Alex Atkinson Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, CA, US

Los Angeles, California, United States

• Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LA Metro) - Vermont Transit Corridor Vissim Modeling

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

• City of West Palm Beach, FL - Vissim Analysis for Downtown Mobility Plan
• City of Ann Arbor, MI - State Trunkline Highway Jurisdictional Transfer Study
• Capital District Transportation Authority (Albany, NY) - Red Line Bus Improvement Transit Modeling
• Cavnue - Interstate 94 (Detroit, MI) Connected Autonomous Vehicle Corridor Vissim Analysis
• United Airlines - Traffic Analysis for Terminal B Transformation at Houston George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH)

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

• Traffic Safety Engineering Support Service (TSES) for the District Department of Transportation (DDOT)
• Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP)
• DDOT Vision Zero Implementation
• District of Columbia No Turn On Red (NTOR) Implementation
• District of Columbia Automated Traffic Enforcement (ATE) program
• Good Hope Road SE Corridor Study

Alexandria, Virginia, United States

• Provided technical support for the execution, development, and implementation of planning programs, projects, and studies for airport landside facilities. This includes roadways, curbsides, parking, and commercial.
• Built VISSIM traffic microsimulation models of airport access roadways and curbside operations for demand, capacity, and level of service analysis.
• Aggregate design day flight schedules, passenger forecasts, mode share, and vehicle occupancy data to develop peak hour roadway volumes by mode.
• Develop and evaluate roadway and curbside improvement alternatives needed to meet future passenger activity levels.
• Perform traffic volume balancing from traffic count data for airport roadways and off-airport intersections.
• Created 3D models of airport landside facilities using SketchUp for animations of airport roadway and curbside operations.

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

• Created geospatial data layers in ArcGIS to map undigitized greenspaces of Addis Ababa
• Conducted site visits throughout city to verify use of greenspaces and ensure reliability of data
• Generated maps to show distribution of greenspaces throughout city and change over time
• Synthesized results in reports and presentations to update university faculty on project progress

Ann Arbor, MI & Chiang Mai, Thailand

• Conducted ethnographic research in northern Thailand to assess causes of flooding
• Analyzed cultural and physical data to identify infrastructural needs for flood mitigation
• Developed sewer cleaning tools tailored to Thai infrastructure to meet community needs
• Led a group of engineers on a three-week trip to Thailand to test prototypes and collect data
• Strived for design perfection by documenting user feedback and facilitating open discussions

Taylor, MI

• Designed roadway drainage systems, configured pipe size and slope to MDOT standards
• Created drawings of sewer systems in AutoCAD for numerical analysis and final project plans
• Utilized computer models of project areas to analyze system behavior during storm events
• Investigated flooding potential by estimating runoff in post development conditions

Ann Arbor, MI

• Created components of a transportation network for researching activity based travel models
• Wrote MATLAB scripts to extract transit feed data from the San Diego transit authority
• Interpreted data to build a model of the public transit network in metropolitan San Diego
• Visualized system stops, routes, and transit lines using GIS program to verify model accuracy

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Civil Engineering

Associate Of Science - As