Dowling Associates is a traffic engineering and transportation planning consulting firm based in Oakland, California with offices in the Central Valley and Sacramento. Founded in 1986, we currently employ over 30 full-time professional and support staff. Our clients include the Federal Highway Administration, the National Academy of Sciences, Caltrans, the University of California, plus numerous cities, counties, and metropolitan planning organizations. Our specialties include traffic engineering traffic operations analysis, microsimulation modeling, traffic impact analysis, travel demand modeling, research, bicycle and pedestrian planning, and transportation circulation element planning. We pride ourselves on leading with the most advanced techniques and technology in transportation engineering and planning. Principals are actively involved in the Transportation Research Board and the Institute of Transportation Engineers. Seven of the staff are certified civil engineers, six are certified traffic engineers and four are AICP certified planners. Our principals also teach university courses and participate in significant government research projects. *As of January 2012, we have merged with Kittelson & Associates, Inc.