Developing Context Sensitive Solutions for California (PL-03)

Across California, people are demanding that transportation projects—state and local—fit in with the character and unique needs of their communities. In this free, two-day workshop sponsored by Caltrans, participants will learn to accommodate those demands by using the Context Sensitive Solutions approach to developing transportation projects in California.

Upcoming dates:

• August 19-20, 2008 - San Bernardino
• September 9-10, 2008 - Eureka
• October 15-16, 2008 - Bishop
• January 27-28, 2009 - Stockton
• February 10-11, 2009 - Redding
• March 18-19, 2009 - Oakland
• April 15-16, 2009 - San Bernardino

Read Director Kempton's memo on the importance of this training.
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See Director Kempton's video message about this training.
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About CSS

The Context Sensitive Solutions (CSS) approach to planning and designing transportation projects is based on forming early, active, and ongoing partnerships with community groups and other vested stakeholders for each transportation project. The CSS approach can be used to help ensure that transportation facilities are in balance with community goals and meet access, mobility and safety needs for all users, including motorists, bicyclists, persons with disabilities, and pedestrians.

Through lectures, small group exercises, and case studies from California, workshop attendees will learn:

• The meaning of CSS and why it is an important way of doing business
• Principles and implementation strategies for CSS
• How to analyze and define the "context" for your transportation activities
• How to identify and engage partners and stakeholders for your projects
• How to develop a new kind of problem statement
• Tort Liability and CSS
• Tools for evaluating project alternatives, given competing goals and values in a community
• Interpersonal team dynamics

Instructors

Leslie Regos, Transportation Planning Manager, CH2M Hill
Loren Bloomberg, Traffic Operations Technical Leader, CH2M Hill

Who Should Attend This Class

• Caltrans staff who are involved with planning, delivering, operating, and maintaining transportation projects in California, including those in project design, environmental, construction, project management, and right-of-way as well as mass transit and local assistance
• City, county, regional, and federal professionals involved in project planning, implementation, maintenance, and operations
• Consultants (may be admitted on a seats available basis)

Registration Information

This training course is free for employees of California public transportation agencies. You may register through the links above or at the Training page. Seats will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis.

Private industry and out of state individuals may register online with a credit card for a fee of $595 as seats are available. Please contact the registrar for pre-approval by sending your request.

Caltrans staff with questions about content or appropriateness of this training program for their job function may contact Carolyn Dudley at 916.654.5505 or by e-mail.

This free statewide training is sponsored by the Caltrans Division of Design's Landscape Architecture Program in partnership with the Technology Transfer Program, a unit of the Institute of Transportation Studies at UC Berkeley.