6
) Sammamish Plateau Area Corridor
Study – Transit
Element, Sammamish, Washington.
Work Performed: For the newly incorporated rural community
of Sammamish, Washington, VJS-TC:
Performed transit
systems alternatives analysis beginning with
inventory of existing METRO and Sound Transit
services; documenting deficiencies in location,
frequency and coverage.
Prepared demand estimates for future service
based on 2010 and 2020 population, concurrency
and traffic projections.
Recommended new regional bus routes, park and
ride facilities and service amenities and route
linkages, including high-occupancy-vehicle
and queue-bypass facilities on city and connecting
County arterials.
7
) Port of Anchorage, Intermodal Marine Facilities Project,
Anchorage, Alaska.
Work Performed:VJS-TC served as Sub Contractor to the
engineering firm of Tryck Nyman Hayes (TNH). The TNH
Team planned and designed the Port of Anchorage’s
$150 million port expansion called the Intermodal Marine
Facilities (IMF) project. VJS-TC work involved documentation and interpretation
of the regulatory and legislative funding mandates established
by Congress and the Federal granting agencies (including
FTA, FHWA, DoD and Corps of Engineers) and providing
written guidance on federal compliance requirements including
but not limited to:
Use of funds
and local match requirements,
Pre-application, environmental, engineering,
planning and public review requirements and
Project funding restrictions, reporting and
audit procedures.
VJS-TC serves as project liaison to the Federal agencies,
including the FTA Seattle Regional Office and the Alaska
Congressional delegation. VJS-TC assisted in the development,
and was a speaker at the “One-DOT” conference
in Anchorage, Alaska, which assembled regional federal
and state agencies to discuss IMF funding eligibility
and compliance requirements.
