McMahon is a leading industry provider of intelligent transportation system (ITS) and traffic signal system planning, design, and implementation on the east coast. Our experienced staff includes former state department of transportation traffic engineering experts and successful consulting engineers who come from a variety of backgrounds and know the industry from all angles. With McMahon, you will find a professional, dedicated, and personable team that balances the needs of all stakeholders while delivering quality solutions to your transportation system challenges. We invite you to explore our ITS and traffic signal services below in more detail.

Our country has too much traffic and too little money to manage our infrastructure. As a leading ITS designer, McMahon recognizes that development of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) is the future of managing our country’s constrained transportation system. We look to system design & planning first for clients who recognize the cost efficiencies and other benefits of ITS.

To help you select the right system, we perform advanced traffic control system planning, design, integration, and implementation. We also plan and design incident detection systems, traffic management centers, ramp metering systems, communications systems, traffic data collection systems, automatic vehicle location systems, CCTV systems, parking facilities ITS, and toll facilities ITS.

You can open clogged traffic corridors with closed loop traffic signal systems. We have designed systems ranging between 3 and 80 intersections. We can customize the design with features such as maintenance alarms, operational alarms, traffic data storage, and system reports can all be set up for use by the system operator.

Once your system is installed, we can use our in-house central computer to connect directly with your system. This allows us to monitor operational issues, identify the need for timing changes, and troubleshoot. We will be happy to show you how well it works!

Once you believe you need a signal, you must demonstrate the need. You often must also provide the design to permitting officials. McMahon’s extensive experience and professional working relationships with local and state agency personnel will design and move your project along, giving us the edge our clients need for approvals.

Even if your signalized intersection or corridor transportation system is up and running, chances are, if it is more than a year since you’ve installed or reviewed it, new timing, designs and technologies can help move traffic through your region more efficiently. We offer pragmatic, real world experience in a continuously changing technical profession that can make your traffic control systems and corridors work better.

In any given region, we find an astonishing number of traffic signal or ITS systems are out of compliance with their permits or nonconforming to the latest industry design standards. Not only are you liable for any problems that occur, but neglect slows traffic and cost millions in lost work time and accidents. Call us at McMahon to conduct a field review of your system for compliance and conformance status.

McMahon can plan and design a system that will allow your transportation network to fully function with the given communication requirements. Fiber optic cable, wireless, and Ethernet systems are the information arteries of any traffic management network. Without them your system is virtually useless. Let McMahon Associates’ experts deliver you a quality and reliable solution that will last.

McMahon can help your agency or authority with the implementation of red light running automated enforcement systems with experience in several east cost states. These systems have made tremendous leaps in popularity and acceptance, and are helping to reduce signal violations and improve safety. McMahon performs the planning, studies, design, and permitting of these systems in various states.

As construction projects move beyond design, their success depends on the quality of the bid documents, plans, specifications, and estimates. We assist state DOTs and municipalities in preparing these documents for construction projects of all sizes. Other services we offer include review of contractor proposals, review of shop drawings and catalog cuts, construction observation, review of contractor applications for payment, and acting as a liaison between contractors, owners, agencies, and utilities.