MINAGAR & ASSOCIATES, INC. is a multidisciplinary traffic engineering, transportation planning and Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) consulting firm based in Irvine, CA.  The company has a proven reputation for preparing high-quality designs and reports for a wide variety of public, private and international clients with an unsurpassed project management expertise available to clients on an on-call basis regardless of the project location.  Each project is implemented and completed to the highest standard by Minagar & Associates staff and consultants, resulting in a quality unrivaled by that of competing firms.  Minagar & Associates, Inc. and Fred Minagar have numerous, local, regional, state, national as well as international awards, including:

• Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority's (Metro) Award of Excellence in Service in 2011;

• Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority's (Metro) Award of Excellence in Service in 2010;

• Winner of ASCE's Outstanding Private Sector Civil Engineering Project in Metropolitan Los Angeles in 2009;

• Winner of Caltrans' 2009 Excellence in Transportation Award in the State of California in 2009;

• Winner of ASCE's Outstanding Public/Private Sector Civil Engineering Project in Metropolitan Los Angeles in 2007;

• Winner of APWA's Best Traffic Congestion Mitigation Project of the Year in Southern California in 2005;

• Winner of Public Technologies Institute's (PTI's) Best Transportation Technology Solutions Award in the United States for the Year 2003;

• California Alliance for Advanced Transportation Systems (CAATS) Award of Excellence for Best Return on Investment in the State of California for the Year 2002; and

• Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority's (Metro) Award of Excellence in Service in 2000.

Local Knowledge, National Experience & International Exposure
Since its inception, Minagar & Associates the firm has completed over 250 traffic engineering and transportation planning projects, and over 100 ITS (Intelligent Transportation Systems) projects for both public and private clients in over 16 states.  The staff's record proves that they have an unsurpassed level of professional expertise gained from diverse experiences in various states, counties and cities in the United States.  Minagar & Associates, Inc.'s Public clientele have included such agencies as the US DOT, FHWA, US Army Corps of Engineers, Caltrans, LACMTA/Metro, numerous Counties and over 73 Cities. Private clients have included Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Chase (formerly Washington Mutual Bank), WalMart, Starbucks, Target, Home Depot, KB Home and 60 others. Minagar & Associates staff's clientele include federal, state, regional, county and city agencies, port districts, universities & institutions in the public sector; engineers, architects, developers, industry, attorneys and financial institutions on the private side, as well as developing countries. 

Minagar & Associates prides itself in utilizing state-of-the-art computer hardware & software to perform it's ITS, traffic and civil engineering design projects.  Engineering software includes Synchro 8, AutoCAD2007, EMME/2 release 9.5, HCS 2010 and PetraPro.  The firm's known expertise in technology is shown not only in projects implemented by Minagar & Associates staff but also in the numerous training programs and workshops performed by Minagar & Associates for top-of-the-line public agencies, such as the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro), as well as developing countries.  The firm is located in the heart of Irvine, California, a breeding ground for cutting edge technology. 

Fred Minagar, M.S., R.C.E., P.E., President of Minagar & Associates, Inc. and a registered engineer in the states of California, New Jersey and Oregon, is a recognized national authority in the areas of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), traffic engineering and transportation planning. In 1993, he started the firm with a fundamental idea: to offer the highest caliber of personalized consulting services by utilizing the latest available technology to both public and private clients. 

Mr. Minagar has over 29 years of real world practice and teaching experience, and has engineered, managed and administered over 100 ITS and 250 traffic engineering & transportation planning projects in 16 states across the United States between New York & Hawaii. Fred has conducted numerous ITS and traffic engineering workshops for FHWA, ITE National, Caltrans, Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, various DOTs, cities and Governments of China & South Korea.  He has served as City Traffic Engineer for 5 cities in Southern California.  He has been re-elected Chairman, Traffic & Transportation Commission for the City of Laguna Niguel for the past eight years, and has also served on a number of Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) technical committees at local, regional and national levels. 

He has served as an Expert Witness on over a dozen legal cases in California & Massachusetts. Mr. Minagar has conducted over 120 ITS and traffic engineering workshops for FHWA (Federal Highway Administration), ITE National, Caltrans, Metro, various DOTs, cities and Governments of China & South Korea. He has been a frequent guest speaker at the George Washington University, University of California-Irvine, University of California-Davis, CSU-LA & Caltrans Field Academy. For over 15 years, he has been re-appointed/re-elected as Traffic & Transportation and Planning Commissioner/Chairman for the City of Laguna Niguel, CA. He won the 2002 National Leadership Award. Mr. Minagar has been awarded the United States Congressional Order of Merit 2003 & 2006.

Mr. Minagar's Traffic Signal Synchronization Project for 121 City, County and Caltrans locations has won the PTI’s 2003 Award of the Best Transportation Technology Solutions in the United States as well as the CAATS’ 2002 Award of Excellence for Best California Return on Investment Project.  He has been awarded the United States Congressional Order of Merit, 2003 as well as the 2002 National Leadership Award.  Mr. Minagar was invited by the Australian Road Research Board to present a paper entitled "Intelligent Transportation Systems Applications in the United States" at the ITS International Conference in Australia in May 1995.   He was previously the technical editor of the ITE District Six "WesternITE" newsletter serving 12 western states from 1989-1994 and the editor of the international award winning newsletters of the ITE Metropolitan Section of New York & New Jersey 1987-1989.  Mr. Minagar was also selected as an Outstanding Young Man of America for 1982. 

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