Rakan Hijazi, Transportation Engineer

Rakan Hijazi

Transportation Engineer

Seero Engineering Consulting

Location
Qatar - Doha
Education
Bachelor's degree, Civil Engineering
Experience
10 years, 3 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :10 years, 3 Months

Transportation Engineer at Seero Engineering Consulting
  • Qatar - Doha
  • My current job since January 2015

Detailed Experience

• Conducting and leading Traffic Impact Studies (TIS) that includes:

- Site development plans
- Parking design
- Access Strategy
- Swept path analysis
- Traffic survey analysis and documentation
- The transport modeling using PTV VISUM software
- Traffic impact assessment
- Traffic microsimulation using VISSIM
- Proposing mitigations measures for roads network
- All related technical reports, calculations and memorandums

• Geometric design of roads referring to AASHTO and Qatar Highway Design Manual (QHDM), that includes:

- Roads setting layouts
- Horizontal alignment design
- Roads profile design
- Vertical alignment design
- Superelevation calculations
- Junction design, lane tapering, merging, diverging and widening
- Urban design of roads and on street parking

• Stormwater drainage design and catchment analysis following QHDM and Public Works Authority’s (PWA) SW drainage manual, in addition to some stormwater assessment/ modeling studies using Infoworks software

• Temporary Traffic Management (TTM) design and preparing Traffic Diversion Plans (TDP’s) in coordination with PWA/ Roads O&M- Qatar

• Flexible Pavement design following QHDM, PWA IANs and AASHTO 1993 method

• Parking Management System (PMS) design and queue analysis

• Traffic time management and operational analysis

Technical/ QS Civil Engineer at Ahmad Yousef Al-Tarawneh and Partner Co. Ltd.
  • Jordan - Amman
  • May 2014 to January 2015

I worked as a technical engineer in the infrastructure project "Reconstruction and Upgrading of Zarqa'a-Azraq-Omari Highway" that has a cumulative length of 110 km to connect the borders of Saudi Arabia with Al-Zarqa'a city in the north of Jordan. Several works were assigned to me such as; quantity surveying, preparing shop drawings and some tendering works. The supervision consultant was Engicon and the project cost was estimated by 150, 000, 000$.

Trainee at Arabtech Jardaneh Engineers & Architects
  • Jordan - Amman
  • June 2013 to August 2013

I had a summer training in roads design using Autocad Land Desktop 2006 software at "Roads and Transportation" section. Also, I attended a site training at (Irbid Ring Road Project) which was designed by Arabtech Jardaneh.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Civil Engineering
  • at Jordan University of Science and Technology
  • February 2014

Specialties & Skills

Highways
Transportation Engineering
Traffic Management
Transport Modelling
Traffic Impact Studies
Design of roads using Autocad Civil 3D
Roads Hydrology and Highway Drainage Systems
Pavement Materials
Pavement Maintenance
Writing Technical Reports
Traffic Studies
Roads & Highway Design
Microsoft Office Tools
Transport Modeling
Temporary Traffic Management
Traffic Impact Studies
Parking Design
Traffic Studies
Traffic Micro-simulation
Transport Planning
Stormwater Drainage Design
Parking Management

Languages

English
Expert
Arabic
Expert

Memberships

Ministry of Municipality and Environment, Qatar
  • Registered Civil Engineer
  • June 2015
Jordan Engineers Association (JEA)
  • Member
  • February 2014
Charted Institution of Highways and Transportation (CIHT)
  • Member
  • June 2017

Training and Certifications

Asphalt Mix Design Workshop (Training)
Training Institute:
Seero Engineering Consulting & CMS Engineering Group
Surveying and Design of Roads using Autocad Civil 3D (Training)
Training Institute:
Consultative Center for Science & Technology
Transport Modeling for Decision makers and managers using PTV Traffic Suite (Training)
Training Institute:
PTV Group

Hobbies

  • Playing Guitar , Movies , Music , Travelling , Technology , Video Games