Consultant - Expert Strategic Planner (freelancer)
Engineering Consultancy Company
Total des années d'expérience :21 years, 9 Mois
Prepared and reviewed technical studies and proposal for different clients (government and federal authorities). Providing technical reviews for TOR (technical and financial documents) included but not limited to Tender documents. Developing stakeholders’ linkages and integrated relations between the consultant and Governmental/ Federal Authorities. Developing multiple technical studies varied between Mixed-use projects & Transport/ Transit system studies.
Assigned/managed the following main Projects as a Planning Dept. Director for teams:
oAjm Comprehensive Public Transportation Master Plan
oDetailed Parcelization Plan for Tallah/Liwarah/Muntazi Area’s
oValidating Ajm Comprehensive Urban Master Plan &Transportation Master Plan 2030 (base year 2015- 2018-2021-2024-2027-2030), ACUMP & TMP
oDaleel Al Idarah, Guide Book for PSD 2011
oMitigation Plan for Humaidiya Interchange
oAjm ROW standards & Typical Cross sections & 3D
oPlanning & Survey Dept E-Services
oAjm Signage and Addressing System
oAjm Waterfront/ Maritime System development
oDesign Plans for communities/ neighborhoods Public Facilities & Amenities
oGuidelines for Communities Public facilities memorandums
oStudy the risk of Ajm Dams & Valleys
oPrepared multiple Planning Studies, Policies, & regulations for Ajm Spatial Distribution, Parcelization Mechanism & Landuse Controls Methodology
•Initiated, prepared & developed many studies/ initiatives to develop Strategic Plan & managed projects impacted its urbanism plan.
•Developed regulations related to planning criteria & procedures.
•Fulfilled management duties included HR & administration improvement for Planning Dept.
•Accomplished improvements in all aspects related to Strategic goals, indicators, & ISO achievements for the dept. Recommended new indicators & relate it to Dept. main/ support operations. Conducted local/ international referenced comparison for indicators, bench marking municipality with local/federal level to achieve best vision accomplishment matches AEC 2021.
•Responsible to develop ongoing strategies relevant to Planning dept sections
•Responsible to provide leadership guidance to planning team to improve 2nd leadership row included managing human, material & financial resources.
•Led & directed workshops, brainstorm discussions, & decisions meetings in level of 1st row leadership, stakeholders (Federal/ local), provided full guidance for project consultants to accomplish as per programs.(ie. Ajm Marina project 7 stages)
•Continually formulated plans for Dept. operations aligned with AM mission, vision & provided recommendation to AEC to Ajm Govn. Strategy 2021.
•ACUMP/TMP 2030 & 3 operational yrs. Led diverse range of planning, urban design & strategic planning development, transportation & social/economical plans
•provided potential reviews, technical recommendations by best tools & mechanism to check, monitor, & maintain city urban/transportation elements to insure future sustainability
•Applied results by GIS to support leadership decision making. Found new procedures to updating/upgrading existing data ie. population, landuse guidelines, infrastructure networks, roads future budgeting
•Managed Geographical Information System Dept- GIS)- as Directors while Rotation for year 2016, responsibility included managing, controlling & developing team capabilities & existing tools/ programs.
•Created new applications supported by ArcGIS to represent all services for Roads & Infrastructure, Planning, Building depts
•Supported F&C dept by developing new procedures to appoint consultants (ie. tender procedure, evaluation methodology, consultancy services & agreements
•Created RFP’s & TOR’s for projects(Ajm Quay Wall 27/2012, ACUMP & TMP, AM VISUM Purchase Supply/ Installation/ Maintenance/ Auditing TMP base yr & training with PTV)
•Improved E-Services (plot affection plan) issuance mechanism, team skills, customer services, to increase AM revenue.
•Recommended new (federal/ local) stakeholders memorandam of understanding to facilitate exchanging data, attributes, plans in all form(i.e. GIS format, CAD files, Images, Reports, Excels, …etc).
•Participated in Conferences, Symposium, & Roundtable Discussion sessions (5th, 6th, 7th Ajm International Urban Planning Conference; Leader of Roundtable Discussion in the Engineering Creative Lab; Fujairah Municipality First Forum..etc) as a Speaker or Participant.
Managed the following three projects as Account Manager and Part of Project Management team:
1) Sahara Kingdom - SK Land Area (4, 968, 016Sq.ft.), BUA (2, 800, 000Sq.ft.)
2) Dubailand Residential Resort-GFH Land Area (10, 444, 207Sq.ft.), BUA (6, 270, 043Sq.ft.)
3)Western City -WC Land Area (7, 000, 307Sq.ft.), BUA (2, 209, 655Sq.ft.)
-Reviewed and assessed comments for SK, GFH, & WC Final Master Plan Reports, Project. Concept, Sign-off-Sheet, Business Plan, TIS, & other relevant submissions.
-Issued different type of NOC’s.
-Prepared LUB for GFH based on DL Guideline.
-Prepared and issued infrastructure (utilities & roads) data to investors as per their demand.
-Acted as coordinator/ facilitator between investors/ consultants & Dubai Authorities (RTA, DM, DEWA).
-Assigned as a coordinator with RTA to represent DL projects in the weekly progress meetings.
-Provided technical feedback & advice for TIS consultant to follow RTA process & DL TMP supported documents.
Initiated policy to apply for mitigation plans for roads encroachment.
-Initiated policy for TIS review & Assisted investors on the cost sharing agreement.
-Achieved technical approvals for six projects TIS & finalizing the negotiation of its cost sharing agreement.
-Assisted on updating DL-TMP through confirming LUB & trips generation consistency from the approved TIS.
-Discussed & mitigated the new ROW encroachments on DL projects with investors & assisted on releasing the frozen interchanges from DM system (GIS).
-Prepared forms & templates for roads encroachment & TIS follow up procedure including the methodology.
-Created tracking sheets for RTA, Projects, & TIS.
-Initiated legal letters, remedy notice, & terminations for contractual complaint with agreements.
-Managed day-to-day communication with investors and consultants.
-Prepared technical MOM to track tasks actions and recommendations.
-Participated on different tasks assigned by DL leadership such as Project Paris, IPM, and/ or escalated unresolved major issues to DL leadership.
-Assisted Finance, Legal, and Marketing Sections on updating their tracking system.
Active Participant and coordinating member for the following projects:
1.(STPD-001) Comprehensive Transport Legislations for the RTA
2.(STPD-002) Mobility Management Study
3.(STPD-003) Validation of RTA Transportation Model & Plans
4.(STPD-006) Transportation Requirements for Persons with Special Needs
•Involved as technical coordinator for cross functional project team and reviewed terms of reference, and technical memorandums submitted by the consultant.
•Conducted brain-storming and focus group discussions for the listed projects and provided planning reviews.
•Prepared the final report with recommendations to RTA chairman and involved in reviewing the final presentation of the Board Committee.
•Assisted in developing webpage for legislations and laws collected/ recommended by the consultant.
Involved in the recommended 10 mobility plans for Dubai.
•Assisted in review of stated preference report & household survey.
Facilitated focus group discussion and peer reviews for in-house projects.
•Assisted in collection of population & landuse data for the base year model 2003 and updating of the forecasting model through recoding, calibration, and validation of Dubai Transport Model for Ultimate, 2010, 2015, and 2020 scenarios.
•Arranged training program for RTA staff which conducted by PTV for modeling and simulation.
•Prepared preliminary in-house survey report and prepared presentation for RTA chairman prior appointing consultant for study implementation.
Reviewed the “Guideline Manual for STPD 006” and the action plans.
•Studied independently the current vehicles emission standards & policies to set new standards for the air pollutants from vehicles. Recommended phased implementation plan for local/ federal authorities approval. “Hybrid Vehicle Project- in house project”
•Conducted comprehensive study with case study for implementation across Dubai. To develop TOD concept t be adopted by developers & Dubai government and inclusion into TOR. Identified planning principle, criteria, requirements, benefits, and proposed for implementation in the Embassies area in Dubai. “Transit Oriented Development - TOD” in house study.
•Prepared the strategy, goals, and actual and operational plan for the section based on the activities, projects, and tasks conducted by the section group team.
•Arranged and coordinated a public activity “workshops” by inviting specialists in the field of Transportation Planning for RTA staff and consultants. Proposed the innovative retrievable Electronically Library for all ongoing or accomplished projects and data collected exclusively for STPD.
•As a coordinator responded in regular bases to Dubai road users’ suggestions & complaints channeled via RTA webpage “Fikrity” System.
•Appointed coordinator for updating projects and committee tracking systems in a monthly base.
•Conducted and analyzed in-house surveys (i.e. Special Needs Survey & Old Vehicles Life Expectancy).
•Involved in different studies such as “Dubai Toll Collection System R900/1”, “Dubai Parking Control System Study R933”, “Tuk Tuk”, and “Limited Driving License Policy”.
•Prepared presentations to Executive Council & Board Committee and for the external stakeholders.
Active Participant in the following projects and team work surveys:
•International Bus Station Project -Dubai: assisted in the International Public Transport project through designing & conducting survey, gathering data & converting it into useful statistics. Involved in the report, prepared methodology & analyzing the extracted statistics to propose Bus station for the PT integrated with the landuse.
•Dubai LRT Project - Dubai: Analyzed traffic at the diversion routes planned for Burjuman LRT station using SIDRA & VISUM 9.3.
•Bahrain Model- Bahrain: updated the model using VISUM 9.3 macro-simulation. Proposed & developed the intersections of different projects using SIDRA & VISUM 9.3.
My Duties included the following:
•Assisted in the “Semester Statistical Directory of the Registration Department” and developing reports.
•Used the Decision Support System of the Logsis System to create statistics related to student registration, course grades and schedules information's in-order to find the weaknesses and the strengthens of the department to improve both.
•Performed all the tasks required for registration (manually & electronically) for the following University of Sharjah Colleges. Assisted in performing all the tasks related to the Graduate Programs.
•Registered students according to their study plan to ensure that they meet the requirements to be graduated from their schools.
•Prepared the transfer applications for the transfer students and changed their college or major according to the rules of each college.
•Followed-up and updated colleges records, rules and regulations.
•Prepared the Final Examination schedules for all courses offered by each college. Entered students’ grades and computed the AGPA & CGPA at the end of each semester. Followed-up the rules and regulations of achieving a Bachelor/ Master Degrees at the University.
•Audited student transcripts, files and study programs since the first batch graduates of Health Science School, Engineering School, and Business & Management School. Performed all the tasks of student admission and responded to the new candidates inquiries and entered the applications in the system.
Involved in multiple project assignments & team work surveys to assist Governmental & Educational Organizations (i.e AUS, Sharjah Town Planning Dept, Sharjah Municipality). Studied and developed appropriate methodologies, collected, analyzed data, recommended solutions for each study.
-Testing the Effect of Transit Signal Priority- Dubai Case Study (Master Final Project): studied and analyzed the impact of the Transit Signal Priority strategy in Al Mussallah/ Al Maktoum corridor in Deira Area. Selected active priority strategy option & the evaluation involving green time extension in favor of public buses versus private vehicles. Different tools were used to investigate the impact of the TSP such as Synchro, VISUM, VISSIM, VisVAP program & Creating *PUA files.
-Dubai World Trade Center (TIS)- Dubai: prepared to upgrade the site intersections.
-Muweileh District Land use Report- Sharjah: Proposed future tourism development land use strategy.
-Shopping Mall & Souks Cluster Map- Dubai: mapped out linkages between suppliers & Exporters.
-WAFI City (TIS) - Dubai: prepared to upgrade accessibilities and site intersections).
Earlier Career Summary (experience available upon request)
Professional Development School degree: achieved my MUP degree by 2007 from School of Architect and Design at the American University of Sharjah with CGPA 3.45 / 4.00. Alkhateeb Picked very unique Transportation Intelligent System as a key point to be discussed, studied, analysed on the final Project to achieve the MUP degree. The project was under the supervision of Dr. Abdelfattah and Dr. Kolo. Transit Signal Priority- TSP, was the selected Intelligent Transportation Systems- ITS, which involves real time tracking. Its used in the United State hence, its considered one of the lead countries in implementing this strategy since decades. Europe and Germany have also implemented TSP quite extensively to improve rider-ship and buses efficiency. TSP is a strategy that supports the transit system through easing the movement of the service. The operational technique used for TSP is controls the signal system at the intersections. A detector system must be integrated in the implementation stage. It will detect the preference of public buses among the other vehicles in the traffic queue. Determining of optimal detector location for the TSP with queued lanes is the main feature. It must be studied and decided before starting different signalization proposals for the intersection. Controlling traffic signal in favor of the public bus system will improve reliability and efficiency for buses. Meanwhile, the extreme impact of the TSP on general traffic as well as on public buses became the basis for many recent studies and thesis tested by many authors. The scope of the project as a addressed in this paper is to report the delivered results of different scenarios tested, and then compare these proposed scenarios to select the best signal consideration, which has a potential impact on bus and traffic performance.