Mr. Elias is an Engineering Associate in the Oakland Office of Kittelson & Associates (which merged with Dowling Associates in January 2012). He has extensive knowledge of the multimodal level of service methodology developed through applications on various projects and development of software to implement the methodology. Applications of the methodology include various topics from multimodal additions to general plan updates to analyses of multimodal impacts of road diets and new developments. In addition to project work using multimodal level of service, Mr. Elias has given multiple presentations on the subject and taught a number of all-day training courses. These training courses have focused on teaching the methodology, techniques for acquiring the necessary data and how to apply it using software.