Stuart has 30 years of experience in transportation planning, parking strategy studies, traffic engineering, and road safety reviews, with extensive experience analyzing and planning for the transportation impacts of new developments, from initial concept planning and site selection to detailed capacity analysis. Stuart has provided expert evidence on multiple occasions at the Ontario Municipal Board, Local Planning Appeal Tribunal, and Ontario Land Tribunal, and has also offered transportation advice and provided evidence to the Ontario Land Tribunal in Development Charges appeals. Stuart is a Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) registered with Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO) and is a member of the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) and the Canadian Parking Association (CPA).
Stuart joined BA Group in 2014, bringing significant prior experience from Toronto and five years of experience in New Zealand, where he began his career. He has, on several occasions, served as a co-presenter for Ontario Traffic Council (OTC) workshops on preparing Transportation Impact Studies, including the Advanced Transportation Impact Study Workshop. Stuart has previously served terms on the OTC’s Parking Committee and the Traffic Engineering Committee, and was a member of the ITE Project Committee that developed the “Pedestrian and Bicyclist Safety in Parking Facilities” Informational Report from 2014 to 2017.
Stuart has, over the last 10 years, worked on downtown strategic parking studies for the Cities of Kingston, Guelph, Kitchener, and London. Prior to that, Stuart managed parking strategies for the City of Greater Sudbury, the City of Cambridge, the Town of Picton, and the Municipality of Port Hope, as well as working on financial analysis for the privatization of the 33,000-space on-street metered parking program in Chicago. In the education sector, Stuart has managed a Loading Strategy for Ryerson University, a Parking Master Plan for Western University in London, and a Parking and Transportation Demand Management (TDM) Plan at Dalhousie University in Halifax.