Higgins Associates - Areas of Expertise

HIGGINS ASSOCIATES also has expertise in the planning, analysis and design of transportation facilities including arterial, collector and local street systems, roundabouts and traffic circles, rural and urban highways, freeways and interchanges. Our civil engineering staff have been involved with a variety of design projects from conception to completion including the preparation of project feasibility studies, Project Study Reports, conceptual designs, preliminary and final design, and construction support.

The traffic engineering staff's capabilities also include geometric design of streets, highways, pedestrian and bicycle facilities, and parking facilities. Numerous traffic signal plans, signing and striping plans, construction staging plans, construction traffic control plans, as well as traffic signal timing optimization and coordination have been successfully completed. On-call municipal traffic engineering services are also provided.

Our civil engineering staff is primarily used to augment the firm’s traffic engineering functions.


Civil Engineering	Traffic Engineering	Transportation Planning
Bicycle & Pedestrian Facilities Design Parking Facilities Design Construction Inspection Pavement Design Construction Signing Plans Pavement Delineation Design Construction Cost Estimates Project Management Cost Allocations Sight Distance Analyses Feasibility Studies Signing Design Geometric Street & Highway Design Street & Highway Final Design Highway and Street Lighting Design Traffic Signal Design	Access & Circulation Studies Project Study Reports Accident Analysis & Record Systems Speed Studies Expert Testimony Traffic Count Programs Freeway Operations Analysis Traffic Handling for Special Events Inventory of Traffic Control Devices Traffic Impact Studies Municipal Traffic Engineering Traffic Operations Studies Parking Facilities Planning Traffic Safety Studies Pedestrian Facilities Planning Traffic Signal Operations & Timing	Bicycle & Pedestrian Planning Traffic Generation Studies Circulation Elements Transit Planning Freight Movement Studies Transit Operation Origin Destination Studies Transit Design Parking Studies Transit Marketing Regional Transportation Planning Transit Funding Site Selection & Planning Transportation Systems Management Traffic Control Planning Travel Demand Forecasting Traffic Fee Programs Trip Reduction Programs