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.
Please contact us if you
must cancel your registration or if someone will be substituting for you.
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
University
of Hawaii
Department
of Civil Engineering
2540
Dole Street, Holmes Hall #383
Honolulu,
Hawaii 96822