Richard A. “Rick” Hall, P.E., is President of HPE. Based on his extensive transportation planning and conceptual design experience, the firm focuses on both Planning and Preliminary Engineering, especially the vital interface between Planning and Design. Transportation aspects of community plans, subarea/sector plans and corridor studies are key HPE emphasis areas. Expert witness, public participation and charrette tasks are routinely performed by HPE and traffic engineering, site impact studies and private and public growth management related studies are also special skills. Other practice areas of the firm include hurricane evacuation studies and calculation of the all important evacuation clearance times and specialty data collection including origin/destination and trip generation studies.

Mr. Hall serves as a Visiting Professor in the Florida State University Department of Urban and Regional Planning where he teaches land use and transportation courses at the master's degree level. Extensive readings in the "New Urbanism," Neo-traditional neighborhood design and other emerging concepts led to a strengthened commitment to land use based transportation planning. Beyond just connecting land uses with pipe-like fittings, streets and other modal facilities should encourage desired development. This academic background combined with active charrette and workshop design experience makes the firm uniquely qualified to deal with controversial transportation and land use projects. Rick’s resume

Edward R. “Ted” Mack, Jr., AICP, is Senior Project Manager. He has extensive experience in land use planning, transportation planning, and land development regulations, both as a consultant and with a local government planning agency. He has also directed the planning activities of a major housing-related trade association and has taught courses in urban planning as an adjunct professor in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Florida State University.

As a consultant in Tampa and Tallahassee, Mr. Mack has primarily served city, county and private clients in Florida and the Southeast. In the public realm, he was Chief of Comprehensive Planning and Planning Director of the Tallahassee-Leon County Planning Department. Mr. Mack is expert in working with interested citizens, review committees, elected officials, and other governmental agencies to resolve local planning issues. Ted’s resume

DeWayne Carver, AICP, is a Project Manager with the firm. He has practiced transportation planning for 11 years. He gained extensive experience in transportation planning, transit planning and transportation demand management while working for the Capital City Transportation Management Association, Commuter Services of North Florida, Florida State University, and the City of Tallahassee (TalTran).

Mr. Carver graduated in Urban Studies from the University of Tennessee and as a Master of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His specialties include transit-oriented design, project management, and alternative transportation. DeWayne’s resume