Does Your K-12 School Design Team Need Traffic Expertise?

January 30, 2020

Successfully designed schools incorporate safe and effective vehicle, pedestrian, and bicycle circulation.  Let us help!

HSH’s Schools Team has wide-ranging experience working with architects, landscape architects, and communities to plan an effective school transportation environment for walkers, bicyclists, school buses, and automobiles.  Together with your design team, we can ensure that the travel needs of students, staff, parents, and municipal partners are met.

• Developing optimal on-site circulation that will work during drop-off and pick-up periods;
• Maximizing pedestrian safety;
• Evaluating parking conditions for staff and visitors;
• Identifying and assessing future traffic conditions;
• Effectively linking the school campus with the surrounding neighborhoods; and
• Assessing nearby, off-site transportation conditions to help municipalities address underlying neighborhood concerns.

	Elizabeth Peart School Campus Transportation Specialist Liz is a Senior Transportation Engineer with more than 30 years of experience helping communities with school expansions, renovations, and new school designs.  On traffic impact studies, Liz works closely with architects, planners, and community stakeholders to optimize site circulation, safety, and access for pedestrians, motorists, and bicyclists.  Her particular areas of focus include student pick-up/drop-off activities, pedestrian safety, and intersection analysis.
	Erin Reed Safe Routes to School Specialist A recognized Safe Routes to School expert, Erin focuses on facilitating communication between the public, government, and designers to create travel networks used by parents, students, and staff to live, work, and play. Her extensive experience as the Senior Statewide Coordinator for the MassDOT Safe Routes to School Program informs her work with many municipalities to improve safety and access to schools.
	Melissa Restrepo School Transportation Engineer Melissa is a transportation engineer with experience conducting traffic studies and using traffic analysis tools such as Synchro. She has assisted with transportation studies and improvement plans for Brookline High School, Boston Arts Academy, and Ivan G. Smith Elementary School in Danvers.