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Transportation Engineering & GIS

Areas of Activity

Simulation and Modeling of Motor Vehicle and Pedestrian Traffic

Development of digital imaging of planned and existing infrastructures, to manage not only train and motor vehicle traffic but also pedestrian traffic. We use these computerized models to assess the efficacy and the design appropriateness of proposed plans prior to implementation and to test improvement plans intended for implementation in existing traffic systems.

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Planning Traffic-Signal Priority and Preemption Systems

Develop and write the guiding rationales for traffic signal prioritization systems (prioritizing public transit lines) and preemption systems (to ensure clear passage for emergency vehicles). Test and assess the efficacy of smart traffic lights, and formulate planning guidelines for such systems.

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Planning Public Transit and Personal Transportation Networks

Predict and analyze traffic network needs; engage in strategic planning; prepare masterplans of traffic networks, and consider their overall impact on transportation. Design public transit lines, addressing all aspects, including conceptual, strategic, and detailed planning.

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Planning Traffic Patterns and Traffic Lights

Prepare carefully engineered solutions for transportation infrastructure, addressing every planning phase (from the initial blueprint, through detailed design specifications, to final project implementation) and every aspect on the transportation service spectrum (including traffic lights, provisional traffic arrangements, and parking facilities).

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Road Planning and Design

Geometric design of intercity and interstate highways, as well as urban roads in challenging topographies. This includes coordination of infrastructure and drainage systems, estimation of construction quantities and costs, and supervision of construction and implementation in the field. We offer “supervisory planning” for more complex projects, which includes overseeing the planning and management of each of the disciplines involved.

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Designing Systems for Traffic Monitoring (ITS) Signage

Control and monitoring of traffic lights, sensors, cameras, and electronic communication and signs, using advanced technologies, to ensure effective traffic management and optimal utilization of transportation infrastructure, both existing and planned.

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Railway Operations and Operation Programs

Testing the operation of existing and planned (light and heavy) rail lines, in correlation with the physical infrastructure and traffic signal constraints. Testing the functionality of light-rail lines that run along signal-controlled roads shared by automobiles, bicycles, and pedestrians.

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Development of Transportation Databases and Geographic Information Systems

Data collection and documentation, as well as quality control management of transportation databases. Construction of data analytics layers for extracting various measures and further analysis of transportation systems. Development of geographic databases relevant to the field of transportation, based on data collected either by our company or by the client.

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About us

Elia Engineering is an Israeli planning and consulting company specializing in transportation engineering and Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Founded in 1996 by Elia Ben Shabbat as a small provider of transportation simulations, the company has developed and expanded its activities over the last 30 years to include numerous fields of expertise.
Nowadays, Elia Engineering is a one-stop shop for everything related to transportation engineering, having completed some of the most significant and large-scale infrastructure projects in Israel.
Alongside the planning and engineering of transportation infrastructures, traffic patterns, and traffic-light projects, we focus on planning private and public transportation networks using the latest simulation technologies and, most recently, geographic information systems. Based on our company’s wide variety of successfully completed projects and the collective multidisciplinary expertise of our team, Elia Engineering brings a holistic perspective that benefits all our clients and projects.

Quality and innovation are the underlying values that guide the activities of Elia Engineering. We adhere strictly to professional quality processes and standards, thus ensuring optimal design outcomes and preventing undesired compromises later in the implementation stages.

The principle of innovation is manifested in our use of state-of-the-art design tools, our uniquely tailored work processes, and our responsible involvement in new and challenging projects for our clients.
Having a solid professional foundation and a bold management approach enables us to follow these two principles.
Over the last couple of years, Elia Engineering has been developing a GIS database to analyze public transportation networks in Israel, incorporating big data from various transportation-related sources. Our in-house development team oversees the documentation and updating of this GIS database, called CityPulse. The CityPulse system constitutes an important asset for Elia Engineering, providing us with unique insights into the workings of complex transportation systems, insights that we then apply to the projects we undertake.
The company holds the ISO 9001: 2015 Certification Of Quality Management and is an authorized supplier for Israel’s Ministry of Defense.

Meet our team of experts

Dr. Elia Ben Shabat

CEO

Dr. Elia Ben Shabbat, a Technion graduate with a PhD in Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), has accumulated 30 years of experience in the field of transportation engineering and traffic management. She was also among those who pioneered the use of simulation models to improve transportation design outcomes as well as the efficacy of the planning process. Since then, she has been on numerous steering committees, setting guidelines and planning principles that have been published by the Ministry of Transportation and other authorities.

Eng. Irit Takatz

VP Traffic and Traffic Light

Irit is a Technion graduate with more than 25 years of experience. As head of the Division of Traffic and Traffic Light Design at Elia Engineering, she is involved in developing Israel’s most important and cutting-edge projects. Her areas of expertise include designing traffic signal priority and preemption systems at intersections, as well as light-rail and Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) lines.

Eng. Shani Lambert

Head of the Division of Simulations and Models

Engineer Lambert is a Technion graduate with an MSc degree in Civil Engineering and has 20 years of experience in the field of transportation engineering. At Elia Engineering, Engineer Lambert is the lead developer of models and simulation tools for a wide range of applications, including transportation networks, transit signal preemption systems, parking facilities, railway operations, and pedestrian traffic patterns.

Rotem Grizmann

Head of Public Transportation Division

With a degree from Hebrew University and 13 years of experience in the field of private and public transportation engineering, Ms. Gritzman heads the transportation division and takes the lead in planning GIS-based projects at Elia Engineering. Her areas of expertise include designing data-oriented transportation solutions, personal and public transportation networks, integrated transport systems, and urban planning focused on mobility and sustainability.

Dr. Michal Leichter

Director of GIS and Data Science Development

Dr. Leichter, who holds a PhD in Geography and Environmental Studies , and has 20 years of experience in the field of Spatial Data Science, with particular expertise in open-source GIS. She has extensive experience developing spatial big data models in the contexts of 3D urban modeling, AI, and neural networks used in computer vision and spatial analysis . In the latter field, Dr. Leichter is proficient also in 3D digital image processing and transportation data and networks analysis.

Tal Fisher

Head of Traffic Signals Division

Mr. Fisher has an undergraduate degree in Industrial Engineering & Management from the Technion and 12 years of field experience in transportation engineering. He is an expert in designing traffic signal prioritization systems and is responsible for these projects at Elia Engineers. He also participates in formulating national guidelines for the design of traffic signal systems and for the effective use of instruments designated for this purpose.

Our Projects

Public transportation database for Netivei Israel

Establishing a database of public transportation passenger data, including those boarding/disembarking at stations, at approximately 5,000 bus stops in Israel.

Maor Junction - Highway 581

A risk center project aimed at making a traffic circle at the entrance to Moshav Maor on road 581.

Planning bicycle paths as part of the "Metrofan" project

Detailed traffic planning for metropolitan bike paths in the Haifa and Krayot areas.

Renovation of "Midar Sinai" Street in Jerusalem

The regularization and upgrading of "Madbar Sinai" street in Jerusalem, arranging parking lots and sidewalks.

Planning a public transportation lane on the right side of Ben Gurion Boulevard, Holon

Planning a public transportation lane on the right side of Ben Gurion Boulevard, Holon, 1.0 km long.

Planning of traffic lights for Haifa Metro

Planning dozens of traffic lights along the three metro routes in Haifa. Planning priority at traffic lights to significantly shorten delay times at intersections and, as a result, shorten the total travel time of the metro along the route.

Pedestrians simulation analysis Ben Gurion airport train station

Operation of an adaptive "smart" traffic light

Planning traffic lights including preference for the light rail lines in Jerusalem

Planning traffic lights including preference for the light rail lines in Jerusalem.

Development and implementation of a public transportation availability index

Methodological development as well as development of planning tools for measuring public transportation availability for the Transportation Master Plan team and the Public Transportation Authority.

A system for managing the distribution of parking spaces for public transportation operators at terminals

Development of a system that calculates the parking needs of buses operating in the public transportation service, divided by operators at terminals throughout the country.

Real-time public transportation data system

An automated, real-time, scheduled system that pulls nationwide data on bus travel locations.

Evaluating the performance of the green, blue and red light rail lines in Jerusalem

Analyzing the expected performance of the planned light rail lines in Jerusalem, for the purpose of assessing the required train fleet, calculating expected speeds and travel rates for each line separately, and as part of the overall system.

Evaluating the performance of the green and purple light rail lines in the Tel Aviv metropolitan area

Highway 781 entrances to Abelin

Arrangement of traffic circles at the entrances to the settlement of Abelin

King George Cycle Path

Traffic planning for a new bicycle path on King George Street, approximately 700 meters long, from the Frishman/Masaryk intersection to the King George/Dizengoff intersection.

Matron of Haifa-Acre

Detailed traffic planning for the Matron route along about 12 km from the center of Kiryat in the south to the Shemarat intersection in the north.

Five-year plan for public transportation in Tel Aviv

A joint team of public transportation planners, in collaboration with the GIS team, prepared a five-year public transportation plan for the Tel Aviv Municipality.

Planning the public transportation system in Beit Shemesh

The city of Beit Shemesh is expected to double its population over the next 20 years and exceed 350,000 residents. In light of this, we conducted a re-planning both at a strategic level and at a detailed level of the city's public transport lines during the city's development period.

Designing preferential traffic lights along the route of the Red Line light rail in Tel Aviv

"Super planning" for the axis of priority traffic lights first of its kind including planning of priority traffic lights along the route. As part of the project, a master planning outline was formulated that was used for additional projects, including work procedures, definition of deliverables, and formulation of planning principles.

Tel Aviv metropolitan hybrid model

The blue and brown simulation model for Tel Aviv metropolis

Analysis for BRT lines in Tel Aviv metropolis

Geometric planning and transport planning - Gush Halab bypass (route 89)

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Planning a green line of the light rail in the Tel Aviv metropolis

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