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Sebago Expands its Transportation Engineering Staff and Services
Dr. Pengfei "Taylor" Li, PhD has joined the Transportation Engineering staff of Sebago Technics as a Senior Traffic Engineer specializing in traffic signal systems management, operations and optimization. Dr. Li will head up the firm's newly created Traffic Signal Operations Group, as well as support the other aspects of the firm's transportation practice. Taylor, as he prefers to be called, obtained his PhD from Virginia Tech under the tutelage of Dr. Montasir Abbas. He has co-authored more than 25 research papers on traffic signal operations, the latest of which was chosen to be presented at a national IEEE conference in St. Louis this fall on ITS innovations. Current assignments include on-going management and optimization of the 34-signal Maine Mall ATMS using Naztec's Streetwise software, consulting to the ATRC in Lewiston/Auburn as they implement their 80-signal Streetwise ATMS, and managing a 7-signal Econolite Closed Loop System in Ellsworth using Aries software. Prior to coming to the USA, Taylor worked for several years in his home country of China for a U.S. based international consulting transportation engineering firm on the advance preparation for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. "We are delighted to welcome such an accomplished engineer to our staff", said Steve Sawyer, Vice President of Transportation Services at Sebago. "He complements our current engineering staff and his specialized credentials in the traffic signal system field are unequalled in northern New England. As such, we believe we can offer our clients specialized expertise in signal operations not found among our competitors." Whether the optimization of a traffic signal system requires the development of several fixed Time-of-Day plans, the creation of a more elaborate Traffic Responsive operation, or the implementation of state-of-the-art Adaptive Control; Sebago staff has the knowledge and experience to provide not only cost effective solutions to congestion management issues, but also ones that promote energy conservation and harmful air emission reductions.