Vijay Kunada, PE, PTP, PTOE
Executive Vice President,
Chief Technology Officer,
Transportation Planning Practice Lead
Vijay joined Neel-Schaffer in 2006 and two decades later fills multiple roles for the firm.
In June of 2026, he was named Chief Technology Officer, a new role within the firm that reflects Neel-Schaffer’s focus on strengthening how we use technology across the firm.
Vijay serves as the Engineer Manager of Neel-Schaffer’s Lafayette (LA) Office, is the firmwide Transportation Planning Practice Lead, and as an Executive Vice President serves on the Neel-Schaffer Board of Directors.
He has served as the Project Manager for many local and regional transportation plans, travel demand models, various GIS projects, safety studies, traffic signal timing plans, corridor analysis, traffic impact studies, traffic simulation models, demographic forecasting, and other traffic engineering related projects for both public and private developments.
Prior to Neel-Schaffer, he worked as a transportation engineer for the Lafayette (LA) City-Parish Consolidated Government, Traffic and Transportation Department, for more than four years.
Vijay has extensive experience in traffic modeling, including census data analysis, time-of-day travel demand model development using TransCAD and developing custom scenario managers using GISDK software. He also is experienced in regional truck modeling, evacuation modeling, demographic forecasting, region wide safety data analysis, external travel surveys, Highway Capacity Software, Synchro, TransModeler, DynaSmart-P, Trip Generation, traffic studies for Environmental Impact Statement projects, intersection studies and corridor analysis. His experience with traffic operational analysis includes freeway mainlines, ramp merge/diverge areas, weaving segments and intersection operations.
Vijay served as a Project Manager for many MPO transportation plan and travel demand model updates in Louisiana and Mississippi. He has developed regional truck models using Quick Response Freight Manual procedures in Louisiana for the Lafayette MPO, Baton Rouge MPO, Houma-Thibodaux MPO and Alexandria MPO; and in Mississippi for the Jackson MPO and Hattiesburg MPO.
