TRANSPORTATION

Wood Rodgers provides a wide range of engineering services for the transportation industry, including planning, mapping, engineering, and construction support. Dedicated to effective communication and direct principal involvement in every project, the firm transcends traditional client/consultant roles to become an extension of our clients’ staff. Our staff also has excellent working relationships with all levels of Caltrans.

The firm offers top quality technical support with a team of highly experienced and qualified designers, engineers, and project managers who understand the economic, social, political, public, and environmental issues accompanying transportation projects. The team has successfully completed numerous design projects for new roadways and the expansion of existing facilities in both urban and rural locations.

Transportation Planning

Wood Rodgers provides extensive transportation services performed by a talented and experienced group of motivated engineers and planning professionals. Our staff provides comprehensive "in-house" traffic impact evaluations, travel demand modeling development, and traffic engineering analysis to complement the other wide range of land development and roadway engineering projects performed by Wood Rodgers.

Traffic Modeling Services

The Wood Rodgers Transportation Planning division specializes in creation/development, maintenance and update of all scales of travel/traffic demand forecasting models – from small-scale communitywide (Specific Plan, Master Plan) models, to medium-scale citywide models, to large-scale regional/sub-regional models. Our staff is proficient in the use of a variety of transportation planning software including TP+/Viper, CUBE/Voyager, MINUTP, TransCAD and EMME2. As necessary, we also utilize small-area traffic impact study software such as Traffix. Wood Rodgers staff has experience and expertise in developing from “scratch”, managing, and updating, as well as comprehensively documenting traffic demand models.

Traffic Study Services

Wood Rodgers takes special pride in the quality, completeness, accuracy and overall usefulness of our comprehensive traffic impact study reports.

• CEQA and NEPA compliant and AB-1600 Compliant Analysis Methods
• Meeting Local Agency as well as Caltrans Guidelines for Traffic Impact Studies
• Multi-Period Analysis (AM and PM peak hour, annualized average daily traffic, and seasonal peak hour, as relevant)
• Multi-Scenario Analysis (Existing conditions, Short-term Future conditions both without and with Proposed Project, Long-Term Future conditions both without and with Project)
• Multi-modal Analysis (vehicular, truck, bicycle and pedestrian impacts)
• State-of-the-practice Analysis Tools & Procedures (including latest HCM methods)
• Integration Modern Transportation Planning Solution Recommendations Including – Smart Growth, “Traffic Calming” Treatments, and Roundabout Design Concepts
• Ownership Analysis
• Integration of supporting technologies such as Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and database programming
• Reasonable, Realistic, and Implementable Recommendations for Improvements and Mitigation Measures
• Comprehensive Documentation and “Easy to Understand” Reports
• Powerful graphics and exhibits
• Reasonable and Cost-competitive Traffic Study Budgets
• Traffic Study Schedules that are Sensitive to Agency Review Time as Well as Development Interests

Transportation Engineering

Wood Rodgers provides comprehensive engineering services for transportation projects from the inception to completion including local roads, freeways, highways, interchanges, bridges, grade separations, and bicycle and pedestrian facilities. Our approach to any transportation project, large or small, begins with forming a strong understanding of client needs, schedule and budget parameters, and community impacts. Our transportation engineers possess extensive experience and expertise in the design of a safe, attractive, easy-to-navigate and efficient infrastructure and understand transportation’s role in improving a community’s quality of life. Our experience allows us to manage and execute complex transportation projects from inception to completion through design excellence, dependable project delivery and exemplary client service.

Our Transportation engineering services encompasses many areas, including:

• Route/Corridor Studies
• Local Roads, Streets, Highways, Freeways and Interchanges
• Alternative Modes of Transportation
• Caltrans PSR, PA/ED and PS&E process
• Geometric Design Solutions
• Traffic Signals
• Bicycle/Pedestrian Signals
• Emergency and Railroad Pre-emption
• Signing and Pavement Delineation
• Ramp Metering
• Street, Walkway, and Bikeway Lighting
• Traffic Control/Management Plans
• Intersection Design
• Roundabouts and Traffic Calming Design
• Context Sensitive Design
• Right of Way Engineering
• Safe Routes to Schools
• Value Engineering and Cost Analysis
• Construction Support Services