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At our Project for Transportation Reform summit, CNU brings together planners, designers, engineers, and public officials committed to creating and advancing transportation standards and policies that support urbanism and promote equity and equitable development.
Post-Summit Review
This year’s Summit, Equity + Transportation, will focus on the interaction between equity and transportation and how we can redefine transportation standards to support safe, vibrant, and equitable streets. For decades, U.S. transportation policy gave priority to automobile movement over the social and economic needs of the people living along our streets. Highways and wide arterials divided pre-existing neighborhoods, degraded the public realm, and created travel spaces unsafe for pedestrians and bicyclists. Much of CNU’s transportation work — such as our Highways to Boulevards initiative and the CNU/ITE collaboration Designing Walkable Urban Thoroughfares — helps to reverse decades of inequity.
The purpose of the Summit is to explore the following questions:
- How do we revitalize corridors in distressed communities?
- How do we complete “incomplete” streets by building great, beautiful and equitable streets?
- Is there a research, policy, or design gap in this area that CNU could address? If so, what?
This year’s Summit will continue to drive the efforts and progress CNU's Project for Transportation, leveraging the expertise of participants in smaller working sessions to tackle issues relating to:
The Street Design group seeks to accomplish the following:
- Developing a new “Practitioner’s Guide” for the CNU/ITE Recommended Practice that focuses on pedestrian and non-motorized transportation and retrofitting problematic intersections
- Establish policies - complete streets/context sensitive design at all practice levels
- Groundwork for national implementation of CNU/ITE Recommended Practice
Designing Walkable Urban Thoroughfares
- Continue updating the Functional Classification system Area Types
- Other reforms and an outline for achieving successful urban street design
Group Leaders
Rick Hall & Ken Voigt
Working Groups Meeting Times
Wednesday, October 1 | 4:00 - 5:00 PM
Thursday, October 2 | 1:30 - 4:00 PM
Recommended Tour
Elements Of Great Streets & Great Places
Friday, October 3 | 1:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Advance Reading Material
- ITE/CNU Designing Walkable Urban Thoroughfares Recommended Practice
The Bikeway Networks group will focus on establishing common ground between the new urbanist and bicycle planning professions. To begin, the group will hold a conversation outlining specifically where bicycle advocates and new urbanists diverge in philosophy. Then, over the three day summit, the Bikeway Networks group will develop an action item list for CNU and the Alliance for Biking & Walking to tackle for integrating ‘place' and place-based data and metrics in the bi-annual Alliance report on bicycling and walking.
In 2013, this working group put together a variety of bikeway networks from around the world to demonstrate the correlation between network density/physical separation and mode share/gender splits.
Group Leader
Mike Lydon & Rock Miller
Working Groups Meeting Times
Thursday, October 2 | 1:30 - 4:00 PM
Recommended Tour
NYC Bike Tour
Wednesday, October 1 | 1:15 PM - 4:00 PM
*This tour has limited capacity and corresponds specifically to this group's work. Thus Bikeway Network workgroup members receive priority sign-up. Friday tours are open to all.
Advance Reading Material
- SmartCode Bike Module
- 2014 Alliance for Biking and Walking Benchmarking Report
- Rob Steuteville's critique of the 2014 Benchmarking Report in Better Towns & Cities
- Bikeway Networks 2013 Summit Notes
This group aims to reform transportation modeling so that it correctly supports the advancement of New Urbanism rather than obstructing—efforts to advance New Urbanism have often been frustrated by transportation modeling that is simplistic and focused only on cars. More complete transportation modeling that properly accounts for multi-modal travel patterns in walkable mixed-use areas can switch transportation modeling from being an obstacle to being a tool for advancing New Urbanism.
Group Leader
Norman Marshall
Working Groups Meeting Times
Wednesday, October 1 | 4:00 - 5:00 PM
Thursday, October 2 | 1:30 - 5:00 PM
Recommended Tour
Sheridan Expressway
Friday, October 3 | 1:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Advance Reading Material
- Transportation Reform Modeling Prospectus
CNU's proposed Street Vitality Index seeks to measure and rate the vibrancy of streets and neighborhoods. The SVI working group will help to define the initiative by discussing in-depth the final product, user and metrics
Group Leader
Joseph Readdy
Working Groups Meeting Times
Wednesday, October 1 | 4:00 - 5:00 PM
Recommended Tour
Elements Of Great Streets & Great Places
Friday, October 3 | 1:00 PM - 4:30 PM
- Street Vitality Index Preamble and notes from 2013 Summit
Equitable TOD in New York City: RPA is currently working on the Fourth Regional Plan, a comprehensive blueprint for the region.
RPA will be leading a workshop on Equitable Transit Oriented Development within NYC. As part of RPA’s ongoing work on the Fourth Regional Plan, the Transportation & Communities working groups are analyzing all the subway stations in New York City to identify those that pose an opportunity to tackle the Mayor’s recent Housing Plan to increase affordable housing throughout the city. RPA will identify subway corridors that have additional capacity to accommodate increased ridership induced by new housing developments. The objective of this workshop is to develop ideas, proposals, and guidelines for stations within those corridors where:
- There is opportunity and need to add housing capacity- with a focus on adding affordable housing
- There is disconnect between subway stations and adjacent/nearby Public Housing units
- The current physical conditions make an attractive and accessible public realm a real challenge
Group Leader
Rob Lane
Working Groups Meeting Times
Wednesday, October 1 | 1:15 - 4:00 PM
Recommended Tour
Sheridan Expressway
Friday, October 3 | 1:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Advance Reading Material
- Regional Plan Association's Fourth Regional Plan site
- Outmoded Land-Use Policies Thwart Transit-Oriented Development in Connecticut
- LIRR Grand Central Link to Boost Home Values
What To Expect
Aligning transportation and land use is critical for revitalizing distressed communities. Economic vitality, community stability, and environmental health cannot be sustained without a coherent and supportive physical framework, including well-designed streets. For too long, revitalization has meant tearing down what's currently there and bringing in something “new” while streets have been designed for cars at the expense of other users. How can we plan for transportation outcomes that positively impact all modes and all users while revitalizing our distressed corridors, while not displacing local businesses and residents?
This three-day summit of presentations, discussions, tours, and working meetings will challenge participants to identify research opportunities, policy strategies, and design approaches that make transportation policy more holistic and equitable. These discussions around Equity + Transportation will form the basis of CNU’s work on this topic for the upcoming year.
Location
Ford Foundation Building
320 E 43rd St
New York, NY 10017
Want To Sponsor The Summit?
For information on sponsorship opportunities, contact Alex McKeag at 312-551-7300 x16
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