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TEAM EXPERIENCE Orange County Transportation Multimodal Plan CHAPTER 3: TEAM EXPERIENCE OUR TEAM WSP USA Inc. (WSP)is one of the nation's leading collection and analysis,visualizations and website design, transportation planning and engineering professional and language translation.Having an in-house CPI team services consulting firms.Our team consists of allows for coordination between our transportation strong and diverse professionals with unique practice and communications and engagement,ensuring technical expertise and experience in transportation the messaging delivered is clear and consistent and the planning,engineering,and community/stakeholder input received is integrated seamlessly throughout the engagement.WSP understands local challenges project. and needs through our involvement in providing The WSP team is committed to bringing equitable multimodal transportation services for a variety transportation solutions to the communities we work of clients in the Triangle region,including local in and call home.WSP has a dedicated Equity Center of municipalities,counties,Metropolitan Planning Excellence that works with project teams to incorporate Organizations(MPOs),transit agencies,and state and an equitable focus to co-create places,infrastructure,and regional agencies. experiences so that the benefits of enhanced mobility are experienced by all. WSP is leading the way in helping transportation WSP has one of the largest transportation planning practitioners understand the impact of their investments. teams in the Carolinas,with approximately 430 qualified The work of our team members has incorporated transportation planning and engineer professionals and decision-support tools to optimize investments across community engagement staff across North Carolina.WSP competing needs.With the Central Midlands LRTP has a history of collaborating with DOTS,MPOs,and local update,a project prioritization tool was developed communities on multimodal transportation plans,with that automates the project evaluation scoring process to experience in developing the NC Moves 2050 Statewide develop CMCOG's Staged Improvement Program.Project Multimodal Transportation Plan for NCDOT,to assisting ratings were determined for each identified data-driven the Wilmington MPO,Rock Hill MPO,and Columbia, criterion.The criteria was established to achieve CMCOG's SC MPO in the development of their Metropolitan strategic priorities and improve alignment with SCDOT Transportation Plans,to developing Comprehensive plans.This included considerations for project impact on Transportation Plans for the Town of Wake Forest and infrastructure condition,safety risk reduction,mobility Pender County.Our focus is to meet the mobility needs improvements,emissions reductions,transit impacts, of the communities we work in that enhance access to and economic benefits.Criteria was diversified to be jobs,health care,education,retail,and services,while representative of geographic regions within the CMCOG being responsive to economic,social,and environmental planning area. conditions. Further,through WSP's on-call agreement with NCDOT's Feasibility Studies Unit,WSP has provided Express Design • Preparation Services that develop concept designs for • • improvements submitted by MPOs,RPOs,and NCDOT • • divisions to the Strategic Prioritization Office(SPOT)for • • funding.The cost estimates are direct inputs into the STI ' Prioritization Tool. WSP has approximately 430 highly qualified transportation planning and engineering professionals and community engagement staff located in eight NC offices.This includes our Project Manager,Community and Stakeholder Engagement Lead, and several key staff who are located in our Raleigh office. WSP includes a team dedicated to Communications and Public Involvement(CPI)that tailor project branding, messaging,communications,and meaningful community and stakeholder outreach and engagement strategies for our clients.The group also provides qualitative data