1-12-12
Carlton Urban, P.E., PTOE, Albeck Gerken, Inc. Senior Project Manager, will serve on the 2012 ITS Florida Board of Directors as an At-Large member. This will be Carlton's second term. He serves on the Membership Committee leading efforts to recruit new members and retain existing members.

1-12-12
Albeck Gerken, Inc., with our teaming partners FTE and Faller Davis and Associates, awarded Manatee County, ATMS Phase II Retiming Project.

12-2-11
Congratulations to David Andersen, P.E. for attaining the Professional Traffic Operations Engineer (PTOE) certification.

12-1-11
Congratulations to Patrick O'Connor, P.E., PTOE for receiving the Robert L. Hill, JR Young Transportation Engineer of the Year award in recognition of outstanding contributions to the transportation profession and Florida Section of ITE at the District 10 annual meeting. Patrick served as the Tampa Bay Chapter of ITE president in 2011 and will conclude his 5 year service to the board in 2012 serving as the immediate past-president.

9-16-11
Albeck Gerken, Inc. welcomes Rafael De Dios, E.I. to our professional team.
Rafael comes to us from Puerto Rico where he earned is BSME degree. He will be working on traffic operations projects out of our Tampa office. We are excited to have Rafael aboard.

9-1-11
Albeck Gerken, Inc. welcomes Kyle Love to our professional team.
Kyle will be working on data collection and traffic operations projects out of our Tampa office. We are excited to have Kyle aboard.

8-18-11
Congratulations to Randy Clark and Rodney Zayas for obtaining IMSA Traffic Signal Level III Field certification, as well as to Tom Sadler and Carlton Urban for obtaining IMSA Traffic Signal Level II Field certification.

8-5-11
Jeff Gerken, President of Albeck Gerken, Inc., completes the Florida Engineering Leadership Institute (FELI) leadership training course.
Professional engineers from across Florida participated in the year-long course, which was created to transition engineering leaders into community leaders. For more information on FELI, please visit http://www.fleng.org/leadership.cfm.

8-1-11
Albeck Gerken, Inc. welcomes Ken Siu to our professional team. Ken has several years of experience working in the traffic engineering field. He will be working in our Tampa office on traffic operations projects.

6-6-11
Congratulations to David Andersen for attaining his Professional Engineer license.

5-23-11
Albeck Gerken, Inc. was selected by Florida Department of Transportation District 5 for Districtwide Safety - Traffic Signal Retiming Contract.

5-16-11
Albeck Gerken, Inc. welcomes George Molinaro to our professional team.
George comes to us from the environmental engineering and consulting field. He will be working on ATMS projects out of our Tampa office. We are excited to have George aboard.

4-15-11
Albeck Gerken, Inc. welcomes Carlton Urban, P.E., PTOE to our professional team.
Carlton comes to us with a mix of private and public sector experience. He will be a Senior Project Manager working out of the Tampa office focusing on on traffic operations engineering and ATMS projects. We are excited to have Carlton aboard.

3-1-11
Albeck Gerken, Inc. welcomes Joe Molinaro, P.E., PTOE to our professional team.
Joe will be the Traffic Operations Manager for the Tampa office working on traffic operations engineering and ATMS projects. We are excited to have Joe aboard.

1-3-11
Congratulations to Anthony Nanwani for attaining his Professional Engineer license.

12-6-10
Albeck Gerken, Inc. welcomes Tom Sadler to our professional team.
Tom comes from the manufacturing and mechanical engineering field and will be working on traffic operations projects in our Tampa office. We are excited to have Tom aboard.

12-1-10
Congratulations to Patrick O'Connor, P.E., PTOE for being elected Tampa Bay ITE President.

9-16-10
Albeck Gerken, Inc. welcomes Randy Clark to our professional team. Randy comes to us from the public sector and is an experienced traffic operations technician. Randy will be working on ATMS projects and traffic signal retiming projects out of our Tampa office. We are very pleased to have Randy aboard.

8-29-10
Congratulations to Chris Georges, P.E. for attaining the Professional Traffic Operations Engineer (PTOE) certification.

7-23-10
Albeck Gerken, Inc., teaming with DKS Associates, assigned signal retiming projects in Pinellas County, Florida.

7-6-10
Albeck Gerken, Inc. welcomes Chris Georges, P.E. to our professional team. Chris brings expertise in traffic operations, data collection, and video production. Chris will be working out of our Virginia office, we are very please to have Chris on board.

6-7-10
Albeck Gerken, Inc. selected to provide professional engineering services to Hillsborough County (Florida) for the Signalized Intersection Timing Update Program (SITUP).

5-3-10
Albeck Gerken, Inc., teaming with Traffic Engineering Consultants, selected to provide traffic signal retiming and training services to the City of Wichita, KS.

5-17-10
Albeck Gerken, Inc., teaming with DKS Associates, selected to provide traffic signal retiming services to Florida DOT, District 4.

4-19-10
Congratulations to Patrick O'Connor, P.E. for attaining the Professional Traffic Operations Engineer (PTOE) certification.

 

 

 

 

 

Wireless Data Collection Applications for Short Term Studies on Arterial Roadways: Evaluation of BlueTOAD
(PDF: 5.3 MB, 31 pages)
Jeff Gerken, presented at Florida Section of ITE Summer Meeting, Jun. 2011

Innovations in Data Collection
(PDF: 1.9 MB, 16 pages)
Jeff Gerken, presented at Florida Section of ITE Fall Meeting, Nov. 2009

Accuracy Comparison of Non-Intrusive Traffic Volume Counting Equipment (updated information)
(PDF: 525 KB, 8 pages)
Jeff Gerken, and Bryan Guy, White Paper

Traffic Responsive Plan Selection, Case Study from Brevard Co., Florida
(PDF: 2.9 MB, 19 pages)
David Andersen and Jeff Gerken,  presented at MOVITE Meeting, Sept. 2008

Models as Proactive Traffic Management Tools
(PDF: 4.2 MB, 21 pages)
Bryan Guy and Jeff Gerken,  presented at MOVITE Meeting, Sept. 2008

Synchro for Managers
(PDF: 2.6 MB, 47 pages)
Jeff Gerken, training materials for FDOT D7 class Sept. 2008

Aging Infrastructure - Traffic Signal Timing and Coordination
(PDF: 3.6 MB, 28 pages)
Jeff Gerken,  presented at Florida Section ITE Meeting, June 2008

Evaluation of Data Collection Techniques & Methods for Roadside State Origin-Destination Studies
(PDF: 2.5 MB, 138 pages) Bryan Guy,  presented at 2007 TRB.

Traffic Models as Proactive Traffic Signal Management Tools: A Case Study in Hillsborough County, Florida
(PDF: 354KB, 9 pages) Jeff Gerken with co-author Robert Wood of Hillsborough County, unpublished.

Analysis of Traffic Impacts at Isolated Light Rail Transit Crossings Using SimTraffic
(PDF: 170KB, 10 pages) Jeff Gerken with co-author Sarah Tracy of URS, Presented at the 2001 ITE Spring Conference and Exhibit in Monterey, CA

A Practical Approach to Managing Intersection Traffic Data for Large Scale Studies
(PDF: 78KB, 13 pages)  Presented at the 2000 Mid-Continent Transportation Symposium in Ames, IA

Operational Analysis of Terminating Freeway Auxiliary Lanes with One-Lane and Two-Lane Exit Ramps
(PDF: 36KB, 9 pages) - Written by Ralph Batenhorst, HDR Engineering Inc., and Jeff Gerken.  Presented at the 2000 Mid-Continent Transportation Symposium and 2000 ITE Annual Meeting in Nashville, TN

Explanation of why the 50th percentile queues can sometimes be greater than the 95th percentile queue lengths
(PDF: 20KB, 2 pages)

Proper application of the peak hour factor in SimTraffic
(PDF: 12KB, 1 page)



Helmuth and Patrick conducting Traffic Management Center operations


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