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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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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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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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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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Two Decades at the Cascades Amphitheater: Traffic Control Solutions for Event Venues

Explore 20 years of traffic control innovation at the Cascades Amphitheater in Clark County, WA—featuring intersection control, detours, and trip consolidation strategies for large event venues.

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Think Like a Salmon: How Transportation Infrastructure Can Support Fish Habitat

Today, tribes, agencies, and companies throughout the Pacific Northwest, including Kittelson, are working with ingenuity and resources—and hope—to set policy, seek funding, and deliver projects that improve salmon habitat and passage. Here’s how.

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How to Get All-Weather Protection for Communities and Ecosystems

Communities are now experiencing intense downpours more often. Streets flood more often; storm drains overflow; and the infrastructure that was once enough is struggling to keep up. The question isn’t just how to respond to these changes, but how to intelligently and sustainably prepare for them.

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