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 AUSTIN, TEXAS — The city of Austin awarded a contract to Parsons Brinckerhoff for the development of a transportation corridor plan along an 11.5-mile portion of I-35 in central Austin. The intent of the project is to achieve better performance, efficiency, and connectivity through greater Austin while minimizing impacts to right-of-way and adjacent development. The project is applying a context-sensitive process involving a wide range of agency and public stakeholders. A variety of potential highway, transit, bike and pedestrian improvements are anticipated to be generated from this process.

Parsons Brinckerhoff is leading a multidisciplinary team involved in collecting, evaluating, ranking, and prioritizing a wide range of mostly short- and medium-term transportation improvements along the corridor. In addition to overall management, the firm's specific roles include planning and evaluating alternatives, traffic and civil engineering analysis, cost estimating, public and stakeholder outreach, and program development of recommended solutions. Parsons Brinckerhoff also leads the agency partnering process that includes coordination with concurrent transit, highway, and toll road studies and projects under way in the Austin area.

The corridor plan is scheduled to be completed in early 2013.