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Lesson 4 for graduate course on Context Sensitive Solutions (CSS). Created for UTCM Report #08-14-03 "Making Mobility Improvements a Community Asset: Transportation Improvements Using Context-Sensitive Solutions"TRANSCRIPT
Context Sensitive Solutions in Transportation Planning, Environmental
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Class Objectives:• Understand transportation agency
project development processes• Apply understanding for a sample
project
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Definition:The overall process of advancing a
(transportation) project from concept to implementation.
Typically encompasses:• Define purpose and need• Planning• Location• Preliminary design• Final design• Construction
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Individual tasks – up to 200 or more!
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Components and Considerations• Area goals and needs• Stakeholder input• Project vision• Compatibility• Support for local objectives• Partnership agreements
– Roles and responsibilities– Outcomes – Funding– Other as applicable
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Project Initiation• Identify need or problem• Identify and engage stakeholders
– Stakeholder examples? – students?
• Outreach and partnership development– Understand needs, goals, values*
– “Achieve excellence”css
• Agreement to collaborate on project– Objectives, process– “Memorandum of understanding”
Stages and Steps
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Examples of objectives and issues• Land development/redevelopment• Economic development• Aesthetics• (more – students?)
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Planning• Identify context• Form multidisciplinary team• Agree on decision-making process• Formulate public involvement process• Develop consensus around a problem
and need statement– Mobility and safety– Community goals, issues, values– Environmental
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Planning (cont.)• Develop consensus project vision and
goals• Select project limits• Develop project statement
– “Solution neutral”– Purpose and need – Vision– Goals– Values
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Scoping• Analyze and fully understand the context• Reconfirm project statement• Develop criteria to evaluate alternatives
– Framework– Support vision, needs, issues, opportunities
• Develop wide range of alternatives• Reduce alternatives to reasonable options
– Apply criteria (general level)– Consider environmental
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Scoping (cont.)• Refine alternatives to feasibility• Evaluate alternatives• Discuss alternatives with community and
develop consensus around a preferred alternative
• Develop conceptual design• Test, evaluate, and discuss options• Environmental assessment/impact
statement (NEPA), if needed
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Scoping (cont.)• Seek consensus on conceptual design• With partners, seek official approval to
proceed to design• Understand environmental commitments• Complete preliminary design
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Design• Final design
– Construction, “compatibility”
• Partner agreements– Cost sharing, maintenance, coordinated
improvements, enhancements
• Right of way acquisition/utility coordination• Bids and construction contract awards
– Main transportation project– Partner projects
• Public, private
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Construction• Project awards• Maintenance of traffic and other activities
– Minimize resident, business, traveler disruption
• Construction• Community liaison/coordination – resolve
issues• Open project
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Operation and Maintenance• Operational adjustments• Adhere to maintenance agreements• Routine maintenance • Project performance sufficiency evaluation
– Meeting vision, objectives
• Discuss and capture lessons learned• Liaison to address issues, opportunities
– Ongoing– Newly arising needs
Stages and Steps
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Project Development
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Issue Resolution•Move issues to early stages where they are more easily addressed through changes and refinements
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Final Observations• Project development is a lengthy,
complex process• Projects are not defined at the
beginning• Context and collaboration are critical• There is no one formula for success• Experience, flexibility and good
judgment are keys to success
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Wellborn & George Bush Grade Separation• Initial problem and need statement• Understanding of context• Potential stakeholders• Potential issues
First of series – due in one week: 2-3 pages
Class Exercise
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Project development manuals• TxDOT• MassHighways
CSS guide:• ITE Context Sensitive Solutions in
Designing Major Urban Thoroughfares for Walkable Communities*
Resources