Planners/traffic engineers join Woolpert

Woolpert has added Sam Bobko and Alejandro Chock to its rapidly expanding Ohio transpor- tation team and its grow- ing presence in Cleveland. Bobko and Chock are trans- portation planners and traffic engineers who specialize in traffic engineering, analysis and simula- tion, roadway and railway safety, multimodal design, pedestrian facilities and conceptual design.

The Ohio State Univer- sity graduates have worked extensively with the Ohio Department of Transportation, supporting diverse and complex safety and engineering projects across the state.

Bobko, a professional engineer and professional traffic operations engineer, has prepared over 150 traf- fic eng i neering studies and designed more than 100 traffic signals. He has worked in the public sec- tor and with private transportation engineering companies, supporting diverse ODOT projects from statewide geometric, safety and feasibility studies to the traffic impact study for the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

He was project manager for multiple ODOT safety study contracts and supported two statewide bicycle and pedestrian contracts that encouraged safe and active transportation.

Like Bobko, Chock is a professional engineer and a member of the Amer- ican Society of Highway Engineers and the Insti- tute of Transportation Engineers. Chock was an earlier adopter of TransModeler and has applied his simulation expertise on many diverse projects.

He supported the ODOT/ Ohio Rail Development

Commission’s statewide railroad preemption contract to evaluate highway-railroad grade crossings near signalized intersections, and he investigated crashes and congestion at the I-270/I-71 interchange to develop conceptual designs for ramp improvements.

Chock has conducted multiple statewide transportation safety studies at high priority locations throughout the state.