Our Team

Bitzios Consulting has almost 50 professionals working continuously in the fields of traffic engineering, transport planning and traffic modelling.

Our team includes accredited road safety auditors, specialist strategic and simulation modellers, road and intersection designers, GIS specialists, planners and engineers. We also have a number of staff with accreditation to create Traffic Management Plans and Traffic Control Plans.

Our approach to staff development is to provide as many staff as possible exposure to as many aspects of traffic engineering and transportation planning as possible; providing a broad base of skills and experience to solve technical challenges in a holistic way as their careers evolve. Our project managers start early, learning the fundamentals of client service, the importance of communication frequency and ensuring that precision and quality are at the forefront of everything they do.

This “on the job” training and development program has resulted in most of our staff having technical and project management skills well beyond what would be expected as an industry standard for the years of experience that they have, enabling us to provide exceptional value for money for our clients.

Damien Bitzios

Company Director

With 28 years experience as a traffic engineer and transport planner in consulting and in local government Damien’s specialist skills include transport modeling, public transport system planning, traffic analysis, impact assessment and integrated transport planning. He is a highly experienced project manager of a number of traffic and transport projects ranging in size and complexity and has been technical leader on projects throughout Australia, Asia, the Middle East and in America.

Damien has published and presented a number of papers nationally and internationally on various modeling and integrated planning topics. Damien has the ability to provide strategic direction to studies whilst also being able to solve detailed technical issues.

Damien’s key skill areas include;

  • Traffic studies, engineering and analysis
  • Centre and area transport strategies
  • Public transport strategy and operations
  • Road network planning
  • Transport policy and guidelines development
  • Transport and traffic modeling using Aimsun, Paramics, VISUM,EMME, SATURN, VISSIM and SIDRA modelling packages
  • Project leadership and management
  • Independent reviews
  • Expert witness services

Andrew Eke

National Manager - Major Projects and Principal Traffic Engineer

With 17 years experience as a traffic engineer and transport planner both in Australia and the UK, Andrew has specialist skills in transport modelling, development and town centre master planning, traffic analysis, impact assessment and integrated transport planning. Growing up in both Northern NSW and the Gold Coast, Andrew has a thorough local knowledge of the transport operations in the region. Andrew has led major town centre, retail, community, sports and residential precinct studies for both government and private clients.

Andrew’s skills include;

  • Traffic studies, engineering and analysis
  • Town centre and precinct master planning
  • Public and active transport planning
  • Road network planning
  • Transport and traffic modelling using Paramics, EMME/2, and SIDRA modelling packages
  • Project management

Luke Darragh

National Manager - Operations, Principal Traffic Engineer and Transport Planner

With over 16 years’ experience in traffic engineering and transport planning in Australia and abroad, Luke has specialist skills in traffic and transport modelling, development and town centre master planning, traffic analysis, public transport planning, road safety, development impact assessment and integrated transport planning. He is a highly experienced project manager completing a number of traffic and transport projects ranging in size and complexity.

Luke’s skills include;

  • Micro-simulation traffic modelling and analysis
  • Traffic and transport planning/modelling
  • Master planning studies
  • Corridor studies and traffic impact assessment
  • Traffic impact assessment for development
  • Public transport planning and design
  • Parking studies
  • Road Safety Audits
  • Project management

Luke oversees the national operations of the business

Martin Kimmins

Manager – Brisbane and Principal Traffic Engineer and Transport Planner

Martin is a Principal Traffic Engineer and Transport Planner with over 11 years’ experience working on public and private sector projects.  Martin has  extensive experience across a wide range of engineering disciplines including traffic impact assessment, road safety, roads corridor studies, public transport studies.  He is highly experienced in integrated traffic and transport strategy development based on strategic and simulation modelling.

Martin’s key skill areas include:

  • Transport and Traffic modelling
  • Integrated transport planning
  • Traffic impact assessments
  • Public transport planning
  • Parking studies
  • Project management

Steve Brooke

Principal Traffic Engineer and Transport Planner

Steve has over 40 years experience in transport planning and traffic engineering within local and state governments and 17 years in consulting. He is a very experienced traffic engineer and specialises in traffic engineering and parking assessments for development applications and local area planning.

Steve’s specialist skills include;

  • Project management/project leadership
  • Public transport strategy and operations
  • Road hierarchy and network planning
  • Traffic studies, engineering and analysis
  • Multi-modal transport corridor studies
  • Local and State Government policy and planning
  • Local area traffic management
  • Traffic management and operations
  • Parking studies
  • Development traffic impact assessments
  • Road safety audits
  • Active transport planning

Steve provides Project Director / Project Manager roles on major projects.