Mr. Gorove, a nationally recognized leader in transportation and traffic engineering, has consulted extensively nationwide performing transportation systems, traffic, and parking facilities analyses, traffic impact studies of development projects, and long range transportation systems planning. He has contributed significantly to and has been instrumental in the creation of city and regional master plans. Mr. Gorove has managed numerous parking design, utilization, and optimization studies for private developers, municipalities, and institutions. He has provided cost-benefit comparisons and financial analyses for alternate transportation systems and parking strategies. Mr. Gorove has provided expert testimony before municipal planning commissions, zoning boards, city councils, and other public agencies. Through his expertise, Mr. Gorove has been instrumental in determining appropriate transportation systems to meet public needs and to service private facilities. As President of Gorove/Slade Associates, Inc., Mr. Gorove oversees and manages all aspects of transportation, traffic, and parking engineering and consulting activities. He provides innovative and creative approaches to resolve new and emerging transportation issues which effect public and private use and economic and site development. Mr. Slade's diverse experience bridges the disciplines of civil engineering design, urban transportation planning, traffic engineering, land development, environmental analysis, and transportation systems design. Mr. Slade has directed major regional comprehensive transportation planning studies and corridor studies, traffic circulation and transit studies, and parking needs and design optimization studies for central business districts and new developments. He has devised and analyzed alternative public transportation modal options. He has developed multi-modal transportation plans incorporating people mover systems. He is familiar with road rating and sufficiency evaluation systems for primary and secondary roads. He has performed analytical assessments of air quality and noise levels of transportation facilities and systems. He has performed traffic impact assessments for residential, office, shopping and convention centers, and institutional complexes. He has been responsible for the transportation and parking components for campus plans for academic, government, and corporate clients. Mr. Slade has worked closely with public agencies and private developers devising transportation master plans and major thoroughfare plans. He has been instrumental in the creation of transportation systems and roadway networks for large acreage developments. As a leader in the transportation engineering field, Mr. Slade is widely published in leading transportation and planning journals and has been a guest lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania, Wayne State University, and Stockton State College. Mr. Tacinelli currently serves as President and Principal in Charge of the firm’s Northern Virginia Office,. Mr. Tacinelli provides consulting services and oversees a number of projects in the D.C. Metropolitan area. He has performed a variety of work in the disciplines of both traffic engineering and transportation planning where he has provided consulting services including expert testimony. As Principal in Charge of the firm’s Virginia Office, he is responsible for managing all of the day to day operations of the firms as it relates to practice management, financial operations, marketing and human resources. In addition, he has been published in trade magazines and has been a speaker at the ITE annual conference. Mr. Baird has fostered a strong foundation in a large variety of traffic engineering disciplines. His experience includes the preparation of traffic operation plans, site access and planning design, traffic forecasting and modeling, traffic impact studies, capacity analysis, traffic signal design, traffic signal systems coordination, loading area analysis, vehicular maneuverability analysis, parking layout assessment, queuing analysis, and pedestrian management plans. He specializes in the design and analysis of traffic signal systems using simulation software to enhance the flow of traffic through complex roadway networks. Mr. Baird has worked in the following geographic areas: The District of Columbia, Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio, Maine, Connecticut, Nevada, and New Jersey.   Mr. VanPelt has a wide range of traffic and transportation project experience including: traffic impact studies, site access and circulation planning, functional parking lot and garage design, parking demand analysis, corridor studies, campus master planning, major data collection efforts, loading dock design, intersection improvement design, signal design and signing and pavement marking design. He has worked for public, private and institutional sector clients throughout the United States and has worked internationally on projects in the United Arab Emirates, China, Venezuela, Brazil and Mexico.