"D.A. Watt Consulting is one of the finest transportation planning groups I have had the pleasure of working with. They are unmatched for consistent, knowledgeable, and professional service in the Calgary region!"

David Jefferies
Partner
Zeidler Partnership

Transportation Engineering

Our transportation Engineering division offers a broad range of specialist transportation planning and engineering services to the private development sector and public institutional clients.  These include

• Transportation Planning: Specialized transportation planning studies to provide a framework for long-term town/city plans, to determine improvement priorities, or in support of the development and approval of statutory plans.
  
• Roadway Planning & Design: Undertake a wide range of geometric, functional and detailed designs for urban and rural roads and highways.  We create innovative road design solutions to address such considerations as safety, traffic operations, capacity, site access, transit operations, and signal installation.
  
• Site Planning and Site Traffic Impact Studies:  Location, road and public transit access, and the movement of vehicles and people are key factors to consider in the planning and physical design of maor developments.  We work to create development plans supported by property integrate transportation systems.
  
• Parking Facility Planning & Design:  Provide comprehensive services in parking facility planning and design for developers and property owners, municipal governments, hospitals and univserities, architects and structural engineers.
  
• Noise Attenuation Studies: We carry out road/or railway noise assessments, primarily for residential developments adjacent to major transportation facilities, most commonly for land developers.  Our engineers provide design input to minimize on-site noise impacts, and formulating appropriate noise attenuation strategies.
  
• Microsimulation:  D.A. Watt's Transportation Division was the first consulting group in Canada to acquire the Paramics microsimulation software ... leading edge dynamic traffic assignmnet, simulation and 3-D visualization software used in research work at the University of Calgary, and byt he City of Calgary's Forecasting Division.  We also make extensive use ofthe 2-D Synchro/SimTraffic softare in our work.