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We are Atkins.

Our services• Traffic management• Traveler information• Traffic operations centers• Incident management• Performance measures• Program management

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Established in 1938, Atkins has become one of the largest international design and engineering consulting firms, with offices across the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia Pacific. Our experience in the world’s most vibrant markets enables us to deliver the best, most up-to-date technical solutions to our clients’ infrastructure projects by sharing expertise and knowledge on a worldwide scale.

At the same time, Atkins understands the vital importance of being “local”— of having deep roots in the communities in which we live and work. In the United States, our experience and office network span the nation and more than half a century. Our understanding of local requirements, practices, and culture enables us to be true partners with our clients.

Atkins’ core transportation services in the U.S. highways and structures, intelligent transportation systems (ITS), tolls, aviation, and transit markets encompass engineering, planning, construction management, program management, environmental science, geomatics, architecture, emergency management, asset management, and information technologies. Our clients represent a mix of both the public and private sectors and include regional, state, and federal agencies; counties and municipalities; development companies; airports; toll road agencies; and contractors.

Our ongoing success is based on the recognition that client satisfaction is paramount. As a company that is committed to low-carbon initiatives, we help our clients fulfill the social and practical challenges of an environmentally conscious world.

We are widely noted for the high caliber of our technical professionals and our comprehensive capabilities in key markets. Our reputation is reinforced by the way we foster continuous learning and quality improvement among our professionals—and by our goal of increasing diversity throughout our company.

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Atkins offers a full-service ITS team that has long been at the forefront of ITS development and deployment. We have assisted clients with their ITS needs by helping them achieve their safety, security, and efficiency goals through ITS solutions. With our agency partners, we have helped secure funding to design, build, operate, and maintain their ITS infrastructure.

ITS is a dynamic industry with ever evolving technology, services, and operational approaches. Atkins’ ITS experts recognize the value of change and are involved in national and international efforts to shape new solutions. The breadth of Atkins involvement in emerging ITS technologies allows our clients to access a pool of expertise and maximize the potential of these solutions.

Atkins independently evaluates and tests ITS technologies and software at the Florida Department of Transportation’s (FDOT) traffic engineering research laboratory (TERL) before they are approved for use in the state. Our specialists at TERL develop and maintain FDOT’s ITS standard specifications, approved products list, and a statewide device procurement contract. Our hands-on experience allows our clients to receive better products at reduced costs, while manufacturers have an opportunity to improve products prior to deployment.

Traffic management

Traffic management


Atkins has the right staff and a proven track record for successful project delivery. We constantly scan the market seeking new traffic management solutions. >

3. Arlington Entertainment District ITS Services, City of Arlington, Texas. System manager services performed required an accelerated ITS deployment schedule driven by the opening event at the new Cowboys stadium. Fifty closed-circuit television cameras were designed and installed within seven months of notice to proceed. Additional fast-track infrastructure design included portable and permanent dynamic message signs and the design of reversible lane control signal systems on three arterials in the congested Entertainment District. Technical assistance was provided in system software selection and evaluating candidate locations for an event traffic operations center. A novel phone-based traveler information system provided traffic and parking information for travelers en route to the District.

2. Managed Motorways, Highways Agency, United Kingdom. Services included comprehensive initial ITS planning and all infrastructure design services for two managed motorway projects, both of which featured hard/dynamic shoulder running, on the M4/M5 and M62 freeways.

4. Ramp Metering Operations and Support, Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) and North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT). Operation of GDOT’s ramp metering program. Evaluating ramp metering feasibility and defining deployment criteria for NCDOT.

Traffic management has advanced dramatically as a result of new and innovative technological advances and the myriad of operational and technical options. Whether our clients are seeking to improve traffic signal operations, reduce incident clearance times, or enhance event traffic management, we assist clients by evaluating their needs and providing innovative ideas to create sustainable traffic management solutions.

Our staff’s expertise in applying traffic engineering principles, traffic signal operations, traffic signal systems, ITS technologies, and communications

networks is grounded in our relationships with public-sector clients. More importantly, we stay abreast of the ever-changing technology landscape and constantly scan the market seeking new and proven technologies to solve traffic management challenges. Atkins has the right staff and a proven track record for successful project delivery, be it conceptual ideas for high-level planning or detailed designs ready for construction. As a trusted advisor to our clients, Atkins delivers consulting services that are objective.

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Traveler information

Our capabilities• Commercial applications• Data fusion• In-vehicle applications• Mobile applications• Road weather information systems• Social media• Targeted traveler services• Web design/Internet accessibility

and integration• Dynamic message signs• 511


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Today’s traveling public demands reliable, real-time information about travel conditions to efficiently reach their destinations. To make informed travel decisions, drivers require more information than what is provided by intermittent radio traffic updates. Many agencies, in partnership with private industry, use mobile devices, in-vehicle applications, websites, telephone systems—through the national 511 initiative—and other advanced means to provide timely, accurate, and reliable information.

Atkins has nationally recognized traveler information experience having planned, implemented,

and operated traveler information systems, providing client-side services to develop requests for proposals, oversee testing and post-implementation services, and conducting advanced traveler information systems (ATIS) feasibility studies across the country. As the need for traveler information through a variety of devices and channels increases, Atkins’ professionals stand ready to assist agencies to develop and deploy comprehensive solutions that incorporate ATIS, location- based services, websites, social media, and telematics.

1. I-4 Dynamic Message Signs Design-Build, Florida Department of Transportation, District Five. Performed all design services associated with the replacement of 16 obsolete monochrome dynamic message signs with full-color/full-matrix signs along I-4 in Orlando.

2. SafeTrip-21, I-95 Corridor Coalition, US Department of Transportation. Developed a long-distance, real-time trip planning website, and also developed and deployed travel time displays at two welcome centers along I-95 to provide better and more diverse traveler information.

Atkins’ traveler information experience spans all aspects of the traveler information space, from feasibility studies through design, development, and operations of traveler information systems. >

Traffic management

Traffic management

Atkins has the right staff and a proven track record for successful project delivery. We constantly scan the market seeking new traffic management solutions. >

Our capabilities•Activetrafficmanagement•Arterialmanagementsystems•Communicationnetworks•Connectedvehicleapplications•Freewaymanagementsystems•Infrastructureassetmanagement•Integratedcorridormanagement•Networkintegrationand

optimization•Trafficmanagementcentersoftware•Trafficsignalsystems

3. Arlington Entertainment District ITS Services, City of Arlington, Texas. System manager services performed required an accelerated ITS deployment schedule driven by the opening event at the new Cowboys stadium. Fifty closed-circuit television cameras were designed and installed within seven months of notice to proceed. Additional fast-track infrastructure design included portable and permanent dynamic message signs and the design of reversible lane control signal systems on three arterials in the congested Entertainment District. Technical assistance was provided in system software selection and evaluating candidate locations for an event traffic operations center. A novel phone-based traveler information system provided traffic and parking information for travelers en route to the District.

2. Managed Motorways, Highways Agency, United Kingdom. Services included comprehensive initial ITS planning and all infrastructure design services for two managed motorway projects, both of which featured hard/dynamic shoulder running, on the M4/M5 and M62 freeways.

4. Ramp Metering Operations and Support, Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) and North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT). Operation of GDOT’s ramp metering program. Evaluating ramp metering feasibility and defining deployment criteria for NCDOT.

Traffic management has advanced dramatically as a result of new and innovative technological advances and the myriad of operational and technical options. Whether our clients are seeking to improve traffic signal operations, reduce incident clearance times, or enhance event traffic management, we assist clients by evaluating their needs and providing innovative ideas to create sustainable traffic management solutions.

Our staff’s expertise in applying traffic engineering principles, traffic signal operations, traffic signal systems, ITS technologies, and communications

networks is grounded in our relationships with public-sector clients. More importantly, we stay abreast of the ever-changing technology landscape and constantly scan the market seeking new and proven technologies to solve traffic management challenges. Atkins has the right staff and a proven track record for successful project delivery, be it conceptual ideas for high-level planning or detailed designs ready for construction. As a trusted advisor to our clients, Atkins delivers consulting services that are objective.

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Our services• Traffic management• Traveler information• Traffic operations centers• Incident management• Performance measures• Program management

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Atkins offers a full-service ITS team that has long been at the forefront of ITS development and deployment. We have assisted clients with their ITS needs by helping them achieve their safety, security, and efficiency goals through ITS solutions. With our agency partners, we have helped secure funding to design, build, operate, and maintain their ITS infrastructure.

ITS is a dynamic industry with ever evolving technology, services, and operational approaches. Atkins’ ITS experts recognize the value of change and are involved in national and international efforts to shape new solutions. The breadth of Atkins, involvement in emerging ITS technologies allows our clients to access a pool of expertise and maximize the potential of these solutions.

Atkins independently evaluates and tests ITS technologies and software at the Florida Department of Transportation’s (FDOT) traffic engineering research laboratory (TERL) before they are approved for use in the state. Our specialists at TERL develop and maintain FDOT’s ITS standard specifications, approved products list, and a statewide device procurement contract. Our hands-on experience allows our clients to receive better products at reduced costs, while manufacturers have an opportunity to improve products prior to deployment.

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Traveler information

Our capabilities•Commercialapplications•Datafusion•In-vehicleapplications•Mobileapplications•Roadweatherinformationsystems•Socialmedia•Targetedtravelerservices•Webdesign/Internetaccessibility

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Atkins has extensive experience planning, designing, constructing, operating, and maintaining traffic operations centers (TOC). We recognize that experienced, professional TOC experts are key to successful operations as they must fully understand the complexities of managing a TOC and deliver effective results. Our TOC operations experts have considerable experience and have worked in some of the world’s most sophisticated TOC scenarios. Additionally, our services can include implementation of the CREST operator certification procedures to help ensure a high level of efficiency and professional development. CREST is an occupational standard in the United Kingdom that is now being implemented in the United States.

Traffic operations centers


Our capabilities• 24/7 operations staffing• Consolidation of operations • CREST operator certification• Field device maintenance• Operational analysis and cost

streamlining• Performance metric reporting• Service patrol operations

Atkins’ traffic operations centers experts have worldwide experience in a variety of operational situations. >

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1. Metrolina Regional Traffic Management Center Control Room Upgrades, North Carolina Department of Transportation. Services included development of user requirements, alternative design evaluations, design of control room renovations, and life-cycle costs for a replacement video wall system.

2. NC 511 Statewide Traffic Operations Center (STOC) and Division 5 Onsite Staffing Support Services, North Carolina Department of Transportation. Provided all operations staffing at the recently opened STOC facility near Raleigh. The 24/7 operations include traffic incident management and traveler information system input and management.

3. Traffic Wales Control Rooms, Welsh Assembly Government, United Kingdom. Services involved continuous monitoring of the entire Welsh trunk road network including several major tunnels and bridges, analyzing traffic conditions, and providing timely information to the traveling public and operations stakeholders. Developed and implemented the CREST program, a certification and career development program for traffic management center operators.

4. Traffic Management Operations Center, Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT). Services provided under this multi-year contract include staffing, training, and operating of GDOT’s traffic management centers including public interaction, incident management, staff development and training, and engineering and analytical support to the traffic operations center.

Today’s traveling public demands reliable, real-time information about travel conditions to efficiently reach their destinations. To make informed travel decisions, drivers require more information than what is provided by intermittent radio traffic updates. Many agencies, in partnership with private industry, use mobile devices, in-vehicle applications, websites, telephone systems—through the national 511 initiative—and other advanced means to provide timely, accurate, and reliable information.

Atkins has nationally recognized traveler information experience having planned, implemented,

and operated traveler information systems, providing client-side services to develop requests for proposals, oversee testing and post-implementation services, and conducting advanced traveler information systems (ATIS) feasibility studies across the country. As the need for traveler information through a variety of devices and channels increases, Atkins’ professionals stand ready to assist agencies to develop and deploy comprehensive solutions that incorporate ATIS, location- based services, websites, social media, and telematics.

1. I-4 Dynamic Message Signs Design-Build, Florida Department of Transportation, District Five. Performed all design services associated with the replacement of 16 obsolete monochrome dynamic message signs with full-color/full-matrix signs along I-4 in Orlando.

2. SafeTrip-21, I-95 Corridor Coalition, US Department of Transportation. Developed a long-distance, real-time trip planning website, and also developed and deployed travel time displays at two welcome centers along I-95 to provide better and more diverse traveler information.

Atkins’ traveler information experience spans all aspects of the traveler information space, from feasibility studies through design, development, and operations of traveler information systems. >


Atkins has extensive experience planning, designing, constructing, operating, and maintaining traffic operations centers (TOC). We recognize that experienced, professional TOC experts are key to successful operations as they must fully understand the complexities of managing a TOC and deliver effective results. Our TOC operations experts have considerable experience and have worked in some of the world’s most sophisticated TOC scenarios. Additionally, our services can include implementation of the CREST operator certification procedures to help ensure a high level of efficiency and professional development. CREST is an occupational standard in the United Kingdom that is now being implemented in the United States.

Traffic operations centers


Our capabilities• 24/7 operations staffing• Consolidation of operations • CREST operator certification• Field device maintenance• Operational analysis and cost

streamlining• Performance metric reporting• Service patrol operations

Atkins’ traffic operations centers experts have worldwide experience in a variety of operational situations. >

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1. Metrolina Regional Traffic Management Center Control Room Upgrades, North Carolina Department of Transportation. Services included development of user requirements, alternative design evaluations, design of control room renovations, and life-cycle costs for a replacement video wall system.

2. NC 511 Statewide Traffic Operations Center (STOC) and Division 5 Onsite Staffing Support Services, North Carolina Department of Transportation. Provided all operations staffing at the recently opened STOC facility near Raleigh. The 24/7 operations include traffic incident management and traveler information system input and management.

3. Traffic Wales Control Rooms, Welsh Assembly Government, United Kingdom. Services involved continuous monitoring of the entire Welsh trunk road network including several major tunnels and bridges, analyzing traffic conditions, and providing timely information to the traveling public and operations stakeholders. Developed and implemented the CREST program, a certification and career development program for traffic management center operators.

4. Traffic Management Operations Center, Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT). Services provided under this multi-year contract include staffing, training, and operating of GDOT’s traffic management centers including public interaction, incident management, staff development and training, and engineering and analytical support to the traffic operations center.

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When flowing traffic is disrupted by an incident, safety is compromised and congestion increases. As skilled incident management (IM) experts, Atkins has extensive experience developing strategic IM plans for transportation agencies. These plans address surveillance and detection technologies as well as procedures and metrics that can help resolve incidents quickly. Technologies include coordinated mobilization and response processes to assure response teams arrive swiftly and employ information dissemination protocols to help travelers navigate around incidents. The plans also address clearance and recovery techniques for response agencies to facilitate the resumption of normal traffic flow in affected areas as safely and efficiently as possible. Atkins’ staff blends traditional engineering with innovative technologies, knowledge of emergency response strategies, strong relationships, and IM best practices to develop powerful solutions.

Our capabilities• Hurricane/emergency response

and reverse-lane operations• Onsite support• Outreach and training• Performance measures• Project management• Statewide, regional, and local

IM team support• Strategic plan development

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ITS can most simply be defined as the application of technology to transportation. As with any other investment, our clients must be able to assess the impact their expenditures have on the transportation system. Before investing in infrastructure improvements, our clients must have accurate data concerning the current condition of their transportation networks.

To support client data needs, Atkins has developed a suite of technical applications and methods that provide accurate and reliable data. Working with our clients, our ITS specialists analyze data, interpret findings, and develop appropriate ITS solutions and applied technologies. From this data analysis, we enhance our clients’ ability to provide premier transportation services. We then monitor outcome-based performance measures to gauge the success and effectiveness of infrastructure improvements and operations.

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Real-time System Management Information Program

• Before and after studies• Commercial traffic data evaluations• Data collection and analysis• Device testing• Emerging technology evaluations• Incident reviews and analyses• System management optimization• Travel time performance measures

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1. Incident Management Program Support, Florida Department of Transportation and Nevada Department of Transportation. Provide statewide incident management program support.

2. General Consulting Services, Orlando-Orange County Expressway Authority, Florida. As part of this multi-year contract, we provide monthly, agency-wide statistical reports to the board of directors. These reports include operational data such as the tool shown to the left. This visualization tool, used by staff to identify the location and severity of recurring traffic congestion, is generated from the Authority’s archived travel time information using an application developed by Atkins staff.

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1. London Underground (United Kingdom)

2. Dubai Metro tunnel (United Arab Emirates).

3. Tunnel operations and maintenance (Wales)

4. M4 South Wales variable speed limit pre-works (United Kingdom)

5. Active traffic management (United Kingdom)

6. Traffic control center consultancy (Dubai)

7. Managed motorways on the M25 orbital outside London (United Kingdom)

8. London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games (United Kingdom)

With experience throughout the world, Atkins has the depth and breadth of expertise to respond to the most technically challenging and time-critical infrastructure projects and the transition to a low-carbon economy.

We plan every aspect of our clients’ projects — from cost and risk planning, feasibility studies and logistics to impact assessments and stakeholder engagement activity.

We design intellectual capital such as management systems and business processes. We also design physical structures such as office towers, schools, bridges, and highways. Whatever we design, we apply the same passion and creativity combined with rigorous quality standards.

Our clients choose Atkins because they need assurance that their projects are procured safely and predictably. They entrust us with the management of projects, people, and issues — ensuring that deadlines are met, costs are controlled, and success is delivered.

Whether it’s the concept for a skyscraper, the upgrade of a rail network, the modeling of a flood defense system, or the improvement of a management process, we plan, design, and enable quality solutions that improve the quality of life for us all.

Program management Worldwide expertise

Atkins’ program management professionals provide general engineering consultant services to clients through on-call assignments or staff extension contracts. We can provide services in any of the following formats:

• Exclusive-use/dedicated staff resources.

• Dynamic teams of experts customized for each assignment.

• A blend of exclusive staff and as-needed specialized resources.

ITS program management assignments are typically multi-year engagements with Atkins staff based on client premises, side-by-side with their own staff. Clients also benefit from using our resources on an as-needed basis without the cost burden of full-time staff employment.

Atkins can guide your ITS program from concept to operations with independent expert resources cost-effectively applied to support your goals. >

Our capabilities• Evaluation of emerging

technologies and new services• Implementation strategies

and business planning• Independent verification and

validation testing• Maintenance management

and inspection • Multidisciplinary program

management services• Outsourcing• Policy guidance• Procurement support• Program development

and advocacy• Project management • Standards development

and compliance• Systems engineering

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1. Statewide ITS Consultant Services (2001-2016), Florida Department of Transportation, Central Office, Florida. Multi-year contract providing onsite technical, management, and administrative services in support of the planning, architecture and standards development, integration, operations, maintenance, telecommunications, and mainstreaming of ITS throughout Florida.

2. General Consulting Services, Orlando-Orange County Expressway Authority, Florida. Multi-year contract includes implementing a comprehensive ITS system consisting of closed-circuit television cameras, dynamic message signs, an automated travel time information system, fiber-optic communications network, and traffic monitoring stations.

3. Statewide ITS Consultant Services (2001-2016) SunGuide® Support, Florida Department of Transportation, Central Office, Florida. As part of this multi-year contract, providing complete software life-cycle support for all facets of SunGuide®, the advanced traffic management system used in FDOT’s regional traffic management centers.

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