Sponsor Spotlight: Kittelson & Associates, Inc.
August 2023
How do you keep up in an industry that’s always moving?
Transportation engineers and planners throughout Kittelson & Associates use our blog to share what we’re learning—whether that’s the latest guidebook, a unique approach, a new technology, or anything else we think will provide value to the transportation industry.
We’re a consulting firm that partners with clients across the country to transform how communities move. From research and planning through operations and design, Kittelson works with public agencies and private organizations to provide creative, forward-thinking solutions to the challenges facing our multimodal transportation systems. Here’s a sample of what we’ve been learning and thinking about:
The Final Rule on Public Right-of-Way Accessibility Guidelines (PROWAG) is Out: Here’s What You Need to Know. After 21 years of research and revision, the US Access Board has issued the long-awaited final rule on PROWAG. Based on our initial read of the final rule, we’ve summarized the key highlights that we anticipate will most affect our clients and projects.
How to Weave a Trail Into Your Community Fabric. Trails have the potential to powerfully influence the way a community moves. This article summarizes a few of the many principles we consider when planning, designing, and maintaining trails that become frequently used and well loved.
What’s New in the New Roundabout Guide? How does NCHRP Research Report 1043: Guide for Roundabouts differ from its predecessors? While the new guide continues the context-sensitive, performance-based design approach from these prior guides, it also includes a significant amount of new research and reorganization. Read a summary of the major changes.
The Technology That Could Prevent Thousands of Roadway Deaths Every Year. For National Safety Month, one of our principal planners wrote about a potentially simple, affordable, and effective way to reduce speeding: installing speed limiters in cars to automate compliance with speed limit laws.
Smart Intersections: Using Video Analytics to Identify Crash Patterns Before They Happen. Can video analytics identify conflicts as reliably as human review to help us select, implement, and evaluate countermeasures against conflicts and crashes? Read the results of a recent study from PennDOT that set out to answer this question.
Twice a month, we share articles like these through Streetwise, a reader-friendly digest of our latest thinking. Sign up for Streetwise here, or head to our blog to read more ideas! It’s through the open exchange of insights that we will collectively raise the bar and keep our communities moving forward.