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TRANSPORTATION PLANNING

Drive Engineering offers forward-thinking transportation planning services aimed at creating sustainable, efficient, and safe transportation networks. Our solutions focus on integrating various modes of transportation to meet the needs of growing communities while promoting accessibility, mobility, and sound policy foundations.

Services include:

  • Traffic Safety Planning

  • Active Transportation Planning

  • Multimodal Corridor Studies & Plans

  • Transit Planning

  • GIS and Data Analysis

  • New Mobility and Curbside Management

  • Long Range Transportation Planning

  • Congestion Management

  • ITS Planning and Design

  • Stakeholder Coordination and Public Involvement

  • Communications and Web Management

Active Transportation Planning

We develop strategies to promote and support walking, biking, and other forms of non-motorized transportation. By analyzing current infrastructure, we design complete streets that prioritize safety and accessibility for all users, including pedestrians, cyclists, and those with disabilities. Our active transportation plans aim to reduce congestion and improve public health by encouraging more active modes of travel.

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Safety Planning

Drive is experienced in leading roadway safety planning projects aiming to eliminate traffic fatalities and severe injuries through Vision Zero and Safe Streets for All programs. Drive has extensive experience leading data-driven approaches and crash data mapping to identify high-risk areas, analyze crash patterns, and prioritize targeted interventions. Our team includes the perspective of both planners and engineers to understand the full spectrum of prioritizing safer streets while engaging communities thoughtfully and effectively through public involvement and demonstration projects.

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Multimodal Corridor Studies

Our team conducts detailed corridor studies, assessing current traffic patterns, infrastructure, and land use to develop plans that optimize the movement of people and goods across various transportation modes. We evaluate how to best integrate vehicles, public transit, biking, and walking into the urban fabric, focusing on enhancing connectivity and minimizing travel delays.

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Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for Transportation Planning

Utilizing advanced Geographic Information Systems (GIS), we provide detailed mapping, data analysis, and visualization to inform decision-making processes. Our GIS capabilities allow us to analyze transportation networks, model potential changes, and assess environmental impacts, helping us create more accurate, data-driven plans that address real-world challenges.

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Transit Planning

Drive Engineering provides transit planning services to improve mobility options for communities. Our transit planning services focus on designing efficient, accessible, and sustainable transit networks that cater to diverse user needs while reducing reliance on single-occupancy vehicles. We collaborate with stakeholders to develop solutions that integrate seamlessly with existing transportation systems, ensuring that our designs are both practical and forward-thinking. From Early Scoping and Alternatives Analysis to Micromobility Feasibility Studies or Comprehensive Bus Network Redesigns, our staff has partnered with transit agencies to ensure their systems are prepared to serve the changing needs of their communities.

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New Mobility and Curbside Management

As transportation technologies evolve, we provide cutting-edge solutions that manage the complexity of new mobility trends such as autonomous and connected vehicles, shared rides, electric vehicles, and micromobility (e-scooters, bikes). Our curbside management strategies ensure that space is utilized efficiently, balancing the needs of traditional vehicles with emerging transportation technologies.

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Stakeholder Coordination and Public Involvement

Drive recognizes that successful transportation projects depend not only on technical expertise but also on the active involvement of key stakeholders and the public. We provide comprehensive public and stakeholder engagement services to ensure that community voices are integrated into the decision-making process. Our engagement approach aims to build broad support for transportation projects while ensuring that the final plans reflect community needs and aspirations.

PROJECTS

Drive gathered Commercial Vehicle (CV) industry data for the creation of a study pertaining to issues with disseminating dimensional and weight restrictions. These restrictions generally result in remedial, societal, and safety costs to address infrastructure degradation. As most of these events are a result of a lack of accurate and timely traffic, fixed infrastructure, and temporary restrictions, PennDOT tasked the team with providing a study on potential ways to mitigate the issue. The resulting survey data was utilized in conjunction with a stakeholder meeting with multiple CV industry leaders and was held to receive feedback on the gathered information and to better understand the issues commonly faced by CV drivers. Both outreach methods resulted in finding a crucial need for up-to-date trucking and navigation information stemming from a single, reliable source. Due to the lack of available information for CV drivers, they were forced to rely on their own methods and resources for navigation and road information.

Statewide, PA

Commercial Vehicle Navigation Study


Commercial Vehicle Navigation Study
Drive Engineering provided traffic engineering services for the due diligence study as part of the design-build project for a new parking garage facility for CHOP employees at 3000 Grays Ferry Avenue in Philadelphia. The planning of this stand-parking structure will provide CHOP with a turnkey solution consisting of land-development approvals, permitting, city and governmental approvals, community engagement, architecture, design, engineering, construction, signage, landscape, security and information technology, payment systems, vertical transportation, and sustainability. In the initial phase Drive was responsible for overseeing traffic data collection, trip generation, trip distribution, trip assignment, and analysis of existing, no build, and build conditions. Drive Engineering managed the development of the Traffic Impact Study report, ensuring full compliance with PennDOT guidelines and requirements. Drive is currently responsible for updating the traffic impact study that was completed, as additional information has been provided including the recent construction of the University City Inpatient Expansion (UCIE). Drive is currently providing the design for safety improvements around the facility that include pedestrian signals and crosswalks at all crossings within the project area. Drive is also preparing traffic signal permit plans, traffic signal construction plans, signal timings, and specifications for the improvements at Gray’s Ferry Avenue and South 30th Street.

Philadelphia, PA

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) Parking Garage Facility Traffic Impact Study and Traffic Signal Plans

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) Parking Garage Facility Traffic Impact Study and Traffic Signal Plans
The City of Pittsburgh and PennDOT District 11-0 have embarked on a journey to use technology to improve the lives of everyone throughout the Pittsburgh community. The plan will build infrastructure that will assist in reducing traffic and congestion, create reliable transit, and lower emissions. As a key team member, Drive has been involved with multiple phases that include the development of a Concept of Operations (ConOps) for the overall project, the expansion of the City’s fiber optic network, the design of various Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) deployment phases, and the design of the new Pittsburgh Department of Mobility and Infrastructure (DOMI) Traffic Management Center (TMC). The devices included in the project phases comprise traffic signals and corresponding video detection cameras, traffic signal control systems, video sharing components, ITS cameras, Roadway Weather Information System (RWIS), and Connected Vehicle capabilities. The communications network (with  a new 10GB backbone) will connect each corridor and device to the TMC to promote and improve multimodal transportation, pedestrian accessibility, emergency vehicle access, and mode prioritization. The fiber network will enable next generation ITS and Connected/Autonomous Vehicle applications on key city corridors which will leverage Artificial Intelligence (AI), video analytics, and edge computing applications while ensuring that cybersecurity considerations are implemented during the various design phases.

City of Pittsburgh, PA

SmartPGH (Smart Pittsburgh)


SmartPGH (Smart Pittsburgh)
Drive Engineering was responsible for the design assistance for the development of a planning study for travel and parking demand management strategies as well as for transportation infra-structure, access, and circulation needs in the City of Niagara. Tasks performed included a gap analysis for existing traffic and communications equipment, phasing and cost estimating for an Advance Traveler Information System, Traffic Signal and Coordination Improvements, pedestrian and bicycle facilities, and capacity analyses for highway and traffic signal improvements.

City of Niagara Falls, New York

Niagara Falls Tourist-Oriented Transportation & Parking Study

Niagara Falls Tourist-Oriented Transportation & Parking Study
Drive Engineering was responsible for traffic engineering design services associated with the development of the 14 -acre University City High School and 1-acre 3675 Market Street sites in Philadelphia. The overall development of the two projects provided improved street connections and increased safety measures within the study area. The project war-ranted the installation of two traffic signals and the retiming of an additional seven traffic signals. Development land uses consisted of residential, retail, laboratory/office, and academic buildings. Design responsibilities included development of a traffic impact study, traffic data collection, trip generation development, traffic capacity analysis for existing, interim and build scenarios, traffic signal warrant analysis, turning lane warrant analysis, traffic signal plan design, highway occupancy permit submittals, and ADA ramp design. Drive Engineering was tasked with completing a Transportation Impact Study for the 15-acre combined site. Due to the urban setting of the site, Drive needed to identify all nearby transit, pedestrian, and bicycle facilities and calculate the modal splits of all non-vehicular trips to the site. Five public transit lines (three buses, one trolley, and one subway line) and 34 daily school bus trips were identified. Drive pored through data provided by the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission (DVRPC), the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA), and the Philadelphia School District to analyze and calculate the reduction in vehicular trips generated to the site due to the vast number of transit options.

Philadelphia, PA

University City High School & 3675 Market Street Site Development Traffic Impact Study

University City High School & 3675 Market Street Site Development Traffic Impact Study
PennDOT, along with support from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), has embarked on strategically deploying Direct Current Fast Charging (DCFC) stations along designated Alternative Fuel Corridors (AFCs), to assist with the rapidly expanding electric vehicle network. As part of this initiative, Drive has been responsible for submitting grant applications to further advance the Pennsylvania statewide EV program. Drive is also involved with the project management, industry/stakeholder outreach, procurement support, contract support, and administration/operations support. Drive is also assisting with feasibility studies and forecasting as well as site-specific design reviews. Up to 100 EV charging locations are anticipated to be deployed through the first phase of this program.

Statewide, PA

Electric Vehicle (EV) Program Management


Electric Vehicle (EV) Program Management
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