Tulane University Transportation: A Streetcar Fueled by TDM?
At the beginning of the famous play and film, A Streetcar Named Desire, the fictional Blanche DuBois arrives in New Orleans with instructions to take... Read
Transportation Punch List: Healthcare in Renovated Retail Spaces
At a time of struggling brick-and-mortar retail centers, medical facilities see an opportunity: Hospital and healthcare systems are increasingly expanding their services into existing retail... Read
Integrating Transit Into Our Lives: What Would the Romans Do?
Recently, a new transit map of Ancient Rome came to light. Check out University of Chicago student Alexandr Trubetskoy’s ridiculously awesome transit map of Ancient... Read
Infographic: The Appeal of Transit-Oriented Retail Development
The trend toward transit oriented development is clear. And of course, retail development is a big part of TOD. Developers and retail operators are attracted... Read
Are Autonomous Vehicles Coming to Northern Virginia Roads?
It’s easy for most of us to think of the autonomous vehicle (AV) trend as something in the distant future, or as an esoteric idea... Read
Zen and the Art of Traffic Signal Design
By Christopher Turnbull and Salah Salem At Wells + Associates, our Traffic Design team has managed thousands of traffic signal designs and modifications – in... Read
High Schoolers Consider Real-World Transportation Engineering Problems with the W+A Team
Last year we reported about our involvement in encouraging STEM education at a local high school in the Washington, DC area. For a number of... Read
It’s Engineers Week – Time to Hug a Traffic Engineer!
The days of the slow, meandering Sunday Drive are long gone. Instead, people want to get “there” faster and easier than ever before. Traffic engineers... Read
W+A Team Members Volunteer to Help Hungry Kids in Northern Virginia
A number of our Wells + Associates team members gathered in late January to participate in Helping Hungry Kids (HHK) of Northern Virginia’s monthly food... Read
Can a Major Roundabout in Tysons Improve Traffic and Livability?
What are the top transportation concerns as the suburban edge city of Tysons, Virginia turns itself into a more urban area? Here are two: Making... Read
W+A Encourages STEM Education and Careers
“The future of the economy is in STEM,” stated James Brown, executive director of the STEM Education Coalition. “That’s where the jobs of tomorrow will... Read
Wells + Associates Does the Mannequin Challenge!
Wells + Associates loves a challenge! In the spring of 2016 it was the Big Green Commute in support of sustainable transportation. Now, on the eve of Thanksgiving... Read
A New Transportation Mindset for a New Kind of Suburb: Mosaic
Earlier this week, the Washington Post’s Dr Gridlock published an article about the evolution of transportation lifestyles in the new, more urbanized suburbs. His focus:... Read
How Transportation Choices and TDM Help Earn LEED Certification
LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) is the leading sustainability standard for green building certification and has been developed by the non-profit U.S. Green... Read
Rethinking DC Metrorail: Walking, Biking, and Burning Calories
The DC Metrorail system seems to offer more headaches than solutions for commuters these days. The SafeTrack rebuild is disruptive and other problems seem never-ending.... Read