Context Sensitive Solutions in Designing Major Urban Thoroughfares for Walkable Communities

ITE's Context Sensitive Solutions in Designing Major Urban Thoroughfares for Walkable Communities provides guidance and demonstrates for practitioners how major urban streets can be designed to support walkable and bikeable communities, compact development, and mixed land uses. The report includes chapters on incorporating context sensitive solutions into transportation planning and project development, specific design criteria, and case studies where these approaches have been successfully applied.
An
electronic copy of this document along with additional CSS information
can be found at theITE website
and at Context
Sensitive Solutions.org
. To order a hardcopy of Context Sensitive
Solutions in Designing Major Urban Thoroughfares for Walkable Communities
visit the ITE Bookstore
online
or call them at 202-289-0222 ext. 130. The cost for ITE
members is $25.00 and for nonmembers the cost is $30.
The report was funded by the Federal Highway Administration and EPA, and in partnership with the Congress for the New Urbanism.
The report was published as a proposed recommended practice of ITE. As such, it is to be considered in its proposed form, but is subject to change after receipt and consideration of suggestions from those who have reviewed the report.
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