Industry Communications: Spring 2022
By Phil Carter
For more than a decade, Jon Markt has championed teen driver safety and safe traffic planning thanks to his expertise as a traffic engineer and transportation planner at HDR. He has also garnered regional and national acclaim in dynamic traffic assignment models, predictive safety analysis models and planning for autonomous and connected vehicles.
Markt’s achievements in traffic engineering earned him a place on ENR Midwest’s Top Young Professionals for 2022, a who’s who of emerging design and construction leaders from the region. The list honors people who have built strong industry portfolios and donate significant time and expertise to their communities. The 2022 edition features construction professionals, architects and engineers who overcame the odds to make a difference for their company and community.
As project manager for the Interstate 80 Automated Corridor Study, Markt reviewed the impact that autonomous vehicles will have on how agencies and transportation professionals approach future infrastructure investment as well as the planning and design of corridor projects.
Markt earned a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a master’s degree from the University of Texas at Austin. When he’s not solving traffic or transportation planning issues, Markt finds time to promote teen driver safety with presentations at area high schools.