Transportation Systems Design, Inc. (TSD), has gained national
exposure and recognition through the work of key personnel on
Georgia Department of Transportation design projects. TSD is
a Women's Business Enterprise headquartered in DeKalb County,
Georgia, certified by both the Georgia and South Carolina DOTs,
City of Atlanta, Fulton County and MARTA.
Since its formation in 1992, TSD has worked on over 500 roadway,
transportation planning, intersection and bridge projects encompassing
more than 700 miles. Our work in Georgia has been for such clients
as Athens-Clarke County Government; the City of Atlanta; Bibb
County, Cobb County, Dawson County, and Gwinnett County; DeKalb-Peachtree
Airport; Fulton County DPW; the City of Columbus Engineering
Department, the City of College Park Engineering Departments,
and the Army Corps of Engineers. TSD has also worked for the
US Agency for International Development. The services the firm
has provided have been all-encompassing, including: traffic capacity
analysis; conceptual, preliminary, final and right-of-way plans
for roadway and intersection projects; drainage design; surveying;
in-house GPS surveying; right-of-way staking; CAiCE, CEAL and
MicroStation consulting; aerial mapping; landscape architecture,
recreation facilities, site designs, signilization plans, and
erosion control plans.
TSD's growth has been steady. In 1993 Transportation Systems
Design, Inc. established its surveying department. In 1997 TSD
opened a second office in Lawrenceville, approximately a 30-minute
drive from both Atlanta and Athens. In 1998 we established a
Landscape Architecture Department, and in 1999 we established
an Aerial Mapping Department. Our Dawsonville office was established
in 2001. We have 44 full-time employees including: 4 Professional
Engineers, 2 Registered Land Surveyors, 1 Engineers-in-Training,
1 Registered Landscape Architect, and 2 Land Surveyors in Training.
Our technical personnel are capable of working in the following
software for transportation, civil and drainage design, reports,
and analysis as well as surveying and landscape architecture:
- CAiCE
- CLM CEAL
- MicroStation
- AutoCad
- Terramodel
- Highway Capacity Software
- WSPRO
- HY-8 Culvert Analysis
- C & G Surveying Software
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- GCOGO
- IGRDS
- Ashtec Global Positioning System Software
- Trimble Global Positioning System Software
- Haestad Methods HEC-2
- Dodson's PROHEC 2
- Haestad Methods Pondpak
- CEGRAPH
- Geopak
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Our office staff uses the latest and most advanced computers.
Our field personnel utilize our own Trimble Real-Time GPS units
along with 11 Total Stations including 1st Order, Robotic and
Reflectorless units.
Key firm members have prior employment with such organizations
as the Cobb County DOT; Environmental Protection Agency; City
of Hagerstown, MD; US Forest Service and several international
consulting firms.
Ms. Anna Shmukler, President
Ms. Ann Southerland,
Landscape Architecture Department Head
Mr. Tom Britt