This fact sheet is the fourth in a series published by ITE on the publication "Context Sensitive Solutions in Designing Major Urban Thoroughfares." The design of a thoroughfare helps define context as much as adjacent land uses and buildings. The conventional thoroughfare design process emphasizes vehicular capacity and automobile access using functional classification, traffic volume and speed as the determinants for design parameters, but often does not consider the surrounding context.

CSS has expanded the process to integrate thoroughfares into their surroundings - a new emphasis on urban thoroughfares designed to support the activities of the adjacent land uses, whether existing or as a goal for the future. Fact Sheet 2, A Framework for CSS in Urban Thoroughfare Design, introduces the concept of context zones and thoroughfare types.

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More Information: www.ite.org/css/

Further Reading:

Fact Sheet 4: Using Context Zones and Thoroughfare Types in Design

Fact Sheet 2: Design Controls in Context Sensitive Solutions