City of Winchester Traffic Engineering Services. Winchester, Virginia.
WRA provided traffic engineering services to the City of Winchester under an open-end engineering contract. Services included data collection (traffic volumes and turning movement counts), signal timing and system coordination, signal warrant studies, traffic analysis (LOS, operations, O/D), crash analysis, concept development, signal design (rebuilds and upgrades), specification development, traffic control device research, cost estimation, Invitation to Bid development, construction management and inspection, shop drawing review, public outreach assistance, and program administration assistance. Assigned tasks included Traffic Signal Upgrade Project (42 signal rebuilds/upgrades); Signal Timing Upgrades at 33 intersections in six VDOT signal systems; Traffic Signal Removal and One-Way/Two-Way Conversion Study at 12 intersections, and performing a traffic study for converting two Downtown arterials from a one-way pair to two-way streets.
Services Performed
Project Highlights
Traffic
WRA’s traffic engineers led several major initiatives, including a $5 million area-wide construction contract; partnering with Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) to re-time signal corridors shared by VDOT and the City; and removing traffic signals no longer warranted.
Structural
WRA’s structural engineers designed special signal pole foundations for the Traffic Signal Upgrade Project and developed project specifications (including advanced coating specifications) for the area-wide contractor-furnished signal pole contract.
Environmental
WRA’s environmental specialists helped the City to satisfy the Virginia Department of Transportation’s (VDOT’s) special locally-administered fund documentation requirement for the Second phase of the Traffic Signal Upgrade Project. The use of VDOT funding required environmental reviews in conformance with Virginia’s State Environmental Review Process (SERP).