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Expanding Transportation Options Can Improve Quality of Life
Every weekday morning in Seattle, a programmer drives a Car2Go from her neighborhood to a light rail station. In Baltimore, a graphic designer uses a…
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Pick Up Your Bike With Us During Bike Month!
For the past 63 years, May has been officially designated as Bike Month around the nation. We’re not surprised—May has an average high temperature of…
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How Lyft and Uber Affect Transportation Patterns
The United States has some of the worst traffic congestion in the developed world: in 2017, drivers here spent an average of 41 hours stuck…
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The Why, What, and How of Planning for Operations
We’re two planners who have come to realize that being good planners means thinking more like non-planners. What do we mean? Good planning considers the…
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The Story of the Temporary Roundabouts After Hurricane Florence
There was no way to fully prepare for the wettest tropical cyclone on record in the Carolinas. Hurricane Florence made landfall in September 2018. A…
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What Does Traffic Calming Calm?
The speed of drivers? The number of drivers? The impatience of drivers? The stress level of residents?
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The Importance of the Equity Lens in Transportation Planning and Design
An equity lens helps planners and designers see the needs of every person potentially served or impacted by every transportation decision. It’s best applied when…
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Honoring the Life & Legacy of John Zegeer
With heavy hearts, we announce the passing of John Zegeer, former Senior Principal Engineer at Kittelson—a dedicated colleague, a trusted mentor, and a dear friend…
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How Machine Learning Data is Changing Our Streets
Machine learning has been an important tool for several decades. It has been used for diverse tasks such as handwriting recognition, patient monitoring, facial recognition,…
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Five Themes That Emerged from the 2019 TRB Annual Meeting
The 98th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board just wrapped up in Washington, D.C. The brisk (and snowy) air may have had something to…
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Reflections on a Visit Back to Amsterdam
Today, I walked through some streets of Amsterdam on my way to the American Consulate. Having lived in the United States for more than a…
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3 Ways to Improve Public Transportation Sustainability
Finding solutions that enhance equity and sustainability for communities will always be central to the work we do as transportation professionals. Through research and data…
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Getting to Work the Kittelson Way
Here at Kittelson, we like to think of ourselves as transportation nerds… and that transportation nerds get to work differently than the average US commuter….
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Cycles of Health and Longevity
The Protected Bike Lane That’s Revitalizing a Community
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Shaped by Values, Driven by Innovation
Jack Freeman, Karl Passetti, a hardworking team, and a great deal of gumption made our Orlando office what it is today.
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Finding the Right Internship for YOU: Part One
Kittelson interns past and present share their insights on identifying the opportunities that will enable emerging professionals to thrive.
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Finding the Right Internship for YOU: Part Two
Once you’re confident in the guiding principles and opportunities presented, it’s time to engage in practical steps to demonstrate how your internship is a good fit. Kittelson interns past and present tell you how.
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Addressing Competition for Curbside Parking Spaces
parkDC: Penn Quarter/Chinatown is seeing success for five key reasons.
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Are navigation apps changing traffic patterns?
As apps like Waze continue to give drivers alternatives to sitting in traffic, our engineers discuss the impacts.
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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.
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Automated Traffic Signal Performance Measures
The Waiting Is (No Longer) the Hardest Part
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Evolving Complete Street Networks
Approaching Complete Streets design with a typological framework based on land use context to create a connected network
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