Cities & Communitites

Multimodal Mobility and Safety

Comprehensive Creative Solutions for All Aspects of Multimodal Transportation with Safety Integrated by Design

With an award-winning team and extensive expertise across all scales of transportation planning and engineering. This section at LEA is committed to advancing a multimodal ecosystem approach that prioritizes safety, equity, and accessibility for all. Grounded in the principles of inclusive urbanism, ecological sustainability, and human well-being, our work emphasizes the design of connected, people-focused networks that reduce risk, enhance livability, create agonistic public spaces avoiding exclusions, and meet broader local community objectives. We specialize in infrastructure solutions that integrate transportation with land use, climate goals, energy needs and diversity, technological adaptation, social and political perspectives and public health—while ensuring meaningful engagement with residents and stakeholders throughout the process.

Our unique services differ from the “cookie-cutter” approach from typical industry offerings in many ways:

• Human mobility pattern: We use cutting-edge data, automated travel diary, technology and smart solutions to give insights into hidden travel demand and patterns to create an ecosystem of mobility systems that reflects mobility culture of local areas
• Inclusive Placemaking: We developed unique techniques to identify unused, abandoned and neglected traffic and other public spaces to reclaim them for better and equitable use of public spaces
• Space reallocation: Our scientific approach, tested on the ground verification, provides vast knowledge to reallocate public spaces to a more equitable distribution towards each segment of demography in our society
• Mobility energy planning: In an era of declining energy and resources, our solutions provide opportunity for alternative energy solutions, including electrification and low-carbon solutions to balance our needs and resources wisely.
• Strategy and Policy development: Instead of a typical policy approach, our team has vast experience in integrating new concepts, ideas and perspectives into detail and effectively can bring new mobility, technology while avoiding platform of new exclusions.
• Transportation Safety: Strategic safety and vision zero planes developing, including Road Safety Audits, In-Service Road Safety Review, system/program review for safety improvements
• Transportation Forensic Engineering services include standard of care assessment, risk and liability perspectives, investigating all types of collisions, incidents and hazards in public spaces, including streets, highways, stations or terminals, transit systems, parking lots, parks, trails, sidewalk, pathways, bicycle facilities, and other transportation systems

• Multimodal Mobility Ecosystem Planning,
• Creative Design and Placemaking
• Multimodal Framework and Travel Demand Modelling
• Neighbourhood Multimodal Mobility Hub
• Review of planning and design of roadways, highways, roundabouts, parking lots, construction zones, private roads, and access driveways
• Smart data analysis and Research - Realtime/historic probed/track data
• Analysis of safety trends, transit, planning, design operations and maintenance
• Route engineering assessment and permit approval for long-combination vehicles
• Rail proximity and safety plans for land-use policies and developments

• Vision Zero and Complete Street planning
• In-service and Road safety review and assessment of streets, roads, highways, intersections, parking, stations, and roadway design and signage, including temporary conditions
• Illumination and nighttime visibility assessments
• Regular, summer, and winter maintenance operations and Standard of Care assessments
• Minimum maintenance standards evaluation
• Vulnerable roadway user safety assessments
• Collision investigations involving traffic signal intersections, trails, rail crossings, and temporary work conditions
• Transit and rail systems safety review and assessment

• Winter maintenance assessment
• Intersections, roads and other crash assessment and reviews
• Walking, cycling, scooter, and other active transportation safety analysis
• Trail, path, sidewalk, bike lane safety assessment
• Illumination, lighting needs and safety assessment
• Traffic signal, traffic control, signs, markings assessment
• Roadside safety assessment
• Driveway, parking lot, pathway safety assessment
• Truck, motorcycle, ATV, farm vehicles, special vehicles safety assessment
• General safety assessment/review of Standard of Care for transportation systems, design, operation and maintenance
• Safety and regulatory compliance audits
• Collision/claims history and trend analyses
• Expert litigation consulting
• Transit user safety and rail infrastructure assessment
• Infrastructure compliance
• Driver performance and human factor reviews
• Review of construction-related design and Standard of Care assessments
• Pro-active safety assessment and risk improvements

Contact Us

Dewan Karim, M.A.Sc., MITE, P.Eng., PTOE
Sector Lead, Multimodal Mobility & Safety
E: dkarim@lea.ca  P: 647-518-4087 

Dewan has over 25 years’ of experience in transportation engineering, planning, and traffic safety issues. Dewan has additional expertise in traffic engineering and safety regulations, transportation planning and street design issues, transit planning and design, active transportation, and summer and winter maintenance. He has qualified for expert and class action lawsuits, land-use dispute tribunals. Dewan is also author of the two-volume book series, “Shifting Mobility,” as well as published numerous journal and conference publications and experienced in providing transportation courses, webinars, workshops to professionals.

Kenneth Chan, P.Eng., PTOE, PMP
Senior Vice President, Transportation Engineering & Planning
E: kchan@lea.ca

Kenneth has over 19 years of experience in Transportation Engineering. Throughout his career, Kenneth has worked on numerous large scale public sector projects including the Finch West Station construction design, Eglinton Crosstown LRT traffic management, and the Hurontario-Main LRT Traffic Operational Assessment. He has also conducted and supervised over 200 transportation related traffic reports, including Transportation Impact Studies, Traffic Impact Assessments, Traffic Operational Studies, Traffic Corridor Studies, Parking Studies, Loading Studies and Traffic Demand Management Plans.