Safe Mobility Planning

January 21, 20154:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. ET 

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Today’s Speakers

Madeline BrozenAssistant Director, Lewis Center for Regional Policy StudiesAssistant Director, Institute of Transportation StudiesProgram Manager, Complete Streets InitiativeUCLA

Stefanie Seskin (Moderator)Deputy Director National Complete Streets CoalitionSmart Growth America

Today’s Speakers

Daniel GoodmanOffice of Human EnvironmentLivability Team Federal Highway Administration

Meghan F. Mitman, AICPSenior Associate and San Francisco Office Operations ManagerFehr and PeersChair, ITE Complete Streets Council

Today’s Speakers

Gabe Rousseau, PhDSafety Operations Team LeaderOffice of Safety TechnologiesFederal Highway Administration

1. Data and Research: What Do We Know?2. How Planners Can Learn From Data3. Meeting the Needs of All Users4. Thinking Beyond User Safety5. Public Engagement6. Performance Measures7. Q&A

Today’s Audio/Web Conference

Question One

What do we know about safety issues when pedestrians, bicyclists,transit, and vehicles share streets? What questions shouldcommunities be asking and what information should they beexamining?

Federal Data

Local Sources

Question Two

Are there significant trends emerging from this data that wouldinfluence how a community would approach a street project or acommunity transportation plan?

What’s Trending

Karen Foto, Flickr

"Midtown Greenway-Minneapolis-2007" Micah Taylor, Wikimedia Commons

What’s Trending

Question Three

The USDOT has launched a comprehensive bike-walk safetyinitiative, with participation from all modes: driving, freight, motorcarriers, transit, walking, bicycling. Can you tell us more aboutthat initiative?

Federal Initiative

“This initiative is aimed atreversing the recent rise indeaths and injuries among thegrowing number of Americanswho bicycle or walk to work, toreach public transportation andto other important destinations.”

Transportation Secretary, Anthony Foxx- WikiMedia Commons

Road Diets

Richard Drdul, WikiMedia Commons

Question Four

How is the research helping to inform planning?

Collecting Data at All Levels

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Question Five

We have discussed the data that is available to inform planning.Now, please explain how transportation planners begin looking atand planning for this issue?

Reactive Vs. Pro-active

• Pro-active programs are better at preventing injury and death• Use research from a variety of sources

Partner With Public Health

http://transbasesf.org/transbase/

Question Six

What is going on in practice that is helping to make communitytransportation safer? How have the needs of older adults beenaddressed?

Designing for Seniors

FHWA 2014- Handbook for Designing Roadways for the Aging Population

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Question Seven

What about the needs of children? Is current federal legislation addressing these concerns?

What About the Children?

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Question Eight

What are some of the other issues besides users? What about connectivity?

ConnectionsConnections

Complete Streets CouncilComplete Streets Council•Connecting modesConnecting modes•Coordinating between Coordinating between engineers and plannersengineers and planners•Design guidanceDesign guidance

Question Nine

Gabe, you have observed that there are other dimensions to issues of safety in transportation planning. Can you give us an example?

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Question Ten

We have considered what the research tells us and who is affected, but where does a community begin a process that leads to more complete and safe streets?

Getting Started

“Tech Transfer provides freePedestrian SafetyAssessments, in whichevaluators will review yourcity or county's pedestriansafety conditions, programs,and needs, and suggest newstrategies to improvepedestrian safety”

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Question Eleven

Almost everyone agrees that safety should be the priority fortransportation projects, but what about when you have to maketrade-offs? How do you ensure a transparent process?  

Trade-Offs and Transparency

• Focus investments where they are most needed• Prioritize near schools, parks, assisted living centers, community centers, etc.• Prioritize projects that can result in safer environment for all users• Define the goals in the purpose & need statement to clearly encompass safety for all users, including those walking and bicycling• Listen to the community’s residents• Document the design choices to show why tradeoffs were made

Biswarup Ganguly, WikiMedia

Los Angeles Mind Mixer

http://ideas.la2b.org

Question Twelve

Engaging the public, both in understanding the issues and in actualplanning is important. What insights can you share onengagement?

FEMA Photo Library

Engagement

Question Thirteen

How we set goals and measure the way in which we meet thosegoals is changing. One way of doing this is using performancemeasures, but there are other measures as well. Can you explainmore about performance measures.

Performance and Beyond

Performance measures can be used at different points:•Long-term investment plans (20-year)—measuring return on investment of different big-picture funding decisions•Project identification and selection•Alternatives analysis•Making decisions during final design•Project evaluation—looking at impact

Question Fourteen

What are some of the other kinds of measures that communitiesshould consider as way of achieving their goals?

Measuring Success?

SB 743 CEQA GuidelinesTransportation Metric Update

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National Transportation Safety Board

Question Fifteen

We talked about engagement earlier, and now I want to talk aboutpartnerships that can and should enhance the work of planners andplanning. Can you describe some examples?

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Question Sixteen

What piece of advice or insight would you like toleave our audience with?

Closing Thoughts

Madeline BrozenAssistant Director, Lewis Center for Regional Policy StudiesAssistant Director, Institute of Transportation StudiesProgram Manager, Complete Streets InitiativeUCLA

Stefanie Seskin (Moderator)Deputy Director National Complete Streets CoalitionSmart Growth America

Closing Thoughts

Daniel GoodmanOffice of Human EnvironmentLivability Team Federal Highway Administration

Meghan F. Mitman, AICPSenior Associate and San Francisco Office Operations ManagerFehr and PeersChair, ITE Complete Streets Council

Q&A