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
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)