The following organizations offer training courses in Context Sensitive Solutions on the National level. If you would like to add your organization to this list, or if you would like to update your organization's information, please email us.

American Planning Association (APA)

Type: National Duration: n/a Website: www.planning.org/bookservice/description.htm?BCODE=TCSD

"This CD-ROM highlights promising new planning approaches such as transit oriented design, traditional neighborhood developments, and traffic calming that are reshaping central cities and suburbs. It includes audio recording synchronized with PowerPoint presentation, program transcript, PowerPoint presentation note sheets, and supplemental reading materials."

Contact:

American Planning Association
1776 Massachusetts Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20036-1904
Phone: 202-872-0611
Fax: 202-872-0643

Clients include:

n/a

American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

Type: National Duration: 2 days Website: www.asce.org/conferences/annual04/conted.cfm

The ASCE October 2004 National Conference will include a two-day CSS workshop led by BOSS International.

Contact:

To register: American Society of Civil Engineers
ASCE Conferences & Expositions
PO Box 79668
Baltimore, MD 21279-0668
Phone: 800-548-2723 (US) or 703-295-6300 (International)
Fax: 703-295-6144
www.asce.org/conferences/annual04/an04_register.cfm

Clients include:

n/a

CH2M Hill: Context-Sensitive Solutions

Type: National Duration: Information not providedWebsite: www.ch2m.com/flash/Search/search_frame.htm

"CH2M HILL has been involved with CSS since the early stages of both the concept and its implementation. The firm's strong background in transportation project engineering, environmental studies, permitting, and public involvement provides a broad base of expertise for incorporating CSS practices to meet our clients' needs. CH2M HILL has worked with state DOTs and the FHWA to develop processes for integrating CSS into
transportation organizations and their projects, including developing guidebooks and other resources for implementing CSS practices. CH2M Hill provides a full range of management, planning, technical, and support services needed to move projects from concept to successful competition and operation. For information about how CH2M HILL can help you take a Context Sensitive Solutions approach on your projects, or integrate CSS into your organization, please see contact information."

Contact:

CH2M HILL Transportation Services
6060 South Willow Drive
Englewood, CO 80111
1-877-741-5221 (toll free)
www.ch2mhill.com

Tim Bevan
Leader, Center of Excellence for Context-Sensitive Solutions
425-453-5000
fax: 425-468-3100
tbevan@ch2m.com

Tim Neuman
Eastern Coordinator
773-693-3800, ext. 233
fax: 773-693-3823
tneuman@ch2m.com

Jean Brittingham
Western Coordinator
503-235-5000
fax: 503-736-2000
jbrittin@ch2m.com

Clients include:

DODT, MDOT, NYSDOT, RIDOT, TxDOT

Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky

Type: State - KY; National Duration: 2 days, 1 day Website: www.ktc.uky.edu

"As of July 2004, the Kentucky Transportation Center has trained nearly 1700 transportation officals in Context Sensitive Solutions through 46 workshops in KY and 18 other states. Each two-day workshop accommodated up to 40 planners, landscape architects, designers, community involvment specialists, and other transportation professionals. KTC has slowed its national on-demand training, but it still provides training within KY approximately twice a year.

In addition to its traditional CSD/CSS workshops, KTC has under taken a new CSD/CSS initiative which includes three tasks: (1) Develop a one-day workshop/course for professional practitioners with a focus on practices and tools that are necessary for application of CSD/CSS; (2) Develop a one-day seminar/workshop for officials, administrators, and managers to address implementation of CSD/CSS through policy, structure, and management; and (3) Develop an online short course (CSD 101) for those interested in the basic concepts and processes of CSD/CSS. Visit the Kentucky Transportation Center online for the more information."

Contact:

Jerry Pigman; University of Kentucky
Kentucky Transportation Center
176 Raymond Building
Lexington, KY 40506 - 0281
Phone: (859) 257-4513ext. 252;
Fax: 859.257.181
email: jpigman@engr.uky.edu

Clients include:

KTC, Iowa DOT, IDOT, DODT, NYSDOT, SDDOT, TDOT, GDOT, KDOT, others

National Transit Institute (NTI)

Type: National Duration: 3 daysWebsite: www.ntionline.com/CourseInfo.asp?CourseNumber=ID817

"NTI's CSS objectives are to educate professionals about CSS/CSD, its genesis, parameters and tools to implement and how they can be applied in real world settings; promote an understanding of the roles of the federal and state partners in the transportation planning and implementation process; create awareness of the multiple roles of transportation improvements (such as, solving transportation problems, providing a catalyst for economic development, creating or reinforcing a sense of community); help participants recognize that there is the transportation context, the environmental context, and the built (or human) context for transportation projects; stimulate creativity in the design of transportation facilities by utilizing flexibility in current manuals and processes as tools oferring opportunities rather than limitations or boundaries; identify ways to develop and respond to community sensitivity; provide the target audience with a greater awareness of the context of problems and to provide tools and techniques to foster dialog among stakeholders to arrive at consensus on a solution."

Contact:

Susan Winter
NTI
120 Albany Street
Tower Two, Suite 250
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-2163
Phone: 732-932-1700 ext. 221
Email: contactus@nti.rutgers.edu

Clients include:

NJDOT

Northwestern University, Center for Public Safety (Evanston, IL)

Type: National Duration: 2 days Website: server.traffic.northwestern.edu/course/course_more.asp?id=449

"This two-day workshop will help you become an effective participant in the art of Context Sensitive Solutions. Through lecture and class discussions, you will learn essential CSS methods for rural, suburban and urban settings. Individual and small group exercises allow you to practice the tools and techniques. Illustrative case studies and hypothetical scenarios make the material interesting and lively.

The course will also increase your understanding of public involvement processes, collaborative problem solving, and decision making systems. Planners, engineers designers, project managers, and administrators from government agencies and private firms will find these important CSS tools useful in a variety of professional situations.

NOTE: Participants registering for both the Traffic Calming: Basics and Beyond Workshop and Context Sensitive Solutions workshop during the same week will receive a $100 discount on the combined registration fee for the two workshops.

FLORIDA PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS: For the January '05 workshop (Fort Lauderdale, FL), Northwestern University Center for Public Safety has been approved as a continuing education provider by the Florida Board of Professional Engineers. Florida licensed professional engineers attending this course will receive 15 Professional Development Hours. Our continuing education provider number is CEP 00091."

Contact:

Northwestern University Center for Public Safety,
600 Foster, Evanston, IL 60204
Phone: 847-491-5476
Fax: 847-491-5270
Email: nucps@northwestern.edu
For On-Demand training, call: 1-800-323-4011

Clients include:

n/a

Project for Public Spaces (PPS)

Type: National Duration: 1 to 5 days Website: www.pps.org/CSS/css_training.htm

Project for Public Spaces, Inc., (PPS) is a non-profit organization specializing in the planning, design, and management of public spaces through technical assistance, research, and education. Since PPS’s founding in 1975, the organization has worked with over 1,000 communities within the United States and abroad to help grow their public spaces, including streets, roadways, and their surrounding environments, into vital, distinctive community places that are well-integrated into the community fabric, providing the foundation that helps build healthy, livable communities.

PPS has developed customized courses on Context-Sensitive Solutions that range from one to five days in length. Starting in 2004, PPS will provide CSS training to New Hampshire DOT and other agency staff over a three-year period, in partnership with Tom Warne and Associates. In 2002, PPS ran a five-day course for the New Jersey Department of Transportation that trained more than 600 of the agency's employees and “customers.” PPS ran shorter CSS courses for NYDOT, Wisconsin DOT, and the National Training Institute. PPS offers an approach that looks well “beyond the pavement” to the role that streets and roads can play in enhancing communities and natural environments, and encouraging transportation professionals to collaborate with communities, especially from a placemaking perspective—i.e., with the goal being to leave a better place behind.

PPS’s approach to the improvement of streets and roads has always been holistic, working to balance their many functions—pedestrian, traffic, bicycle, and transit—to create places that respond to community needs and where people feel safe and comfortable. PPS has found that when streets and roads work in this way, they can accommodate traffic while becoming important catalysts for improving urban, suburban, and rural communities—physically, economically, socially, and environmentally—as well as for enhancing scenic roads.

PPS’s roadway projects have ranged from local streets to state arterials in all parts of the country and in all types of communities. Projects have included simple streetscape improvements, analysis of complex intersections and major thoroughfares, light-rail corridors, mixed vehicle/transit streets, as well as plans for the street environments of entire downtowns and commercial districts.

Some recent examples of PPS project work applying context-sensitive design on state roads and other major streets and arterials are:

Littleton , New Hampshire

Context: Main Street reconstruction

“Sensitive” Issues: Experiments to test traffic calming and Placemaking at three key locations in Littleton and developing a new working relationship between towns and the NHDOT, which is cooperating on the experiments as a model process to be potentially adopted state-wide

San Mateo County, California

Context: Regional planning for the downtown districts of ten cities and towns, focusing on transit and road facilities and housing

“Sensitive” Issues: Turning transit centers into “Places,” creating balanced access, adding housing to a lively downtown mix, and transforming El Camino Real into San Mateo's grand boulevard

Vine Street Expressway, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Context: Revitalization of areas along a depressed urban highway

“Sensitive” Issues: Linking neighborhoods together by creating active and attractive destinations and promoting a humanized, pedestrian-friendly treatment of surface streets

Contact:

For more information, contact Steve Davies at (212) 620-5660 or sdavies@pps.org Clients include:

NHDOT, NJDOT, NYSDOT, WisDOT, National Training Institute

Short Elliott Hendrickson

Type: National Duration: Information not provided Website: www.sehinc.com

Information about CSS training not available online.

Contact:

Short Elliott Hendrickson Inc.
Butler Square Building, Suite 710C
100 North 6th Street
Minneapolis, MN 55403-1515
phone: 866.830.3388
fax: 612.758.6701
email: info@sehinc.com

Clients include:

Tom Warne and Associates

Type: National Duration: Information not provided Website: www.tomwarne.com/training.htm

"Tom Warne and Associates offers a wide variety of training courses for both public and private clients. Each course is tailored to meet the specific objectives of the client. This ensures the fullest advantage for the engagement. Tom is available for a variety of training, ranging from keynote opportunities to classroom settings. Available course offerings include the following: Context Sensitive Solutions, Design-Build, Public Involvement, Partnering, and others. As a practitioner, Tom Warne has the credibility to reach audiences at all levels of an organization. He tailors his training to the specific audience so that maximum value is derived from the shared experience. Courses can be taught on-site or through the Solutions Institute located in Salt Lake City."

Contact:

For more information or to schedule Tom Warne for your group, call: 801-302-8300 email: twarne@tomwarne.com

Clients include:

NHDOT; NYSDOT