Specific planning related services for Oates Associates include comprehensive planning, land use planning, transportation planning, recreational planning, and infrastructure planning. Our experience in the transportation planning sector includes traffic planning, traffic studies including intersection design studies, and traffic signal design. Scale of projects range from the development of interstate highways to the development of transportation plans for municipalities. Three members of our staff are certified as Professional Traffic Operations Engineers (PTOE) and have been involved in intersection design studies for a number of roadway improvements (including roundabout intersections), development related studies and growth planning studies for municipalities.
Site planning services have been provided for a number of the major public and private building projects in the Metro East region. Public projects include Regional Headquarters, Convention Centers, Museums, Universities and High Schools. Private developments include business parks, recreation centers, hotels, industrial parks and banking facilities. We have completed projects for 1 acre sites and projects for 1,500 acres.
Recreational planning projects are a significant part of our practice as well. We have provided planning and site design services for roads, parking, playgrounds, campgrounds and hiking trails in parks throughout the region. In addition, we have designed over 50 miles of bike trails and greenways in Illinois and Missouri.