Our Management Team

Bitzios Consulting has almost 50 professionals working continuously in the fields of traffic engineering, transport planning and transport 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 develop Traffic Management Plans and Traffic Guidance Schemes.

Our approach to staff development is to expose as many staff as possible to as many aspects of traffic engineering and transport 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 32 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
  • Modelling using intersection, microsimulation, mesoscopic & strategic modelling software
  • Project leadership and management
  • Independent reviews and specialist training
  • Expert witness services

Andrew Eke

National Manager | Major Projects

With 21 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
  • Project management

Luke Darragh

National Manager | Operations

With almost 20 years’ experience in traffic engineering and transport planning in Australia and abroad, Luke is a Principal Traffic Engineer and Transport Planner with specialist skills in traffic and transport modelling, development and town centre master planning, traffic analysis, public transport planning, active transport, road safety, 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 key skills include:

  • Master planning studies
  • Corridor studies and analysis
  • Traffic impact assessment for development
  • Micro-simulation traffic modelling and analysis
  • Road network planning
  • Active transport strategies and plans
  • Public transport planning and design
  • Parking studies
  • Road safety assessments and road safety audits
  • Project management
  • Expert witness
  • Transport policy development.

Martin Kimmins

National Leader | Modelling and Analytics

Martin is our National Technical Leader in Modelling and Analytics who is a Principal Traffic Engineer and Transport Planner with over 15 years’ experience working on public and private sector projects.  Martin leads Bitzios Consulting’s transport modelling field, responsible for training, process and supervision, and has extensive experience across a wide range of engineering disciplines including traffic impact assessment, road safety, roads corridor studies, public transport studies.  He is also 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

Matthew Bitzios

Manager | Gold Coast and Northern NSW

Matthew is a Senior Transport Planner with 13 years’ experience across a wide range of projects, with extensive knowledge in the preparation of detailed traffic impact assessments ranging in size and complexity. With grounding as a planner, Matthew integrates his knowledge of land use planning, placemaking and transport systems to provide holistic solutions to both public and private sector projects. Matthew has also published work in the field of mode choice determinants within South-East Queensland.

Matthew’s key skill areas include:

  • Traffic impact assessments
  • Parking studies
  • Microsimulation modelling
  • Town centre and precinct master planning
  • Integrated transport planning
  • Road network planning
  • Project management.

Matthew Hearne

Manager | Sydney

Matthew is a Senior Traffic Engineer with 7 years of experience, and has developed a diverse portfolio of traffic engineering projects across metropolitan and regional New South Wales. He has extensive experience across a wide range of public and private sector projects ranging from small-scale developments to large-scale infrastructure projects. Matthew has particularly strong proficiency in transport planning projects and leverages his wide-ranging skillset to develop unifying, safe, and effective solutions.

Matthew’s skills include:

  • Local traffic studies
  • Active transport design, including cycleways and shared paths
  • Parking studies
  • Traffic impact assessments
  • Construction traffic management
  • Traffic management plans
  • Masterplanning, including school projects
  • Peer reviews.

Fraser Jones

Manager | Brisbane

Fraser is a Senior Traffic Engineer and Transport Planner with over 7 years’ experience in the industry. Throughout his career he’s been exposed to a variety of traffic engineering and transport planning projects including residential, retail, commercial, industrial, resources and health sectors. Fraser’s keen understanding of impact analysis and development application processes has made him one of our leaders in the traffic engineering and impact assessment space, leading complex traffic impact assessments across a broad range of project types.

Fraser’s specialist skills include:

  • Comples traffic impact assessments
  • Master plans studies
  • Pavement impact assessments
  • Traffic management plans
  • Speed limit reviews
  • Parking studies
  • Road safety and safe systems assessments
  • Active transport studies
  • Heavy vehicle route assessments.