Transportation

Mulkey, Inc. is known for its expertise in transportation design, with the founder, Barbara Mulkey, having launched her career as a bridge design engineer. From roads to bridges to traffic engineering, Mulkey is poised to provide comprehensive transportation engineering services.

Roadway Design

With strong roadway design and management experience in all of our geographic locations, Mulkey is positioned to assist clients throughout the Southeast. Among our list of roadway clients are the North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida Departments of Transportation, The City of Raleigh, The City of Charlotte, North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

In 2000, the firm received the Honors Award for Engineering Excellence in Transportation from the Consulting Engineers Council of North Carolina for its design of the I-77/Tyvola Road interchange. This busy interchange serves as the major access road to the Charlotte Coliseum and is a primary access road to Charlotte Douglas International Airport.

Services
• Interchanges (Single-point Urban, Full or Partial Clover, Directional and Diamond)
• Widenings
• New Location
• Roundabouts
• Preliminary Design
• Final Design
• Right-of-Way Plans
• Estimates
• Bid Advertisement
• Bridge Replacements
• Bicycle/Pedestrian Facility Design

Structure Design

With the firm’s core competency in structure design, Mulkey’s professional staff brings passion and experience to its clients. Recently, the firm’s engineers have been associated with some of the most prestigious bridge projects in the region. Mulkey is experienced in a variety of structure types involving concrete and/or steel construction—from reinforced concrete box culverts to bridges over railroads to curved steel girder designs.

Services
• Bridge Design
     Pre-Stressed AASHTO Girder
     Structural Steel Girder
     Curved Steel Girder
     Pre-Tensioned Concrete Box Girder (Pre-Cast and Cast-In-Place)
     Cast-In-Place Concrete (Flat Slab)
     Pre-Stressed Cored Slab
     Timber Structures
     Pedestrian/Equestrian Bridges
     Concrete Box Culverts
     LRFD Design
     Seismic Design

• Sign Structures Design
     Overhead
     Cantilever
     Bridge Mounted

• Wall Design
     Permanent and Temporary MSE Walls
     Permanent and Temporary Sheet Pile Walls
     Bulkhead Walls
     Reinforced Concrete
     Reinforced Masonry

• Micellaneous Design Services
     Structural Inspections
     Structural Shop Drawing Review
     Signal Poles and Foundations
     Marine Dock and Pier Design

Traffic Engineering

From the complexity of traffic control to the environmentally friendly development of greenway planning and design, Mulkey Engineers & Consultants offers a wide variety of traffic engineering services. These services range from helping developers and municipalities prepare Traffic Impact Studies and Driveway Permit Applications on state roads to creating highly complicated traffic control plans.

Mulkey also provides its clients with comprehensive analyses of existing and future transportation needs as well as regional project impact through detailed traffic and pedestrian studies, traffic signal warrant analyses and traffic data collection.

Services
• Development Impact Studies
• Circulation and Access Studies
• Accident Analyses
• Driveway Permit Applications
• Pedestrian Studies
• Traffic Data Collection
• Traffic Signal Warrant Analysis
• Traffic Control Plans
• Greenway Planning and Design
• Roundabout Studies

Specialty Areas of Services
• Air Quality Analyses
• Noise Analyses
• Traffic Counts
     Manual Turning Counts
     24-Hour Machine Counts