Design Guidelines for Streets and Stations

WHAT YOU’LL LEARN

• How to work with street designers and engineers on proposed project designs
• Best practices in balancing form and function in streets design
• Multimodal approaches to rail-station access

MORE SESSION DETAILS

Once the domain of engineers and public works departments, street-design decisions are increasingly within the purview of planning departments. By considering how streets contribute to placemaking and community goals, street design guidelines that can ensure transportation networks provide access and mobility for everyone. Explore recent advancements in design guidelines, as well as best practices that will be relevant across to cities and transit agencies large and small. In Grand Rapids, Michigan, new guidelines are creating a progressive street typology that considers urban form with transportation function to develop detailed design standards for city streets. In the San Francisco Bay Area, BART is implementing multimodal rail-station-access design guidelines with a station-typology framework. Nationally, the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) completed the "Implementing Context Sensitive Design for Multimodal Thoroughfares: An ITE Informational Report" for streets nationwide. Learn how by avoiding one-size-fits-all solutions, these design guides take a more flexible and context-sensitive approach to creating great streets.