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EPR provided civil design services for the design of a new parking facility for the JAUNT paratransit provider organization. The project was FTA funded. The design utilized an innovative permeable pavement structure, called PaveDrain, which was designed to result in zero runoff for the 25 year, 24 hour storm event. EPR prepared and submitted the construction plans and permits for ... Read More

Fauquier County has carefully planned out its growth areas (service districts) and is interested in providing context sensitive transportation improvements that can encourage community design and multimodalism. EPR assists Fauquier County with a variety of transportation planning and engineering services. Assignments typically include reviews of Traffic Impact Studies and proffer statements, multimodal transportation analyses, conducting small area studies, assisting staff ... Read More

EPR served as the project transportation engineer for the site selection efforts. For the intermodal center EPR assisted with the public involvement process, conducted analyses of traffic and pedestrian access, and assessed impacts to routes caused by the change in transfer locations. For the maintenance center, EPR assessed traffic impacts and potential impacts to routes as a result of the ... Read More

EPR worked with the City of Charlottesville and the Belmont Neighborhood Association to develop design concepts and then designs for context sensitive road improvements. EPR developed concepts and renderings of the improvements that included modification of parking – testing various alternatives such as back-in/parallel/and 90 degree, median improvements and landscaping, sidewalk improvements, and new intersection geometry. The overall goal of ... Read More

EPR is currently working on three SRTS projects across the state. These include: Route 340 Warren County Sidewalk and Pedestrian Signalization (associated with Skyline High School in Warren County) – EPR is working with LPDA for this design effort which includes a sidewalk adjacent to Route 340 between Criser Road and Skyline Vista Drive in Warren County. EPR’s role is ... Read More

EPR staff have been working with the City of Charlottesville for over 12 years. Bill Wuensch, P.E., PTOE, while with a previous firm, ,led a parking inventory and utilization effort, and identification of alternative strategies for meeting the parking demand in the downtown business district of the City. The inventory and utilization effort entailed an extensive GIS mapping exercise and ... Read More

EPR has been assisting the City of Lynchburg for the past nine years on a variety of projects ranging from traffic circulation, traffic operations analysis, signal timing, corridor studies, and multimodal planning. Through spring and summer of 2011, Bill Wuensch of EPR served (through a consulting contract) as in-house traffic engineering support while the City searched for and hired a ... Read More

EPR staff has been providing transportation engineering and planning services to the City of Charlottesville through an on-call contract arrangement for over 16 years. With the University of Virginia situated within the City limits, the 20,000+ on-campus students and overall citizenry enjoy a highly walkable multimodal community setting. EPR has been assisting the City with planning and engineering efforts that ... Read More