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Charlotte’s Thoughtful Approach to Transit Oriented Development Planning, and Why It Works
Read about the City’s holistic and community-based approach to transit planning that has led to flourishing neighborhoods around transit corridors.
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Managing E-Bikes on Multi-Use Paths
Should e-bikes be allowed everywhere bicycles can go? Responses are divided, and not just at the personal opinion level-regulations also differ state by state.
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Finding the Genius Loci of Transportation: How Landscape Architecture Leverages Infrastructure to Create Place
Like painters, landscape architects must consider how color, line, form, texture, and visual weight guide a person through a three-dimensional, living space.
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Using Connected Vehicle Data to Track the Performance of Orlando’s Traffic Signals
Instead of using Bluetooth readers that pick up cars as they go by, why don’t we go straight to the source and get data from connected vehicles themselves?
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Assessing the Transportation Needs of a “Zoom Town”
What San Joaquin Council of Governments Learned Through Their Transportation Innovation Study
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Don’t Lose Your Audience in a Hybrid Meeting: Insider Tips from a Public Speaking Expert
Communications coach Karen Susman provides her top tips for keeping hybrid meetings engaging and inclusive.
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Advancing Transportation Design Through Building Information Modeling (BIM)
We’re in the midst of what may be the next big shift in the way designs are produced and shared. Here’s what you need to know about the use of BIM and digital twins in transportation design.
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3 Alternative Methods for Designing and Constructing ADA Compliant Curb Ramps
As they rework curb ramps en masse–and seek to construct new ramps accurately the first time around–many agencies are running pilot programs to streamline design efforts in a way that’s compliant.
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Strategies for Inclusion in a Hybrid Work Environment
Will employees be expected to return to the office full-time? Here’s how we’ve approached the conversation at Kittelson, including five ways we’re seeking to operate inclusively in a hybrid environment.
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The Search for a New River Crossing
Building a bridge is no small feat (or cost), so it has been essential that we use data and examine this project from multiple perspectives to lead to a good investment. Here are five steps we took as part of a data-driven origin-destination study that will move this project forward.
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Ideas for Incorporating Safety into Traffic Impact Analyses
Driven by California Senate Bill 743 (SB 743) and statewide safety goals, Caltrans has added more safety considerations into their review process for new development projects. Here is what Caltrans looks for in this additional review.
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Urban Aerial Mobility Is Taking Off: Why Government Agencies Should Be Planning Today for More Transportation by Air
The transportation space is rapidly evolving, and the advancements of private companies like Uber and Amazon should be a signal to cities to plan now so they are not caught unprepared for urban aerial mobility.
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COVID-19 is changing our streets. Could it also change the way we approach transportation projects?
The proliferation of quick build parklets, outdoor dining installations, and shared streets in the past year has shown us that we can move more quickly to implement transportation projects. Will the trend continue after the pandemic?
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The Benefits of Shared Use Paths, By the Numbers
A new study from MassTrails puts numbers behind the health, transportation, environmental, economic, safety, and accessibility benefits of shared use paths.
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A Blueprint for Implementing ATSPMs
Traffic signals contain a wealth of information that, when managed, is a tremendous asset in signal timing and systems management. The recently-released NCHRP Report 954 is giving agencies the keys to implementing automated traffic signal performance measures (ATSPMs).
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Moving the Transportation Profession Forward: A Panel Conversation for Women’s History Month
On March 25, we gathered to celebrate the achievements of women in transportation and talk role models, what it looks like to get more women in transportation leadership, and what we wish we knew when we started our careers.
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Five Ideas to Advance Equity in Transportation
Through the Transportation Equity Challenge, we came up with five practical ways to help our clients achieve more equitable outcomes in their projects.
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Simple Tools for ADA Ramp Construction
As part of our Transportation Equity Challenge, DJ Gregory and Andrew Bailey from Kittelson Tucson explain what ramp construction has to do with equity, and how we can do better.
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Essential Networks: Cultivating Trust-Based Relationships
As part of our Transportation Equity Challenge, a team from our Baltimore, Boston, and Orlando offices proposes a set of strategies to better leverage community relationships in our projects.
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Child-Centered Public Engagement in Public Schools
As part of our Transportation Equity Challenge, Joceline Suhaimi notes we often overlook a diverse yet influential audience in community engagement.
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Toward Equitable Outcomes: A Framework to Reexamine Enforcement
As part of our Transportation Equity Challenge, a team from our California offices introduce a framework for thinking through the use of enforcement, and alternatives to enforcement, in reaching safety outcomes.
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Incorporating “Urban Forensics” Into Projects
As part of our Transportation Equity Challenge, read about a database for housing key cultural, historical, societal, and demographical aspects of projects.
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