Are navigation apps changing traffic patterns?

As apps like Waze continue to give drivers alternatives to sitting in traffic, our engineers discuss the impacts.

FDOT Integrates Design with Context to Implement Complete Streets

FDOT takes the principle of Complete Streets to the next step by integrating a context classification into its design manual to design speed ranges for non-access-limited state roadways.

Automated Traffic Signal Performance Measures

The Waiting Is (No Longer) the Hardest Part

Evolving Complete Street Networks

Approaching Complete Streets design with a typological framework based on land use context to create a connected network

Keeping Time with the Future

Impacts of Connected Vehicles on Multimodal Geometric Design

How Future Vehicles Could Bring Cleaner Air

The Potential Effects of CAVs on GHG Emissions: A Research Synthesis

The Peanutabout: Solving Cambridge’s Skewed Intersection

The intersection of Hampshire Street and Cambridge Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts’ busy Inman Square presents a familiar challenge for cities. Due to its low-angle skew,…

Intern Jamboree Offers Camaraderie, Hands-On Learning Opportunities

Every summer, interns from Kittelson’s offices across the country gather in Portland for a week to participate in a host of hands-on learning opportunities, meet…

Performance-Based Design Helps to Address Evolving Infrastructure Needs

As state transportation departments seek to improve system performance, mobility and safety, engineers working in both the public and private sectors are charged with crafting…

Transforming Streets: Baltimore’s “Pop-Up” Protected Bike Lane

Four city blocks in Baltimore were transformed last Thursday, with a “pop-up” two-way protected bike lane, open for use by the end of the afternoon….

FHWA Develops Part-Time Shoulder Use Guide

A growing number of states in the United States are learning how part-time shoulder use can help manage congestion and want to put this strategy…

Utah’s Zero-Fatality Safety Summit

Last week, the Utah Department of Public Safety and the Utah Department of Transportation hosted over 400 participants at their state’s Zero Fatalities Safety Summit….

“Pop-Up” Event Brings Separated Bike Lanes to Portsmouth, New Hampshire

City officials in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, arrived at Middle Street early in the morning armed with plastic posts, hay bales, and flower pots. Staff from…

MSU’s Summer Transportation Institute Introduces Students to New Possibilities

“It made me want to go to college more than I already wanted to and it also inspired me to try harder in school to…

League of American Bicyclists Award Bicycle Friendly Businesses

On April 22, the League of American Bicyclists awarded 161 new and renewing Bicycle Friendly Businesses (BFB) in 46 states and Washington, D.C. The BFB list now includes more than 950 businesses that are transforming the American workplace.

Testing Addresses Freight Industry Concerns about U.S. Highway 20 Roundabout

As the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) planned for a new roundabout on US 20 at Barclay Drive in Sisters, the freight industry expressed concern…

Anchorage Transportation Fair Offers Opportunity to Inform Public, Gather Feedback

Anchorage residents who wanted to know about transportation projects in their community recently had a chance to learn more about specific projects and see the…

TRIP97 Allows Central Oregon Jurisdictions to Collaborate on US 97 Improvements

From new residents to visitors from both inside and outside the state, people flock to Central Oregon for its natural beauty and ample array of…

Online Bike Count Data Clearinghouse Aims to Better Inform Transportation Decisions

The Bike Count Data Clearinghouse project aims to compile and standardize the collection of bicycle and pedestrian data to improve multimodal transportation planning across multiple…