Save the Date - Arlington Bike/Ped Visit

Arlington County:

“TMPD has partnered with CO Location and Design to coordinate an exciting trip to Arlington County to experience innovative bicycle and pedestrian treatments.  The field visit will be held on Tuesday October 28th.

I would like to invite you (and/or your co-workers or staff) to join us for this educational trip, where you will see firsthand how some of their work implementing bicycle and pedestrian treatments on projects.  The meeting will start early in the morning and adjourn after 3pm, so plan on setting aside the entire day.  More details will be provided once you RSVP.

Arlington County has agreed to show us how they have implemented:

 •         Bicycle parking

•         Bicycle Fit-it stations

•         Curb extensions

•         Bicycle lanes

•         Road diets

•         Buffered bike lanes

•         Widened sidewalks and street furniture as a part of development projects

•         Use of green paint in bicycle lanes in conflict points

•         Capital Bikeshare

•         A continuous 24/7 count program for bicycles and pedestrians

This trip will be an educational experience geared towards VDOT and local government designers and planners. It will showcase design treatments and approaches discussed in the DRPT Multimodal Design Standards, the NACTO Urban Bike Design Guide and the NACTO Urban Street Design Guide. This is a timely opportunity to learn about these treatments and approaches.  If a picture is worth a 1000 words, then a site visit is that much better.

To RVSP for this event please sign up using the Google form, here… Sign up early to confirm your space, as VDOT may have to restrict attendance depending on the response. ”

~John Bolecek, VDOT

Introduction to VDOT's TOATG v1.1

VDOT Event:

“BACKGROUND

The Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT), in an effort to improve the overall quality and consistency of traffic operational analysis undertook development of the Traffic Operations Analysis Tool Guidebook (TOATG) v 1.1. This document was the result of a 16 month collaborative effort between VDOT, the FHWA and the Virginia Center for Transportation Innovation and Research. This is the first in a series of four webinars detailing VDOT's TOATG v1.1. The remaining webinars are tentatively scheduled for the first Tuesday of each month beginning in September between 1:30 and 3:30 PM EST.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES for Webinar #1 Introduction to TOATG v1.1 - Overview and Project Scoping include:

1). Understand why the TOATG was developed

2). Become familiar with the material covered in the TOATG

3). Understand how the TOATG can be used in a scoping meeting

4). Understand how the TOATG relates to other VDOT documents that impact traffic analysis

TARGET AUDIENCE

The audience for this webinar includes project managers, engineers and traffic modeling staff in both the public and private sector whose responsibilities include VDOT project management and oversight as they relate to navigating the intricacies of operational level analyses including appropriate analysis tool selection, standard tool assumptions & requirements and acceptable VDOT output formats.

You are receiving this invitation as your name was included in one or more of VDOT’s training lists associated with project management and/or traffic engineering analysis.

Webinar size is limited to the first 200 invitees who register. For additional information, please email Mark Richards, Senior Traffic Engineer, at Mark.Richards@VDOT.Virginia.gov.”

~VDOT

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Sustainable Transportation Summit

The Cabell Brand Center:

“Thursday March 27 – Sustainable Transportation Summit

The Cabell Brand Center and RIDE Solutions will host an all-day summit on the economic, environmental, and social value of implementing and encouraging transportation choice in the region. Keynote speakers include Nicholas Donohue, Virginia Deputy Secretary of Transportation; and Walter Kulash, Livable Transportation Movement. Full agenda is available on the website: www.cabellbrandcenter.org.  

Where: Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine and Research Institute

When: 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Cost: $25; seating is limited. Register@ www.cabellbrandcenter.org

Registration closes on March 24.

Contact: Jeremy Holmes, jholmes@rvarc.org”

~Cabell Brand Center