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CITY OF PLEASANTON TTCASANJ011431.2025 4
<br />PROPOSAL FOR
<br />CITY OF PLEASANTON
<br />QUIET ZONE
<br />2. QUALIFICATIONS OF THE FIRM / PROJECT STAFFING
<br />Firm Profile
<br />Established in 1967, Kimley-Horn is a private, multidisciplined planning and engineering firm with more than 9,700
<br />employees in 147 offices, including 16 in California, delivering transportation and transit projects to clients nationwide.
<br />Locally, we have six offices in Northern California, which employ over 270 staff members in various engineering,
<br />planning, and support roles, all of which abide by a flat organization structure. For this project, our San Jose office will
<br />serve as the primary location from which our team will be providing services for the City of Pleasanton. We provide a
<br />wide range of traffic engineering and transportation planning and design services, including quiet zone planning and
<br />engineering, intelligent transportation systems (ITS), roadway and intersection design, rail coordination, environmental
<br />documentation, and landscape architecture services to municipalities, counties, and state departments of transportation
<br />throughout California and the United States.
<br />Our professionals are highly experienced in solving challenges unique to railroad at-grade crossings. We understand
<br />agency procedures, enabling us to minimize delays and rework in our submittals, and our network of relationships
<br />enables our team to provide a high level of service. Our team has a proven track record of successfully completing
<br />projects in cooperation with the railroads, cities, and other agencies involved in complex at-grade crossings. We
<br />have established relationships with staff from these entities, which will result in timely and productive coordination and
<br />issue resolution.
<br />Kimley-Horn has been a partner to many local transportation agencies in California and the Bay Area since 1995. With
<br />a well-established local presence through our four Bay Area offices—San Jose, Pleasanton, Oakland, and San Mateo—
<br />we support all the needs of transit systems, including freight and commuter rail, with a focus on improving safety around
<br />these systems. We provide our clients with the local knowledge and responsiveness of a small organization, backed by
<br />the extensive resources of a nationally ranked engineering firm.
<br />Our multidisciplinary firm is recognized as a leader in engineering consulting services. With specialists in a wide range of
<br />disciplines under one roof, we offer such services as:
<br /> ◢Rail coordination and design, including
<br />at-grade crossings
<br /> ◢Quiet zone studies
<br /> ◢Traffic engineering and design
<br /> ◢Street and intersection improvements,
<br />including median modifications
<br /> ◢Traffic signal design
<br /> ◢Traffic signal timing and coordination
<br /> ◢Rail interconnection and preemption systems
<br /> ◢Roadway feasibility studies, planning, and design
<br /> ◢Traffic control systems planning and design
<br /> ◢ITS planning, design, and implementation
<br /> ◢Environmental permitting, assessment,
<br />and remediation
<br /> ◢California Environmental Quality Act/National
<br />Environmental Policy Act (CEQA/NEPA) compliance
<br /> ◢Bidding/construction assistance
<br /> ◢Grant writing support
<br />RAILROAD/UPRR EXPERIENCE
<br />Kimley-Horn provides staff experience in the coordination of freight and commuter rail projects, including at-grade
<br />crossings and grade separations. Our staff has provided railroad coordination and secured approvals for successful
<br />project implementation from agencies such as UPRR, Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit (SMART), Metrolink, Burlington
<br />Northern Santa Fe (BNSF), California High Speed Rail, and CPUC. Specific to quiet zones, Kimley-Horn has supported
<br />agencies across the country on quiet zone applications and approvals, and is fully equipped with the depth of
<br />knowledge to support the City on securing approvals and complying with the Code of Federal Regulations Title 49, Part
<br />222 on the use of locomotive horns at public highway-rail grade crossings.
<br />We are currently working on at-grade crossing projects with agencies such as Alameda County Transportation
<br />Commission (Alameda CTC) (which includes 28 crossings across Alameda County); the Cities of Hayward, Martinez,
<br />Palo Alto, Richmond, Rocklin, and San Jose; the United States Department of Transportation (USDOT); Caltrain;
<br />Docusign Envelope ID: 2430EB25-F48A-45D4-91C5-9340C4FBB5C9
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