Santa Clara – Alum Rock Bus Rapid Transit

Stephanie served as the civil transportation design engineer for the preliminary plans and estimates for this Santa Clara VTA project. This complex public infrastructure project included 21 new stations, pedestrian walkways, mixed-use lanes, dedicated bus lanes, and median station configurations. The BRT design included build-outs for bus stops with shortened pedestrian crossings and raised platforms, and applied the latest safety design innovations using concepts from street-running light rail projects. Station architecture included iconic branding, solar-powered station lighting, CCTV cameras, Real Time Information Systems (RTIS), and emergency telephones, along with a continuous fiber-optic communication system and transit signal priority. Stephanie’s project designs included median busway designs along a major arterial, with side-running and median BRT station designs in the City of San Jose. These designs led to the construction of roadway improvements including ADA compliance and multimodal designs, and her work included preliminary station civil design and pavement delineation per City of San Jose and Caltrans standards.