This week in Complete Streets -- the dessert portion of the course -- we're learning how to (and not to) apply safe street design principles from other cultures to the US transportation context.
First up, the brilliant Carlos Pardo will be zooming in to talk about how to learn from temporary infrastructure and get more people involved in street design, and to spark some ideas for reconfiguring one of our own (disastrous) streets (1/3).
Finally, we'll wrap the course with a group discussion on the future of #CompleteStreets. What concepts can we take away from the course and apply right away? Which ones need seismic cultural shifts to be successful? How will we work to make sure those shifts happen...and to make sure they work for everyone?
We're at the point in my #CompleteStreets course where students' small area plans start really taking shape. It's my favorite part of the course, seeing how they've integrated everything they've learned and are applying it to solve actual problems through better street design in a real world situation.
In #CompleteStreets this week, we're talking about the pandemic's impacts on #pedestrian and #bicycle#planning and gearing up for a perennial favorite among students: Stakeholder Speed Dating!
I invite a dozen or so local experts to come provide feedback on students' recommendations for safety and accessibility improvements in a small area. Students get 10 minutes with each set of experts before rotating on to the next set. It's chaos! It's awesome! It's #CarolinaPlanning!
This week in #CompleteStreets we've got TWO amazing guest experts!
First up, Dr. Missy Cummings joins us to talk about the potential implications of driver assistance & driving automation for road safety, what the sitch is with AV regulations, and why simulations are misleading.
Then it's our own Dr. Wesley Kumfer talking about how engineering & planning work together to help or hinder safety efforts, and how to bring safe systems into traffic engineering practices. Rad.
This week in Complete, Safe, Equitable Streets: Matching walking and biking infrastructure to environment, traffic, and population contexts.
Lesson 1: Grading the appropriateness of infrastructure based on SEVDEA principles: Separation, Elevation, Visibility, Dedication, Accommodation, and Escapability
This week in Complete, Safe, Equitable Streets: a field trip to a cluster of schools located on a narrow, high speed two-lane road, and meeting with #ChapelHillNC planning staff to discuss ways we can make the area safer for kids to get to and from school.
The focus for the 2nd half of the course is on developing design and policy recommendations to support the town's commitment to #SafeStreetsForAll. It's a treat helping our students get this hands on experience.
This week in Complete, Safe, Equitable Streets, we're talking about how to measure travel demand...in the most literal sense of the word: "I demand to be able to get to work, school, the park, wherever, safely, via my chosen travel mode."
We'll cover common approaches to evaluating demand, pitfalls of those approaches, and techniques you can use now to better understand your community's mobility needs.