Zachary Zabel

Zachary specializes in transportation demand management, complete streets implementation, and transit-supportive development. At the intersection of mobility and land use, he helps clients achieve positive outcomes for community health, sustainability, and economic vitality. Zachary has led parking management and specific plans to revitalize downtown districts; complete streets guidelines to improve multimodal connectivity and safety; and long-range transportation plans to support the transit and infrastructure visions of regional MPOs and state DOTs. His experience with travel demand and circulation ranges from improving operations at airports, hotels, national parks, stadiums, and zoos to devising custom trip reduction guidelines for cities as large as Atlanta and Charlotte. In addition, Zachary has played a key role in crafting campus master plans and TDM strategies with a focus on active transportation, emerging mobility, emissions reduction, and affiliate experience for major universities across North America and Fortune 500 companies from Silicon Valley to India.

His experience prior to Nelson\Nygaard includes developing design guidelines for new town developments in China, reporting and feasibility analysis of the Southern California Association of Governments planning efforts related to regional goods movement, and academic research related to disaster mitigation, rapid urbanization, and resource extraction throughout the Global South.