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Request for Qualifications No. 21-11-01, Professional Planning and Zoning Consulting Services, including Civil and Traffic Engineering for the City of Sunny Isles Beach PAGE 11 transportation solutions. Urbe Studio understands that thoughtful corridor planning has the potential to holistically address transportation challenges as well as catalyze economic development. Our team has conducted numerous corridor studies that have identified strategies ranging from transportation specific solutions (i.e. roadway redesign, sidewalk additions, or transit service changes); to traffic operational changes and improvements (i.e. signal changes), to access management, to community branding, and marketing (i.e. wayfinding), to areawide network changes (new street connection, new trail or sidewalk connections); and to land use development and policy recommendations (development pattern, site design, and lot layout), etc. Key to the success of these projects is our ability to apply the right technical analysis at the right time and the right level of detail, convey technical information in objective and compelling ways for the public and elected officials, develop and apply evaluation methods that directly measure desired outcomes, and build corridor-wide consensus through the decision-making process that leads to partnerships. We have supported a number of Complete Streets corridor projects for a variety of agencies and state transportation departments in Florida and New Jersey, among others. These projects focused on developing multi-modal context-sensitive solutions that support community goals, cater to the access and mobility needs of all users, and are financially and economically sound. CALTRAN team member was the project manager for City of Ft. Lauderdale Mobility Master Plan project with the aim to help the City of Fort Lauderdale and the NPF CRA overcome some of the existing transportation infrastructure, safety, and access issues, which have created undesirable conditions for residents and compromised their quality of life. Our team, led between 2016-2017 the concept development and implementation of a Complete Streets pilot project featuring the first bus-preferential lane and dedicated bicycle lane in Downtown Miami. Miami ranks among the top metropolitan areas with the highest pedestrian and bicycle crash rates in the country, underscoring a critical need to allow people more transportation choices. This project repurposed a downtown corridor into a multimodal street that provides transit priority and expands mobility choices to all street users, addressing pedestrian safety and increasing connectivity through the application of context-sensitive design measures. He recently also developed Complete Streets concept alternatives for NW 9th and NW 7th Avenues in Fort Lauderdale and for Atlantic Shores Blvd in Hallandale Beach.