What Skipper Consulting does

Skipper Consulting Inc is a privately held professional engineering services firm headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, founded in May 1998. The firm operates as a niche specialist rather than a generalist consultancy, concentrating exclusively on traffic engineering, transportation planning, and parking consulting. Its client base is anchored by state and local government transportation agencies (most visibly the Alabama Department of Transportation) and extends into adjacent end-markets including professional sports venues (Regions Park / Birmingham Barons) and educational institutions. Service delivery is regional in scope, covering Alabama, Florida, Tennessee, Georgia, and Mississippi, with individual professional staff licensed to practice across essentially all southeastern states.

The firm's technical toolkit is built entirely on industry-standard engineering software — AutoCad for design drafting, HCS (Highway Capacity Software) for roadway capacity analysis, Synchro for signal timing and intersection analysis, and VISSIM for microsimulation. No proprietary technology stack, data assets, or AI/ML components are described. Service offerings span traffic engineering design, transportation planning studies, intelligent transportation systems (ITS) design, transit planning, and bike/pedestrian infrastructure planning, all delivered as discrete project engagements rather than recurring subscriptions.

The business model is project-based and quote-driven. Revenue is generated through direct client engagement and competitive RFP responses, with pricing negotiated per engagement rather than on a standardized SaaS or per-seat basis. The firm is small (11-50 employees), with a deeply experienced professional bench averaging roughly 19 years of industry experience and collectively representing 170+ years of practice. The firm describes itself on its own careers page as "well-established and growing," and currently posts entry-level engineering openings — a modest but real headcount signal. There is no public indication of funding activity, M&A, ownership transitions, or leadership changes.

Name

Skipper Consulting

Legal name

Skipper Consulting Inc

Website

https://skipperinc.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1998

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Skipper Consulting is a Birmingham, Alabama-based engineering firm founded in 1998 that provides traffic engineering, transportation planning, and parking consulting services to state DOTs, local governments, sports venues, and educational institutions across the southeastern United States.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Birmingham

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Engineering Consulting Services: Professional engineering consulting services for traffic engineering, transportation planning, and parking consulting provided to government agencies and private clients on a project-by-project basis. Revenue is generated through consulting contracts, feasibility studies, design services, and ongoing planning engagements.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Skipper Consulting is an Alabama-based engineering firm that provides professional traffic engineering, transportation planning, and parking consulting services to state and local transportation departments, municipalities, sports venues, and educational institutions across the southeastern United States. The firm delivers services across the full project lifecycle — from conceptual layout and long-range planning through complete design and construction — using industry-standard traffic analysis and simulation tools. It is authorized to provide engineering services in Alabama, Florida, Tennessee, Georgia, and Mississippi, with individual staff licensed to practice in all southeastern states.

Product overview

Skipper Consulting offers a unified suite of transportation consulting services centered around three core practice areas: traffic engineering, transportation planning, and parking consulting. The company delivers these services as an integrated consulting offering rather than a modular software product. Its expertise spans traffic signal design and intelligent transportation systems, long-range transportation and corridor planning, parking studies and shared parking plans, transit system development, and bike/pedestrian infrastructure planning. These service lines are delivered by a professional staff with over 170 years of collective experience in the transportation engineering field.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Traffic Engineering Services Comprehensive traffic engineering services covering all project stages from conceptual layout through complete design and construction, including Adaptive Signal Systems, Access Management Studies, Traffic Signal Design, Intelligent Transportation Systems, Corridor Improvement Studies, Event Traffic Operations, Railroad Crossings, Temporary Traffic Control Plans, and Roundabout Designs and Analysis. Delivered to state DOTs, municipalities, and private clients seeking to optimize roadway efficiency.
• Transportation Planning Services Transportation planning services ranging from long-range community needs to detailed corridor-level analysis, including Long Range Transportation Planning, Interchange Justification Studies, Traffic Impact Studies, Travel Demand Modeling, Downtown Parking Studies, Campus Parking Assessments, Toll Studies, Safety Studies, Campus Master Planning, School Circulation Studies, and Noise Impact Studies.
• Parking Consulting Parking consulting services including Downtown Parking Studies, Campus Parking Assessments, and shared parking plan development for stadiums, mixed-use developments, and other high-demand venues. Provides recommendations on parking supply, layout, and cooperative arrangements with adjacent parking facility owners.
• Transit Planning Transit system development for campuses, metropolitan areas, and rural transit systems, including Mass Transit Planning, route plans, schedules, stop locations, bus sizing, and Campus Transit Systems.
• Bike and Pedestrian Planning

Quantifiable outcome

• Up to 35% decrease in commute times
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers2 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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Feature4 records

Scale indicators3 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• GHD: Global engineering and consulting firm with US transportation practices covering traffic and planning services. Competes with Skipper in the same procurement channels, especially on multi-disciplinary state and municipal contracts in the Southeast.
• VHB: Northeast and Southeast-based engineering firm with a significant transportation practice covering traffic engineering, planning, and parking — directly competitive with Skipper in the Southeast. Larger scale and broader service portfolio place it in the incumbent category despite a regional footprint.
• WSP: Global professional services firm with a large US transportation infrastructure practice overlapping Skipper's traffic and transportation planning services. Competes in the same DOT and municipal procurement environment, typically on larger and longer-duration contracts.
• AECOM: Global engineering services giant whose transportation practice covers traffic engineering, corridor planning, and ITS at a scale Skipper cannot match. Competes for the same state DOT work in the Southeast, often as a prime on multi-disciplinary mega-contracts where Skipper would be a subconsultant.
• Stantec: Global engineering and consulting firm with a North American transportation practice that includes traffic engineering, transportation planning, and parking consulting. Competes for the same government and institutional clients as Skipper, typically as a broader full-service provider.
• Kimley-Horn: One of the largest US engineering consulting firms with a substantial traffic engineering and transportation planning practice that directly overlaps Skipper's core services. Its scale, multi-state presence, and full-service capabilities make it Skipper's most important broad competitor for state DOT and municipal work.

Regional players

• Lochmueller Group: Indiana-based mid-sized engineering firm with a strong transportation planning and traffic engineering practice. Comparable in size and service mix to Skipper, but serving the Midwest rather than the Southeast, making it a regional analog rather than a direct competitor.
• Rummel, Klepper & Kahl (RK&K): Mid-Atlantic transportation and infrastructure engineering firm with comparable traffic and transportation planning services. Slightly larger than Skipper and operating in a different region (Maryland/Pennsylvania/Virginia), but the closest East Coast regional peer in terms of service mix.

Direct peers

• Fehr & Peers: Walnut Creek, California-based transportation engineering firm focused on traffic operations, multimodal planning, and parking — directly overlapping Skipper's three core practice areas. Similar size and a strong record on corridor and parking studies make it a high-relevance comparable.
• Kittelson & Associates: Portland, Oregon-based transportation engineering and planning firm with a comparable specialty focus on traffic operations, planning, and research. Similar size and boutique positioning make it the closest comparable to Skipper in terms of practice area, though it operates primarily on the West Coast.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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