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DKS Accelerates its Ranking in ENR’s Top Design Firm List
4/21/2010
ENR’s April 21 edition recognizes the nation’s Top 500 Design Firms. DKS Associates ranked No. 404 improving its ranking by 17%. This improvement occurred in a year when more the 70% of the firms listed experienced revenue declines. DKS commitment to repeat clients, customer service and serving to improve transportation solutions for the public contributed to its improved ranking. One of the most significant clients was WSDOT and the Seattle Active Traffic Management System Design Build project which recently installed the first state-of-the-art integrated lane management, variable speed, changeable message system in the United States in April 2010 on I-5 and will outfit I-90 and SR 520 later this year.
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DKS Associates pushes for the integration of carbon-dioxide projections into the transportation planning process.
3/30/2010
Roads and Bridges Magazine has recently published an article prepared by DKS Associates describing the current state of integrating carbon-dioxide emissions analysis into the transportation planning process. Issues such as matching emissions analysis tools to transportation planning tools, standardizing methods that match the stage of project development, and identifying areas for further research and guidance are discussed.
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Inaugural ITS America Smart Solution Spotlight features the City of Portland and Climate Trust
2/17/2010
ITS America presented the City of Portland and The Climate Trust with the inaugural ITS America Smart Solution Spotlight award this week in recognition of the collaborative use of ITS to improve traffic congestion and air quality through traffic signal optimization. The Smart Solution Spotlight celebrates creative uses of ITS technologies to reduce traffic collisions, congestion, costs and carbon emissions. DKS Associates significantly improved the traffic flow in 17 intersections, reducing congestion and the amount of wasted fuel and CO2 emissions. As part of the signal timing project, the City of Portland improved traffic flow, reduced wait times and wasted fuel, and retired more than 157,000 metric tons of CO2 emissions over a 6-year period.
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Ramin Massoumi, P.E., to Lead DKS Associates Southern California Operation
2/11/2010
DKS Associates, a national traffic engineering and transportation planning firm, is pleased to announce that Ramin Massoumi, P.E., has joined the firm as its Southern California Office Manager and Principal, to direct their growing Southern California operation.
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Randy McCourt Named President of DKS Associates
11/30/2009
The firm based in Oakland, announced that Randy McCourt, P.E., PTOE, has been elected President by the Board of Directors. Mr. McCourt has worked for DKS since 1979 having recently served as the Director of Operations for the firm's growing Pacific Northwest operations and has been a member of the Board of Directors for 20 years. Mr. McCourt succeeds Richard Sauve, one of DKS's founders and President of the firm since 1987. Mr. Sauve is retiring effective January 1, 2010.
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Michael E. Krueger, CSEP, Joins DKS Associates Acclaimed ITS Division
11/6/2009
DKS Associates, a national leader in traffic engineering and transportation planning, is pleased to announce that Michael E. Krueger, has joined the firm as its National Systems Engineering Director. In this role, Mr. Krueger will report to the firm’s V.P., Habib Shamskhou, and manage DKS’s growing Systems Engineering practice. Mike will work from their Southern California office in Irvine, and continue to be a national resource for the ITS industry.
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East Bay Greenway Concept Plan wins 2009 APA “Focused Issue” Planning Award
9/25/2009
DKS Associates provided technical and policy level support for trail design, transit and traffic operations on Urban Ecology’s Award Winning East Bay Greenway Concept Plan The East Bay Greenway Concept Plan details a bicycle and pedestrian pathway that extends from Oakland to Hayward underneath the elevated BART tracks. This 12 mile long greenway runs through a diversity of neighborhoods in the East Bay, enabling access for everyone to the recreational opportunities throughout the region. By linking together the many smaller parks, schoolyards, bike trails, and community destinations, the East Bay Greenway will create new opportunities for recreation, public health, sustainability, and community pride.
The project won the 2009 APA “Focused Issue” Planning Award for the state of California.
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ITE Presents DKS with the 2009 ITE Western District Employer Recognition Award
9/18/2009
The Employer Recognition Award of the Western District of the Institute of Transportation Engineering (ITE) recognizes employers for supporting young professionals (35 years or younger) in ITE activities, technical training and professional development / mentorship. This award was created to recognize admired employers who acknowledge that young professionals are today’s leaders in the profession and set goals for their personal development.
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Jonathan Yee, P.E Joins DKS Associates
7/28/2009
Jonathan Yee, P.E., is DKS Associates most recent hire in the Irvine, California office. Jonathan brings expertise in Traffic Signal Timing, Traffic Planning/Operations, Traffic Design, and Intelligent Transportations Systems. His knowledge of public agency guidelines, modeling, multiple computer firmware and signal systems adds to DKS' expertise in Traffic Signal Timing. Jonathan most recently managed a complex signal timing optimization project of over 300 intersections. He received a Master of Science, Civil Engineering from the University of Berkeley, and a Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering. Jonathan is proficient in AutoCAD, Synchro, SimTraffic, TSPP and Traffix.
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Paul Menaker, Ph.D. Joins DKS Associates
7/1/2009
Oakland, California, July 1, 2009 - DKS Associates, a national full-service transportation engineering and planning firm with over 30 years of service, is proud to announce the addition of Paul J. Menaker, Ph.D. as a Principal of the firm. He will help to expand the firms growth in the Intelligent Transportation Systems market and brings extensive experience in transportation engineering and project management.
Dr. Menaker has over 25 years of experience in technical project management for various types of transportation projects in both the public and private sectors. His previous experience includes working on high profile urban and regional projects including corridor studies, freight movement analysis, intelligent transportation systems, transit planning and large scale transportation master planning. Dr. Menaker brings a national perspective from his successful career working with industry leaders across the country in creating innovative transportation solutions, project management and implementation. During his career, he has worked for private sector engineering firms and major land development companies, specializing in managing, entitling and designing multi-million dollar infrastructure projects. Dr. Menaker has worked on projects for CCTA, Sacramento Regional Transit, Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority, San Francisco Transportation Authority, New York State and New Jersey DOT, Long Island Railroad and Lennar Homes. Dr. Menaker's brings to DKS an understanding of how to design and integrate sustainable urban and regional transportation programs working with public agencies and successfully managing complex community relations.
Dr. Menaker received a Ph.D, and Masters of Science in Transportation Planning and Traffic Engineering and a Bachelors of Science in Systems Engineering from Polytechnic University, New York.
DKS is headquartered in Oakland, CA, with seven additional offices nationwide: Irvine and Sacramento, CA; Portland and Salem, OR; Seattle, WA; Dallas, TX; and Tampa, FL. The firm supports 145 full-time employees throughout its 8 offices and is distinguished for ITS, traffic signal timing and transportation planning services.
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DKS Associates Celebrates 30 Year Anniversary
6/3/2009
DKS Associates is proud to celebrate its 30 Year Anniversary in May, 2009. The firm was founded in Oakland, California in 1979 by six entrepreneurial engineers, who had the vision to see the need for a firm that focused specifically on traffic engineering and transportation planning. It became one of the only ENR Top 500 firms in the U.S. focusing solely on solving transportation related issues. These visionary engineers created a company that led the way in transportation design, modeling and congestion solutions. Many of the founding principals of today’s traffic engineering firms throughout California credit their training to DKS Associates.
The firm, which ranks among the Top 500 Design firms in the annual Engineering News-Record listing, credits its success to its employees, who are owners of the firm, and their thoroughness in the transportation solutions they provide. Through the years, the firm has successfully balanced smaller agency projects with large multi-million dollar projects, providing the same level of commitment, regardless of the project size or value. The firm is nationally known for its leadership and support in the industry, its innovation in technology, excellent staff mentoring and work environment, and has become a leader in Intelligent Transportation Solutions. It is for this reason the company continues to prosper in each economic cycle.
Employees of the firm are published and present research papers at national ITE events, are appointed to the Transportation Research Board (TRB), and advance their education by earning post graduate degrees. As a result, the firm has been acknowledged by Civil Engineering News as a Top 50 “Best Firm to Work For” and Inc. Magazine’s ranking of the fastest growing firms. Richard T. Suave, who has been the president of DKS for over 20 years stated, “in the final analysis, our firm’s ability to grow and prosper over the years is a tribute to our highly dedicated staff of professionals.”
DKS is headquartered in Oakland, CA, with seven additional offices nationwide: Irvine and Sacramento, CA; Portland and Salem, OR; Seattle, WA; Dallas, TX; and Tampa, FL. The firm supports 140 full-time employees throughout its 8 offices and is renowned for ITS, traffic signal timing and transportation planning services.
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Streetlight LED Study Being Performed For Major Seattle Public Utility
6/3/2009
The project will replace one hundred of the City’s 84,000 HPS streetlights with LED streetlights, a Solid State light source, and Induction streetlights on City of Seattle streets. This program will evaluate luminaire photometric performance, energy efficiency, economic performance, and the impact on Seattle, Washington, City Light streetlight rates.
The consultant performing this work is DKS Associates. They are working in collaboration with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), representing the US Department of Energy (DOE), as part of the DOE Solid-State Lighting GATEWAY Demonstrations program to perform this analysis. DKS will assist with project management, quality control, product selection, product evaluation/analysis, development of conservation incentives, development of a maintenance plan, luminaire specification development, national LED street light project update and reporting/documentation.
Over the past several years, many cities, including such as Los Angeles, Raleigh North Carolina, and Ann Arbor Michigan have tested and implemented LED streetlights. The implementation shows a reduction in energy consumption, longer burn rates and significant savings in agencies energy bills.
DKS Associates has extensive lighting experience working with local agencies to solve their lighting needs. The firms lighting expertise in providing design services, standards development, alternatives analysis and training has allowed them to assist agencies throughout the US.
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DKS Cracks the 2009 ENR Top 500 Design Firm List
5/12/2009
DKS Associates was ranked among the top 500 Design Firms by ENR in its 2009 survey of the largest public and privately held engineering firms.
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DKS Helps Sisters Oregon Solve Through Traffic at Lower Cost
2/26/2009
DKS Associates focus on efficient solutions helps communities work together to for cost effective strategies to address their transportation needs. Using state-of-the-art integration of travel models (Visum) and traffic operational tools (Synchro), DKS was able to test numerous strategies quickly and help technical staff, local decision makers and the public advance solutions that met their needs
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DKS Ranked as a “Best Firm to Work For”
9/26/2008
DKS Associates ranked in top 50 engineering firms by CE News as a “Best Firm to Work for” and in the top 15 of mid-size firms.
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DKS Associates Solutions - Summer Edition
7/9/2008
DKS Associates is advancing transportation analysis in Oregon and throughout the west, to address the evolving challenges emerging in planning. Recent increases in gasoline prices, global warming and greenhouse gas concerns, funding constraints, and escalating costs of transportation improvements, affect how transportation engineering and planning are implemented. DKS is sensitive to these constraints and is the leader in providing cost-effective solutions that provide measurable results for transportation agencies.
Click here to for the Solutions - Summer Edition
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DKS Featured in San Francisco Business Journal
6/20/2008
DKS Associates started in 1979 as just a small group of engineers working on easing traffic through Berkeley.
Twenty-nine years later it has grown into a $19-million-a-year transportation engineering and planning firm with a long list of clients.
While the employee-owned company continues to head smaller projects, like school drop-off and pick-up operations, it is tackling major transportation planning efforts, including co-managing congestion reduction on Interstate 80 through the Bay Area for the Alameda County Congestion Management Agency.
Click here for more
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DKS Associates Awarded $15 Million Contract from Caltrans to Develop Corridor System Management Plans
4/1/2008
DKS signed a $15M contract with Caltrans to develop Corridor System Management Plans for major corridors throughout California. This innovative program supports the CA Transportation Commission’s Prop 1B Corridor Mobility Improvement Plan. The plans explore the role of recent innovations in transportation management including Intelligent Transportation Systems, Integrated Corridor Management and Active Traffic Management among other strategies.
Official press release
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DKS Opens Dallas Office
2/1/2008
Michael Wobken, P.E., PTOE officially opened a Dallas office for DKS Associates. The regional office will initially focus on congestion management solutions by providing expertise in signal timing, intelligent transportation systems and transit signal priority. Wobken and his staff are currently assisting DART with signal priority applications for their Light Rail Transit system. The DKS Dallas office is located at 1109 Kings Hwy, Suite 201, in Dallas. (214) 942-6933.
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DKS has been nationally recognized as a “Best Workplaces for Commuters."
1/24/2008
Employers that meet the National Standard of Excellence in commuter benefits—a standard created by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency—can be listed as a Best Workplaces for Commuters. To receive this elite designation, a company must offer outstanding commuter benefits, such as free or low cost bus and other mass transit passes, strong telework programs, carpooling matching and vanpool subsidies.
Best Workplaces for Commuters demonstrates that alternatives to drive-alone commuting, such as transit, carpools, and teleworking are economically beneficial, yielding value to workers, employers, and our environment.
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DKS Makes Inc. List
9/27/2007
DKS was identified by Inc. as one of the 5,000 fastest growing U.S. private firms since 2003. The Inc. 5,000 is ranked according to percentage revenue growth from 2003 through 2006.
www.inc.com
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Interstate 80 Integrated Corridor Mobility Project
8/8/2007
DKS is co-managing the I-80 ICM project for the Alameda County Congestion Management Agency (ACCMA). This major project will provide relief on the most congested freeway segment in the San Francisco Bay Area. The project includes the freeway, adjacent arterials and transit.
The goal for the project is to enhance the current Transportation Management System along the I-80 Corridor by using state of the art practice solutions, to build a balanced, responsive and equitable integrated system that monitors and maintains optimum traffic flow along the network, to improve the safety and mobility for all users.
The total funding need for the project is approximately $80 million.
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Traffic Bowl Competition
8/1/2007
DKS staff were on the winning team for the 2007 Traffic Bowl Competition held at the recent Institute of Transportation Engineers District 6 Annual Meeting in Portland, OR. Pictured are Christopher Pangilinan and Patty Camacho.
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DKS Associates retained as the City of Beverly Hills Traffic Engineering Consultant
4/5/2007
DKS Associates has been named the Traffic Engineering Consultant to the City of Beverly Hills. The firm will update the city-wide traffix network and review all entitlement applications for traffic and parking compliance. DKS also serves as the Traffic Engineer for the City of Rialto.
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