Projetcs on Campus Master Plan, Traffic Engineering & Transportation Planning

Here's the list of Projects which Wells & Associates have completed across VA, MD, Washington DC

• Mixed use
• Town centers
• Transit-oriented development
• Urban transportation solutions
• Retail
• Office
• Federal agencies
• Residential
• Hospitals
• Colleges/universities
• Public schools
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Wells + Associates Qualification

We have worked on various traffic impact analysis projects since our founding in 1991

We expertise in transportation planning, traffic engineering services, parking management and design, transit planning, pedestrian and bicycle planning, and traffic engineering design.
We are headquartered in McLean, Virginia. We have two branch offices and three satellite offices. We have worked in 34 states, the District of Columbia, and four foreign countries since our founding in 1991.

We specialize in complex, mixed-use, multi-modal urban and suburban projects. Mixed-use, transit-oriented, town centers; street retail projects; school, college, university, hospital, and office campuses; traffic signal design and related design services; and shared parking studies are our specialties.

Our clients are: private real estate developers; local, state, and federal agencies; and institutions, including hospitals, schools, colleges and universities, museums, and places of worship.
We are proud of our team of outstanding professionals, long list of blue chip clients, and track record of success.

We serve our clients with competence, creativity, and integrity.

 

Wells + Associates Celebrates the New Silver Line in Tysons!

Wells + Associates, in joint with Source Office Suites, hosted a Silver Line Celebration Party last Thursday, September 18th, in honor of Tysons' new metro line! The Party was attended by Fairfax County Board of Supervisors Chairman, Sharon Bulova, as well as guests from all over the DC, Virginia, and Maryland area. Special thanks to Max Major, the amazing magician, Craig Latchaw, our incredibly talented caricature artist, Rich Barry, the marvelous guitarist, and of course Laura of Confections Bakery, who supplied our beautiful Silver Line Metro Cake. Thanks, most of all, to all of our delightful guests who came out to our offices in Tysons and helped make the party a huge success!

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Traffic Engineering Services

Traffic engineering is a division of civil engineering that practices engineering methods to attain the harmless and well-organized movement of publics and goods on highways. It concentrates mainly on examination for harmless and well-organized traffic flow, such as road geometry, sidewalks and crosswalks, segregated cycle facilities, shared lane marking, traffic symbols, path external designs and traffic beams. Traffic engineering contracts with the practical part of transportation structure, except the structures provided.

Traffic engineering is closely associated with other self-restraints:

• Transport engineering
• Roadway engineering
• Bicycle carriage engineering
• Public road engineering
• Sustainable Transportation planning
• Metropolitan planning
• Human factors engineering

Distinctive traffic engineering plans involve conniving traffic resistor expedient fixings and changes, with traffic indications, signs, and roadway designs. Traffic current management can be short-range (arranging construction traffic resistor strategies, including diversion strategies for pedestrian and vehicular traffic) or longstanding (approximating the impressions of proposed profitable developments on traffic outlines.

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Sustainable Transportation Planning

The term Sustainable Transportation Planning came into use as a logical resulting from sustainable development, and is used to describe types of transport, and systems of transport planning, which are consistent with extensive concerns of sustainability. This is not just a singled definition of Sustainable Transportation Planning it keeps on varying as per the regions.

Sustainable transport refers to the wide subject of transport that is or approaches being justifiable. Transportation sustainability is generally being measured by transportation system efficiency and productivity as well as the environmental impacts of the system. 

Sustainable transport systems make a progressive impact to the environmental, economic and social sustainability of the societies they assist. Transport systems exist to provide social and economic connections, and people quickly grab the opportunities offered by increased movement. The advantages of increased mobility need to be weighed against the environmental, social and economic costs that transport systems pose.

Sustainability spreads beyond just the functioning efficiency and discharges. A Life-cycle assessment involves production and post-use considerations. A cradle-to-cradle design is more important than a focus on a single factor such as energy efficiency.

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Professional Transit System Planning

Public transportation reduces the number of trips made in private vehicles, vehicle miles of travel (VMT), and greenhouse gas emissions; facilitates compact, mixed-use, pedestrian-friendly development; saves energy; and improves air quality

MJWells & Associates have conducted:

• 185 studies in 60 of the 86 existing Metro station areas in metropolitan Washington
• 10 studies at all four planned stations along the Silver line extension through Tysons Corner
• 11 studies at three of the eight planned stations along the Silver line extension from Tysons Corner to Dulles Airport and beyond.

Metro stations were the focal point of these studies.
We also have recommended shuttle bus connections to Metro stations that are beyond convenient walking distance (generally considered to be ¼ to ½ mile of the station).

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Transit-Oriented Development: Lessons Learned

A transit-oriented development (TOD) is a mixed-use residential and commercial area designed to exploit access to public transport, and habitually incorporates features to encourage transit ridership.  A TOD usually has a center with a transit station or stop like train station, metro station, tram stop, or bus stop, bounded by relatively high-density development with increasingly lower-density development spreading outward from the center. 

Wells + Associates has completed 185 studies of projects within ½-mile of 60 of the existing 86 Metro stations, another 22 studies at seven of the 12 stations along the planned Silver Line extension in Northern Virginia (including all four stations in Tyson’s Corner), and several of the stations along the planned Purple Line and Corridor Cities Transit way in Montgomery County, Maryland.

Throughout this experience we have learned many things from TOD which are listed below: 

1. Mutually Supportive: Metro and TOD are mutually supportive.
2. Metro is the centre of things: Metro is the centerpiece of transit-oriented development (TOD) in metropolitan Washington. TOD's are vibrant, compact, mixed-use, walk able communities.
3. Density Is Good:  Density should be high in the immediate locality of station.
4. Green Transportation: TOD's are more sustainable than other forms of development because they increase transit use and decrease auto use, vehicle-miles of travel (VMT), and greenhouse gas emissions.
5. Residents, Workers, and Visitors Use Metro: High-quality Metrorail, Metro bus and other different feeder bus services are attractive and comfortable alternatives to the private automobiles.
6. Location Matters: Transit ridership decreases as distance from the station increases.

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