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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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Keeping Time with the Future
Impacts of Connected Vehicles on Multimodal Geometric Design
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How Future Vehicles Could Bring Cleaner Air
The Potential Effects of CAVs on GHG Emissions: A Research Synthesis
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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….
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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…
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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….
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How We Get to Work: Told Through the Data
Here at Kittelson, we like to think of ourselves as transportation nerds. We enjoy philosophical discussions about parking policies as much as we love a…
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“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…
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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…
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