Housing Choice Voucher Admin Fee Study
In partnership with Abt Associates, RSG completed a multi-year research effort for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Office of Policy Development and Research to determine how much it costs to run an efficient Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) program for the purpose of developing a formula for allocating administrative fees. For the project,…
Traffic Signal Timing Optimization
Following a major New Hampshire Department of Transportation (NHDOT) roadway expansion and intersection improvement project on the busy NH 12A corridor in Lebanon, New Hampshire, RSG was asked to refine signal timings during peak periods to ensure traffic flows through this corridor operate as effectively as possible. For many years the NH 12A corridor has…
Value Proposition Development
Prior work with the RSG team had alerted our client to the growing problem it faced with an increasingly undistinguished and inconsistent positioning within its core business-to-business market. While our client was generally viewed as performing reasonably well in most areas, it lacked any areas of clear leadership. In addition, there was a lack of…
Segmentation Resulting in a New Business Model
RSG’s client faced a declining market position in a mature industry due to considerable competition from both a dominant industry leader and emerging challengers. Over the course of several engagements the RSG team first identified a significant shift toward consolidation in the industry that had resulted in heavy concentration of purchasing among less than 10%…
VA Medical Center Combined Heat and Power Plant
The Veterans Administration Medical Center (VAMC) in Manchester, NH provides an array of health services to veterans. The VAMC worked with a design team to design and plan a complete replacement of its heating and power generation equipment with state-of –the-art, energy efficient equipment. RSG partnered with van Zelm, Heywood, & Shadford, Inc., (Vanzelm Engineers)…
Sidewalk Scoping and Final Design
The Town of Putney obtained a Transportation Enhancement grant from the Vermont Agency of Transportation (VTrans) to study pedestrian improvement alternatives along Main Street, a Landmark College Connection, and the Old Route 5 Loop. The purpose of the grant was to increase the pedestrian safety and accessibility in the village area. As the project progressed,…
Market Street Extension Gateway Improvements
RSG is providing engineering, landscape architecture, design, and public outreach services in support of improvements to the Market Street Gateway in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Uniquely situated between a major interstate, a functional port, and the heart of historic downtown Portsmouth, the Market Street corridor provides critically important access to some of the City of Portsmouth’s…
Waterfront Access North
RSG is working with the Community & Economic Development Office and Burlington’s Department of Public Works on the Waterfront Access North transportation improvement project. This is the second phase of a larger waterfront design project. The first phase, including the reconstruction of lower College Street, reconfiguration of the Pease parking lot, and construction of a…
Forecasting Long-term Vehicle Demand
A major auto components manufacturer wanted to improve their long-term vehicle demand forecasting to inform strategic planning decisions. The client also wanted to be able to test future scenarios to evaluate the impact of a variety of potential macroeconomic changes, as well as the impact of different product designs. RSG applied several parameters and algorithms…
International Vehicle Choice Segmentation for New Market Entry
A major auto components manufacturer wanted to introduce a successful product from one geographic market into another where it was a relative unknown. They wanted to understand what drove the market, how consumers made trade-off between different vehicles, and how best to reach their desired customer. RSG conducted qualitative and quantitative research in six different…
South Bend Indiana Model Update
The Michiana Area Council of Governments (MACOG) hired RSG to develop an integrated travel model system that combines elements of advanced activity-based travel demand models with a traditional trip-based model, creating a hybrid travel demand model. This work included building and estimating the following components into the existing TransCAD model structure: A population synthesizer A…
Utah Statewide Freight Model
Utah serves as an essential hub in the distribution of goods and services to the Western United States. The current large volume of statewide freight traffic raised the need for the development of a freight demand model that could forecast the impact of continually increasing freight traffic on major highways in the State. In 2011-2012,…