Principal/Transportation Engineer
Professional Engineer in VA, NC, and FL
Professional Traffic Operations Engineer (ITE Certification)
BSCE University of Central Florida, 1992
- Member of American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE), Virginia Chapter of the American Planning Association (APA)
- 2014 President of the Virginia Section of ITE
- Adjunct Instructor at UVA (Placemaking and Transportation) 2010-2013
SUMMARY
Bill’s expertise is primarily focused in the area of traffic engineering, multimodal transportation planning and community planning. Over the past 30+ years, he has led or managed multi-modal corridor plans, traffic impact studies, traffic operations studies, access management studies, designs of traffic control devices, corridor location studies, and bicycle and pedestrian facility studies. Bill is an experienced transportation engineer and regional and community planner and has worked with agencies, localities, and private sector entities across VA, NC, FL, and CT providing these services.
Representative Traffic Operations and Design Projects:
- Thirty-Five Traffic Signals in Lynchburg (past 20 years)
- Maintenance of traffic plans for Downtown and Highway Projects
- Traffic signal retiming in Charlottesville and Lynchburg, VA
- 300+ Traffic Impact Studies in VA and NC
- Multiple STARS and VDOT TMPD Study Efforts
- System Planning and Bicycle Marking Designs for Winchester, Lynchburg, Danville, and Charlottesville, VA
- Design of traffic adaptive signal implementation
- Hundreds of traffic signal designs in Virginia and Florida
- Numerous interchange traffic control device design projects in Florida.
- Area, Street, Highway, and Bridge Lighting in VA and FL
- SRTS / TAP / HSIP Funded Sidewalk and Pedestrian Improvement Projects
- Numerous VDOT STARS, TMPD, and MPO Corridor Operations Studies
- Virginia LAP funded project design and leadership for road and sidewalk improvements
Representative Regional and Community Planning Projects
Central Virginia Long Range Transportation Plans (2035, 2040, and 2045 updates) – Bill managed and served as principal in charge for updates to the region’s LRTP. Each of the plans varied in approach. The 2035 plan took a regional land use and transportation scenario planning approach, the 2040 plan developed a prioritization tool and tied scoring to the evolving SMART SCALE program, and the 2045 plan included enhanced public involvement, updated scoring processes and a stronger tie to economic factors.
Danville MPO LRTP – Bill served as principal in charge and lead transportation engineer for the update to the region’s 2045 plan update. The plan enjoyed strong public input and culminated in the development of a prioritization scoring tool and much-improved detail to the region’s project plan list.
City of Norfolk Multimodal Transportation Plan – Bill served as transportation engineering principal to provide direction regarding project feasibility and consistency with industry design guidelines. The overall project developed an innovative masterplan for the implementation of multimodal projects across the City for the short and longer-term planning horizons.
Comprehensive Plan Transportation Studies – Bill led or served as the transportation engineering principal for several comprehensive plan related efforts, including the Transportation Element of the Henrico County plan, several small area transportation plans for Fauquier County’s Comp Plan, the Crozet Buildout Plan for Albemarle County’s Comp Plan, Montgomery County’s Transportation Plan, and others throughout Virginia.
OIPI Urban Development Area (UDA) and Growth and Accessibility Planning (GAP) – Bill served as the project transportation engineer for four UDA studies for OIPI’s UDA program, and more recently five GAP program studies. The studies bring together a communities growth vision with challenges relative to transportation and multimodal accessibility. Bill helped to define targeted solutions and provided oversight regarding overall feasibility and high-level costing.
Cocoa Beach Florida Route 520 Gateway Plan – Working with Dover Kohl, Bill led the transportation planning effort for a sector planning effort to identify and define new growth vision for the City of Cocoa Beach, Florida.
Northeast Corridor Improvements (NECI), Charlotte, NC – Bill led the traffic study effort for the planning phase for a new light rail station in northeast Charlotte.
Downtown Mobility Study – Cities of Bradenton and Palmetto, Florida – Bill served as lead project traffic engineer for a mobility study for congested portions of Bradenton and Palmetto in southwest Florida. The goal of the study was to develop context-sensitive strategies to relieve congestion through the central business districts and identify solutions to concerns generated by the local businesses.
Liberty University Campus Transportation Plans – Bill led a campus-wide transportation plan for LU’s 2010 conditional use permit to expand the campus to 15,000 students. In 2014 he worked with a team of architects and engineers on a building program plan, through 2021. A list of improvements, by year, was identified along with planning level costs. Bill continues to support LU’s transportation planning and design function.
Transit Center Studies – Bill has helped to facilitate the implementation of improved transit access for numerous projects. He served as the traffic planner/engineer for transit facilities including the Silver Line WMATA extension DEIS (Tysons to Dulles), the Bridgeport CT multimodal station, and for intermodal and/or transit maintenance facilities in Petersburg, Blacksburg, Lynchburg, Manassas, Roanoke, and Christiansburg, Virginia. These studies examine multimodal access and traffic impacts as required per NEPA, VDOT, and the locality.