Central Valley Office
Kari McNickle
Senior Project Manager
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Kari is a senior transportation planner who has been involved with transportation planning, community engagement, and public advocacy since 2012. Her project work succeeds because of her genuine interest in improving mobility and access for transportation system users paired with her ability to build meaningful relationships with communities and stakeholders. Kari’s work focuses on active transportation planning, community engagement, and transportation demand management. She is a leader in the Fehr & Peers Equity and Community Engagement practice areas and co-led the company’s approach to safely shifting community engagement during the COVID-19 pandemic. Kari is proud to call Stockton home and has extensive experience working in the Central Valley, including recent work to develop active transportation and bicycle master plans with the City of Manteca and San Joaquin County. Prior to joining Fehr & Peers, Kari spent six years with the San Joaquin Council of Governments (SJCOG) as part of a three-county transportation demand management program.
Carly Hoyt
Senior Transportation Planner
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Francisco Martin
Principal
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David B. Robinson
Regional Principal-in-Charge, Sierra Region
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David is a principal and registered traffic engineer who has worked in the transportation planning field since 1994. David has an extensive background in travel demand model development and application and has applied his knowledge in travel forecasting to numerous project types, including transportation impact analysis for CEQA and NEPA, land use transportation planning, traffic operations analysis for project development studies, as well as transportation, land use, and policy development planning studies. David brings industry-leading expertise in understanding the interaction between land use decisions and the local and regional transportation networks. He provides clients with expert advice on changing policies and environmental regulations, such as the shifting focus from level of service to vehicle miles traveled, as well as helping to quantify and mitigate impacts related to land use decisions.
Additional Key Contributors
Meghan Mitman
AICP, RSP1
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Kristin Calia
Principal
PE, TE
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Mark Howard
Senior Transportation Engineer; Traffic Engineering Design, Active Transportation, & Operations
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Ron Ramos
Senior Transportation Engineer
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Rodney Brown
AICP, PTP, RSP1
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Our Local Contributions
Transit Planning
Evaluating the potential for new commuter bus services connecting the Los Banos area with the Silicon Valley for the Merced County Westside Bus Study and conducting a robust assessment of demand for the Stanislaus Regional Transit Authority Comprehensive Operations Analysis using our extensive experience with a wide variety of transit system planning services
General Plans
Updating the City of Stockton’s 2007 General Plan to evaluate the potential to reduce the extent of the circulation network and vehicular capacity on key corridors identified for bicycle travel by developing a new citywide traffic model sensitive to transit, bicycle, and pedestrian networks, as well as demographic factors such as household income
Campus Planning
Aiding the University of California, Merced in navigating numerous opportunities for growth and expansion since 2008 through a plethora of transportation-related projects, including circulation planning, long-range development plans, university community plan updates, transportation infrastructure planning, and annual traffic counts
Transportation Engineering
Working collaboratively with the City of Manteca, Caltrans District 10, the San Joaquin Council of Governments, and the project team to successfully complete the first Diverging Diamond Interchange in the state of California through assisting with the advanced planning, environmental document, and design stages
Transportation Forecasting & Operations
Partnering to ensure the successful integration of the 1,780-acre Cordes Ranch project at the base of the Altamont Pass into the City of Tracy using a collaborative and iterative process to determine the most complimentary transportation system, including the second Diverging Diamond Interchange in the state of California
Land Use & Transportation
Coordinating with the City of Lathrop to develop the City’s Travel Demand Model and SB 743-compliant VMT analysis for the River Islands Specific Plan (Phase 2) through traffic operations analyses for roadways and intersections, as well as a safety analysis on par with Caltrans District 10 standards
California Senate Bill 743
Working closely with many public agencies and practitioners to help shift their approach toward transportation impacts under CEQA by delivering technically robust and locally appropriate VMT methods and procedures that consider land use context, local priorities, and practical mitigation solutions
Multimodal Planning & Design
Collaborating with the City of Manteca to develop an active transportation plan sensitive to the community’s modal priorities and needs through extensive outreach via bicycle and pedestrian mobility assessments and audits, a temporary demonstration project at a community fair, and online crowdsource outreach
Freight
Identifying and minimizing the impact of trucks traversing neighborhood streets to support the Port of Stockton’s environmental impact analyses for the West Complex, a proposed rail-served warehouse, and the expansion of an aggregate facility in the East Complex by leveraging data from a concurrent SJCOG truck routing and access study
Warehousing Logistics
Taking an unprecedented look into warehousing trip and VMT generation within San Joaquin County by developing a countywide VMT performance metric and working with Prologis to create a locally validated model for the International Park of Commerce, coordinating the collection of driveway vehicle classification count data at 40 warehouse buildings across the county
Where You Can Find us
343 East Main Street
Suite 608
Stockton, CA 95202
(209) 645-4148
Our Local Contributions
Transit Planning
Evaluating the potential for new commuter bus services connecting the Los Banos area with the Silicon Valley for the Merced County Westside Bus Study and conducting a robust assessment of demand for the Stanislaus Regional Transit Authority Comprehensive Operations Analysis using our extensive experience with a wide variety of transit system planning services.
General Plans
Updating the City of Stockton’s 2007 General Plan to evaluate the potential to reduce the extent of the circulation network and vehicular capacity on key corridors identified for bicycle travel by developing a new citywide traffic model sensitive to transit, bicycle, and pedestrian networks, as well as demographic factors such as household income.
Campus Planning
Aiding the University of California, Merced in navigating numerous opportunities for growth and expansion since 2008 through a plethora of transportation-related projects, including circulation planning, long-range development plans, university community plan updates, transportation infrastructure planning, and annual traffic counts.
Transportation Engineering
Working collaboratively with the City of Manteca, Caltrans District 10, the San Joaquin Council of Governments, and the project team to successfully complete the first Diverging Diamond Interchange in the state of California through assisting with the advanced planning, environmental document, and design stages.
Transportation Forecasting & Operations
Partnering to ensure the successful integration of the 1,780-acre Cordes Ranch project at the base of the Altamont Pass into the City of Tracy using a collaborative and iterative process to determine the most complimentary transportation system, including the second Diverging Diamond Interchange in the state of California.
Land Use & Transportation
Coordinating with the City of Lathrop to develop the City’s Travel Demand Model and SB 743-compliant VMT analysis for the River Islands Specific Plan (Phase 2) through traffic operations analyses for roadways and intersections, as well as a safety analysis on par with Caltrans District 10 standards.
California Senate Bill 743
Working closely with many public agencies and practitioners to help shift their approach toward transportation impacts under CEQA by delivering technically robust and locally appropriate VMT methods and procedures that consider land use context, local priorities, and practical mitigation solutions.
Multimodal Planning & Design
Collaborating with the City of Manteca to develop an active transportation plan sensitive to the community’s modal priorities and needs through extensive outreach via bicycle and pedestrian mobility assessments and audits, a temporary demonstration project at a community fair, and online crowdsource outreach.
Freight
Identifying and minimizing the impact of trucks traversing neighborhood streets to support the Port of Stockton’s environmental impact analyses for the West Complex, a proposed rail-served warehouse, and the expansion of an aggregate facility in the East Complex by leveraging data from a concurrent SJCOG truck routing and access study.
Warehousing Logistics
Taking an unprecedented look into warehousing trip and VMT generation within San Joaquin County by developing a countywide VMT performance metric and working with Prologis to create a locally validated model for the International Park of Commerce, coordinating the collection of driveway vehicle classification count data at 40 warehouse buildings across the county.
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