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Alamo Area Metropolitan Planning Organization
Mobility 2040 Metropolitan Transportation Plan
WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff worked with the
MPO to provide the first long-range plan for
the expanded MPO study area—including all
of Bexar, Comal, and Guadalupe counties and
a portion of Kendall County. Working closely
with the MPO’s Study Oversight Committee,
Technical Advisory Committee, Community
Advisory Committee, and Technical Working
Group, as well as the Transportation Policy Board
and the public, WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff led
development of a regional vision that includes
an extensive managed lane system and other
regional mobility investments. The Alamo Area
MPO Transportation Policy Board adopted the
updated plan in December 2014.
San Antonio Comprehensive Plan
WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff is working with
the City of San Antonio’s Department of
Planning and Community Development to
develop the city’s first modern comprehensive
plan, which will address policy areas such as
transportation and connectivity; housing; military
institutions; green and healthy neighborhoods
and communities; public facilities and community
safety; historic preservation; natural resources
and the environment; and jobs and economic
competitiveness. The plan will articulate the form
of future physical growth and guide strategic
decision making and infrastructure investment.
WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff is responsible for
preparing the plan’s transportation and military
policies of the plan.
Bergstrom Expressway
The US 183 corridor from US 290 to SH 71 is
one of Austin’s most important arterials. It is the
primary route to and from Austin-Bergstrom
International Airport and points beyond,
attracting more than 60,000 cars and trucks a day.
Since 2011, the Central Texas Regional Mobility
Authority and TxDOT have been working with
other agencies and the community to develop
a feasible approach for improving mobility in the
US 183 South corridor. The selected approach is
a $680 million, 8-mile expressway to be procured
as a design-build project with WSP | Parsons
Brinckerhoff as lead designer. Key improvements
include six tolled main lanes and four to six nontolled general purpose lanes in each direction; five
grade-separated interchanges; four new bridges;
collector distributor ramps; two direct connect
flyovers linking east/west SH 71 to north/south
Bergstrom Expressway; and toll and intelligent
transportation system facilities.
Dallas-Fort Worth Core Express Service
Working with TxDOT and the Federal Railroad
Administration, WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff
is responsible for the environmental impact
statement (EIS) and preliminary engineering of
an express passenger rail service connecting the
Dallas and Fort Worth areas. The EIS, prepared
in accordance with the requirements of the
National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), is
evaluating possible routes for the proposed new
service as well as its potential impacts on the
region’s communities, economy, open spaces,
streams, floodplains and wildlife. The new express
passenger service is expected to connect to other
transportation systems available in Dallas and
Fort Worth, including a planned high-speed rail
system serving Dallas-Houston and a regional
passenger rail connecting Dallas to Oklahoma.
Strategic Multimodal Transportation Plan,
San Antonio
By the year 2040, the population of Bexar
County and San Antonio is expected to
grow by approximately one million people. To
determine how the city’s transportation system will
accommodate the increased population while still
operating in an efficient and sustainable manner,
the City of San Antonio initiated this $2.5 million
transportation plan—the first in its history. WSP
| Parsons Brinckerhoff leads the team preparing
the plan, which develops multimodal solutions;
incorporates transportation improvement plans
developed by partner agencies such as TxDOT,
VIA Transit, and the Alamo Area MPO; and
envisions how the combined plans will create a
sustainable transportation system that meets future
needs, supports the goals and visions set by prior
initiatives, and provides key deliverables including
TRANSPORTATION
FOR TEXAS
an updated major thoroughfare plan, policy
recommendations, and a project prioritization plan.
IH-35 Corridor Study
In 2014, the segment of IH-35 running from
south to north through Austin’s urban core
was ranked by TxDOT as the second most
congested roadway in the state with 950,795
annual hours of delay per mile at a cost of over
$194 million annually. In 2011, WSP | Parsons
Brinckerhoff was selected as lead consultant
for a study whose objective is to maximize the
potential throughput of the 27-mile corridor, which
encompasses virtually all of Travis County. The
study includes problem definition; identification
and refinement of improvement alternatives;
development of an implementation strategy for
short-, mid- and long-term improvements; and
public participation. Improvement alternatives
evaluated by WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff include
ramp changes, auxiliary lanes, new interchange
configurations, managed lanes, dynamic shoulder
use, ramp and connector metering, active traffic
management, transportation demand strategies,
and a host of related modal-specific and
multimodal improvements.
Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization
(CAMPO) 2040 Regional Transportation Plan
WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff was the lead
consultant working with CAMPO to prepare
a regional transportation plan for the six-county
region served by CAMPO. The plan identifies
transportation improvement projects estimated at
$35.1 billion and provides congestion management
strategies for roadways, transit, bicycle and
pedestrian, access management, transportation
system management, and intelligent transportation
systems. This work included a complete redesign
of the CAMPO website to better meet the
needs of board members and the public. It also
included multiple rounds of public workshops,
and numerous stakeholder meetings to help
build regional consensus around the vision
statement, goals and objectives, and ultimately the
recommended growth and transportation scenario
for the region. The CAMPO Transportation Policy
Board adopted the plan in May 2015.
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professional services firms, offers a full range of services to develop and
maintain transportation infrastructure, including highways, bridges, tunnels,
transit and rail systems, airports, and ports. Working under any form
of project delivery—from traditional design-bid-build to all models of
design-build and public-private partnerships—we collaborate with clients
to deliver projects that achieve cost savings, maximize public support, and
incorporate sustainable development.
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OUR HISTORY IN THE LONE STAR STATE
WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff’s history in Texas dates to 1886, when
William Barclay Parsons served as chief engineer of the Fort Worth
and Rio Grande Railroad. The firm designed the Baytown Tunnel under
the Houston Ship Channel in the early 1950s, and has maintained a
continuous presence in Texas since the 1960s, when we designed the
Pelican Island Causeway linking the city of Galveston and Galveston
Island. In addition to the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT),
our clients include federal, state, and local agencies, non-governmental
organizations and major private entities.
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PROJECTS IN TEXAS
Dallas Horseshoe
WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff serves as lead
designer for the design-build team on the Dallas
Horseshoe project, which will improve safety
and mobility in the heart of downtown Dallas by
replacing the IH-30 and IH-35E bridges crossing
the Trinity River along with reconstructing the
Mixmaster, the interchange between IH-30
and IH-35E. Construction is expected to be
substantially complete by late 2016 or early 2017.
Project innovations and highlights:
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Used an outside-in approach to build
bridges offline to minimize traffic disruption.
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Corrected existing geometric issues that
cause congestion, repaired and replaced
deteriorating structures, and added
capacity to the interchange and frontage
roads.
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Moved new exits and entrances miles from
existing facilities with a complex system of
direct connectors (DC) and directional
ramps.
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Installed a temporary cut wall through
existing bridge spill slope, temporarily
shifted traffic under the end span, used
temporary ramps/connections/signals
to achieve a final solution that closed
Colorado Street for only 90 days, nine
months shorter than the allowable closure.
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Permanent overbuild of SB DC bridge and
ramps to temporarily support four lanes
of traffic, which reduced the cost by 50%
over use of temporary widening, walls, and
phased construction.
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Applied “project first” mentality among
TxDOT, our design team, and the
contractor staff to develop and approve
designs and advance construction.
Replaced tightly curved steel girder spans
with concrete girders and used two ladder
bents to straddle complex underground
utilities in restricted right-of-way and
adjacent to a popular fuel stop with highpressure service line feeding a compressed
natural gas vehicle refueling station.
DFW Connector
WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff served as lead
designer for the design-build comprehensive
development agreement to develop, design
and build 8.4 miles of the DFW Connector.
The project was initiated by TxDOT to improve
mobility along SH 114/121 by rebuilding and
expanding the corridor through Southlake,
Grapevine and the northern edge of the Dallas/
Fort Worth International Airport. At its widest
point, the Connector has 24 lanes—including
14 main lanes, six frontage road lanes, and
four managed toll lanes with dynamic pricing.
Construction was completed six months ahead
of schedule resulting in savings of $140 million.
DFW Connector was honored as the P3
Project of the Year by the American Road &
Transportation Builders Association.
State Loop 1604 Western Extension,
San Antonio
In 2013, an average of 52,000 vehicles used
Loop 1604 on a daily basis with travelers
encountering 64,000 annual hours of delay per
mile. To reduce roadway congestion, the Alamo
Regional Mobility Authority began working in
2012 on an environmental impact statement
for the Loop 1604 corridor improvements.
During the course of the EIS, TxDOT and
the RMA identified state and local funding
sources to construct a 4-lane, non-tolled
expressway with frontage roads along Loop
1604 from Bandera Road to Potranco Road
at a cost of approximately $200 million. The
first component of this project is the Loop
1604 Western Extension—an $82 million, 4.7mile, 4-lane expressway and frontage roads
between FM 471 (Culebra Road) and SH 16
(Bandera Road). The project is a design-build
procurement with WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff
serving as lead designer. The company is also
the lead designer for the $44 million Phase II of
the Western Extension comprising the design
and construction of SH 151 as a 4-lane, nontolled expressway from Loop 1604 to Alamo
Ranch Parkway and the Loop 1604/SH 151
interchange, including a south-to-east direct
connector.
Fort Bend Parkway Toll Road Extension B
WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff is the prime
consultant for the overpass design for this
$30.3 million project sponsored by the Fort
Bend County Toll Road Authority. The half-
mile-long overpass will connect the parkway’s
existing main lanes north of Trammel-Fresno
Road to the main lanes south of Knight Road
and will include entrance and exit ramps as well
as U-turn lanes on either side of Highway 6.
When the overpass is complete, the parkway
will provide non-stop travel from Sienna
Parkway to US 90A in Harris County.
Sam Houston Tollway Southeast
WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff is designing
additional toll lanes for an 11-mile section
of the tollway between SH 288 and IH45 South. An increase in travel demand
necessitated widening the tollway from four
to six lanes, adding an inside safety shoulder
and reconstructing tolled entry and exit
ramps. WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff’s scope
includes bridge design, reconfiguration of ramp
geometries and relocation of toll facilities.
Ramp operations and efficiencies were
evaluated to determine if ramps were to be
reversed, relocated or removed.
I-345 Bridge Replacement
WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff is responsible for
evaluating alternatives to rehabilitate the I-345
bridge located on the eastern side of downtown
Dallas. The 1.6-mile bridge was designed to 1965
AASHTO standards and built in the early 1970s.
Since the early 1990s, fatigue cracks have been
found in many of the beam-girder connections
and TxDOT has spent more than $12 million to
inspect, maintain and repair the bridge over an 11year period. WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff’s scope
includes conducting a finite element modeling
analysis of the existing conditions to determine
causes of the fatigue issues. In addition, the team
developed and modeled proposed retrofits
of the 2,200 beam-to-girder connections, and
developed construction methods to extend the
service life of the structure.
DFW CONNECTOR
NAMED P3
PROJECT OF THE
YEAR BY THE
AMERICAN ROAD &
TRANSPORTATION
BUILDERS
ASSOCIATION
+140M
COMPLETED
SIX MONTHS
AHEAD
OF SCHEDULE
RESULTING IN
SAVINGS OF
$140M TO TxDOT
DFW Connector | ©James Bland Photography
Dallas Horseshoe
I-345, Dallas | Photo with permission from TxDOT
Katy Freeway Corridor
Katy Freeway was originally designed and
constructed in the 1960s to accommodate
approximately 80,000 vehicles per day on
its 40-mile stretch between downtown
Houston and Katy. Forty years later, traffic
volumes were approaching three times that
level with chronic congestion lasting up to
11 hours a day. In response, TxDOT initiated
a 5-year reconstruction of a 25-mile section
of the freeway—one of the largest highway
construction projects ever undertaken in Texas.
In addition to reconstructing the freeway
under traffic, the project included two major
freeway-to-freeway intersections and 27
grade-separated intersections. It also added
from four to six general-purpose lanes and
two variable-priced toll lanes in each direction,
widened the frontage road from two to three
lanes, constructed sidewalks in each direction,
and adjusted geometry to improve sight
distances. The freeway was named one of the
Top 10 North American Infrastructure Projects
by the International Right of Way Association,
Project of the Year by the Texas Public Works
Association and recipient of the President’s
Award from the American Association of State
Highway and Transportation Officials. WSP
| Parsons Brinckerhoff served as the general
engineering consultant for the reconstruction of
Katy Freeway.
Project innovations and highlights:
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Features the first multi-lane electronic
tollway in the U.S. operating within the
right-of-way of an interstate highway
SL 1604 Western Extension, San Antonio
providing multiple entrance and exit
locations.
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All lanes were opened to traffic in October
2008, more than two months ahead of
the already accelerated schedule. The
managed lanes became fully operational in
April 2009.
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Used a 24/7 work schedule throughout
the corridor, $65 million in contractor
completion incentives, a construction
schedule that integrated property
acquisitions (445 parcels), the maintenance
of a free flow of traffic within a highly
congested corridor, and a public
information and outreach program that
raised the standard associated with
transportation infrastructure programs.