Alex Rixey, AICP is a Senior Transportation Planner with Fehr & Peers DC. Alex has diverse, multimodal transportation and land use project experience at a variety of geographic scales, ranging from single development sites to regional long range plans. Alex has led projects serving public- and private-sector clients, including travel demand modeling; transportation and parking studies; master plan, transit neighborhood plan, and mobility element development; and data analysis and visualization, with an emphasis on analyzing the effects of built environment and demographic characteristics on demand for all modes of travel.
Alex has combined his passions for quantitative analysis and bicycling by developing a bike sharing ridership model. In the transit space, he combined General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) data with cellphone-based big data to pilot an innovative transit market analysis methodology. Alex has also recently worked to develop multimodal transportation performance measures that incorporate land use, transportation, and accessibility factors for auto, transit, bicycle, and pedestrian modes as alternatives to the traditional Level of Service metric.
He is an active member of Fehr & Peers’ FP Think initiative evaluating and forecasting the effects of Automated Vehicles (AVs) and Transportation Network Companies (TNCs) on future travel behavior.