1) Transportation Planning Training: U.S. Department of Transportation, Washington, DC. 2011 - Present.

Work Performed. VJS-TC is currently serving as Project Manager overseeing a team of financial, planning and educational specialists as subcontractor to ICF, Inc. This work involves the development of five (5) transportation planning training modules to be distributed nationally by the USDOT FHWA Office of Planning.  The modules cover the methodology, purpose and importance of Project Prioritization, Financial Planning, Asset Management, Statewide, MPO and FHWA Consultation and Partnering and Leveraging.  While these modules are of benefit to the general public, the USDOT target audience is the tribal transportation practitioner. VJS-TC will present this work at the Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board in January 2012.

2) Transportation Engineering Assessment: Office of the Inspector General, Department of Defense.  Alexandria, Virginia. 2011 - Present.

Work Performed. As subcontractor to Strategy and Management Services (SAMS), VJS-TC is currently retained to conduct an independent engineering assessment, with recommendations, on the impacts and assumptions governing Base Closure and Realignment (BRAC) Commission recommendation #133.  This formal analysis assesses the transportation and land use impacts resulting from the planned re-location of 6,400 DoD employees to the new Mark Center office complex in Alexandria, Virginia. 

3) On-Call Planning and Engineering: Port of Tacoma, Washington. 2011 - Present.

Work Performed. This new VJS-TC assignment, as subcontractor to DN Traffic Consultants, is to provide on-call traffic engineering and transportation planning services and support to the Port of Tacoma in Washington State. The Port of Tacoma is the 7th largest port in the United States.

4) Expert Testimony: P3 Legislation. Lansing, Michigan, 2011.

Work Performed. VJS-TC assisted a private client in the research and presentation of transportation best practices and infrastructure finance techniques (such as TIFIA, SIBs, PABs and P3s).  VJS-TC presented findings, on behalf of the client, in expert testimony to the Michigan Senate Economic Development Committee considering Public Private Partnership (P3) enabling legislation.

5) National Research - Intermodal Commuter Facilities: TRB National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP). Washington, DC. 2010 - 2011.

Work Performed. As subcontractor to ICF Inc., VJS-TC conducted national study of best practices in the management and financing of park and ride and intermodal commuter facilities.  The research purpose was to offer guidance and new information on effective management and financing techniques to State departments of transportation pressed to address the growing demand for park and ride and intermodal commuter facilities.

6) National Research - National Guidebooks for MPO, Transit and Tribal Transportation: U.S. Department of Transportation. Washington, DC. 2006 - 2010.

Work Performed. VJS-TC, as prime consultant,conducted best practices research which resulted in the publication of a national guidebook by the USDOT FHWA Office of Planning entitled Tribal Transportation Best Practices, 2010. Additionally, VJS-TC's 2008 policy analysis for FHWA resulted in the publication of FHWA-HEP-08-006: Tribal Transportation Funding Resources.

Work Performed. VJS-TC also performed, from 2006 to 2008, as subcontractor to Vanasse Hangen Brustlin providing research and technical support for the USDOT Federal Transit Administration publication Transit at the Table II: A Guide to Participation in Metropolitan Decisionmaking for Transit Agencies in Small and Medium-Sized MPOs.

7) Program Management and Logistics Support: U.S. Navy Fleet and Industrial Supply Center (FISC). Bremerton, Washington. 2005 - 2008.
Work Performed. VJS-TC, as prime contractor, provided daily management support and the services of eighteen (18) technical engineering and logistics specialists to the FISC Priority Materials Office (PMO) at the Bremerton Naval Facility in Washington. VJS-TC also performed as administrative agent, performing payroll, travel and training, hire and fire, security clearance processing, and day-to-day management of this classified DoD facility. VJS-TC performance resulted in nomination in 2006 for the National Small Business of the Year award by the U.S. Small Business Administration - Seattle Office.

8) Transportation Planning: Long Range Transportation Plan. Cle Elum, Washington. 2007 - 2010.

Work Performed. VJS-TC, as prime consultant, prepared the City's 20-Year Long Range Transportation Plan.  Services included analysis and evaluation of deficiencies in freeway, roadway, freight, transit, pedestrian, bicycle and recreational trail services. The final 140-page deliverable advances a phased and multi-modal capital, finance, policy and planning strategies and recommendations that support and complement the City's land use plan and policies. VJS-TC coordinated and managed the 14-member Transportation Working Group for this project, comprised of federal, state, regional, county and local elected officials, business owners and stakeholders.

9) Transportation Planning:  Long Range Transportation Plan. Ellensburg, Washington. 2003 - 2005.
Work Performed. VJS-TC, as prime consultant, prepared the Kittitas County 20-year multi-modal transportation plan. Services included research, evaluation, analysis and development of countywide transportation systems – freeways, roadways, transit, rail, freight, bicycle, pedestrian and recreational trail. In additional to traffic modeling forecasts, compliance with State Growth Management Act requirements, VJS-TC was responsible for project web site development and public facilitation and participation.

10) Ferry Feasibility Study: U.S. Department of Interior – Bureau of Indian Affairs, Portland, Oregon and Makah Nation, Neah Bay, Washington. 2004 - 2005.
Work Performed. VJS-TC, as prime consultant, conducted feasibility study on the implementation of regional cross-channel passenger-vehicle ferry service from Neah Bay, Washington to Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. The study involved marine engineering, vessel, dock and facility design, vessel specifications, roadway service requirements, intermodal connection and pedestrian-transit demand analysis.  Work also required passenger demand forecasting and regional economic impact analysis, Homeland Security Act compliance and environmental permitting review.  Work also involved presentation to and management of a bi-national US-Canadian stakeholder advisory group. VJS-TC supervised the work of the 7-member project team, comprised of engineers and economists, and performed as Project Liaison to the stakeholder advisory group.

11) Pedestrian Safety and State Highway Context Sensitive Design: Edgewood, Washington. 2003 - 2005.
Work Performed. As subcontractor to Garry Struthers Associates, Inc., VJS-TC designed recommendations for improved transit, pedestrian and bicycle services and facilities along Meridian Avenue (SR161); a major traffic arterial traversing the City of Edgewood. This work supported the context-sensitive-design objectives of the City, the Project Stakeholders Committee and the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT).

Work Performed. VJS-TC also served as prime consultant for another Edgewood assignment to 1) identify pedestrian safety deficiencies along traffic corridors serving the City's public elementary, middle and high schools and 2) recommend capital improvements to correct the deficiencies. VJS-TC produced a schedule of two-year and six-year capital improvement projects and identified funding sources to implement them. In following the firm's recommendations, the City received its highest ever level of federal and state transportation safety grants. VJS-TC administered the City Council-appointed Pedestrian Safety Planning Committee resulting in broad public consensus and support for the final recommendations.