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How to Become a Bike Commuter (From Expert Bike Commuters and Someone Who Didn’t Want to Do It)
Hear all about how to become a bike commuter—from expert bike commuters and someone who didn’t want to—in our first audio article.
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Pedal Forward: How Bike Buses Are Changing Lives for Kids and Communities
Anyone navigating a city’s complex traffic patterns and fast-moving vehicles can see that streets aren’t designed for kids. But what if kids could bike to school in the comfort of a large group and an organized route?
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Stronger Communities from Sea to Summit
Two extraordinary places—Sanibel Island, Florida and Summit County, Colorado—offer models for how transportation professionals can strengthen communities under threat from environmental stressors.
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What Can You Do with an Old Highway?
Old highways tell the story of a city and how it once moved, and what you do to repurpose them will shape the community’s future.
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Why Data Centers Don’t Fit Standard Traffic Assumptions—and How to Plan for Their Transportation Impacts
A collection of practical insights for agencies, developers, and consultants seeking to prepare for a new data center’s transportation needs to help you tackle the unique challenges that come with these projects.
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How to Make Progress When Funding Hits Pause on Your Project
When federal funding pauses, projects don’t have to. Learn practical ways to keep progress moving through planning, partnerships, and flexible project design.
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Reshaping Governance Is Opening Doors for Transit
Transit agencies face funding gaps and changing travel patterns. New governance and regional coordination can help improve service and better meet people’s needs.
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Turning Senior Capstones into Career Clarity
How the University of Portland Connects Real-World Experience to the Classroom
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What We Give Up When We Design for Speed
Read Conor Semler’s thoughts on what we give up when we design for speed and how we can design streets that support safer, more reasonable speeds.
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Small State Meets Big Complexity: Inside Rhode Island’s Transportation Reality
Rhode Island’s small size presents a distinct set of transportation challenges and opportunities, both of which demand planning approaches grounded in interdisciplinary thinking and local realities. This is one of the many reasons Kittelson & Associates recently established a dedicated office in Providence, RI.
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Saving Venice or Preserving Nature: Do We Have to Choose?
Where do we draw the line between engineering resilience and engineering away the natural world? As engineers, we have a responsibility to sustain and repair existing systems rather than prioritize creating something brand new. When we choose collaboration over control, engineering becomes a partner to nature.
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Planning for Public Transit Use in Natural Disasters Can Save a City
Across the country, major cities have increasingly been facing natural disasters. In emergencies like these, transportation infrastructure comes under massive strain to get people out of harm’s way. This raises the question: how can we prepare systems designed for everyday needs to withstand the extreme?
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Playing with Fire: The Importance of Meaningful Collaboration with Emergency Services
Firefighters, engineers, and planners are on the same team. We all want to help people get home safely and to save lives. We sat down with a firefighter EMT, a former Bay Area park ranger and wildland firefighter, and Kittelson engineers and planners to better understand both sides.
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Top-of-Mind Topics for the 2026 TRB Annual Meeting
This article highlights a few of the research topics we are most excited to learn about amidst the wealth of knowledge at this year’s meeting. We hope this digest of the program will help make choosing your sessions and preparing your questions a little less daunting.
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Happy Holidays from Kittelson!
Special delivery! As 2025 wraps up, we’re sending a little cheer your way. From our team to yours, here’s to good cheer, safe travels, and bright days ahead!
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Making Streets Safer, Faster: The Case for Quick-Build Roundabouts
How quick build roundabouts help communities improve safety, manage costs, and deliver timely intersection upgrades with community input.
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Reimagining Downtown: What Tampa’s CRA Can Teach Us About the Future of Urban Living
Exploring how Tampa’s CRA is shaping a downtown that balances growth, community, and connection to create a resilient, people-centered urban core.
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Around the World in Five Modes
Explore unique transportation modes around the world and learn how local travel systems reveal culture, history, and place through the lens of global mobility.
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Global Ideas, Local Streets: How Transportation Ideas Travel Across the World
A look at how transportation concepts move across borders, highlighting shared challenges, cultural context, and ways cities adapt ideas to serve communities.
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Through Gateway Park: What Designing for Local Values Can Do
A small town in Oregon turned an old rest stop into Gateway Park, a mobility hub shaped by community values, flexible planning, and careful tree preservation.
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How a Small Oregon Town Is Slowing Down Roads and Speeding Up Community Trust
In Bayshore, Oregon, small-scale road safety projects show how changes like paint and speed humps can improve safety, walkability, and community trust.
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Running Interference: The Hidden Potential of D.C.’s Stadium Redevelopment
The DC Council advanced a proposal to demolish the aging RFK Stadium and redevelop it. This moment offers DC a chance to rethink how a football stadium connects with its neighborhood and the city.
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