Teja Karra brings extensive international experience in transportation planning, with work spanning the United States and the United Kingdom. He specializes in the development and application of travel demand models, including multiresolution modeling and evaluating traffic and land-use impacts within broader planning and operations studies. His work supports traffic and land-use impact assessments, alternatives analysis, corridor studies, and major infrastructure funding business cases, grounded in data-driven and defensible modeling methods.
At RSG, Teja contributes to national, regional, and local-level model development and application projects, informing corridor studies, general plan updates, and advanced forecasting to support infrastructure investment. His experience includes the use of tools such as Visum, CUBE, TransCAD, SATURN, QGIS, Vissim, Synchro, Vistro, and Python.
Outside of work, Teja enjoys cooking Indian cuisine, following current affairs, hiking, traveling (London being his favorite city), and virtually exploring cities and landscapes.
Career Highlights
- Multi-Resolution Modeling for Rightsizing Transportation Infrastructure Investments Using PTV Tools – Co-presented at the PTV Users Group Meeting, San Antonio, TX, 2024.
Education
- MS, Civil Engineering, Wayne State University
- BTech, Civil Engineering, Jawaharlar Nehru Technological University
