RIC is focused on the advancement of transportation and prides itself on utilizing innovative yet practical solutions. Safety is always at the forefront of any traffic project and recent advances in design approaches such as Complete Streets and multi-modal considerations have been incorporated into numerous RIC projects.
The RIC team has nationwide experience providing municipal, DOT, and private clients with a wide array of traffic engineering solutions. From traffic impact studies, to signal design and improvements, to complex intersection layout and designs, we have the experience necessary to tackle virtually any traffic engineering need.
Services
- Advanced Traffic Management Systems (ATMS)
- Access Management Planning
- Bus Priority
- Fiber Design
- Intersection Geometrics
- ITS
- Street & Highway Lighting Design
- Pavement Marking & Signage
- School Transportation Studies
- Signal Coordination & Timing
- Signal Design
- Site Lighting
- Street Lighting
- System Detection
- Traffic Calming Studies & Design
- Traffic Control and MOT Plans
- Traffic Counts
- Traffic Impact Studies
- Traffic Signal Design & Improvements
- Transportation Planning
- Wireless Design
Featured Projects
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Country Club Plaza Complete Streets
Country Club Plaza Complete Streets
×Recent development on the north side of the Country Club Plaza prompted the City of Kansas City, MO Capital Management to look at the cost and feasibility of improving pedestrian connectivity and slowing down vehicle traffic at the intersections of 47th and Broadway and 46th and Wornall. RIC was contracted to provide design services, including survey of existing conditions, utility coordination, cost estimates, acquisition documentation (title reports, surveyed exhibits, easement documents, etc.) needed for easements and construction plans in accordance with Kansas City Specifications. The design followed the city’s recent Complete Streets Ordinance and included curb extensions, signal modifications, ADA ramps, rain gardens, and intersection geometric improvements. Notable challenges for this project included severe roadway slopes that required substantial effort to meet ADA ramp requirements.
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Church Street Corridor Improvements
Church Street Corridor Improvements
×RIC is providing civil engineering, consulting, and surveying services to improve Church Street from K-10 to 14th Street. Our team initially prepared a traffic study and conceptual design for the widening of the arterial roadway from a 2-lane section to a 3-lane section in support of a neighboring development. Now under design, RIC is providing roadway design, utility coordination, traffic signal design, signing, pavement markings, construction phasing, and traffic control. In addition, RIC is coordinating with the numerous property owners along the route.
Base repairs and a mill and overlay will occur on the existing street and new asphalt will be laid for the widening of the street. RIC is providing permitting as well, including a SWPPP and an NOI submittal to the KDHE. Our team also assisted the City in applying for funding from the KDOT 2020 Cost Share Program and is coordinating with KDOT for the improvements.
Location
Eudora, KS
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131st & Leavenworth Road Widening & Intersection Design
131st & Leavenworth Road Widening & Intersection Design
×RIC completed the design for improvements at Leavenworth Road and 131st Street in Kansas City, KS. The design includes the widening of Leavenworth Road across from the new Piper Creek Elementary School, improvements to all four legs of the intersection of Leavenworth Road and 131st Street, and the replacement of a cross road culvert on 131st Street.
The RIC team provided a boundary and topographic survey, legal descriptions, R/W design, roadway design, ADA compliance, hydrologic and hydraulic analysis, street lighting, intersection design, and storm sewer design. RIC also developed preliminary and final design plans for bid and construction.
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Mission Rd, 127th St to 133rd St
Mission Rd, 127th St to 133rd St
×RIC provided design services for improvements to Mission Road in Leawood, KS from 127th Street to 133rd Street. The project included widening roadways at intersections to accommodate bike lanes and required mill/overlay and restriping for the bike lanes. Improvements also included the burying of overhead utilities, metal pipe replacement, a storm sewer extension into Gezer Park, replacement and reconstruction of the sidewalk on both sides with 8’ sidewalks, and installation of LED light fixtures on existing poles.
Traffic Engineering services included a traffic signal warrant study at Mission Road and 127th Street and design services for a new High-Intensity Activated crosswalk (HAWK) pedestrian signal in front of Mission Trail Elementary School. Other services rendered included pavement markings, temporary traffic control, permanent signage, and street lighting improvements.
Location
Leawood, KS
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Heartland Logistics Park
Heartland Logistics Park
×RIC is on a team to provide civil engineering, land surveying, and landscape architecture services for the new Heartland Logistics Park in Shawnee, KS. The industrial park will sit on 150 acres at the northwest corner of 43rd Street and Kansas Highway 7. The development will feature 2 million s.f. of industrial space spread across multiple manufacturing, warehouse, and distribution buildings.
The RIC team is providing topographic and ALTA surveys, railroad right-of-way investigation, utility coordination, concept development and exhibit preparation, site development plans, a floodplain analysis, storm drainage analysis and design, landscape plans, and a traffic impact study. Sanitary sewer design includes force main, lift station, and gravity main plans along with gravity main inspection and testing. A major component of the project is the floodplain analysis as 43rd Street, Clare Road, and the building floor elevations are being designed above the floodplain. The Kansas River surrounds the development on the North and East sides so RIC prepared a model of the river to determine the actual floodplain elevations.
RIC's transportation engineers, traffic engineers, and surveyors are also working with the City of Shawnee and KDOT in preparing public road infrastructure plans for 43rd Street, Clare Road, and Kansas Highway 7 in support of the development.
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Price Chopper Supermarket — Gardner, KS
Price Chopper Supermarket — Gardner, KS
×RIC provided professional civil engineering, land surveying, landscape architecture, and consulting services for an approximately 27-acre shopping center site located at the northwest corner of Moonlight and Main Street (US-56) in Gardner, KS. Master planning services were provided for the entire development, including concept site layouts, concept public plans, and engineering studies. Detailed engineering services were provided for the 68,000 SF grocery store on a parcel of the development. Those services included platting, city development and entitlements, public improvement plans, and site construction documents in accordance to City standards.
Our team also provided a traffic study for the development in order to define expected traffic impacts and the scope of any public street improvements. The RIC team prepared public improvement plans for approximately 2,000 feet of Main Street (US-56). The Main Street improvement plans included turn lanes and the addition of a traffic signal at the Main Street and private drive intersection. Because Main Street was designated as Kansas Highway 56, RIC coordinated with KDOT for field and office check plans. The intersection improvements have been delayed in order to incorporate into the joint City and State resurfacing project.
Location
Gardner, KS
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Starbucks at One North
Starbucks at One North
×RIC provided survey, civil engineering, and landscape architecture services for the 2,100 SF Starbucks located in North Kansas City, Missouri. RIC’s scope of work included boundary and topographic survey, site planning, traffic memorandum, civil site plans, erosion control plans, and landscape plans. The project required obtaining a MoDOT permit for the removal of existing driveways, grading in the right-of-way, and construction of new curb and sidewalks on Armour Road. RIC also provided coordination with a City-led project for the demolition of an existing building on the site and Armour Road improvements.
Location
North Kansas City, MO
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Frank Rushton Elementary School
Frank Rushton Elementary School
×The goal of USD 500 was to construct and commission the new Frank Rushton Elementary School while the existing elementary school remained in session on the shared 6 acre site. The project required not only final site utility design but also interim design to keep the existing school in service. The project employed a new enclosed storm sewer system in addition to permanent post construction water quality BMPs. Landscape architecture was provided for the entire site including the addition of a Community Garden. Pedestrian access was a key element of the project and RIC coordinated with local Safe Routes Engineering consultant on both interim and final design of sidewalks and cross walks adjacent to both the existing and proposed elementary schools. The project included; grading, new storm sewer system, new sanitary and water connections, parking and drive aisles, pedestrian access and landscape architecture.
Location
Kansas City, KS
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Horizons Industrial Park
Horizons Industrial Park
×RIC has been performing site/civil design and public improvements to the Horizons Industrial Park since 2013. Our team has successfully completed 8 industrial warehouse buildings in the Horizons complex, totaling 2,179,538 SF., including adjoining public improvements. The buildings RIC has worked on include Horizons II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX as well as the Gallagher, YanFeng, and Seattle Fish buildings. RIC provided land surveying, site/civil design, landscape architecture, and public improvement plans.
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Lake Winnebago Lake & Community Expansion
Lake Winnebago Lake & Community Expansion
×RIC is the engineering program manager and design engineer on the Lake Winnebago Expansion project. Developer and land owner, Randy Spalding, selected RIC to be the lead consulting firm to help him achieve his dream of turning his 420 acre property just south of Lake Winnebago into an extension of the lake and subdivision. The lake and community expansion increased the overall lake surface area by 54% and added 323 residential lots as well as 10 acres of commercial space.
The existing Missouri State Highway 291 (M-291) also had to be widened and the intersection at 167th Street had to be redesigned to increase capacity. The M291 project included the design of the intersection of MoDOT Route 291 and 167th Street in Lake Winnebago, MO. Design included the widening of ½ mile of Route 291 to accommodate the addition of a Southbound left-turn lane and a Northbound right-turn lane onto 167th Street. It also included the widening of 167th Street to accommodate dedicated left and right turn lanes onto Route 291.
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Logistics Park Kansas City
Logistics Park Kansas City
×RIC is providing the site civil engineering and public infrastructure for the entire 1,700 acre LPKC development under contract with NorthPoint Development. To date, our work at LPKC totals 13.6 million square feet of industrial warehouse site development including what has been built, is under construction, and/or is under design.
Our work includes site design, survey, platting, construction staking, land development, and the public infrastructure including sanitary sewer interceptor, street, storm, roadway and water main design. Current tenants of LPKC include Kubota, Amazon.com, FedEx, Jet.com, Smart Warehousing, J.B. Hunt, TSL Companies, Demdaco, Flexsteel, and Excel Industries.
Location
Edgerton, KS
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Power and Light Apartments
Power and Light Apartments
×RIC was the civil engineer on the historic Power and Light building renovation project in the heart of Downtown Kansas City. The renovation included converting a 32-story historic office tower into 215 luxury apartments. The project also included the construction of a new 4-story parking garage, a swimming pool and 53 new luxury apartments. RIC provided land disturbance plans, underground detention design, and public street improvement plans which included city sidewalks and ADA accessible ramp design.
Location
Kansas City, MO
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Ridgeview Road Design-Build
Ridgeview Road Design-Build
×RIC was on a design-build team for the new Ridgeview Road from Prairie Star Parkway to K-10. RIC was responsible for providing land surveying, roadway drainage and design, landscape architecture, design support during construction, public meeting attendance, utility coordination, as-built documents, and construction staking.
The new road consists of a four-lane divided arterial roadway with turn lanes, storm drainage facilities, street lights, traffic signals, sidewalks and trails. The project also included the construction of 99th Street from Ridgeview Road to Britton Street; 98th Street from Ridgeview Road east to the existing Meritex entrance; a westbound left-turn lane on Prairie Star Parkway at Ridgeview Road; and the re-alignment of the access road into the Johnson County Trailhead for the Little Mill Creek Trail.
Location
Lenexa, KS
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Wichita Destination Development
Wichita Destination Development
×RIC was contracted by Wichita Destination Developers, LLC to assist in the development of a 105 acre destination shopping and entertainment district. The complex is known as Greenwich Place and located at the Northeast corner of K-96 and Greenwich Road in Wichita, Kansas. The Greenwich Place tenants include: Buy Buy Baby, Ross, Mardel, Blaze Pizza, Charming Charlie, DSW, Cavender's, Home Goods, Maurices, Wichita Sports Forum, Stein Mart, Pizza Place, World Market, Bed, Bath, & Beyond, Ulta Beauty, LaQuinta Inn, Bling Glamour.
RIC’s responsibilities on this project include oversight of design of all site infrastructure including public water main extension, high pressure gas main relocation, sanitary sewer extension, public streets, storm drainage, stormwater water quality and system design, mass grading and construction contract administration.
The public water main extension incorporates the City of Wichita’s standard specifications, design criteria and standard plans including valves at appropriate junctions, hydrant sets, thrust blocking, blowoff assemblies and utility crossings.
The roadway portion of the project includes the design of Greenwich Court, a four-lane concrete pavement roadway serving access to the 105 acre shopping center and also included two round-abouts providing access to adjacent development areas. The project design included paving, grading, storm drainage, traffic control, right-of-way, utility coordination and landscaping. This portion of the project was financed with Kansas STAR Bonds.
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Derby Destination Development
Derby Destination Development
×RIC provided surveying, civil engineering, landscape architecture, bidding services, and project management for the new Derby Destination Development. This is a $160 million development project located in Derby, KS which features the Field Station Dinosaurs entertainment park, Rock Regional Hospital, hotel, medical office complex, and future restaurants. RIC's work included roadway design and traffic signalization, water, sewer and stormwater design, site surveying, construction staking, and landscape and streetscape design. The project was funded utilizing Kansas Star Bonds.
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Spring Hill Middle School
Spring Hill Middle School
×RIC provided surveying and civil engineering for a new middle school for the Spring Hill School District. The new 100,000 square foot school is located on 32.9 acres off of 167th Street and Lindenwood in Olathe, KS. The school has a football field, track, track and field jumping and throwing areas, a baseball field, and outdoor basketball courts. RIC designed a parking lot with 353 parking stalls, a bus drive, and a drive for parents to pick up and drop of their children. We also provided preliminary design for South Lindenwood Drive, the public street which will provide access to the school. RIC is performing the following services for this project; boundary and topographic surveying, storm sewer design, site/civil design, grading, sanitary sewer design, water line and BMP design.
Location
Spring Hill, MO
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135th Street & Greenwood Street
135th Street & Greenwood Street
×RIC provided design for geometric improvements to the intersection of 135th Street and Greenwood Street. This project includes installing an eastbound right turn lane at the intersection of 135th Street and Greenwood Street and a southbound right turn lane on Greenwood Street into Alden Center. The project also includes streetlight, traffic signal, sidewalk and storm modifications as necessary, along with all other items needed to complete the turn lane design.
Design services include survey of existing conditions, utility coordination, cost estimates, acquisition documentation (title reports, surveyed exhibits, easement documents, etc.) needed for any right-of-way or easements, developing construction plans in accordance with Olathe specifications, assistance with bidding of project for construction and assistance as needed throughout construction.
Location
Olathe, KS
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