NEWS
Woolpert Acquires Dawood, Award-Winning, Pennsylvania-Based Infrastructure and Geospatial Firm
07/22/2025
Connecting people, places, and progress.
Transportation is about more than movement — it’s about connection. Whether people are traveling by highway, sidewalk, or high-speed rail, or goods are making their way to a doorstep, every journey should be safe, efficient, and reliable.
At Woolpert, we make that happen through our surface transportation services. From precise surveying and intelligent monitoring to complex planning, design, and inspection, we manage every step of the process. Our team includes former agency professionals and in-house specialists who bring unmatched expertise to challenges of every scale, from intricate geometrics and long-span bridges to timber analysis and trail design.
From concept to completion, surface transportation services transform communities. Wherever you’re headed, Woolpert goes the extra mile. Because for us, the journey matters as much as the destination.
60+
years supporting state transportation agencies
3,100
miles of rail surveyed
132K
miles of roadway served
>$1 trillion
in asset value served
Capabilities
No matter the challenge, we’re built to move you forward.
Industry Segments
Bridges
Bridges are more than just concrete and steel — they connect communities and fuel commerce. We are unique in our vast breadth of design capabilities, from rehabilitating historic structures to designing freeway bridges. Our context-sensitive bridge design and rehabilitation services include high-aesthetic pedestrian structures, multispan river crossings, and complex interstate structures.
Rail
Safety and sustainability are fundamental to modern roadway infrastructure design. We combine advanced design and survey technology to deliver efficient solutions — from complete streets to complex freeway interchanges. Our roadways prioritize safety for pedestrians and cars alike, utilizing innovative designs and advanced traffic signal technologies to improve traffic safety.
Roads
Safety and sustainability are fundamental to modern roadway design. We combine advanced design and survey technology to deliver efficient solutions — from complete streets to complex freeway interchanges. Our roadways prioritize safety for pedestrians and cars alike, utilizing innovative designs and advanced traffic signal technologies.
Supply Chain and Logistics
When every link matters, location intelligence strengthens the chain. We provide end-to-end, customizable mapping and modeling for transportation networks, enabling real-time monitoring, asset management, and data-driven decisions worldwide.
Traffic and Safety
Woolpert’s skilled traffic and safety team is comprised of professionals with more than 100 years of collective experience in traffic engineering and safety. Our team has a wide range of experience, from data collection through project development to final construction. To Woolpert, traffic engineering involves all modes of transportation, from pedestrians to motor vehicles. We analyze and design for bicycle, pedestrian, vehicular, and mass transit within the context of each individual community for their safe and efficient operation and interaction, often within the same space.
Trails and Shared-Use Paths
Trails and greenways are essential for connecting communities and fostering vitality. We lead projects ranging from straight, level rail-to-trail conversions to soft-surface hiking paths through campgrounds. By combining expertise in transportation, planning, and landscape architecture, we create sustainable networks of bicycle and pedestrian facilities, greenways, and multi-use trails.
Transit
Our transit and multimodal surface transportation designs foster growth. Whether multimodal hubs, inviting stations, or advanced people movers, our solutions elevate user experience and secure future scalability. Our on-staff experts streamline projects to deliver infrastructure that inspires travelers and connects cities.
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