Arash Ghaffar

Transportation Engineer i @Linscott, Law & Greenspan, Engineers

Irvine, CA, US

City of Thousand Oaks — ATP Update (Project Lead): assumed midstream leadership; completed existing-conditions GIS, LTS, needs assessment; identified 10 high-emphasis projects with concepts/costs; structured outreach (workshops/surveys); authored admin-draft → final ATP with funding roadmap—delivered within remaining funds.• City of Nice — Robinson Rancheria SAP (Project Lead): end-to-end SAP; built HIN/heat maps from multi-year crashes, exposure, speeds, and near-misses; translated walk-audits into Safe System countermeasures with transparent, equity-aware prioritization.• Paskenta Band of Nomlaki Indians — SS4A Implementation Grant (Project Lead): complete, compliant application in 10 days (forms, narrative, maps, technical analyses); documented safety case, equity, and delivery readiness (NEPA/ROW/utilities) for a ~$5.1M package.• Deer Canyon Preserve (Anaheim) — Wildfire Evacuation Modeling (Project Lead): initiated firm’s first evacuation modeling; built TransCAD → TransModeler pipeline (zones/demand, staged departures); ran multi-scenario operations (closures, peaks, contraflow); delivered clearance times, V/C hot spots, and mitigation playbooks.• Mechoopda Tribe — Existing Conditions: authored summary memo (governance/demographics, IRR inventory, multimodal profile); synthesized 2019–2025 crash patterns and survey insights into near-term priorities.• TRPA Regional Grant Program (South Lake Tahoe): cleaned 2014–2024 ped/bike counts; built seasonal time-series forecasts of trip uplift from Class and II→I upgrades; delivered reviewer-traceable tables/figures for the application.• Proposal/SOW development: lead author for SS4A SAPs (Shafter, Hollister, Yolo County), Citywide ATPs (Pasadena, Orange), Visalia LRSAP, Riverside Vizion Zero Action Plan, Aliso Viejo Evacuation Assessment (Award-winner)—aligning tasks/deliverables, QA/QC, schedule, and assumptions to program guidance and scoring rubrics.

Sharif University of Technology

Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.)

UC Irvine

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

UC Irvine

Master of Science