Interdisciplinary Approach
Cross-training engineers and planners creates a collaborative environment for designing and developing streets.
- Planners’ role. Generally, planners work with the community to define the goals...
Cross-training engineers and planners creates a collaborative environment for designing and developing streets.
Support Transit in Operations
VTA strongly recommends establishing transit first policies that favor rail and bus operations. Strong signal priority for transit operations in major corridors is...
From the 1970s through the late 2010s, transportation analysis of the impact of development projects and land use plans focused heavily on automobile Level of Service (LOS), a performance measure...
Even today, street design standards are based first on accommodating efficient, free, and rapid motor vehicle flow. Decisions about geometry and operations of a street typically begin with reducing...