Transportation Planning & Analysis
As leading experts in sustainable development, ICF International is uniquely
adept at helping public and private sector clients address challenges at
the nexus of transportation, the environment, energy, and community and economic
development. At ICF, we focus on the policies, regulations, planning, and project development
approaches that affect today's transportation decisions—climate change,
smart growth, commuter choice.
Our staff includes in-house experts across the many disciplines involved
in transportation: scientists, policy experts, and technical experts. We offer our clients practical, decision-oriented
solutions based on robust scientific analyses. In doing this, we apply:
- State-of-the-art modeling tools and comprehensive understanding of the
financial and economic considerations affecting transportation
- In-depth knowledge of the complex environmental requirements that affect
transportation
- National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)
- National Historic
Preservation Act
- Clean Water Act
- Endangered Species Act
- Migratory Bird
Treaty Act
- Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity
Act: A Legacy for Users
- Growth Management Acts
- Executive
Orders (EO), policies, and environmental review guidelines
- Multiagency coordination, public involvement, and communications support
- Extensive experience preparing environmental compliance and permitting
documents—Initial Studies, Negative Declarations, Mitigated Negative
Declarations, Environmental Impact Reports, Environmental Impact Statements (EIS),
Findings of No Significant Impact, and Environmental Assessments
For more in-depth information on ICF's transportation capabilities
and experience,
see the Transportation section
of our Web site.
ICF Transportation Planning & Analysis Services
- Transportation planning
- Traffic modeling
- Commuter choice and travel demand management
- Transit and non-motorized analyses
- Transportation safety analyses
- Traffic signal analyses
- Traffic calming
- Access and circulation analyses
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- Parking design and analyses
- Capital facilities maintenance and construction
- Energy use assessments and net energy studies
- Smart growth analysis and planning
- Transportation policy and strategy development
- Regional and local integrated planning for EO 13514
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Selected Transportation Planning & Analysis Clients
- Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
- Federal Railroad Administration
- Federal Aviation Administration
- New York, California, Washington, Oregon, Utah, Arizona,
Nevada, Virginia, Texas, Florida, North Carolina, and Montana Departments
of Transportation
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- Metropolitan planning organizations, cities, and counties
throughout the U.S.
- National Cooperative Highway Research Program
- Strategic Highway Research Program
- American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials
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Selected Transportation Planning & Analysis Projects
Clean Air New York Campaign
New York Department of Transportation
ICF was hired to convert and expand the New York metropolitan area's Ozone
Action Days Program into an enhanced year-round air quality outreach program
that addresses both ozone and particulate matter pollution. The program encourages
driver behavior change to achieve quantifiable vehicle emission reductions.
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Clean Buses for Kids Program
U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
ICF developed and is currently implementing a $20 million voluntary program
to retrofit school buses with diesel particulate filters in support of an
EPA Supplemental Environmental Project. ICF determined the most cost-effective
means of reducing particulate emissions, developed a methodology for determining
emissions benefits from this action, and created a strategy for awarding
funding agreements, including outreach, technical assistance, monitoring,
and program administration.
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Program Support for the Office of Planning, Environment,
and Real Estate
Services
Federal Highway Administration
ICF holds a multi-year contract with FHWA to provide environmental research,
technical analysis, and program implementation consulting services. ICF supports
FHWA's environmental research program in expanding the capacity of stakeholders—including state departments of transportation and municipal planning organizations—to address environmental issues.
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Highway 520 Pontoon Bridge Replacement Project
Washington State Department
of Transportation (WSDOT)
ICF staff were members of the blended WSDOT/consultant SR 520 project team,
responsible for siting, documenting, and overseeing all environmental work
necessary to bring the Pontoon Construction Site on-line in time to fully
support the SR 520 rebuild project. ICF supplied WSDOT's Urban Corridors
Office with a lead staff member to serve as WSDOT's Pontoon Construction
Site Environmental Lead (Environmental Lead) and a project coordinator to
provide additional project support.
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NEPA Pilot Program
California Department of Transportation (Caltrans)
As part of a 2.5-year contract, ICF assisted Caltrans Headquarters in preparing
its application in accordance with the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient
Transportation Equity Act: a Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU), which designates
California as one of five states eligible to participate in a pilot program
delegating NEPA responsibilities to the state. Under this pilot program,
Caltrans applied to the U.S. Secretary of Transportation to assume the Secretary's
NEPA responsibilities for highway projects within the state. Caltrans also
applied for delegation of the Secretary's review and consultation responsibilities
under other federal environmental laws.
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Growing Smarter, Living Healthier: A Guide to Smart Growth and Aging
U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
ICF prepared the EPA guidebook Growing
Smarter, Living Healthier: A Guide to Smart Growth and Active Aging.
The purpose of the guidebook is to convince older adults and advocates
for older adults that implementing smart growth principles in their local
communities is the means to an improved quality of life for persons of
all ages.
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Guide to Incorporating Climate Change into
Transportation Decision-Making
California Department of Transportation
ICF drafted a guide for state transportation practitioners to incorporate
energy efficiency and greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction measures into the policy framework
that governs transportation planning in California. The desk guide documented
policies regarding climate change, highlights opportunities to insert climate
change into existing processes, and suggested a range of tools and strategies
to improve energy efficiency and reduce GHG emissions from transportation
sources at each stage of decision making.
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On-Call Environmental Contracts
California Department of Transportation
ICF provides ongoing services to Caltrans for environmental support on transportation
projects in California. Examples include performing a process review of Caltrans'
environmental document QA/QC program, preparing an impact statement/environmental assessment (IS/EA) to evaluate the
environmental effects of the SR 2 Highway Widening and Shoulder Upgrades
project, and reviewing, updating, and creating departmental NEPA document
outlines to be equivalent to Caltrans' Standard Environmental Reference review.
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Legacy Parkway Project
Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT)
The Legacy Parkway Project was a complex and controversial 14-mile highway
project on the eastern shore of Great Salt Lake. The project included a four-lane,
limited-access, divided highway designed to meet peak-hour traffic needs
projected through 2020. The court had called out five specific issues in
the final EIS and ordered two federal agencies, FHWA and the Army Corps of
Engineers, and UDOT to conduct a reanalysis and submit a supplemental EIS.
A thorough reevaluation of the final EIS resulted in ICF revising and adjusting
the project purpose, need, and alternatives in accordance with court mandates,
availability of new information, and changes due to the passage of time.
The National Association of Environmental Professionals awarded a NEPA excellence award for the supplemental EIS.
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