Transportation Planning / Economics

Traffic & Transportation Departments at LASA handles independent assignments as well as renders an able support to the sister departments such as highway design and others. Independently, the department has ably provided services in the areas of Comprehensive Traffic and Transportation Planning, Terminal Designs and Regional Transportation Studies. At the same time, and in parallel, it has been participating in the multi-focus regional transportation studies by providing the required input including the conduct of surveys, data analysis, interpretation, traffic forecast, economic and financial analyses. It is single most important department in the company providing roadmap of growth for rest of the department with a stronger team and many more independent as well as multi-sectoral assignments.

Briefly, it includes following:

  • Comprehensive, multi-disciplined problem-solving approach to every client at the international, national, multi-state, state, regional, metropolitan or municipal level.
  • Adoption and encouragement of a team approach essential in transportation planning with studies having multiple focus.
  • Coordination with the other departments of the firm to have an able and comprehensive planning team able of handling any transportation mode or geographical area.

Render services in a wide variety of domains including:

Transit planning
Rail planning
Traffic studies
NMT studies
Freight studies
Multimodal Transportation Plans
Statewide Transportation Plans (Strategic Options Studies)
Metropolitan Development Authority Studies
Corridor Studies
Transport Management Systems
Transportation Policy Studies


Adoption appropriate technologies including use of:

  • Intelligent transportation systems
  • Geographic information systems
  • Travel demand modelling
  • Transport Economics
  • Financial planning

While providing above services, department has skill sets providing niche expertise. In particular, conduct of primary surveys, TSM, economics and financial analysis and travel demand modelling shall be operational handling independent assignments as well as participating in comprehensive studies. Following sub-sections provide a framework for these cells: