New River Valley Regional Commission. (2018). Town of Floyd Comprehensive Plan Update 2018. Prepared for the Town of Floyd, Virginia.

Draft Plan

New River Valley Regional Commission. (2018). Giles County Comprehensive Plan: 2018 Update. Prepared for Giles County, Virginia.

The Giles County Comprehensive Plan is a policy document that provides direction for an orderly and harmonious physical, social, environmental, and economic development of the county and that reflects the community’s decisions to promote public health, safety and general welfare. The GIS technician and myself conducted analysis and created numerous maps to assist the planning process and guide policy decisions. Currently pending adoption.

Draft Plan

New River Valley Regional Commission. (2018). Regional Freight Plan for Virginia's New River Valley. Prepared for the New River Valley Municipal Planning Organization.

The Regional Freight Plan for Virginia's New River Valley has four major objectives: review internal and external factors contributing to the regional freight profile; identify the critical freight network; analyze the largest freight generators by volume, value, and trips; and document ideas, insights, and barriers regarding local freight connections. Key to project was the investigation of IHS Markit's Transearch dataset which captured approximately 110,000 freight trips by truck, rail, and air. Specific deliverables I produced for the plan include over one hundred maps and visualizations tackling issues including trip proximity and directionality, corridor traffic volumes, and local freight agent clusters. The current draft version has been approve pending revisions.

Plan Summary

New River Valley Regional Commission. (2018). Radford Transit Bus Stop Safety and Accessibility Study. Prepared for Radford Transit.

Recipient of NADO's 2018 Innovation Award

The Radford Transit Bus Study was developed to prioritize capital improvements to current bus stops. Radford Transit serves not only Radford University and the City of Radford, it also provides public access to other New River Valley and national transit systems. Fifty stops were evaluated against more than thirty-five criteria. I played a small part by analyzing geospatial crash data for gauging stop safety.

Appendix

New River Valley Regional Commission. (2018). Pulaski Area Transit Bus Stop Safety and Accessibility Study. Prepared for Pulaski Area Transit.

Recipient of NADO's 2018 Innovation Award

The Pulaski Area Transit Bus Study was developed to prioritize capital improvements to current bus stops. Pulaski Area Transit serves not only the Town of Pulaski, the Town of Dublin, Pulaski County, and New River Valley Community College, it also provides connections to other New River Valley and national transit systems. Fourty-three stops were evaluated against more than thirty-five criteria. I played a small part by analyzing geospatial crash data for gauging stop safety.

Appendix

New River Valley Regional Commission. (2017). City of Radford: Comprehensive Plan 2017. Prepared for the City of Radford.

The City of Radford’s Comprehensive Plan provides guidance for future development by identifying the  factors that are integral to the character of the city and making relevant planning policy recommendations. More than twenty mapping products were produced by the GIS department as part of the larger plan.

New River Valley Regional Commission. (2017). New River Valley Hazard Mitigation Plan: Update 2017. Prepared for the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Virginia Department of Emergency Management.

The plan was carried out on behalf of the participating local governments of the New River Valley and under the supervision of a steering committee composed of stakeholders from the region. I, with the assistance of the GIS technician, had the responsibility of retrieving, modeling, analyzing, and conveying background and disaster data. This plan includes approximately 70 maps of the the New River Valley and it's localities.

New River Valley Regional Commission. (2017). River Center Action Plan: Giles County, Virginia. Prepared for Friends of Southwest Virginia and Giles County, Virginia.

Recipient of NADO's 2018 Innovation Award

The River Center Action Plan built on Giles County initiatives to further develop its tourism and recreation economy, focused around the New River. Funded through the POWER Initiative, the project touched topics like outdoor recreation customer characteristics and whitewater park site suitability. I had the pleasure of contributing to the plan's mapping and analysis as part of the GIS team.

New River Valley Regional Commission. (2017). Prices Fork Area Planning Summary. Prepared for Montgomery County, Virginia.

The purpose of the report was to coordinate planning and development activitives around Prices Fork between Montgomery County,  the Town of Blacksburg, Virginia Tech, and the Virginia Tech Foundation in preparation for the upcoming village plan. The mapping and data analysis work was conducted by a team that included myself, the GIS technician, and the deputy executive director.

New River Valley Regional Commission. (2016). New River Valley MPO Regional Transit Study. Prepared for the New River Valley Municipal Planning Organization.

This report reviewed public transit in the New River Valley and highlighted areas for growth and collaboration. Along with other crucial GIS staff, I contributed to mapping and conducted proximity analyses of service areas to key demographic groups.

New River Valley Regional Commission. (2016). New River Valley Passenger Rail Study. Prepared for the New River Valley Municipal Planning Organization.

Recipient of NADO's 2016 Excellence in Regional Transportation Award

The study compared and contrasted six passenger rail site finalists against 32 criteria. I had the opportunity to play a large part not only in supplying cartographic resources for the report but in developing and executing the model for calculating the proximity distribution of ridership to various sites.

New River Valley Regional Commission. (2016). Montgomery County Parks and Recreation Master Plan. Prepared for Montgomery County, Virginia.

The Montgomery County Parks and Recreation Plan provides a vision for the parks and rec department over the next 20 years―especially considering the county's exceptional level of projected growth. While the much of the planning work was done prior to my joining the New River Valley Regional Commission, I assisted in finalizing the mapping and demographic analysis.

New River Valley Regional Commission. (2016). Gatewood Park Master Plan. Prepared for the Town of Pulaski, Virginia.

Gatewood Park and Reservoir serves as the potable water source for the Town of Pulaski and a unique recreation asset. The purpose of making the master plan was: to identify existing characteristics of the property; to develop conceptual ideas to improve or preserve existing conditions; and to create strategies for future development opportunities. I, along with the director of planning and programs and the previous data systems manager, prepared maps of the park its facilities.