Presentations

Review of AB1581 — CVC 21450.5

• AB1581 Subcommittee
• Subcommittee Members
• Subcommittee Meetings
• Subcommittee's Recommendation to CTCDC
• CAMUTCD Language for Bicycle/Motorcycle Detection

10 Principles:

1. Mobility Balance,
2. Street Connectivity,
3. Community Character,
4. Forecasting is not Planning,
5. Transit will not Alleviate Congestion,
6. Active Living,
7. Multimodal Streets,
8. Sustainable Mobility,
9. Empowerment,
10. Monitoring & Reporting

This presentation by Mark A. Cole of the Charlotte Department of Transportation lays out the necessity of implementing Complete Streets in Charlotte, as well as the goals of those initiatives.

The City of Sacramento provides a summary and presentation of their street design practices, and they evaluate the effectivess.

Presentation showing different roads across the country that have gone on road diets

Pedestrians have a right to cross roads safely, and, therefore, planners and engineers have a professional responsibility to plan, design, and install safe crossing facilities." —Zegeer, et al., 2001 FHWA Crosswalk Study

Changing Policies To Support Complete Streets, resulting consequences, levels of service (LOS) analysis generates impacts to other modes and the environment, Relationship of Freeway LOS, Speed, and CO2 Emissions Factors, case study in Davis, CA.

• Definition
• Background
• Why Now?
• Design Elements (Width, Block Length, Sidewalks, Bicycle Lanes)
• What Does it All Mean?

Ahwahnee Principles for Livable Communities: Response to our members' concerns over sprawling, poorly planned development in their communities; Assembled with assistance from leading architects and planners working on innovative solutions; Revitalize existing parts of our communities through infill development; Plan complete and integrated communities with mix of uses; Within walking distance of one another; Within walking distance of transit stops; With a diversity of housing types; With a center focus

Benefits of road diets for bicyclists and pedestrians?

• Provide space to add bicycle lanes
• Reduce crossing distance
• Eliminate or reduce "multiple threat" crash types
• Install crossing island to cross in 2 simple steps
• Reduce top end travel speeds
• Buffer sidewalk from travel lanes (parking or bike lane)
• Reclaim street space for "higher and better use" than moving peak hour traffic

Presentation provides a throrough introduction to complete streets

Presentation demonstrates what complete streets are and are not.

Roadway Design Objectives should include: a roadway environment that the user can: Interpret correctly and safely, Minimize their mistakes, Minimize impact of their mistakes

Provide guidance for the design of urban thoroughfares that is consistent with CSS principles

A framework for thoroughfare design:

1. Define context
2. Specify a complete palette of thoroughfare types
3. Define correspondence between context and thoroughfare type
4. Bring network into the process

Integration of Green Infrastructure & Networks with Complete Streets in San Francisco

Presentation provides an overview of complete streets, examples of policies and actions in the Sacramento region and national level, simulations of streets and neighborhoods in Sacramento area

Presentation provides an overview of complete streets technical assistance and tools offered by SACOG

Snapshot of Complete Streets history and implementation

Complete streets can improve population health indirectly — through increased walking, biking, and transit use, Increased physical activity, Less obesity and chronic disease, Reduced respiratory conditions, deaths, other conditions related to air pollution — and Directly — through Reduced traffic injuries and deaths, and increased social interaction.

1. Transportation Action Plan
2. USDG Philosophy and Approach
3. Applying the Six-Step Plan/Design Process

1. Ditch concurrency
2. Code form
3. Get network
4. Complete streets
5. High Speed Rail: Again? Local?