FAIRFAX, VA Dewberry announces that Todd Brooks, PE, has been hired as a Senior Associate and Manager of the traffic engineering group in the firm's Raleigh, North Carolina, office.

With more than 30 years of experience in traffic engineering, Brooks' experience includes intelligent transportation systems (ITS) and transportation planning with a primary focus on projects executed on behalf of municipalities and various state departments of transportation, including Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia. In his new role as traffic engineering group manager for Dewberry, Brooks will be heavily involved in supporting the firm's various transportation projects across the state. His technical expertise includes traffic signal plans, traffic impact studies, computerized signal system feasibility studies and designs, ITS design, signing and pavement marking plans, parking studies, and traffic analyses. Previously, Brooks worked as a senior project manager and technical manager for Atkins where he oversaw various project types, including urban street improvements, traffic studies, work zone traffic control, airports, signing, and design-build. 

Brooks earned his bachelor's degree in civil engineering from North Carolina State University (1986) and is a professional engineer in North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia, and a certified designer and supervisor for the South Carolina Department of Transportation's Advanced Work Zone Traffic Control. He is an active member in numerous organizations, including the North Carolina Section of the Institute of Transportation Engineers where he serves as the strategic initiatives council chair, Southern District of the Institute of Transportation Engineers, and the Virginia Section of the Institute of Transportation Engineers.