Complete streets design continues to rapidly evolve, as new research and implementation practices better inform best practice. Innovative facility types, such as separated bike lanes, protected intersections, and bike signals, can cause confusion for designers.
The complete streets workshop revolves around two key principles: user type and network. Street design requires an understanding of the target user, which include people walking, bicycling, riding transit, driving, and operating freight vehicles. The training also emphasizes understanding a facility’s role in the network.
Intersections present the greatest challenges for designing complete streets.Safe intersection design focuses on reducing conflicts between bicyclists, pedestrians, and vehicles by heightening visibility, separating conflicts in time and/or space, and encouraging eye contact and awareness between users. Bicycle-specific intersection treatments are designed to guide bicyclists safely through the intersection, whether they are turning or traveling through the intersection. Other treatments may be used to prioritize certain modes at intersections, such as transit priority treatments. Intersection design treatments include: bike boxes, intersection crossing markings, two-stage turn, median refuge islands, bus queue jumps, transit signal priority, and bike signals.
The instructors for this one-day course will provide an overview of complete streets design treatments, including:
Why design for complete streets and understanding the principles for designing for each mode
Design guidance for crossings, on-street bike facilities, and transit treatments
Understanding key safety issues on urban and suburban streets
Traffic calming tactics to reduce vehicle speed and improve safety
Intersection and traffic signal design strategies, included protected intersection design
This course is appropriate for planners, engineers, and public officials responsible for planning, design, construction, and maintenance of streets. Register here
Cost:
$150 for Members - Public
$165 for Members - Private
$180 for Non-Members
Instructors:
Conor Semler is a Principal Planner and Certified NACTO Trainer with Kittelson & Associates, Inc. drawing on experience in urban planning, traffic engineering, and technical research in complete streets design. Conor is highly regarded for his ability to leverage transportation design to create livable and healthy communities. His focus is on improving conditions for walking and bicycling through better evaluation and design. Conor is a national leader in the planning and design of innovative bicycle facilities. He was involved in the development of both the NACTO Urban Bikeway Design Guide and the FHWA Separated Bike Lane Planning and Design Guide. Conor’s experience is informed by his role in leading research, contributing to designs, and working closely with cities to continually evolve and innovate safer, more inviting bicycle facilities.
Caitlin Mildner is a Planner at Kittelson & Associates, Inc. Caitlin aspires to create sustainable, safe, and accessible transportation systems for all users. Caitlin's interests in inclusive design, environmental justice, and social equity guide her practice as she aims to advance creative and equitable transportation solutions. Caitlin has been involved in a variety of transportation planning projects, public engagement, curbside management studies, traffic calming research, and complete streets and bikeway design in major cities across the United States, including Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Boston, Philadelphia, and Miami.
