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9th Annual Florida Automated Vehicle Summit
Choice Engineering Consultant was excited to attend the 9th Annual Florida Automated Vehicle Summit in Orlando, Florida from November 29 through December 01, 2021. Notable guests at the event included Florida Senator Jeff Brandes, FDOT Secretary Kevin Thibault, and Executive Director of Central Florida Expressway Authority – Laura Kelley. Both Carlos Francis and Erik Echezabal…
Becoming a Young Leader: A How to Guide
A leader is defined as an individual, or group, who influences others to accomplish an objective. At Choice Engineering our team leaders strive to support their engineers as individuals and as a team. From training us to be better engineers to promoting a healthy lifestyle, every day at Choice is a day to become a…
DW Traffic Ops Safety Win
Performing engineering analyses and seeing your recommendations implemented in the field is an exciting part of being an engineer. It is even a greater feeling when you win a contract for a second time in a row because your client, FDOT, is happy with your work. We are thrilled to have been selected again as…
FL PR ITE Summer Meeting
Choice Engineering Consultants was proud to sponsor and attend the Florida Puerto Rico District of ITE (FLPRITE) 2021 Summer Meeting “Road to Recovery” this past June 23 and June 24, 2021. The meeting kicked off with the Water Taxi Technical Tour that lasted about 2 hours and traveled up the Intracoastal Water Way and New…
ICE
The purpose of an Intersection Control Evaluation (ICE) is to consistently consider multiple context-sensitive control strategies when planning a new or modified intersection. Some of these control strategies are: • Two-Way Stop-control • All-Way Stop-Control • Signalized Controlled • Roundabout • Median U-Turn (MUT) • Restricted Crossing U-Turn (RCUT) – Signalized and Unsignalized • Jughandle…
Field Review Encounters: A How To Guide
A field review is defined as a period in which a qualified individual (engineers in our case) studies a location of interest with the intention of performing qualitative observations and assessing the existing conditions. In other words, think of a field review as a professional field trip! Within the field of engineering, field reviews provide…
Future Engineers: Internship Program
One of the prides of Choice Engineering is our Future Engineering Intern program. Our program’s engagement with college students focuses on the importance of creating employment opportunities while spreading knowledge and awareness of the latest engineering practices. At Choice, our interns are exposed to actual learning experiences. From working side-by-side with our professional engineers to…
Summary of Sensitivity Analysis on Driver Calibration Parameters
Summary of Sensitivity Analysis (Synchro 11 – SimTraffic) Osvaldo A. Rodriguez, E.I. is a full-time traffic engineer for Choice Eng. and a part-time graduate student at Florida International University (FIU); currently pursuing his master’s degree in transportation. This Fall 2020 semester, Osvaldo was tasked by FIU to perform a sensitivity analysis on three of the…
District 6 – Districtwide Signalized Intersection Lighting Efforts
The Choice Engineering Team has been working diligently to improve the lighting condition along eleven corridors in Miami Dade County. This effort is in support of the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) response to nearly 500 pedestrian fatalities per year calculated between 2009 and 2013. In 2013, the Department calculated a total of 8,410 pedestrian…