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Featured Report

Context Sensitive Rock Slope Design Solutions

The objective of this report is to provide design, construction, and maintenance solutions for rock slope excavation, stabilization, and mitigation in context sensitive regions. It addresses state-of-the-art and state-of-practice technologies for the evaluation, design, and construction of context sensitive rock slopes. Key features of the report include the following:

• Advantages and limitations of existing and developing technologies and their acceptability for use on context sensitive projects.
• Relative cost comparisons of design, construction, and maintenance options.
• Design methods and examples for each application.

Featured Policy

Florida Greenbook Chapter 19: Traditional Neighborhood Development (TND)

In May of 2011, Florida Department of Transportation revised their Manual of Uniform Minimum Standards for Design, Construction and Maintenance for Streets and Highways. The document, commonly referred to as the Florida Greenbook, contains a wealth of innovative updates that address the needs and safety of all users. However, Chapter 19 stands out as especially ground breaking. The Chapter entitled Traditional Neighborhood Development takes a context sensitive approach to transportation and land use. With a focus on network functionality and design standards supporting a livable community, this is a model for 21st Century transportation.

Featured Publication

Going the Distance Together - Context Sensitive Solutions for Better Transportation, A Practitioner's Guide

There are many professionals involved in the "life of a transportation project." This guide speaks to all these professionals as "transportation practitioners" charged with helping provide mobility options to all citizens to support a good quality of life.

Featured Publication

Designing Walkable Urban Thoroughfares: A Context Sensitive Approach: An ITE Recommended Practice

This report has been developed in response to widespread interest for improving both mobility choices and community character through a commitment to creating and enhancing walkable communities. Many agencies will work toward these goals using the concepts and principles in this report to ensure the users, community and other key factors are considered in the planning and design processes used to develop walkable urban thoroughfares.

Featured Case Study

Big Roads and CSS - Marquette Interchange

A ContextSensitiveSolutions.org series of case studies speaking with practitioners that have successfully applied CSS principles within some of the largest infrastructure projects in the country.

Featured News Item

State Route 840 Opening Ends Arduous, Laborious and Costly Project

When Gov. Bill Haslam declared open the final stretch of state Route 840 last week, he brought to a close a tumultuous 26-year highway project. The plan to divert eastbound and westbound traffic around Nashville both to the north and the south looked good on paper, or so then-Gov. Lamar Alexander thought in 1986 when he gave it his approval.