WHITE PAPER: Estimating Traffic Volumes Under COVID-19 Pandemic Conditions

Recently, we offered broad ideas responding to a question on the minds of many practitioners: How can important projects that rely on field-collected volume data…

The Great E-Scooter Debate

Two Transportation Planners Discuss the Pros, Cons, and Future of This Popular Micromobility Mode   We’re always in favor of a little friendly debate. It…

Collecting Traffic Counts When There’s No Traffic

Developing Proxy Traffic Volume Estimates During COVID-19 Pandemic Conditions   The COVID-19 pandemic has developed so rapidly that there has been very little opportunity for…

Moving Public Workshops Online: Tools & Examples for Responding to COVID-19

Conducting Community Outreach During a Period of Social Distancing   While important for limiting the spread of COVID-19, social distancing and restrictions on gatherings of…

6 Transportation Heroes During the Coronavirus Outbreak

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a drastic impact on our transportation systems, which in turn affects the livelihood of employees in the transportation industry. In…

Steps We’ve Taken to Transition to Remote Work (And You Can Too)

Kittelson & Associates joins organizations across the world in preparing to go fully remote as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to unfold. As a consulting firm,…

How COVID-19 Is Impacting Travel Patterns and Transportation Mode Choice

Published: March 13, 2020 Last Updated: March 23, 2020   Here at Kittelson, we’re joining organizations around the world in closely monitoring recommendations surrounding COVID-19…

How Collaborating As “One Firm” Strengthens Kittelson’s Project Work

Kittelson & Associates, Inc. is a company spread over more than 25 offices, yet we don’t silo project work by location. Due to our “one…

Environmental Justice and Transportation Planning

What is environmental justice? What has been done to advance it? And how can transportation planners factor it into projects?   Think of the water…

How Transportation Agencies Can Set Themselves Up for Large-Scale ATSPM Deployment

Automated traffic signal performance measures (ATSPMs) are revolutionizing the way agency engineers view traffic management. These high-resolution data analytic tools pull from systems and components…

Kittelson Launches the Sustainability Initiative: How Our Firm is Becoming Greener

Several months ago, a group of us at Kittelson got together to discuss how we’re incorporating environmentally sustainable habits in our offices and firmwide operations….

Does Vision Zero Start at the Curb?

In the January 2020 issue of Parking Magazine, Kittelson Senior Engineer/Planner Alek Pochowski explains how good curbside management has tremendous implications for keeping communities safe….

The Biggest Themes of the Transportation Research Board’s 2020 Annual Meeting

The Transportation Research Board (TRB)’s Annual Meeting is an eye-opener to, and reminder of, the many ways that transportation intersects everyday life, and the vitally…

Blueprint for Urban Design, ODOT’s Approach for Design in Oregon Communities

An Efficient Route to Applying Performance-Based Design Guidance   Traditionally, transportation engineers have been trained to apply a set of standards that primarily address function…

Two Ways Bike Helmet Laws Won’t Protect Bicyclists

Opinion | December 30, 2019   In November 2019, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) convened to examine the very important topic of bicycle safety….

3 National Research Efforts You Can Learn About at TRB 2020

A Primer on Automated Traffic Signal Performance Measures

Traffic signals can do much more for our transportation networks than just flash green, yellow, and red. Through advances in traffic signal technology and communications…

What We’re Most Excited About For TRB 2020

More than 13,000 transportation professionals from around the world will gather at the Transportation Research Board (TRB) Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., January 12–16, 2020….

The Benefits and Drawbacks of a Cashless Public Transit System

Remember the “transit stores” of old? (Well… of a few years ago.) Schedules would be stacked on one wall and people selling fare cards would…

Could Big Data Replace On-The-Ground Traffic Counts?

Understanding traffic volumes is the bread and butter of a transportation engineer’s work. Volumes are usually measured along roadway segments or at intersections—where they are…

An Interview With Gibran Hadj-Chikh

“We are in the Napster phase of transportation. We don’t know who’s going to have Spotify.”   Gibran Hadj-Chikh joined Kittelson in August 2019 as…

Evacuation Planning Principles For Every Community

Emergency evacuations and resilience planning are increasingly important topics for many reasons. Here are two key points that are top-of-mind: #1: The substantial and increasing…

Tips for Your First TRB Annual Meeting

More than 13,000 transportation professionals from around the world will gather at the Transportation Research Board (TRB) Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., January 12-16, 2020….

Rick Dowling and Abby Morgan Talk Emerging Tech

The first national guidebook about the impacts of new technologies on land use and transportation was released in pre-publication form by Transportation Research Board October…