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Building bridges
Our roadway bridge experience spans back to our 1954 founding. Let us help you design a sustainable structure with a strong future.
Surface transportation
Designing for the correct context of your roadway project is critical to a successful outcome. Our roadway specialists understand how to design for different types of roadway projects — urban, rural, low-speed and high-speed, to name a few — and we closely monitor emerging research and new context classifications. By staying at the forefront of design guideline changes, we can provide you with a design that moves you toward your goals.
Emerging technology
To help you benefit from emerging technologies, we constantly educate ourselves on developing trends, such as connected and automated vehicles, and larger, heavier vehicles, as well as how they will affect roadway design. Our experts contribute to the industry through participation on several National Cooperative Highway Research Program panels. Our knowledge and awareness of emerging technologies and the importance of all road users merge with our traditional design know-how to make your vision a reality.
Our goal is to help you provide a roadway that enhances your community’s livability and meets the needs of motorists, vulnerable road users, cyclists and pedestrians, along with public right of way and accessibility guidelines.
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Drive the future of your community
The engineering behind roadway and intersection design are changing, and we can help you stay ahead of the curve.
Focus on sustainability
We recognize that project sustainability is a key priority for your projects. We helped write the guidelines for the Illinois Livable and Sustainable Transportation Rating System, and we work closely with Hanson’s other disciplines to incorporate sustainable elements into road projects. A good design can accommodate future improvements with minimal to no changes to the design provided today. If we forecast that traffic or truck weights will increase, we can provide a design that easily allows future capacity additions without reconstructing everything. We can also design structures with additional width to provide for future capacity and maintenance without the loss of throughput and capability to handle heavy loads.
Aesthetically pleasing structures without fracture-critical elements provide beauty and safety for residents and users, and we can design structure openings with wildlife crossings and three-sided box culverts equipped with a natural channel bed that reduces environmental impacts. Our team also keeps sustainability front of mind by considering future drainage updates in our designs to reduce construction and disruption during later projects.
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- Accessible streetscapes and ADA
Boone County Poplar Grove bridge replacement ADA upgrades, Boone County, Illinois Providing transportation facilities that are accessible for those with disabilities is a critical aspect of your community’s infrastructure improvements. Since its founding in 1990, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) has guided our transportation engineers in planning and designing streetscapes that accommodate all users.
As part of our design process, our team uses the 2010 ADA Standard for Accessible Design, the 2006 Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Standards for Transportation Facilities, the 2023 Public Right-of-Way Accessibility Guidelines and applicable state and local accessibility codes to further sharpen our focus on accessibility. We have also designed multiple projects using the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Complete Streets concept to balance the needs of drivers, pedestrians, cyclists and public transportation users of all ages. We can upgrade and improve your roadways to include ADA-compliant sidewalks, bicycle lanes, transit facilities and stops, pedestrian crossings, median refuge, accessible pedestrian signals, curb extensions and landscaping.
Whatever your challenge may be, we can help. Our streetscape and ADA services include:
- transportation planning
- traffic engineering
- site development
- roadway design
- bicycle facility design
- accessible design
- traffic signal design
Mike Brand, P.E. (IL)
Project manager
Office phone: (217) 747-8389
Email: mbrand@hanson-inc.com- Stormwater management, collection and conveyance
Sustaining our natural and built environments is a paramount concern for you, and we hear you. Using our experience with the latest modeling techniques, efficient design and policy formation, we assist federal, state and local organizations and private entities in navigating every phase of drainage, stormwater management and flood risk reduction projects.
City of Springfield sewer garage stormwater capture and reuse project, Springfield, Illinois As you face increasing regulatory pressures, budgetary constraints and ever-evolving modeling and design tools, you can depend on us to create adaptive and integrated stormwater management designs and solutions. Our team has the knowledge and experience to understand your project’s nuances and support you through a successful outcome. We integrate environmental stewardship, technical specialization and superior service to provide scalable, innovative and comprehensive solutions.
Our water quality and environmental considerations include several factors, such as treating stormwater as close to the source as possible to reduce the need for extensive conveyance infrastructure, incorporating low-impact development and green infrastructure techniques to manage runoff, using natural elements and constructed facilities to sustainably manage stormwater and monitoring outfalls so they don’t negatively affect receiving waters. We also provide regular maintenance so your system functions correctly and efficiently.
Through our water resources, transportation and sitework projects, we design sustainable stormwater collection and conveyance systems and identify environmentally friendly solutions.
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Design and planning
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- hydrological analysis
- existing and proposed capacity
- system upgrade design
- watershed management and stormwater master plans
- National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System and compliance
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- collection: inlets, catch basins and drains that capture stormwater
- conveyance: pipes, culverts and channels to transport water to an outfall, pond or infiltration areas
- dams: breach analysis, operations and maintenance plans and emergency action plans
- bridges: hydraulic modeling tools and methods and scour analysis
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Nonerosive flow
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- hydraulic models that analyze the velocity and shear force impacts to the system and infrastructure
- system designs that convey water, preventing erosion and damage to the infrastructure
Craig Thompson, P.E. (TX)
Civil sitework discipline manager
Office phone: (361) 414-6470, Ext. 1238
Mobile phone: (361) 442-5424
Email: cthompson@hanson-inc.com
Bryce Beckstrom, P.E. (IL, IN), LEED® AP, ENVSP
Project manager
Office phone: (309) 966-4913
Email: bbeckstrom@hanson-inc.com-
- Transportation planning and traffic
Your community’s transportation system is key to your residents’ livelihood, and it’s not just about roadways — traffic engineering extends to adjacent land and the elements of other transportation modes. Our skilled and experienced team takes a comprehensive view of your transportation and traffic planning needs so you can build a network that will serve your community for the long term.
Technology and innovation are a significant aspect of transportation planning, and we meet your needs with creative and future-focused solutions. Do travelers in your community struggle with chronic speeding or roadways and intersections ill-suited to accommodate a growing population? Do you need better sidewalks, updated traffic signals or more turn lanes? These are just a few of the scenarios we can address to the benefit of your residents and visitors.
As you consider how to position your transportation network for a successful future, trust us to help you form a plan. We can assist you with:
- feasibility studies
- geometric design
- microsimulation modeling
- travel demand modeling
- capacity analysis
- safety and crash analysis
- traffic impact studies
- signal warrant analysis
- geometric design
- roundabout design
- intersection design studies
- signal design
- origin destination studies
- traffic projection
- noise modeling
- traffic management plans (maintenance of traffic)
- Americans with Disabilities Act/Public Right-of-Way Accessibility Guidelines ramp design
- rail interconnect design
- road diet analysis
- speed studies
- bicycle and pedestrian accommodations
- high-intensity activated crosswalk signals
- flyover simulations
Gerry Rangel, P.E. (TX)
Traffic discipline manager
Mobile phone: (956) 324-1553
Email: grangel@hanson-inc.com
“While I have had the opportunity to contribute to very complex and interesting work, the real reason I like working at Hanson is our fantastic technical staff, who are bright, inquisitive and dedicated to doing the right thing. We have learned that not all project challenges go as expected, and when that happens, we find alternative solutions to discuss with the client. With this experience and this team of achievers, we can compete with anyone … and win. Indeed, it has been a joy to work with Hanson’s roadway staff over the past 22 years.”
David McDonald, Jr.
Chief roadway engineer
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On the expressway to excellence
The traveling public needs well-designed interstates and roadways, and we help DOT and tollway clients provide smoother commutes with technology to accommodate down-the-road advancements.
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Municipal infrastructure
We are also your source for a wide variety of roadway, bridge, facility, water and wastewater and asset management services.
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