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ITE Activities Update

This update highlights various transportation engineering guidelines and reports, including walkable urban thoroughfare design, smart growth transportation guidelines, pedestrian and bicycle accommodations, traffic signal change intervals, advisory speeds determination methodologies, and new reports.

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ITE Activities Update

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  1. ITE Activities Update AASHTO Subcommittee on Traffic Engineering June, 2011 Lisa Fontana Tierney, P.E. Institute of Transportation Engineers 1

  2. CSS Design Report Designing Walkable Urban Thoroughfares: A Context Sensitive Approach ITE Recommended Practice Published March 2010 http://www.ite.org/css/ AvailableFreeon ITE Website 2

  3. Smart Growth Transportation Guidelines • Published Dec 2010 • Concepts of smart growth policies and practices • Principles: compact development, multimodal, accessibility, efficient use of existing infrastructure, and pricing policies

  4. Pedestrians and Bicycles • Pavement Marking Patterns at Uncontrolled Pedestrian Crossings (Oct 2010) - Summary of state/local agency pavement marking policies • Automated Pedestrian Detection (Jun 2011) (potential for expanded, effective use of APD devices) • Separated Bikeways (draft informational report) • Accommodating Pedestrians and Bicycles at Interchanges (draft rec. practice)

  5. TrafficSignalChangeIntervals Coming Soon • Approved by expert advisory committee (Mark Taylor [UT] and Woody Hood [MD]). • Expected to be published for open comment in Fall 2011 • No change to basic kinematic equation • Provides clear guidance on assumptions used in equations (i.e., approach speed determination) • Coverage of special applications of the equations (i.e., left turn phase) • Coordinating efforts with related NCHRP 03-95 Guidelines for Timing Yellow and All-Red Intervals at Signalized Intersections

  6. 3rd TrafficSignalReport Card • Targeted training including 5 traffic signal program management courses (July 2011) • Assessment expected to be published Fall 2011 (new emphasis on setting goals and objectives for signal operations – connecting questions to operational objectives) • Report card release Spring 2012 • Advisory committee includes AASHTO agencies (Brent Jennings [ID], Bill Lambert [NH], Gene Donaldson [DE], Greg Fuller [NC], Mark Taylor [UT])

  7. Methodologies for the Determination of Advisory Speeds • Published October 2010 • Documents three methodologies for the determination of Advisory Speeds • Consistent with 2009 MUTCD

  8. TrafficControl Devices Handbook Update Underway • Expected to be published in late 2012 • Authors selected and writing is underway • Draft chapters due in Fall 2011 • Reviewers welcome

  9. Other New Reports • Manual of Transp. Eng. Studies, 2nd Edition (Nov 2010) • Parking Generation, 4th Edition (July 2010) • Coming Soon: Recommended practice on speed humps/tables (July 2011)

  10. ITE’s New Member Community community.ite.org

  11. ITE 2011 Annual Meeting/ 2012 Technical Conference August 13–16 America’s CenterSt. Louis, MO, USA 2012 ITE Technical Conference and Exhibit Managing Operational Performance... Exceeding Expectations March 4–7, 2012 Pasadena, California, USA

  12. For moreinformation… Lisa Fontana Tierney, P.E. Traffic Engineering Senior Director (202) 289-0222, x116 lfontana@ite.org WWW.ITE.ORG 12

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