by Em Hall | Mar 26, 2026 | Site Access and Circulation
What Cherry Blossom Season Tells Us About Event Transportation Planning Every spring, Washington, D.C. gets approximately three weeks to figure out a problem that has no tidy solution: how do you move 1.5 million visitors through a city that wasn’t built for...
by Em Hall | Feb 26, 2026 | Design Standards
MUTCD : What Virginia's Adoption Means for Your Development Project The Federal Highway Administration published the 11th Edition of the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD) in late 2023, setting a two-year compliance deadline that arrived on January 18,...
by Em Hall | Dec 15, 2025 | Safety and Vision Zero
Holiday Travel Tips from Transportation Engineers Four perspectives on navigating the season’s busiest travel period The holidays bring joy, connection…and some of the year’s most challenging travel conditions. We asked four of our transportation...
by Em Hall | Dec 8, 2025 | Micromobility
Beyond the Last Mile: How Micromobility Completes the Trip Micromobility is transforming how people move through cities and suburbs across Washington, DC, Maryland, and Virginia. Lightweight, low-speed, flexible modes of personal transport such as bikes, e-scooters,...
by Em Hall | Nov 20, 2025 | Policy and Regulation
What's Changed in the ITE Trip Generation Manual 12th Edition—And Why It Matters for Your Project If you’re planning a development project, there’s an important update you should be aware of: the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) has released the...
by Em Hall | Nov 13, 2025 | Policy and Regulation
Navigating Fairfax County's Most Complex Regulatory Environment Picture this: A developer walks into the Fairfax County planning offices with a mixed-use project. If their site is in the Clifton area, they’ll face one set of parking requirements....