BALTIMORE, and BOSTON, Mar. 13, 2019 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Wes Guckert, PTP, President & CEO of The Traffic Group, Inc. (TTG) – one of the nation's leading traffic engineering and transportation planning firms – is again serving as an Instructor at Harvard University.
Guckert will teach a class discussing the impact of self-driving cars on real estate as part of Harvard's Advance Management Development Program (AMDP). AMDP is Harvard's flagship Executive Education program for real estate leaders, CEOs, city planners, government officials, architects, and others practitioners in the built environment. About half the students are international. This year there is a class of 40 developers, CEOs, and finance experts.
This is the third consecutive year in which Guckert has served as an Instructor at Harvard. This year's presentation, which is scheduled for Wednesday, March 13, will focus on what America's cities must do to prepare for the new mobility, including electric vehicles and driverless cars and trucks.
With more than 40 years of industry experience, Guckert is a recognized and highly respected authority in the fields of traffic engineering and transportation planning. He has played a major role in nearly 8,000 urban and suburban area projects throughout the United States and internationally, providing expertise in transit planning, traffic impact analysis, traffic signal design, and traffic circulation.
In addition to his work at Harvard, Guckert is a member of Texas A&M Transportation Technology Advisory Council, which advises Texas A&M Engineering on automated transportation research; RELLIS Campus Development for transportation technology research and testing; and the Texas A&M Campus Transportation Technology Initiative deployment. He is also Immediate Past Chair of the Urban Land Institute's (ULI) Public Development Infrastructure Council.
A Fellow with the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE), Guckert has also presented on the topic of self-driving vehicles at NAIOP, the International Council of Shopping Center's RECon, the Intelligent Transportation Society's ITS America, ITE's Annual Meeting, the National Parking Association's Convention & Expo, and numerous national and international ULI events.
About The Traffic Group, Inc.
Established in 1985, The Traffic Group, Inc. (TTG) is a Service Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) traffic engineering and transportation planning specialty firm headquartered in Baltimore County, Maryland.
Through use of sophisticated technology and the in-house experience of more than 70 industry professionals, TTG offers services that help determine road improvements, signal and sign location, lighting plans, land usage, public facility and capacity issues, and security measures. With over 3,000 pieces of traffic data collection equipment, The Traffic Group has the largest inventory of such equipment in the U.S. and conducts more than 100,000 counts for clients annually.
For more information about The Traffic Group, visit the company's website at http://www.trafficgroup.com or follow them on Twitter @TheTrafficGrp.
SOURCE The Traffic Group
Share this article