Santosh R. K. Shanmugam

Acquired eighteen years of experience in Transportation Engineering (including on-site experience as a Consultant at the Virginia Department of Transportation), which includes extensive experience in traffic operations, including signal timing optimization, real-time traffic management during incidents and emergency response, developing traffic management strategies for special events, developing signal phasing strategies, traffic simulation studies, safety, and operational studies. Clear understanding of the VDOT Northern Region policies and guidelines related to signal timing plans development, review, and real-time arterial traffic management. Prepared detailed after-action reports for all important incidents and events for VDOT’s management review. Experience in project cost calculations and technical report writing. Played a key role in the preparation of the following reports and guidelines: Traffic Operations Engineering (TOE) Training and User Manuals. Traffic Operations Engineering Group’s Signal Timing Optimization reports, including benefit-cost analysis. Performed as part of a team, led several tasks under the signal optimization program, and trained engineering staff on related tasks. Experience includes working on the 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th rounds of signal timing optimization for VDOT NRO signals, and assisting with traffic management during emergencies such as Hurricane Sandy, Thunderstorm Derecho, and special events, including Presidential Inaugural events and yearly DC’s Independence Day Fireworks event. Assisted VDOT NRO in developing signal phasing strategies for several complex intersection designs, developing signal timing related to the COVID-19 situation, and during the transition process of the VDOT NRO Central Signal System. Performed data analysis using data obtained from the VDOT KITS signal system. Experience in data processing related to travel-run studies for implementing various traffic strategies in the VDOT NRO Region. Experience in reviewing and assisting VDOT in approving synchro timings and 2070 controller timing sheets for implementing new or modified signals for VDOT permit projects for consultants and VDOT TE in-house projects. Also, I conducted a review meeting with consultants to complete the synchro timing reviews to meet VDOT deadlines. Assisted VDOT in performing a signal design plan review and providing traffic operations engineering comments during various stages of signal development reviews. Experience in the following applications: Synchro/SimTraffic 11, VISSIM 10, Highway Capacity Software (HCS), MicroStation, Regional Integrated Transportation Information System (RITIS), OpenTMS, Automated Traffic Signal Performance Measures (ATSPM), and MS Office, including Microsoft Access, Microsoft Visio, and Microsoft Project. Master of Science (Civil Engineering) with a specialization in Transportation Engineering, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 2006. Bachelor of Engineering (Civil Engineering), Muffakham Jah College of Engineering and Technology (Osmania University), India, 2003. A member of the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) served as the Vice President of the ITE Student Chapter at the University of Alabama at Birmingham from October 2005 to October 2006.

• Steven L. Jones and Santosh R. K. Shanmugam, "Alternative analysis of a congested Suburban arterial using AIMSUN", Non-Thesis Department Presentation, UAB, November 2006.
• Steven L. Jones and Santosh R. K. Shanmugam, "Alternative analysis of a congested Suburban arterial using AIMSUN", UTCA Research Symposium, November 2005 (Poster presentation).
• Santosh R. K. Shanmugam, “Techniques of Water Shed management in MJCET Campus Area”, Seminar, Hyderabad, India, February 2003.
• Santosh R. K. Shanmugam, “Methods Involved in the Design of Flexible Pavement”, Bachelor’s Thesis Seminar, Hyderabad, India, October 2002.