Context Sensitive Solutions www'contextsensitivesolutions'org

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Context Sensitive Solutionswww.contextsensitiveso
lutions.org

• Understanding the Context
• Experience of Place
• Quality of Life

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Context? Experience? Quality of Life?
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Context? Experience? Quality of Life?
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Context? Experience? Quality of Life?
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Context? Experience? Quality of Life?
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Context? Experience? Quality of Life?
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• This guide builds on the existing flexibility in
  current laws and regulations to explore
  opportunities to use flexible design as a tool to
  help sustain important community interests
  without compromising safety. Flexibility in
  Highway Design, Jane Garvey, Acting Federal
  Highway Administrator, 1997

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• The intent of this policy is to provide
  sufficient flexibility to encourage independent
  designs tailored to particular situations.
• A Policy on Geometric Design of Highway and
  Streets, fifth edition, 2004

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CSSIts about quality of life

• Process? Product? Philosophy?
• Multidisciplinary teams
• Broad stakeholder involvement
• The solutions dont have to cost more theyre
  likely to require less time and money.

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Time and Money

• Introducing environmentally sound technologies
  and construction practices early in project
  development can produce savings in costs and in
  time to completion, and can reduce future
  remediation expenses. Statement of Gloria M.
  Shepherd, Associate Administrator, FHWA before
  Committee on Science and Technology US House of
  Representatives, May 10, 2007

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When we are done with a project, the quality of
life should be better than it was before the
project. Quality of life is the third leg of the
stool along with mobility and safety Rick
Capka, FHWA Administrator September 2, 2006
SAFETEA-LU continues to frame our efforts to
improve the nations quality of life by blending
environmental protection and, as possible,
environmental enhancement with efforts to meet
our growing transportation needs. Rick
Capka, FHWA Administrator May 22, 2007
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Transportation System

• Mobility

Safety
Quality of Life
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Responsibilities

• Mobility
• Safety
• Quality of Life

Livable Communities
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FDOT 2007 and beyond

• CSS Squad
• Brian A Blanchard, State Director of Construction
• George Borchik, District Five Roadway Design
  Engineer
• Jeff Caster, State Transportation Landscape
  Architect
• Peggy Kelley, District Three Environmental
  Management
• Steven C James, District Six Landscape Architect
• Dwayne Kile, District Seven Design Engineer
• Tim Lattner, State Director of Maintenance
• Louis Reis, State Project Management Engineer
• David O'Hagan, State Roadway Design Engineer
• Scott Peterson, District Four Senior Roadway
  Designer
• Gwen Pipkin, District One ETDM Coordinator
• Jimmy Pitman, District Two Design Engineer
• John M Post, Turnpike Environmental Management
  Program Manager
• Dennis Scott, State Bicycle and Pedestrian
  Coordinator
• John Taylor, Systems Planning
• Melanie Weaver Carr, State Environmental Policy
  Coordinator
• Kathy Kendall, FHWA
• George Hadley, FHWA

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FDOT 2007 and beyond!

• CSS Squad
• Inventory and Analysis
• national and state program
• FDOT existing policies, procedures, manuals, etc.
• FDOT existing practices
• Draft Policy Philosophy, Product, Process?
• Draft CSS Improvement Plan
• Delivery to Executive Board

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• Chapter 1, Pages 1 2
• used by transportation professionals through
  three early phases of major transportation
  improvement project delivery Planning,
  Programming and Project Development.
• provides direction for involvement of the
  affected community early in the transportation
  planning and project delivery process.
• The ETDM Process uses an interdisciplinary team
  approach

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• Part I, Chapter I, Pages I 2
• All procedures developed in Florida are to use an
  interdisciplinary team approach
• The interdisciplinary approach combines the
  strengths of engineering and the natural and
  social science disciplines during project
  development to produce a sound public works
  project which serves the needs and goals of the
  community as a whole.

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• Pages 1 2 of the Introduction
• The criteria in this manual represent
  requirements
• Situations will exist where these criteria will
  not apply.
• The engineer is responsible for obtaining the
  necessary exception or variation to achieve
  proper design.

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Construction

• Community Awareness Plan
• Minimize negative impacts to the community and
  traveling public
• Multi-disciplinary team approach to plan
  development
• Level of public concern 1-4
• Strategy for addressing community concerns
• Time Critical Projects

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Maintenance

• Record, track and report data related to customer
  satisfaction and complaints at rest areas,
  welcome centers, and truck comfort stations.
• The data assists in the identification of
  improvement opportunities.
• Road Rangers

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2025 Florida Transportation Plan

• Goal Enriched Quality of life and responsible
  environmental stewardship
• enhance characteristics of the community that
  make it livable
• be compatible and consistent with community
  visions.
• Implementation Responsibility
• all public and private entities that develop
  transportation facilities
• Key Implementation Strategies
• Use effective public involvement and context
  sensitive design to develop transportation
  facilities that support community visions and
  enhance quality of life.

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• highway transportation cannot be allowed to
  function apart from or in conflict with its
  environment, for better or for worse. How do we
  provide needed mobility and, in the same process,
  contribute to other important social goals?
• It is an opportunity for social good implicit in
  the highway program that deserves to be
  emphasized. With an awareness of our social
  goals, and a will to serve them, the highway
  program can seize that opportunity.

Lowell K. Bridwell, Federal Highway Administrator
1968