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Improving Pedestrian Safety through CDOT’s Arterial Street Resurfacing Program

The City of Chicago is working to improve pedestrian safety and accessibility throughout the city. In support of this goal, Civiltech has provided design and construction engineering expertise through a number of overarching contracts. The Chicago Department of Transportation’s (CDOT) Arterial Street Resurfacing (AR) program delivers over 50 miles of Arterial Street paving annually.  This […]

Improving Bicycle and Pedestrian Safety in Milwaukee

The City of Milwaukee is working to create safer streets for pedestrians. The existing roadways around the city are wide and lack dedicated pedestrian spaces such as crosswalks. As part of their rapid implementation program, the City committed to installing low cost, high-impact solutions to various corridors. Civiltech’s Rapid Implementation project approach provides safety improvements […]

Extensive Improvements on a Heavily Traveled Arterial

Lake Cook Road is a critical regional arterial — a heavily traveled east-west roadway that cuts a swath across multiple northern suburbs, contains many major interchanges with significant north-south interstate routes, and is under the jurisdiction of Cook County Department of Transportation and Highways (CCDOTH). With significantly deteriorated and poor pavement conditions, a full reconstruction […]

Saying Goodbye to our Summer Interns

Nothing marks the bittersweet end of summer quite like kids heading back to school or returning to campus.  At Civiltech, that end of summer ritual also involves saying goodbye to our summer interns. Civiltech has a robust internship program with many interns that return for multiple summers or join the company for full time employment […]

Civiltech Congratulates Anmol Shrivastava, P.E., PTOE, RSP, on the Completion of the 2022 LeadershipITE Program

Civiltech’s Anmol Shrivastava, P.E., PTOE, RSP, recently completed the Institute of Transportation Engineer’s (ITE) LeadershipITE 2022 program. Through this program, ITE strives to build a base of high-level transportation professional leaders who will shape the future of transportation policy, design, planning, and implementation. Anmol was one of 20 participants nationwide. During the first quarter of […]

Moving Freight: A Comparison of Two Truck Routing Studies

With the rapid growth of e-commerce, logistical centers are being constructed across the region. Often, they are located in rural or newly developing suburban areas that may not have the infrastructure for freight, which creates negative impacts to livability. Civiltech’s Transportation Planning team is working to help communities accommodate the economic benefits of these businesses […]