Session 6B: Traffic Engineering Potpourri

Session Description: A Mixture of Abstracts Worth Presenting

Moderator: Michael A. Babusci, PE, PTOE, Herbert, Rowland & Grubic, Inc. (HRG)

• Urban Traffic Control – Replacing Seven Bridges through the Heart of Philadelphia, Debra A. Ferraro, PE, Transportation Division Manager/Associate Vice President, Pennoni Associates
• Urban Traffic Control – Replacing Seven Bridges through the Heart of Philadelphia, Kazi M Hassan, PE, Highway Group Supervisor, Pennoni Associates
• Implementing Active Traffic Management in Pennsylvania, Torsten Lienau, PE, Senior Transportation Engineer, CH2M
• Implementing Active Traffic Management in Pennsylvania, Troy T. Illig, PE, PTOE, Senior Transportation Engineer/Project Manager, WSP USA
• American Street Industrial Corridor, Darin L Gatti, PE, Chief Engineer, City of Philadelphia ‐ Department of Streets
• American Street Industrial Corridor, Rebecca Biro, PE, PTOE, Project Engineer, Johnson, Mirmiran & Thompson, Inc.

Speaker Bios:

Debbie Ferraro is an associate vice president of Pennoni Associates. She is the Transportation Division manager and a project manager in the firm’s Philadelphia office. Debbie has more than 25 years of transportation experience, including expertise in traffic studies/modeling, highway design, master planning efforts, limited access interchanges, intermodal facilities, highway occupancy permit applications, traffic signal systems design, safety studies, traffic control and transportation management plans, right‐of‐way acquisitions, site circulation/access, and toll revenue studies. She has fostered Pennoni’s urban transportation design practice area which focuses on all system users including pedestrians, bicycles, and transit vehicles. Debbie has delivered projects for a diverse range of clients, from small businesses to Fortune 500 companies and large government agencies, including the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT), the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA), the Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation (PIDC), the Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission (DRJTBC), and numerous municipalities.

Kazi M Hassan is a highway group supervisor with Pennoni Associates. At Pennoni, Kazi is the project engineer for the Vine Street Expressway Bridge Replacement Project. This project is located in Center City Philadelphia and includes the replacement of seven existing two‐span bridge superstructures over I‐676 (the Vine Street Expressway), the reconstruction of the 2000 block of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, the realignment of Winter Street, and the re‐configuration of the Parkway/20th Street intersection. This $65 million project is currently under construction and Kazi is overseeing highway construction services for this work.

Torsten Lienau is a senior transportation engineer with CH2M’s State and Local Group in Philadelphia. He has 25 years of specialized experience in traffic operations and analysis and transportation planning. He has managed more than 100 transportation‐related projects in his career, ranging from comprehensive transportation plans to analysis of freeway corridors. His technical experience consists of transportation systems management and operations, intersection capacity analysis, signal coordination, arterial and urban street analysis, signal design, and collision analyses. He has conducted research related to the operational effects of geometry and traffic control devices on freeway and arterial facilities. Torsten has prepared numerous transportation planning documents including corridor studies, transportation plans, discipline reports, and freeway interchange justification reports. Most recently, Torsten’s experience has focused on large freeway corridor studies (including ITS and TSMO strategies) and arterial street transit planning and design.

Troy Illig is project manager, senior traffic engineer and a professional associate at WSP, Inc. in Philadelphia. Troy has over 28 years of professional experience ranging from traffic engineering, highway planning to project management. He is responsible for the management and technical analysis associated with numerous highway, traffic, planning, and environmental projects both locally and nationally. Troy currently serves on the board of the Philadelphia Chapter of ASCE. A registered P.E. in PA and NY, he holds a bachelor of science in civil engineering from the University of Notre Dame.

Darin Gatti is the chief engineer and president of the Board of Surveyors for the Philadelphia Streets Department. As chief engineer, he oversees all bridge design, transportation design, surveying, and construction management for the Streets Department. He also oversees the management of the City Plan, which is the recordation of the meets, bounds, and grades of all the public streets in Philadelphia. He is a graduate of Drexel University and has 35 years of experience in both design and construction with the Streets Department.

Rebecca Biro holds a bachelor of science in civil engineering from Bucknell University and a master’s of civil engineering from the University of Delaware. Her master’s thesis has been published in the International Journal of Information Science and Intelligent Systems and focused on improving safety at rural unsignalized intersections. She is a traffic engineer in JMT’s Philadelphia office with experience with traffic design and analysis projects.