Transportation Engineering, Traffic Engineering, and Transportation Planning
DAMA Consultants, Inc. is a Chicago-based transportation planning and engineering practice providing traffic and transportation engineering services to state and county agencies and prime consultants across Illinois and the Midwest. Services include dynamic traffic simulation, GIS analysis, intelligent transportation system (ITS) implementation and evaluation, advanced statistical analysis, Phase I/II geometric design, construction inspection, transit planning, freight planning, and transportation data management. The practice is licensed in Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, and Ohio and holds IDOT pre-qualifications for traffic studies, traffic signals, safety, feasibility, public involvement, rehabilitation, roadway design, and construction inspection. It was founded in 2010 and operates from the West Side of Chicago.
Licensed Professional Engineering - Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, Ohio · IDOT Pre-Qualified: Special Studies - Traffic Studies · IDOT Pre-Qualified: Special Plans - Traffic Signals · IDOT Pre-Qualified: Special Studies - Safety · IDOT Pre-Qualified: Special Studies - Feasibility · IDOT Pre-Qualified: Special Services - Public Involvement · IDOT Pre-Qualified: Location Design Studies - Rehabilitation · IDOT Pre-Qualified: Highways - Roads and Streets · IDOT Pre-Qualified: Special Services - Construction Inspection
Traffic signal design and timing, traffic forecasting and impact assessments, travel demand modeling, socio-economic analysis, crash analysis, and advanced statistical analysis.
Dynamic traffic simulation using VISSIM, Synchro Plus SimTraffic, and HCS7.
Phase III construction engineering services including assessments of inspection documents and schedules, detailed resident inspection, claim assessment and change orders, quality measurements and calculations, and schedule and budget coordination.
Operations and performance assessments, key performance indicator development, corridor and TOD market analysis, and public-private partnership evaluation.
Phase I engineering and environmental studies, geometric design, alternatives analysis, multimodal project prioritization, freight planning, and stakeholder engagement.
open platform traffic analysis platforms using PostgreSQL, PostGIS, QGIS, and AWS; cloud platforms for multi-gigabyte data sets; analytical reporting tools in ArcGIS and PostgreSQL.
LiDAR, GIS, and digital imagery evaluation for roadway condition rating surveys (CRS) and pavement preservation project selection for IDOT District 1.
Transportation · Highways & Roads · Transit · Bridges · Freight & Logistics · Government
Illinois · Highways & Roads · Client: Illinois Department of Transportation
Prime consultant selected three times for collecting field data across thousands of miles of IDOT District 1 roadways; rating roadways using IDOT Condition Rating Survey; submitting over $550 million of projects affecting over 1,100 route miles to the IDOT District 1 Multi-Year Program.
Illinois · Transportation · Client: Illinois Department of Transportation
Prime consultant for traffic simulation, ITS traffic simulation, crash recovery analysis, I-80 safety analysis, cross-agency data analysis, database and GIS data management, performance management, demographic and economic trends, multimodal projects prioritization, and public engagement.
Illinois · Highways & Roads · Client: Illinois Toll Highway Authority
Prime consultant for Phase III construction inspection on the Veterans Memorial Tollway (I-355).
Illinois · Transit · Client: HNTB (Prime) / Metra Commuter Rail
On-call consulting services for Metra Commuter Rail strategic planning and performance.