Virginia Sapkota
Lead Transportation Planner at Arcadis
- Role
- Lead Transportation Planner at Arcadis
- Location
- Houston, TX, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Virginia Sapkota
Virginia applies her unique blend of knowledge and skills from her civil and transportation engineering and planning degrees in her over 20 years of professional experience in areas of transportation planning, traffic engineering, and traffic operations.She has technical expertise in travel demand modeling, multi-modal planning, traffic operations analysis and simulations, and traffic impact assessments. She worked on several long range transportation planning studies in different states where she managed and led the technical analysis. She also worked on several corridor studies, traffic impact studies, traffic noise studies, and access management studies. She managed and conducted several traffic engineering studies including signal warrants analysis, speeds study, intersection and capacity analysis, parking analysis, signing analysis, and school zone analysis. She created several microsimulation models for traffic operations analyzing intersections (roundabout, unsignalized and signalized), interchanges (diverging diamond and single point urban interchange), along traffic corridors and area-wide, and simulation of bus rapid transit systems.She has extensive experience in collecting data, processing and managing databases, mapping and analyzing the data, and presenting results to clients. She has worked with traffic counts, vehicle classification and speed data, travel times data, crash data, household survey, demographic, socio-economic, land use, environmental, and other travel related data.She is proficient in a variety of software platforms including: TransCAD, VISUM, CUBE Voyager, EMME, VISSIM, VISTRO, Synchro, HCS, SIDRA, ArcMAP/ ArcGIS Pro, Tableau, MS Access, MS Office, and Adobe InDesign. She is also familiar with Microstation and Geopak CES.
Experience
Lead Transportation Planner
Jul 2023 — Present · Houston, TX, US
Education
Asian Institute of Technology
Master of Engineering (MEng), Transportation Engineering
1988 — 1990
The University of Western Australia
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Transportation Planning
1998 — 2005
University of Houston
Graduate Certificate, Geographic Information Systems
2018 — 2020
Mindanao State University
Bachelor of Science, Civil Engineering
1981 — 1986
Skills
- Road
- Bridge
- Traffic Signal Design
- Transportation Engineering
- Traffic Engineering
- Transportation Planning
- Communication Skills
- Highways
- Transportation
- Road Traffic
- Civil Engineering
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