Six Kimley-Horn Experts Featured in Parking and Mobility

Parking and Mobility May 2023 issue

Parking & Mobility’s May 2023 issue is jam-packed with Kimley-Horn expertise on parking garages, technology, and electric vehicles (EV).

Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) Article

Robert Ferrin, CAPP, and Jeffrey Sallee, PE, co-authored “How Vehicle-to-Grid Technology Creates Passive Income and Eases the Burden of EV Regulations” with Fermata Energy. The article explores the electrification of parking and transportation programs and new revenue opportunities from V2G bidirectional charging systems.

Parking and Expert Spotlights

The magazine’s “Parking Spotlight” featured our University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) Tropicana Parking Garage expansion, led by Ken Ackeret, PE, PTOE, Ph.D.; Ben Henderson, PE, SE; and Thomas Ackeret, PE, PTOE. Kimley-Horn oversaw each phase of the expansion as the client’s trusted advisor, helping stakeholders manage timelines, budgets, and design and construction meetings to create the iconic parking garage.

Last but not least, Nick Mazzenga, PE, was featured in “Ask the Experts,” where he discussed the usage of smartphones in modern parking practices and how there is still a need to serve the 15% of Americans without smartphones.

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About the Experts

Ken Ackeret PE, PTOE, Ph.D.: Ken Ackeret PE, PTOE, Ph.D.

Ken is a practicing principal with over 40+ years of transportation design and planning experience. He offers a unique blend of civil roadway design, conceptual planning, and academic knowledge to address today’s roadway design challenges of safety, stakeholder involvement, schedules, and budgets.
Thomas Ackeret PE, PTOE: Thomas Ackeret PE, PTOE

Thomas is a project engineer with more than 25 years of experience designing and managing civil engineering projects for both municipal and private-sector clients. He has served as a project manager and project engineer for multiple large-scale institutional, hospitality, and commercial projects throughout the U.S. and Canada.
Robert Ferrin CAPP Parking and Mobility Practice Lead: Robert Ferrin CAPP

Parking and Mobility Practice Lead

For more than 20 years, Robert has specialized in smart city solutions, urban and economic development, transportation planning, and asset management. Robert joined Kimley-Horn after nearly five years with the City of Columbus, where he led the Parking Services team as a Department of Public Service assistant director. Before his role in Columbus, he held parking and mobility leadership roles in Colorado and North Carolina. Robert currently sits on the International Parking & Mobility Institute (IPMI) Board, where he advances smart cities, research and innovation, and electrification.

Ben Henderson PE, SE : Ben Henderson PE, SE 

Ben is a parking consultant and registered structural engineer with more than 18 years of experience in the functional design of parking structures and the design of parking access and revenue control systems. He brings this unique skill set during the concept development and design phase of each project, leading to well-planned parking facilities tailored to clients’ needs. Ben specializes in structural rehabilitation, remediation, and durable structural design that provides clients additional assurance of parking facilities with lower life cycle costs and longer service lives.
Nick Mazzenga PE Transportation Engineer: Nick Mazzenga PE

Transportation Engineer

Nick is a parking and transportation technology engineer with more than 15 years of experience, including planning, design, procurement, integration, and program management for parking, transit, and traffic systems. He specializes in assessing, designing, and integrating parking access and revenue control, parking guidance, and intelligent transportation systems. Nick focuses on implementing sustainable technology solutions and supporting long-term operations and maintenance efficiency, and he has performed parking technology assessments for a range of airport, municipal, university, and healthcare institution clients.
Jeffrey Sallee PE: Jeffrey Sallee PE

Jeffrey has nearly two decades of experience as an electrical design engineer. His primary focus is the design of power, backup power, lighting, and communications systems for facilities. Jeffrey started as an electrical engineer for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Since joining Kimley-Horn in 2013, Jeffrey has transitioned to project management and design for electric vehicle charging stations, pump stations, intelligent transportation systems, and telecommunications facilities and equipment. Jeffrey has designed more than 1,000 EV charging station sites for public and private clients nationwide.