Transportation / Transit Planning and Preliminary Design
The Wilson T. Ballard Company has been providing Project Planning Services for various types of transportation-related projects continuously since the 1970s. The scope of our project planning capabilities is extensive, spanning across all project development phases and all modes of transportation.
Transportation and Transit Planning and Preliminary Design
Our experienced project planning staff is uniquely trained and qualified, gaining exposure over a period of years to a wide variety of assignments so that each person has a broad based background. The project planning team includes licensed Professional Engineers, American Institute of Certified Planners, environmental specialists, Geographic Information Systems specialists, Certified Professional Traffic Operations Engineers and Professional Transportation Planners.
Staff experience in final highway and structure design, transit facilities design, Americans with Disabilities Act assessments, hydrologic and hydraulic analyses, utility design, traffic control plans and environmental assessment is incorporated directly into the project planning and preliminary design process.
- Project feasibility and definition
- Purpose and need documentation
- Logical termini and segmentation analysis
- Master plan and transportation plan development
- Interstate access point approval requests
- Feasibility studies and highway planning
- Alignment and multi modal corridor studies
- Interchange layout and intersection capacity analysis
- Performance based practical design analysis
- Safety analysis and remediation and value engineering
- Pedestrian and bicycle studies
- Stormwater management concept plan development
- Transit planning and corridor integration
- Heavy rail planning, alignment studies and station amenities
- Light rail planning, grade crossing analysis and facilities support
- Bus rapid transit, local, regional and express bus planning
- Transit center planning, programming and design
- Vehicle maintenance facility site search and feasibility
- Parking analysis and passenger surveys
- Project management for multi disciplined transit projects
- Technical analyses and environmental documentation
- Agency and public coordination in partnership with environmental services
Planning and preliminary design efforts are closely coordinated with environmental, traffic, structural, water resources, utility and right of way staff to ensure that concepts are feasible, buildable and responsive to community and agency goals.
