Fehr & Peers Transportation Consultants

Jerry Walters is a principal and chief technical officer of Fehr & Peers. He is a registered Traffic Engineer with over thirty years experience in transportation planning and engineering, and has completed several hundred travel forecasting and traffic impact studies related to Caltrans facilities. Jerry served on the advisory committee for Caltrans’ 2007 “Assessment of Local Models and Tools for Analyzing Smart-Growth Strategies”, and on the California Department of Housing and Community Development assessment “The Effect of Housing Near Transit Stations on Vehicle Trip Rates and Transit Trip Generation”, as well as on the California CTC working group on travel modeling guidelines for Regional Transportation Plans under AB32. He also led development of smart growth travel analysis methods for Sacramento Regional Blueprint study, San Joaquin Valley Growth Response study, and smart growth planning for the San Diego and San Luis Obispo regions. Jerry has also developed project evaluation methods and metrics for the US EPA Smart Growth INDEX and is project manager for the on-going US EPA study “Mixed-use Development and Vehicle Trips: Improving the Standard Estimation Methodology”. He is a co-author of the 2008 book “Growing Cooler – the Evidence on Urban Development and Climate Change” published by the Urban Land Institute.

Ronald T. Milam is a Principal with Fehr & Peers located in the Roseville, California office. He has an extensive background in travel demand model development and applications, traffic operations analysis, micro-simulation modeling, and transportation impact studies involving NEPA and CEQA. He has also published papers on a wide variety of transportation planning and traffic engineering topics and received recognition for his work that includes the Institute of Transportation Engineer’s (ITE) National Past President’s Award and best paper honors at the Transportation Research Board (TRB) Conference on Planning Applications.

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Brian Welch has over 25 years of experience in transportation planning including 12 years of public sector service and eight years with Fehr & Peers. He has considerable experience in analyzing the relationship between urban form and travel behavior, and is regarded as a local expert regarding the transportation/land use implications of mixed-use, transit-oriented development. He has authored papers and spoken at professional conferences on various topics including innovations in transit-oriented, mixed-use development and organizational leadership. Brian currently leads Fehr & Peers’ Smart Growth Discipline Group.

Donald Samdahl has over 30 years of experience in transportation engineering and planning, research, training and policy planning. During the past five years, he has directed over 15 multimodal transportation corridor studies, comprehensive local agency transportation plans, and innovative growth management studies.

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Click the link below to learn about “Growing Cooler – the Evidence on Urban Development and Climate Change” published by the Urban Land Institute and co-authored by Jerry Walters.