VA (New River Valley MPO)

Chad Reese

Emily Waksmunski

Krae Stieffenhofer

December 2015 43%

Meadville Traffic/Land Use Study for SR 19/SR 98/SR 322, Crawford County, PA (PennDOT District 1-0)

Scott Thompson-Graves December 2014 99%

Greater Downtown Traffic Simulation Model, Kansas City, MO

Scott Thompson-GravesOpen-End Support

Contract75%

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Proposal BUDGET

BUDGET

ContractManager ProjectManager

SeniorTransportation

PlannerTransportationPlanner1

TransportationPlanner2

Graphics/TechWriter

hourlybillingrate(includingdirectlabor,overhead,and10%profit) $163.20 $130.21 $101.77 $70.53 $62.95 $56.89

Phase1:EstablishBackgroundConditions 8 32 40 80 80 40 280

Phase2:ListeningTour 4 140 12 74 74 40 344

Phase3:CompilingNeeds 4 72 0 100 80 80 336

Phase4:Programming 4 40 0 140 0 45 229

TotalHours 20 284 52 394 234 205 1,189TotalCost $3,264.00 $36,979.64 $5,292.04 $27,788.82 $14,730.30 $11,662.45 $99,717.25

Subtotal $99,717.25OtherDirectCosts

MetroQuestPublicEngagementSoftware 22,000.00$ $22,000.00Mileage 1,142.00$ $1,142.00

Lodging(8nightsat$100pernight) 800.00$ $800.00Perdiem(assuming18person‐days) 810.00$ $810.00

WR&ATotal $124,469.25

WORKELEMENTDESCRIPTIONCLASSIFICATION

TOTALHOURS

BudgetCambriaCountyLongRangeTransportationPlan

Whitman,RequardtandAssociates,LLP

Documents

LONG RANGE TRANSPORTATION PLAN · 2014. 12. 3. · CAMBRIA COUNTY LONG RANGE TRANSPORTATION PLAN SUMMARY ... and Programming. The plan will extend to 2040 and will be developed to