Complete Streets


Atlanta
November 14–15, 2008

Streets ought to be for everyone, but in too many communities streets are the domain of speeding cars or traffic jams. In this Planners Training Service workshop, you'll learn how to complete the streets to make them safe and inviting for pedestrians, bicyclists, wheelchair users, transit riders, and drivers.


You'll learn

  • The benefits of complete streets
  • Types of complete streets policies (and how to pick the right one for your community)
  • Element of an effective policy
  • What's working for other communities
  • How to train staff
  • How to measure performance
  • Essential design criteria
  • Tips for involving the public and stakeholders
Complete Streets

Presenters

Barbara McCannBarbara McCann, coordinator of the National Complete Streets Coalition, coined the term "complete streets," organized the Coalition, and conducts research on complete streets policies and implementation practices. She also maintains an independent consulting practice, using her expertise in transportation and land use to write books, articles, reports, and policy analysis for clients ranging from Environmental Defense to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Walter KulashWalter Kulash has more than 30 years of experience as a traffic engineer, for private consultants and currently as an independent public-interest traffic engineer. Kulash's approach to traffic engineering reaches for a new balance between the long-held engineering goal of moving as much traffic as efficiently as possible and the evolving view of streets as valuable for many other purposes.


Certification Maintenance (CM)

The PTS workshops are approved for certification maintenance credits: CM |14

Workshop agenda (pdf)

NOTE: The workshop agenda provided here is for informational purposes only. The agenda is tentative and subject to change at any time prior to the actual workshop. Finalized workshop agendas will only be provided to workshop registrants when they register with APA staff at the Planners Training Service in Atlanta.