Tag: Ayres

Green Light, Green Light: Signal Timing Efforts Pay Big Dividends

We’ve all been there. Somehow, generally when you’re already running late, you hit every single red light on the way to your destination. Traffic engineers spend a lot of their workday trying to make sure this happens less and less. According to the Institute of Transportation Engineers, there are about 300,000 traffic signals in America, and… Read More »

Communication Helps Ease Construction ‘Pain’

More goes into a road reconstruction project than just engineering. While the design is an absolutely critical part of the process, nearly as important is communicating the impact of that design to the project stakeholders. That’s what engineers Mike Liebman and Craig Schuh from our Green Bay office did at a public information meeting on… Read More »

Remote Catamaran Retrieves Data and Keeps Surveyors Safe

Conditions are sometimes too dangerous for water resources engineers to get up close and personal to collect hydrographic survey data at bridges. When scouting bridges in 2012, Ayres Associates’ staff decided one bridge – U.S. Highway 8 over the St. Croix River in Polk County, Wisconsin – was impassable by jet boat and not navigable… Read More »