Sarah Binkowski

Sarah Binkowski, PE, PTOE, is an associate director at BRG. She has over twenty-five years of experience as a senior project manager and is an expert in transportation engineering and planning. Her project experience includes:

• design-build, design-bid-build, and construction management/general contractor
• roadway, transit, and structural design projects
• design assistance during construction
• National Environmental Policy Act studies for roadway/transit projects, including environmental impact studies, environmental assessments, and categorical exclusions
• traffic engineering, including corridor studies, traffic and safety studies, traffic operations, signal optimization, and complete streets
• intelligent transportation systems (ITS), including managed lane analysis, connected and automated vehicle analysis, and analysis and location of ITS devices
• maintenance of traffic and roadway closure scenarios, including construction staging evaluations
• value engineering studies and development of access management plans
• city and county transportation plans and safety action plans
• travel demand model development/application, including future-year traffic and transit projections

Ms. Binkowski manages projects for a diverse range of clients, including departments of transportation, counties, road commissions, municipalities, metropolitan planning organizations, and private-sector clients.

Ms. Binkowski is a Professional Engineer and a Professional Transportation Operations Engineer through the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE). She is a member of ITE and past president of the Women’s Transportation Seminar Michigan Chapter. She is a member of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) AEP15 Transportation Planning Analysis and Applications Committee and a previous member of TRB’s AKD10 Performance Effects of Geometric Design Committee.

Ms. Binkowski has a BS and MS in civil engineering from Michigan State University, where she worked on a variety of research projects. She mentors young women in engineering and planning, helping them grow and succeed in their chosen fields.