People
Move your community forward.
Multimodal Planning and Engineering · Safety Action Plans · Active Transportation · Parking · Curb Management · Transportation Demand Management · Transit Priority · Strategic Planning · Development Impacts Analysis · Station Area Planning · Transit Oriented Development
Put good things in motion. We'll help your community become more resilient to climate change, reduce racial and socioeconomic disparities, and move people more safely and efficiently on our streets and sidewalks. We’ll equip you with innovative analytic tools and inclusive engagement strategies to articulate goals, examine impacts, understand community needs, and build consensus, so your plans become reality and your projects get funded and built.
Design transit with purpose.
COAs and Bus Network Redesigns · Bus Rapid Transit · Microtransit · Transit Master Plans · Scheduling · Paratransit · Fare Policy · Zero Emission Fleets · Bus Stop Optimization · Station Access
Align your transit services with the people who rely on you most. From well-defined routes and services to accessible bus stops and transit priority corridors, we take a comprehensive, collaborative, and creative approach. With support from the largest transit team in the industry, enhance your capacity to do more for your riders. Let's create a plan that gets your community on board.
Create great places and happy commutes.
Commute Program Management · TDM Policy and Implementation · Campus Master Plans · Parking Policy and Management · Bike and Pedestrian Access · Development Entitlement Support
Make your destination the place people want to be by helping them travel with less traffic—by foot, transit, ride-hail, and bike. Vibrant places make space for people, not just vehicles, so rethink parking and inspire residents and employees with better transportation amenities. We’ll help you match equitable mobility with sustainable land use and design to create places and commutes that spark joy.
Our Vision
Our Story
Transportation moves us. At Nelson\Nygaard, we inspire, plan, and design mobility solutions that support equitable, accessible, healthy, sustainable, and thriving communities. We're a team of 160 planners, engineers, data scientists, and designers in 13 offices across the United States. Founded by women in 1987, we’ve grown to better represent the diversity of the communities in which we work. What unites us is our belief that transportation is how we can change the world. We start by putting people first.