DESIGN STANDARDS THAT CREATE LIVABLE STREETS

Transportation projects are 30- to 50-year public investments that should undergo a thorough evaluation for their community function and their ability to promote the quality of urban life. By viewing the transportation corridor as a complex set of parts, the design engineer may more easily understand relationships between the parts and how to plan, design, and fund projects that will best serve the community. This can be done while balancing competing functional and aesthetic demands. The focus of this paper is the City of West Palm Beach, Florida, which has been actively rethinking and rebuilding its city streets. This paper will examine how the "smart" design of streets, when used as an integral part of "smart growth" of the city, encourages continued vitality and investment in the downtown and surrounding residential and neighborhood commercial areas. This paper will address specific innovations in roadway design standards, traffic calming, consensus building, project budgeting and urban design.

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  Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE)

  Washington, DC  United States 
• Authors:
  • Schwartz, F
  • Pippitt, R J
• Conference:
  • ITE 2001 Annual Meeting and Exhibit
  • Location: Chicago, Illinois, USA
  • Date: 2001-8-19 to 2001-8-22
• Publication Date: 2001-8

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 12p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Aesthetics; Budgeting; City planning; Communities; Consensus; Design engineering; Design standards; Financing; Neighborhoods; Roads; Traffic calming; Transportation planning; Urban design
• Geographic Terms: West Palm Beach (Florida)
• Subject Areas: Design; Finance; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00921800
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0935403620
• Report/Paper Numbers: CD-013
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Mar 15 2002 12:00AM