Dick Beaubien Email & Phone Number

Detroit, Mi, Us

Plainfield, In

Finance, own, and operate fraternity housing.The corporation currently owns and manages the Triangle Fraternity houses in Norman, Oklahoma; Houghton, Michigan, and East Lansing, Michigan.The corporation manages the Triangle Fraternity house in W. Lafayette, Indiana and Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Beaubien Engineering

Professional Traffic Operations Engineer with a focus on Municipal Traffic Engineering Traffic Impact Statements Intelligent Transportation Systems Road Safety Traffic Incident Management

Greater Detroit Area

Plainfield, In

Approved loans to buy or remodel fraternity houses owned by Triangle Alumni organizations.

Bloomfield Hills, Michigan

Managed the transportation projects for the firm. Focus areas for the projects were municipal traffic engineering, traffic impact studies, and intelligent transportation systems. The major intelligent transportation systems projects installed ITS technology on 150 miles of Metro Detroit freeways and adaptive traffic signal systems in Oakland County, Michigan.

Responsible for traffic engineering and right-of-way acquisition activities for the City of Troy. In this position, he promoted the safe and efficient movement of people and goods. He was responsible for the planning, design, and operation of transportation systems within the City. He was also responsible for the right-of-way acquisition and relocation activities of the City.In his role as City Traffic Engineer, he conducted traffic engineering studies and made traffic engineering recommendations on behalf of the City Administration. He made recommendations for geometry of roadway improvements, reviewed subdivision and site plans, developed transportation plans and transportation improvement programs. He served as staff advisor to the citizen Traffic Committee appointed by City Council and provided traffic engineering expertise needed for court appearances on behalf of the City.He applied the innovative urban traffic engineering concept of directional median crossovers to urban arterial street construction in the City of Troy. Wide medians with directional crossovers have proven effective in improving capacity and reducing accidents. He applied the proven concept that stop signs do not reduce speeds on residential streets to the continuing urban traffic engineering problem of speeding on residential streets. He implemented "difficult" urban traffic engineering programs. One of the programs was a series of road construction projects on Big Beaver Road through the center of the city. A second program was a low-cost signal interconnect project requiring the cooperation of five local communities, a county road commission, the State Department of Transportation, and the Federal Highway Administration.

Assisted Planning and Research Engineer in discharging duties and responsibilities with respect to highway planning, highway research, TOPICS, and highway safety programs. Mr. Beaubien assisted in coordination of these programs with Division staff members, had direct contact with State engineers on various phases of the work program to guide them regarding Federal requirements. Reviewed proposed revisions to Federal-aid highway system for service rendered, integration with other routes, etc. He also analyzed various research reports, urban planning studies, traffic studies, and statistical reports.

Highway Planning and Research with assignments in Ft. Worth, Texas; Sacramento, California;Washington, DC; Carson City, Nevada; and Springfield, Illinois. Assistant Planning and Research Engineer in the Illinois Division Office.

Msce, Bsce, Ab, Civil Engineering, Traffic Engineering

Activities and Societies: Triangle Fraternity

M.S, Transportation And Traffic Engineering

B.S, Civil Engineering

Bs. Ab, Ms, Civil Engineering, Transporation Engineering

Activities and Societies: Triangle FraternityPresident of Triangle Fraternity