Safe Mobility Planning January 21, 2015 4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. ET CM l 1.5.
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Transcript of Safe Mobility Planning January 21, 2015 4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. ET CM l 1.5.
Today’s Speakers
Madeline BrozenAssistant Director, Lewis Center for Regional Policy StudiesAssistant Director, Institute of Transportation StudiesProgram Manager, Complete Streets InitiativeUCLA
Stefanie Seskin (Moderator)Deputy Director National Complete Streets CoalitionSmart Growth America
Today’s Speakers
Daniel GoodmanOffice of Human EnvironmentLivability Team Federal Highway Administration
Meghan F. Mitman, AICPSenior Associate and San Francisco Office Operations ManagerFehr and PeersChair, ITE Complete Streets Council
Today’s Speakers
Gabe Rousseau, PhDSafety Operations Team LeaderOffice of Safety TechnologiesFederal Highway Administration
1. Data and Research: What Do We Know?2. How Planners Can Learn From Data3. Meeting the Needs of All Users4. Thinking Beyond User Safety5. Public Engagement6. Performance Measures7. Q&A
Today’s Audio/Web Conference
Question One
What do we know about safety issues when pedestrians, bicyclists,transit, and vehicles share streets? What questions shouldcommunities be asking and what information should they beexamining?
Question Two
Are there significant trends emerging from this data that wouldinfluence how a community would approach a street project or acommunity transportation plan?
What’s Trending
Karen Foto, Flickr
"Midtown Greenway-Minneapolis-2007" Micah Taylor, Wikimedia Commons
Question Three
The USDOT has launched a comprehensive bike-walk safetyinitiative, with participation from all modes: driving, freight, motorcarriers, transit, walking, bicycling. Can you tell us more aboutthat initiative?
Federal Initiative
“This initiative is aimed atreversing the recent rise indeaths and injuries among thegrowing number of Americanswho bicycle or walk to work, toreach public transportation andto other important destinations.”
Transportation Secretary, Anthony Foxx- WikiMedia Commons
Question Five
We have discussed the data that is available to inform planning.Now, please explain how transportation planners begin looking atand planning for this issue?
Reactive Vs. Pro-active
• Pro-active programs are better at preventing injury and death• Use research from a variety of sources
Question Six
What is going on in practice that is helping to make communitytransportation safer? How have the needs of older adults beenaddressed?
Designing for Seniors
FHWA 2014- Handbook for Designing Roadways for the Aging Population
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Question Seven
What about the needs of children? Is current federal legislation addressing these concerns?
ConnectionsConnections
Complete Streets CouncilComplete Streets Council•Connecting modesConnecting modes•Coordinating between Coordinating between engineers and plannersengineers and planners•Design guidanceDesign guidance
Question Nine
Gabe, you have observed that there are other dimensions to issues of safety in transportation planning. Can you give us an example?
Question Ten
We have considered what the research tells us and who is affected, but where does a community begin a process that leads to more complete and safe streets?
Getting Started
“Tech Transfer provides freePedestrian SafetyAssessments, in whichevaluators will review yourcity or county's pedestriansafety conditions, programs,and needs, and suggest newstrategies to improvepedestrian safety”
Pixabay
Question Eleven
Almost everyone agrees that safety should be the priority fortransportation projects, but what about when you have to maketrade-offs? How do you ensure a transparent process?
Trade-Offs and Transparency
• Focus investments where they are most needed• Prioritize near schools, parks, assisted living centers, community centers, etc.• Prioritize projects that can result in safer environment for all users• Define the goals in the purpose & need statement to clearly encompass safety for all users, including those walking and bicycling• Listen to the community’s residents• Document the design choices to show why tradeoffs were made
Biswarup Ganguly, WikiMedia
Question Twelve
Engaging the public, both in understanding the issues and in actualplanning is important. What insights can you share onengagement?
Question Thirteen
How we set goals and measure the way in which we meet thosegoals is changing. One way of doing this is using performancemeasures, but there are other measures as well. Can you explainmore about performance measures.
Performance and Beyond
Performance measures can be used at different points:•Long-term investment plans (20-year)—measuring return on investment of different big-picture funding decisions•Project identification and selection•Alternatives analysis•Making decisions during final design•Project evaluation—looking at impact
Question Fourteen
What are some of the other kinds of measures that communitiesshould consider as way of achieving their goals?
Question Fifteen
We talked about engagement earlier, and now I want to talk aboutpartnerships that can and should enhance the work of planners andplanning. Can you describe some examples?
More Partnerships
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Closing Thoughts
Madeline BrozenAssistant Director, Lewis Center for Regional Policy StudiesAssistant Director, Institute of Transportation StudiesProgram Manager, Complete Streets InitiativeUCLA
Stefanie Seskin (Moderator)Deputy Director National Complete Streets CoalitionSmart Growth America
Closing Thoughts
Daniel GoodmanOffice of Human EnvironmentLivability Team Federal Highway Administration
Meghan F. Mitman, AICPSenior Associate and San Francisco Office Operations ManagerFehr and PeersChair, ITE Complete Streets Council