Context Sensitive Solutions

Midwest Region CSD&S Workshop: Overcoming Roadblocks to Project Excellence

Aug. 24–26, 2005

Objectives

In public works today, institutionalizing the Context Sensitive Design and Solutions (CSD&S) philosophy and principles continues to be a challenge. This workshop addressed tough questions and challenges from around the country as well as lessons being learned and innovations being pursued to further excellence in transportation project development using CSD&S philosophy and principles.

Format

A combination of keynote general sessions, concurrent tracks, roundtable discussions, poster exhibits, and mobile (walking and bus tour) mini-workshops

Concurrent Tracks

• CSD&S Education and Outreach (Knowledge Gaps, Skill Development, New Tools)
• CSD&S Practice (Best Practices, New Paradigms, Emerging State of the Art)
• CSD&S Acceptance (Institutional Reluctance, Measures of Performance and Success)

See workshop program for detailed descriptions of workshops.

Attendees

• State DOTs and metropolitan/regional planning organizations
• Local governments (city, county, tribal, townships)
• Federal Highway Administration (divisions, federal lands, resource centers)
• Regulatory agencies
• Stakeholder associations and nonprofit organizations
• Community and neighborhood organizations
• Consultants and other practitioners

Sponsors

• Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT)
• USDOT Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)

Materials

• Agenda (114 KB PDF)
• Addressing the Costs of Design Aesthetics by Measuring the Benefits — David Larson (312 KB PDF)
• Aesthetic Initiative Measurement System — Joan Nassauer (804 KB PDF)
• Attributes and Amenities of Highway Systems Important to Tourists — Bill Gartner (196 KB PDF)
• CSS & University Education — Nikiforos Stamatiadis (208 KB PDF)
• Charlotte's Urban Street Design Guidelines: A Tool for Context-Based Planning — Norm Steinman (157 KB PDF)
• Conceptual Frameworks: Teaching and Research on CSD — Lance Neckar (79 KB PDF)
• Context Sensitive and Sustainable Solutions — Michael Wolfe & Michaella Wittmann (298 KB PDF)
• Design Flexibility in Rural and Developing Settings — Craig Churchward (168 KB PDF)
• Engaging Traditionally — Jumetta Posey (7.6 MB PDF)
• Environmental Stewardship and Highway Maintenance — Gary McVoy (5.4 MB PDF)
• Integrating CSS Into System Planning — Fred Abadi (4.5 MB PDF)
• Integrating Context Sensitive Solutions (CSS) as an Underlying Principle of Excellence — Dwight Horne (60 KB PDF)
• Interesting Practices in Institutional Integration of CSS — Janet D'Ignazio (384 KB PDF)
• Lake Street: Street Reconstruction & Streetscape Projects — Jim Grube (528 KB PDF)
• Loop 12 — Urban Design & the Public Process — Mark Mathews (963 KB PDF)
• Overcoming Roadblocks to Project Excellence — Jim Bednar (2.4 MB PDF)
• Performance Measures for Context Sensitive Solutions – A Guidebook for State DOTs — Sally Oldham (167 KB PDF)
• Pilot Project on Performance Measurement in Context Sensitive Solutions — Becky Burk (600 KB PDF)
• Re-Examining Safety and Assumptions in a Litigious Society — Ken Kohnstamm (129 KB PDF)
• Redefining Transportation Excellence — James Charlier (1.7 MB PDF)
• Reinventing Minnesota Highway 1 — Kimberly Sannes (1 MB PDF)
• St. Croix River Crossing Project — Beth Bartz (878 KB PDF)
• Traffic Calming Minnesota Online Database — Mike Marti (541 KB PDF)
• US 93 Evaro to Polson CSS Workshop Presentation — Craig Genzlinger & Lewis Yellow Robe (4.2 MB PDF)
• What's Going on at North Carolina State University — James Martin (184 KB PDF)