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Date(s): May 21, 2009
Location: Audio/Web Broadcast
Cost: Members: $150.00
Non Members: $200.00
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Description: Just as roads are made safe for the driving public, it is equally important to ensure safe conditions for neighborhoods and pedestrians. Discover the benefits of integrating your neighborhood traffic calming, intersection safety and pedestrian/bicycle safety programs to promote effectiveness.

Join us in this session to learn about public works professionals are managing today’s - and planning for tomorrow’s - traffic.

Dave Zelenok, P.E., will explain how “smart growth,” traditional neighborhood design, new urbanism, transit-oriented development and neighborhood traffic calming techniques are changing how public works professionals are managing today’s - and planning for tomorrow’s traffic. Learn about how state-of-the-art traffic engineering techniques and smart growth concepts can improve a sense of community, enhance neighborhood and pedestrian safety and reduce traffic volumes and speeds.

Ian Lockwood, P.E., will explain the important differences between the related components of street design (i.e., traffic calming measures, streetscaping, route modification measures, and traffic control devices) for applications and policy. You’ll hear about case studies employing “periodic measures”, “cross-section measures” and “periodic and cross-section measures”, all from theory to practice. Ian will also cover the newest frontiers of traffic calming.

Traffic calming and traffic mitigation/mediation measures are "right in your face" changes to a person's home environment. Without using advanced public process and civic engagement techniques, traffic calming can meet up with its own road blocks. Dan Burden will draw from his work in over 200 neighborhood traffic calming projects to show how the science of civic engagement frames and fuels the success of these important projects.

You’ll leave with an understanding of emerging trends affecting design standards, traffic flow and neighborhood planning - both successes and challenges coming soon to a community near you.


After viewing this program, participants will better be able to:
• Compare, design and implement traffic calming techniques – and avoid common mistakes and hazards to pedestrians
• Identify smart growth techniques - and hidden agendas - to convince your governing body of the benefits and risks of adopting them
• Identify new traffic calming designs for streets in new urbanist, neo-traditional, transit-oriented development and co-housing development plans
• Identify the important differences between the related components of street design (i.e., traffic calming measures, streetscaping, route modification measures, and traffic control devices) for applications and policy
• Identify what categories of traffic calming measures are available for different types of streets
• Identify the newest frontiers of traffic calming
• Explain the difference between traffic calming and context-sensitive street design
• Explain how to market to and bring all stakeholders together
• Explain the role of the citizen and citizens groups to bring about traffic calming success
• Identify best practices and case studies


This program has been approved for .2 CEUs or 2 PDHs. The form to request these credits is included in the handouts for this program. Please note there is a $5 fee per individual requesting CEUs.
Speaker: Dan Burden

Dan Burden is an internationally recognized photographer and authority on bicycle and pedestrian facilities and programs, livable communities, healthy streets, smart growth, traffic calming, and other design and planning concepts and tools bonding urban land form with transportation. Dan helped initiate and has thirty-five years of experience in the active living and livable communities field. He served for 16 years as Florida DOT’s first State Bicycle and Pedestrian Coordinator. This program became a model for all statewide programs. In 1996 Dan founded Walkable Communities, Inc. This nonprofit group assists North American communities in becoming more walkable, more complete. In 2005 Dan and Walkable Communities joined Glatting Jackson Kercher Anglin, Inc., where Dan now works as a Principal and Senior Urban Designer. Glatting Jackson is recognized throughout North America for its excellence in context sensitivity, healthy and livable communities designs. The firm’s innovative urban transportation planning/urban design section attracts, sparks and fuels the creative spirit of the most talented street, neighborhood and town makers. For more info, go to: www.glatting.com or www.walkable.org
Speaker: Dave Zelenok, P.E.

Dave Zelenok has thirty years of senior transportation-related management experience at the municipal, state, federal levels as well as a consulting engineer managing the “full spectrum” of transportation and public works operations, including Aviation, Mass Transit, Traffic Engineering, Toll Highway, Street Maintenance, Engineering Design, Construction Services

He is currently the City of Centennial, Colorado’s first full-time Director of Public Works (pop. 110,000, incorporated 2001). In that capacity, he oversees the operation, maintenance, engineering design, traffic engineering and capital improvements for the metro Denver area community. Last year, the city outsourced the entire Public Works Department under his direction, in a move which is thought to be the largest public-to-private conversion of its kind in the nation.

Dave holds a Bachelor's Degree in Civil Engineering from the US Air Force Academy and a Masters Degree in Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, and is registered as a Professional Engineer in the State of Colorado and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Speaker: Ian Lockwood, P.E.

Ian Lockwood, P.E., is a Principal and Senior Transportation Planner with Glatting Jackson. Mr. Lockwood has Bachelor and Masters Degrees in Civil Engineering from Carleton University in Canada. He is a pioneer and leader in the fields of context-sensitive solutions and traffic calming. Mr. Lockwood’s work has won awards from the Institute of Transportation Engineers, the American Planning Association, and the American Society of Landscape Architects. He is well published and has been an expert panelist and speaker at conferences and seminars in the United States and abroad. Mr. Lockwood formally headed the City of West Palm Beach’s Transportation Planning Division, where, with the goal of revitalizing a “challenged” inner city, he emplaced community-oriented transportation policies. He also was the lead on some of the most comprehensive and attractive community-oriented street plans in the nation, and he worked with developers to shelve their standard site plans in favor of urban versions. Ian led the CSS plan for State Route 50 in Middleburg, VA and is wrapping-up thirteen pilot projects on integrating land use and transportation for the New Jersey Department of Transportation.

Mr. Lockwood is a nationally recognized expert in the growing field of traffic calming. In 1997, Mr. Lockwood won the Past Presidents’ Award of the Institute of Transportation Engineers for his Traffic Calming Plan for Route 50. He is well published and has been an expert panelist and speaker at conferences and seminars both in the United States and abroad. Mr. Lockwood also enjoys giving guest lectures at universities; conducting workshops for various professional organizations; and reviewing transportation planning research.
Speaker: MODERATOR: Thomas G. Swenson, P.E., PTOE

Principal, Transystems Corporation, Kansas City, Missouri

Tom Swenson is currently a Principal and Senior Vice President with TranSystems in its Kansas City, Missouri office. With his early training and experience in traffic engineering, Mr. Swenson had addressed myriad safety issues on all types of streets and highways, including neighborhood streets.

During his 31-year career, Tom has been involved in operational and safety studies; intersection design projects; corridor studies, geometric design of streets, highways and interchanges; design of traffic control devices and street lighting; developing access management policies; and long-range transportation planning.

Tom graduated from the University of Kansas in 1977 with a degree in civil engineering and began his professional career with the Kansas Department of Transportation. He is a licensed Professional Engineer and certified as a Professional Traffic Operations Engineer.
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