Laycee Kolkman, P.E., PTOE

“Transportation safety is our top priority at HDR. We look to incorporate the Safe System Approach in all our projects, including traffic engineering, planning and design.”

As our traffic engineering director, Laycee has devoted nearly three decades to developing solutions to address our client's most pressing traffic challenges, including safety, operational and congestion concerns. She collaborates with traffic engineers and planners to design and test innovative interchange and intersection configurations that enhance mobility for our clients. She’s committed to improving all modes of transportation, including vulnerable road users, understanding that enhancing both safety and mobility contributes to a better quality of life in communities we serve.

Laycee works with our traffic modeling and traffic design staff to provide advanced solutions to complex traffic challenges. These solutions include predictive safety analysis, enhanced traffic simulation techniques and engineering designs that include active traffic management systems.

With a passion for operations analysis and emerging technologies, Laycee is looking ahead to understand how innovation in various means of transportation will impact future traffic conditions. She is excited about tracking and incorporating these trends into our traffic engineering practice.

In 2016, Laycee was named the Institute of Transportation Engineers Colorado/Wyoming Engineer of the Year. She is also affiliated with the American Public Works Association and the ITE.