Kamala Parks

Kamala Parks joined Dowling Associates as an Associate Transportation Planner after obtaining her Masters degrees in Transportation Planning and Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley, with a concentration on International and Comparative Planning. Since joining Dowling Associates, she has done extensive work preparing planning-related documents (traffic impact studies, parking studies, circulation elements of EIRs, and transportation management programs), performing traffic operations analyses, and conducting research. Her areas of expertise include non-motorized transportation (bicycle and pedestrian), ADA compliance, streetscape projects, collision analysis, school and religious site studies, and mixed-use projects.

Previous to joining Dowling Associates, Kamala was a Graduate Student Researcher for UC Berkeley’s Transportation Center under Elizabeth Deakin, where she worked on the Bay Area Regional Express Bus Study and was a key staff person on a project for the Livermore Amador Valley Transit Authority (LAVTA), providing passenger safety and ADA compliance recommendations for bus stops. She also interned for the Office of Transportation at the City of Berkeley, where she managed citizen complaints and aided the bicycle and pedestrian planner, Carolyn Helmke, with the installation of Bicycle Boulevards. Additionally, she served as the interim Bicycle and Pedestrian Planner for the City of Berkeley, where she implemented a pilot project to discourage bicycle riding on sidewalks, performed analysis of bicycle-involved collisions, and authored a report analyzing a 5-year history of pedestrian-involved collisions.