Mitchell and Nemeth Discuss Connecting Land Use & Transportation Forecasting at MnAPA Conference

September 14, 2010

Many communities consider a transportation system when making land use decisions, but most don’t evaluate whether it will provide their community the potential to fully realize that land use vision. On Thursday, September 23, Gina Mitchell, A.I.C.P. and Bryan Nemeth, P.E., P.T.O.E. will be presenting at the 2010 Upper Midwest Planning Conference held by the Minnesota Chapter of the American Planning Association. Their presentation will cover how land use decisions relate to predicting roadway traffic volumes and how these decisions impact traffic operations. They will also discuss the tools that are available to evaluate the implications of development on a transportation system and examples of the importance of integrating land use and transportation forecasts in the decision making process.

Gina Mitchell, A.I.C.P. is a Transportation Planner with 15 years of experience. She manages county and city transportation, highway corridor, sub-area, and environmental studies; land acquisition and airport zoning ordinance projects. With over ten years of city and county land use and transportation planning experience, Ms. Mitchell successfully identifies and recommends strategies that can be successfully implemented on complex, controversial projects.

Bryan Nemeth, P.E., P.T.O.E. is a Traffic and Transportation Engineer with 11 years of engineering and planning experience in traffic forecasting, operations, and alternatives analysis. He has a Master’s Degree in Transportation Engineering and Planning and has formal training in the fields of forecasting, access, and traffic operations and modeling. He understands the interrelationships between modeling software and forecasting and evaluation methods.

Bolton & Menk, Inc., ranked in the Top 500 Engineering Firms by Engineering News Record (ENR), provides services in the areas of civil and municipal, traffic and transportation, water and wastewater, and water resources engineering. The firm also provides environmental review, land surveying and mapping services. Our staff of nearly 250 professionals and technicians is available to assist clients in meeting the ever-increasing demand for quality engineering and surveying services. In addition to their four offices serving the Twin Cities Metropolitan area, the firm also operates offices in Mankato, Fairmont, Sleepy Eye, Willmar and Brainerd, Minnesota and Ames, Iowa.