Transportation Services  

Transportation, travel via roads and bridges, is central to the nation’s infrastructure; and Volkert & Associates, Inc., has designed literally thousands of miles of roadways and bridges since 1925.  Our roadway design and engineering projects include major interstate projects, both rural interstate and urban expressway; state and county roads; interchange improvements; tunnels; and complex multilevel interchanges.  Our bridge design projects include everything from small canal or stream crossings to prestigious award-winning structures that span rivers, lakes, and bays. 

Volkert’s transportation services are provided through two main divisions, roadways and structures.  However, the task of completing a transportation artery goes far beyond the asphalt or concrete facility on which the traveler passes.  Drainage, utility location or relocation, right-of-way, environmental impacts, landscaping, and a myriad of other factors are involved in the successful completion of a roadway or bridge.

Volkert’s multi-disciplined staff includes utilities, survey, environmental, and construction engineering inspection groups that enable the firm to successfully complete all aspects of the design of bridges, including steel and concrete structures for low and high-level fixed spans and medium-level bascule bridge spans, complex controlled-access expressways, interstate highways, rural highways, city streets, railways, tunnels, toll roads, mass transit systems, and ITS projects. 

Often Volkert’s involvement in a project begins with a feasibility or location study that includes traffic and site analysis to determine the need and/or best location for a new road or bridge.  Volkert provides structural inspection and bridge repair services, scour analysis and design of countermeasures, and construction engineering inspection. Often, our involvement in a project can span decades and involve initial design and subsequent design for improvements/repairs on a roadway or bridge.  Our transportation-related services are comprehensive and complete because, as our wealth of related experience reflects, “transportation is our business”.