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William E. Frawley

William E. Frawley

Research Scientist
Urban Analysis Program
Texas Transportation Institute
Texas A&M University System
110 N. Davis Dr. Ste 101
Arlington, TX 76013
ph. (817) 462-0533 · fax (817) 461-1239
w-frawley@tamu.edu
Homepage: http://ttiresearch.tamu.edu/b-frawley

Short Biography

Bill Frawley is a Research Scientist in the Urban Analysis Program, located in the Arlington office. He has been involved in transportation and land use planning since 1990.

After earning a Master of Urban Planning degree, he began his professional career with the Charlotte County, Florida Planning Department. Mr. Frawley gained in-depth zoning, comprehensive planning and growth management experience as Chief Planner. In 1992 Mr. Frawley was assigned the task of coordinating the establishment of the Charlotte County-Punta Gorda Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) and became its first director.

In 1993 Mr. Frawley joined the TTI staff and has worked primarily on projects for the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT). Mr. Frawley has been a principal investigator or task leader on several research and interagency projects involving access management, traffic data collection issues, MPO processes, congestion mitigation techniques, and STIP development.

Mr. Frawley co-led the development of an access management guidebook that TxDOT used to create a draft access management manual. He also developed a new method for randomly selecting traffic count sites used to estimate local street vehicle miles traveled that TxDOT is incorporating into its traffic data collection process.

Professional Interests

Transportation

Demand

Management

Transportation system management

Land use

Planning by facility or land use

Education

B.S., Geography, Texas A&M University.

M.U.P., Urban And Regional Science, Texas A&M University.

Experience

Research Scientist, Urban Analysis Program, Texas Transportation Institute, September 2002 - Present.

Associate Research Scientist, Urban Analysis Program, Texas Transportation Institute, May 1997 - August 2002.

Assistant Research Scientist, Urban Analysis Program, Texas Transportation Institute, February 1993 - April 1997.

MPO Director, Charlotte County-Punta Gorda Metropolitan Planning Organization, 1992 - January 1993.

Chief Planner, Charlotte County Planning Department, 1991 - January 1992.

Planner II, Charlotte County Planning Department, 1990 - January 1991.

Graduate Research Assistant, Texas Transportation Institute, January 1990 - May 1990.

Professional Internship, City of Livingston, 1989 - December 1989.

Professional Internship, Schrickel, Rollins and Associates, 1987 - December 1987.

Affiliations

Member, American Institute of Certified Planners.

Member, American Planning Association.

Honors/Awards

Scholarship, American Planning Association.

Selected Publications

B.S. Bochner, L.L. Higgins, W.E. Frawley, R. Cheu. Research Report: Guidance on Mitigating Impacts of Large DistriIbution Centers on Texas Highways. 0-5335-1. Texas Transportation Institute, College Station, TX. 2009.

B.S. Bochner, L.L. Higgins, W.E. Frawley, R. Cheu, K. Fitzpatrick, E.N. Hard, R.R. Longmire, D.R. Middleton, C. Morgan, A.J. Wimsatt. Guidance on Mitigating Impacts of Large Distribution Centers on Texas Highways. PSR. 0-5335-S. Texas Transportation Institute, College Station, TX. October 2009.

W.E. Frawley, W.L. Eisele. Texas Access Management Outreach Materials. Research Report. 5-4221-01-P1. Texas Transportation Institute, College Station, TX. May 2008.

W.L. Eisele, W.E. Frawley. Recommended Access Management Guidelines for Texas. Technical Report. 0-4141-2. Texas Transportation Institute, College Station, TX. August 2006.

W.L. Eisele, W.E. Frawley. Estimating the Safety and Operational Impacts of Raised Medians and Driveway Density: Experiences from Texas and Oklahoma Case Studies. Transportation Research Record, No. 1931, 2005.

W.E. Frawley, W.L. Eisele. Access Management Guidebook for Texas. Product. 0-4141-P3. Texas Transportation Institute, College Station, TX. June 2005.

W.E. Frawley, W.L. Eisele. Summary of Access Management Impacts: Access Point Density and Raised Medians. PSR. 0-4221-S. Texas Transportation Institute, College Station, TX. May 2005.

E.N. Hard, W.L. Eisele, W.E. Frawley. Benefits of TxDOT Involvement in Local Development Review: Summary Report. PSR. 0-4429-S. Texas Transportation Institute, College Station, TX. March 2005.

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