Transportation Engineering Northwest

What Transportation Engineering Northwest does

Transportation Engineering Northwest (TENW) is a privately held transportation planning and design consulting firm founded in 1999 and headquartered in Kirkland, Washington. The firm holds professional engineering licensure across 12 Western US states (Alaska, Arizona, California, Idaho, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Washington, Wyoming) and delivers an integrated suite of consulting services spanning feasibility and due diligence, traffic impact analysis, parking and illumination design, roadway/intersection/roundabout design, EV charging infrastructure, small cell wireless site development, entitlement and SEPA approval, ADA compliance, expert witness testimony, master planning, and construction support.

The firm's client base is horizontally diversified across public agencies and private developers in commercial/retail, healthcare (notably Overlake Hospital Medical Center), government (King County Metro, Issaquah School District), gaming/hospitality (Emerald Queen Casino/Puyallup Tribe), telecommunications (Verizon small cell wireless), and mixed-use development (Southport). Several engagements span multiple decades, including continuous work with the Puyallup Tribe since 2002 and Southport since 2000, reflecting long-duration project-based relationships rather than transactional sales.

TENW earns revenue through project-based professional consulting engagements at custom-quoted fees determined by scope, complexity, and client requirements, with no published pricing, software products, or productized offerings. The firm operates with a small leadership team (Chairman Jeff Haynie, President Chandler Waldal, and Principals including Amy Wasserman, Chris Bicket, and Chris Forster) supported by senior project managers, project managers, and project engineers. Distribution is direct-to-client enterprise field sales with no disclosed intermediaries, partnerships, or external capital; the firm is founder/management-owned with no identified private equity or parent company involvement.

Name

Transportation Engineering Northwest

Legal name

Transportation Engineering Northwest

Website

https://tenw.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1999

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Transportation Engineering Northwest (TENW) is a privately held transportation planning and design consulting firm headquartered in Kirkland, WA, serving public agencies and private developers across 12 Western US states with traffic, parking, roadway, EV charging, and small cell wireless engineering services.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Transportation Engineering Consulting

NAICS

Engineering Services (54133), Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services (5413)

SIC

Services-Engineering Services (8711), Services-Engineering, Accounting, Research, Management (8700)

akta.pro primary industry

Transportation & Traffic Engineering Consulting (BPAHAIAC)

akta.pro secondary industries

Transportation & Infrastructure Planning (BPAHAKAF), Connected Traffic Signal Systems & Signal Priority (TSP/EVP) via V2X (TLAJAHAH), Asset Inspection, Monitoring & Digital O&M (Sensors/SHM, Drones, CMMS/EAM) (TLAJAAAK)

Keywords

• Transportation engineering consulting
• Traffic impact analysis
• Transportation planning services
• Roadway design consulting
• Parking design services

Headquarters

HQ city

Bellevue

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Transportation Planning & Design Consulting: Professional consulting services revenue generated through project-based engagements for transportation planning, feasibility studies, entitlement processing, design, and construction support for both public and private sector clients.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

Transportation Engineering Northwest (TENW) is a professional consulting firm delivering transportation planning and design services across the project lifecycle — feasibility and due diligence, entitlement/SEPA processing, traffic analysis, roadway/intersection/roundabout and traffic signal design, parking analysis, EV charging and small cell wireless infrastructure design, illumination design, ADA compliance, and construction support. The firm serves public agencies and private developers on commercial, healthcare, education, residential, mixed-use, and public roadway projects throughout the Western United States.

Product overview

Transportation Engineering Northwest (TENW) is a transportation planning and design consulting firm that offers a unified suite of professional services rather than discrete software products. The core offering combines transportation planning, feasibility studies, entitlement and permitting, and design services across multiple specialized areas including traffic analysis, roadway/intersection/roundabout design, EV charging infrastructure, small cell wireless facilities, parking analysis, illumination design, and ADA compliance. These services are delivered as an integrated consulting engagement rather than modular software products, serving diverse clients including commercial, healthcare, educational, residential, and public sector projects throughout the Northwest United States.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Transportation Planning & Design Consulting End-to-end transportation planning and design consulting spanning feasibility, entitlement, design, and construction support for public agencies and private developers across commercial, healthcare, education, residential, and mixed-use projects.

Named customers6 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• HDR: HDR is a global engineering and architecture firm with a significant transportation practice covering highways, transit, and traffic engineering. It competes with TENW on larger public infrastructure projects across the Western U.S.
• Stantec: Stantec is a global engineering, architecture, and environmental services firm with transportation infrastructure capabilities. It overlaps with TENW on roadway, traffic, and multimodal planning for public-sector clients.
• AECOM: AECOM is a global infrastructure consulting firm with a large transportation planning and design practice. It competes with TENW on major public-sector transit and roadway engagements across the Western U.S.
• WSP USA: WSP is a global engineering consultancy with a major transportation planning and design practice. It competes with TENW on large public-sector transportation RFPs, particularly for state DOT and large municipal clients in the West.
• Kimley-Horn: Kimley-Horn is one of the largest U.S. transportation engineering and planning consulting firms. It offers overlapping traffic, roadway, and signal design services but operates at much greater scale and geographic reach than TENW.

Regional players

• Otak: Otak is a Pacific Northwest architecture, engineering, and planning firm with a transportation practice. Comparable to TENW in serving public agencies and private developers with multimodal planning and design services in the Northwest.
• DKS Associates: DKS Associates is a Pacific Northwest-based transportation planning and engineering firm headquartered in Oakland with strong presence in Washington and Oregon. Directly comparable to TENW in service offering and regional focus.
• Transpo Group: Transpo Group is a Pacific Northwest transportation engineering and planning firm based in Kirkland, WA. It competes head-to-head with TENW in traffic engineering, signal design, and roadway planning across the same Washington state geography.

Direct peers

• Fehr & Peers: Fehr & Peers is a national transportation planning and traffic engineering consulting firm. It is the closest direct peer to TENW, offering traffic impact analysis, multimodal planning, and design services to public and private clients.
• Kittelson & Associates: Kittelson & Associates is a transportation engineering and planning consulting firm with similar service mix (traffic operations, signal design, corridor studies) and a comparable size and employee-owned culture to TENW.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks2 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles7 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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