Atlantic Traffic & Design Engineers, Inc. (ATDE) has the experience and staff of professionals to assist you in defining your vision and bringing it to fruition. Our experienced staff is accustomed to interfacing with land use and development planners, landscape architects, traffic and civil engineers, environmental scientists, land surveyors and construction inspectors in the planning, design, and construction of successful downtown streetscapes and redevelopment programs.

Philosophy

Given the relative complexity of the redevelopment programs in today's regulatory and political climate, it is essential that the design professionals are proficient at producing results within a team-oriented framework. Consensus building, progressive communication techniques, and the desire to utilize the unique resources available to our team are hallmarks of ATDE's interactions with clients and other design professionals. The ability to work with the various state, county, and local stake-holders to generate the best possible community improvements is an asset that is common to all of our team's philosophies.

The Program

Today as municipalities try to revitalize their downtown districts, they are realizing that this undertaking required the expertise of a wide variety of professional services for the creation and implementation of redevelopment plans. Many of these redevelopment plans involve "streetscape improvements" involving improvement to roadways, parking, sidewalks and curbing, landscaping, signage, traffic circulation, and pedestrian access and safety.

Community Needs

These professionals have facilitated community meeting to ascertain a consensus of this input is necessary to create a cost-effective, marketable and aesthetically pleasing plan for the entire community.

Traffic Engineering

Planning the roadway, signals, parking, pedestrian and traffic movement to a streetscape design is the task of the Traffic Engineer. A major concern in most downtown areas is traffic flow, circulation, and parking with easy accessibility to the downtown area. One technique that can assist in alleviating these problems to a degree is "Traffic Calming".

Traffic Calming
Giving the Streets back to the Community –

Various methodologies can be employed in order to achieve traffic calming results. They range from the introduction of speed bumps and traffic circles into downtown streetscapes to the creation of a "way finding" signage system for visitors to the area. Other methodologies are bump-outs, lane width reductions, shared lane, turning lane designs and signal modifications to include pedestrian push button phases and raised crosswalks in order to provide appropriate traffic controls.

Traffic calming devices must be cost effective, maintainable, and productive in order to be recognized as necessary facilities within a business district streetscape and redevelopment.