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Publication No. RP-036A
© 2010 Institute of Transportation Engineers. All rights reserved. 1000/GP/BH/0310
Printed in the United States of America ISBN-13: 978-1-933452-52-4 ISBN-10: 1-933452-52-8
Preface and Acknowledgments
Designing Walkable Urban Thoroughfares: A Context Sensitive Approach, RP-036A was approved in 2010 as a recommended practice of the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE). It supersedes the proposed recommended practice, Context Sensitive Solutions in Designing Major Urban Thoroughfares for Walkable Communities, RP-036, dated March 2006. The comment period on the proposed recommended practice closed on December 31, 2006. Comments on the proposed recommended practice have been incorporated into this document.
ITE wishes to thank the Federal Highway Administration's Ofice of Infrastructure, Ofice of Planning, Environment and Realty and the Environmental Protection Agency's Ofice of Sustainable Communities for i-nancially supporting this work effort and providing leadership and guidance in the development of this report.
This report was produced by ITE and the Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU) and is the result of several years of concerted effort by dedicated volunteers, including ITE members, CNU members and many other interested parties. ITE wishes to thank the members of each of the following committees for their respective roles in the preparation of this repot.
The project management team played an essential role in the identiication, development and reinement of content, including numerous detailed reviews throughout the development process. The members of the project management team were as follows:
Brian S. Bochner (H), Texas Transportation Institute
Philip J. Caruso (F), ITE
James M. Daisa (F), Kimley-Horn and Associates, Inc.
Lisa M. Fontana Tierney (F), ITE
Lucinda E. Gibson (M), Smart Mobility Inc.
John Norquist, CNU
Jon T. Obenberger (M), FHWA
Harold E. Peaks, FHWA
Heather Smith, CNU
John V. Thomas, EPA
Neel Vanikar, FHWA
A multidisciplinary steering committee, including a policy and technical advisory committee, was responsible for general project oversight. The policy advisory committee was responsible for providing overall vision and direction, while the technical advisory committee provided guidance and review of technical content. The members of the policy and technical advisory committees were as follows:
POLICY ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Frances Banerjee
Andres Duany
Philip A. Erickson (M)
R. Marshall Elizer Jr. (F)
Hal Kassoff (M)
Kenneth F. Kobetsky (M)
Tim Torma
TECHNICAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Chester E. Chellman (F)
Frederick C. Dock (F)
Norman W. Garrick
Ellen Greenberg
Richard A. Hall (F)
Rodney W Kelly (F)
John N. LaPlante (F)
Marcy McInelly
Danny C. Pleasant (F)
Peter Swift
Jeffrey Tumlin
This report was balloted and approved by a committee of individuals actively involved in the development of the report. The voting committee members included the following:
R. Marshall Elizer Jr. (F)
Norman W. Garrick
Richard A. Hall (F)
Rodney W Kelly (F)
John N. LaPlante (F)
Danny C. Pleasant (F)
Peter Swift Jeffrey Tumlin
Endorsement for publication of this document as an ITE recommended practice was provided by a recommended practice review panel consisting of the following individuals with an active interest and knowledge of context sensitive design. The following individuals were members of the panel:
Raymond E. Davis III (F)
Cesar J. Molina Jr. (M)
Brian L. Ray Dennis E. Royer (M)
Dean A. Schreiber
Nikiforos Stamatiadis (F)
A consultant team, led by James M. Daisa and Brian S. Bochner, was responsible for creating and assembling all technical content. These efforts included development of the report's organizational structure; identification, research and development of examples; and compilation, evaluation and incorporation of numerous comments in concert with direction provided by the project management team. The consultants and their respective companies were as follows:
KIMLEY-HORN AND ASSOCIATES INC.
James M. Daisa (F), Co-Project Manager
Roger B. Henderson (F)
John Martin
Bruce E. Friedman (F)
Frederick W. Schwartz (F)
Andrew Howard
Ali Mustafa
Toni Barela
Deborah K. Fehr (M)
Patrick Ramos
Michelle M. Olmsted
Luke J. Schwartz (M)
Lynne B. Filson (F )
Katherine Falk (M)
Jeff Smith
TEXAS TRANSPORTATION INSTITUTE
Brian S. Bochner (H), Co-Project Manager
Beverly J. Storey
COMMUNITY, DESIGN + ARCHITECTURE
Philip A. Erickson (M)
Thomas Kronemeyer
Kendra Mitchell
Kyla Burson
Sam Zimbabwe
Evelyn O'Donohue
CITY OF PASADENA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Frederick C. Dock (F)
UNIVERSITY OF UTAH
Reid H. Ewing
Additional technical reviewers and commentators of draft versions of this report included the following individuals:
Bruce Appleyard
William R. Balentine
Timothy S. Bochum (M)
Scott Bradley
Robert H. Brakman (F)
Bob Bryant
Dan E. Burden
Peter Calthorpe
Jeff Caster
Joseph C. Chester
Payton Chung
Edward H. Cole (M)
Vivian D. Coleman (M)
Stephen J. Cote
Mike Davis
Ron DeNadai
Steven Elkins
Christopher V. Forinash
Dan Gallegher
Toni Gold
Lewis G. Grimm (F)
DeLania L. Hardy
Keith Hines
Dwight A. Horne
Timothy T. Jackson
Robert P. Jurasin (F)
Joanna M. Kervin (F)
Tom Kloster (M)
Walter M. Kulash
John Lazarra
Elizabeth MacDonald
Joel R. McCarroll
Michael D. Meyer (M)
Tracey Newsome
Neal I. Payton
Matthew D. Ridgway (F)
Wilton A. Roberts
Otha J. Rogers (M)
Bob Schlict
Samuel Seskin
Frank Spielberg (F)
Harry W Taylor (M)
Lois E. L. Thibault
Dennis R. Toomey (M)
Charles N. Ukegbu
Jerry Walters
Robert C. Wunderlich (F)
(Letters in parentheses indicate ITE member grade: H- Honorary, A-Associate Member, M-Member, F-Fellow.)