Advancing Communities by Advancing Transportation

OHM's super-smart Steve Loveland (that's him on the far left) was recently elected to the Board of Directors for the Institute of Transportation Engineers, Michigan Section. ITE is a professional organization that provides technical education to the broad transportation community.

Steve is a licensed professional engineer *and* a professional traffic operations engineer. By day, he's a project engineer in OHM's Traffic Group. And when he's not playing on the OHM underground Halo team, he's working on traffic operations studies, traffic impact studies, site plan reviews for municipalities, crash analyses, and traffic data collection and analyses.

Congrats to Steve Loveland!

Popular Science Names Diverging Diamond Interchange Best of 2009

Popular Science magazine recently named the Diverging Diamond Interchange to its Best of What's New 2009 list. The innovative interchange design is credited with improving safety and relieving congestion by eliminating risky left turns. Experts say that the design can improve traffic flow by 60%.

The very first DDI built in the United States opened in 2009 in Springfield, Missouri at the I-44/Kansas Expressway interchange. Missouri Department of Transportation is so enamoured by the design's results that it has another under construction and several in the planning stages.

OHM traffic engineer Steve Dearing commented on the new interchange design in a recent article in the Kansas City Star.

Dearing, a traffic engineer who has studied the design will be explaining the DDI and other innovative traffic solutions at a national webinar sponsored by the American Society of Civil Engineers.

Want to see a diverging diamond interchange in action? Visit our website for more information on how a DDI works and watch a video.