TRANSPORTATION DESIGN FOR
COMMUNITIES

THURSDAY, May 11, 2006

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Keynote Address

“Redefining Context”
Ian Lockwood – Principal – Glatting Jackson Kercher Anglin Lopez Rinehart, Inc.

Module One

Transportation Projects Can Do Great Things
Module 1 will present how transportation projects contribute to community form and development. This module will illustrate numerous community building principles and the transportation system's role in urban settlement patterns. A wide inventory of livable transportation solutions and their real life application will be presented and discussed in this module.

Instructor: Ian Lockwood, P.E.

Module Two

Urban Design & Community Context
Module 2 will present basic community elements and how these elements can be assessed. This session will demonstrate structural elements of conducting a contextual analysis for the social, physical and economic conditions of a community, or study area, in which the transportation initiative is situated. This multi-disciplined assessment will allow the project team and the local community to understand the complex issues related to community development, its relationship and sensitivity to roadway design alternatives, and most importantly, the expectations of the project's vested stakeholders.

Instructors: Ed McKinney, AICP / Richard Dagenhart, AIA

Module Three

The Design & Planning Process: Developing a Community Vision
Module 3 will present how successfully integrated land use and transportation projects actively involve local residents and business owners to take ownership of the project, ensuring its implementation.

The module will demonstrate how the project team does not "design for" the community, but rather "designs with" the community. The session will demonstrate a successful model of community engagement and a successful approach to developing a community vision through stakeholder and partner agency participation. This comprehensive design effort moves beyond the traditional public information process and empowers local partnering public agencies and vested stakeholders to influence the transportation initiative and community design process.

Instructors: Ed McKinney, AICP / Richard Dagenhart, AIA

FRIDAY, MAY 12, 2006

Module Four

Reframing Key Transportation Conventions
The primary transportation challenge of any integrated Land Use and Transportation Study is to balance the success and livability of the local community with its responsibility to accommodate regional transportation demand. Livability is focused on balancing vehicular service requirements with local business, neighborhood and pedestrian needs. Module 4 presents the how several key transportation obstacles to Livable Street Design should be approached and enable the community development community to engage transportation professionals and ensure transportation facilities are designed for communities. Key transposition conventions examined will include: project design traffic, roadway functional classifications, design speed, and roadway design standards design standards.

Instructor: Troy Russ, AICP

Module Five

Implementation Tools: Land Use & Transportation Module 5 will discuss the implementation process from both a public and private perspective. A property executed community design process that engages vested stakeholders will result in community consensus and political support for most initiatives. This module will outline the needed implementation steps for moving beyond vision to reality. Both short-term partnership and funding opportunities for public initiatives will be discussed as well as longer-term land development regulations and incentives packages needed for contributing private investment.

Instructor: Troy Russ, AICP

Module Five-A

Case Study: Roswell, GA
Module 5a was an impromptu session stemming from audience interest in learning more about creating transportation solutions for suburban locations. This session looked at some of the results of the transportation work done by Glatting Jackson Kercher Anglin Lopez Rinehart, Inc in Roswell, Georgia.

Instructor: Ed McKinney, AICP

Lunch

The Long-View - Integrating Land Use & Transit – A Story from Charlotte, N.C

Presenter: Troy Russ – Principal – Glatting Jackson Kercher Anglin Lopez Rinehart, Inc.

Module Six

Nation Trends in Transportation & Community Design
Module 6 will review the status of emerging initiatives to design transportation facilities that build better communities. These will include the status of the “context sensitive solutions” initiative of FHWA and AASHTO, particularly focused on the progress that many states are making in bringing this approach to their project development process with specific examples from Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

Instructor: Tim Jackson, P.E., AICP