Asawari Gharat
Senior Engineering Associate (She/Her)
Asawari (Sai) attended the University of Cincinnati, where she got her master’s degree in civil engineering, with an emphasis on traffic and transportation engineering and planning. Her diversified field of expertise includes signal design plans, ITS, sign panel design, left-turn phasing studies, operational analyses, traffic impact studies, transportation analyses of mixed-use developments, microsimulation analyses, and data collection activities. Her specialties also include site access studies, campus master plans, loading management plans, and parking studies. With the use of modeling and design software, including Synchro/SimTraffic, Highway Capacity Software, SIDRA, AutoCAD/Microstation, and GuideSIGN, Sai has hands-on experience with design-build projects, and she enjoys providing solutions to make transportation better for the community. Outside of work, Sai enjoys traveling, biking, hiking, and trying new breweries/wineries. She also loves trying local restaurants and critiquing food with her friends.
Projects Asawari has worked on
Fairfax City Neighborways
Creating Blueprints for Bike-Friendly Neighborways
Mount Vernon Avenue North Complete Streets
Intersection Design Concepts That Bring a Community's Vision to Life
15th Street Cycle Track at the Washington Monument
Continuing DC's Bike Network Across the National Mall
Ideas Asawari has written about
The Current State of Automated Traffic Signal Performance Measures
Trends and Thoughts for the Future