Complete Streets are planned, designed, operated, and maintained to provide safe and comfortable travel for all users of all ages. Complete Streets provide for all modes of transportation, including pedestrians, bicyclists, transit vehicles, and motorists, as well as allow for emergency response, road maintenance, and goods movement.

This course covers the planning and design of Complete Streets, including the history of Complete Streets, the policy environment for Complete Streets (particularly in the California legislative environment), how to integrate Complete Streets with the urban planning process, and how to design streets, intersections, crossings, and interchanges consistent with the Complete Streets approach.

Additional course detail is provided in the sections below.

• Course Topics
  • The history of Complete Streets
  • The policy environment for Complete Streets
  • New planning trends affecting decisions regarding transportation
  • Integrating Complete Streets with general plans, specific plans, RTPs, TIPs, entitlement process
  • Layered networks
  • Design manuals & guidelines relevant to Complete Streets
  • Cross-section element design: travel lanes, parking, shoulders, pedestrian/bicycle facilities
  • Experimental & innovative bikeway design
  • Signalized intersection & uncontrolled crossing design
• Course Outline

  Session 1: Complete Streets Policy & Planning Overview

  • What Are Complete Streets?
  • History of Complete Streets
  • California Policy Environment for Complete Streets
  • Typical Local Policy Statements
  • Caltrans’ Policies for Complete Streets

  Session 2: New Planning Paradigm

  • Climate Change
  • Sustainability
  • Shifting Demographics
  • Changing Lifestyle Preferences
  • Technological Advances
  • Emphasis on Safety
  • Public Health
  • Induced Travel
  • The Eight D’s of Land Use & Transportation

  Session 3: Operationalizing & Impementing Complete Streets

  • Integrating Complete Streets with General Plans, Regional Transportation Plans (RTPs), the State Transportation Improvement Program (STIP), and the California Transportation Plan (CTP)
  • Integrating Complete Streets with the Entitlement Process
  • Caltrans Smart Mobility Framework
  • California Strategic Highway Safety Plan (SHSP) 
  • Context Sensitive Solutions
  • Layered Networks, Transects, & Street Typologies
  • Level of Service (LOS), Multimodal Level of Service (MMLOS)
  • Types of Bicyclists, Bicyclist Comfort, Bicyclist Education
  • Measuring Performance
  • Office of Traffic Safety Assessment Technical Assistance Program
  • Barriers, Opposition, & Strategies to Address Issues
  • Walk Audit #1
  • Group Exercise #1

  Session 4: Design Standards & Guidance

  • Design Standards, Manuals, & Guidance

  Session 5: Roadway Design Concepts

  • Traffic Calming
  • Road Diets and Travel Lane Width
  • On-Street Parking 
  • Shoulder Width
  • Pedestrian Facilities 
  • Bicycle Facilities (traditional & innovative)
  • Caltrans Main Street Guidance
  • Transit Facilities
  • Access Management
  • Coordinating with Rehabilitation Maintenance

  Session 6: Intersection & Crossing Design Concepts

  • Intersection Design Principles
  • Signalized Intersection Treatments
  • Interchange Design Concepts
  • Roundabouts
  • Uncontrolled Crossings
  • Walk Audit #2
  • Group Exercise #2
• What you will learn

  Students will gain an understanding of the Complete Streets approach, its application to planning and design, how to plan for future Complete Streets, and how to retrofit existing streets to provide for all modes of transportation.

  Additionally, students will learn how to evaluate complicated trade-offs between modes of transportation.

• Who should attend

  This course is intended for urban planners and transportation engineers at local, regional, and state agencies as well as consultants. Both new and experienced planners and engineers will benefit.

  The course is primarily appropriate for urban perspectives, however it does address Complete Streets in rural environments as well.

• Course Prerequisites

  [no prerequisites identified]

• Course Instructors

  Jeremy Klop, AICP, Principal, Fehr & Peers Transportation Consultants

  Mr. Klop brings an effective blend of experience in multimodal transportation planning, modeling, and operations analysis. With this integrated understanding of both the multimodal planning and operation implications, he provides a wide range of services including complete streets policy and design, multimodal transportation planning in campus, medical, and downtown settings, transit operations and signal priority, corridor studies and livable street design, and smart growth modeling and forecasting.

  In addition to project experience, he publishes and presents on the relationship between urban form and trip generation, complete streets, and bicycle and pedestrian facility planning, including a co-author role for the Bicycle and Pedestrian chapter in the ITE Transportation Planning Handbook (2009). He is a member of the American Planning Association (APA) and the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE).

  Jason Pack, P.E., Principal, Fehr & Peers Transportation Consultants

  Mr. Jason Pack began working for Fehr & Peers after receiving his degree in Civil Engineering from the University of California, Davis in 1999. He has worked on a wide variety of transportation projects, from general plans and specific plans to detailed corridor, interchange, and signal coordination studies. Most of his projects feature a complete streets element and many involve Caltrans. Additionally, he has applied or developed travel demand forecast models on over 50 projects in the State of California.

  Jason has had papers/presentations accepted to the TRB National Roundabout Conference, the ITE National Conference, and the California APA Conferences. Jason has worked on a variety of complete/livable street projects, including the San Marcos General Plan Mobility Element, Holt Boulevard Corridor Plan, Carlsbad General Plan Mobility Element, and the award winning Carlsbad Livable Streets Assessment.

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