Designing Streets for Pedestrians and Bicyclists

 

 

BACKGROUND:

 

Designing Streets for Pedestrians is a highly visual, hands-on workshop teaching general walkway design, design details for the disabled, and the nuts and bolts of safe street crossings, including mid-block crossings, medians, islands, roundabouts, and intersections design. The workshop also looks at special cases, including transit stops, driveways, and alleys.

 

TOPICS:

 

Designing for Pedestrians

·         Basics of sidewalk design

·         Hands-on wheelchair walk

·         ADA

·         Street crossings

·         Intersection design

 

Designing for Bicyclists

·         The principles of bicycling

·         Basic on-road bikeway design

·         Restriping roads with bike lanes

·         Intersection design

·         Signing and marking

·        Shared-use Paths

 

TARGET AUDIENCE:

 

This workshop will be useful to anyone in transportation planning, engineering, construction and maintenance.  Consultants & government employees, managers, supervisors, team or crew leaders and equipment operators will all benefit from the information presented in this workshop.

 

INSTRUCTOR:

 

Michael Ronkin

Michael Ronkin is one of the nation’s experts on pedestrian and bicycle facility design has presented training sessions in over 20 cities.  He has worked for the Oregon Department of Transportation for 15 years.  As ODOT’s Bicycle and Pedestrian Program Manager, Michael has taken on the challenge of retrofitting suburbia by developing new sidewalk, crossing, and intersection designs.

 

Registration Procedure

1)     Please contact Juli Kobayashi at 956-9006, 956-8851 (FAX) or juli@eng.hawaii.edu by Thursday, March 14, 2001

2)     Attendance is limited to 40 participants, and preference is given to local government employees.

 

Cancellations

Please contact us if you must cancel your registration or if someone will be substituting for you.

 

Parking

Parking for the East West Center is $4/day.  If you would like a parking pass please contact us by March 14, 2001.  Make checks payable to East West Center and mail to:

 

            Hawaii LTAP

            University of Hawaii

            Dept of Civil Engineering

            2540 Dole St, Holmes 383

            Honolulu, HI  96822

            Attn: Gail Ikeda

 

 

 

 

Designing Streets for Pedestrians and Bicyclists

 

 

 

 

April 11 - 12, 2002

 

East-West Center, Jefferson Hall

Pacific Room

8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

 

 

Workshop sponsored by the

Federal Highway Administration

and the

Hawaii Local Technical Assistance Program

in cooperation with the

Hawaii State Department of Transportation

University of Hawaii’s Department of Civil Engineering

 

 

 

 

  Hawaii Local Technical Assistance Program

University of Hawaii

Department of Civil Engineering

2540 Dole Street, Holmes Hall #383

Honolulu, Hawaii 96822