This webinar will provide an overview of the national guidance on road diets and their potential benefits. Speakers will present information and/or case studies about determining the feasibility of road diets, planning or considering the implementation of road diets in a community, and evaluating the performance of road diets.

The program will consist of four segments:

- Overview of Road Diet Guidance: During the first part of the program, Keith Knapp will explain the impacts and feasibility of road diets. He will describe and discuss the national road diet guidance with a focus on the potential impacts of a road diet conversion, feasibility factors for consideration, and some basic design discussion.

- Road Diets in Charlotte, North Carolina: During the second part of the program, Norm Steinman will explain how to select segments of arterials or thoroughfares for evaluation or implementation of road diet or road conversion projects. They will describe the general conclusions that they derived from approximately 20 projects that have been implemented. They will also present specific information about 2 projects.

- Planning and Implementation of Road Diets: During the third part of the program, William Micheel will take the participants through a case study of road diets in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

- Road Diet Performance Measures: During the final part of the program, Wendy Cawley will discuss Portland, Oregon’s experience with road diets. Over the past 20 years, the City of Portland has implemented more than 20 road diets. Most of these road diets were implemented without a reduction in traffic volumes on the project street or an increase in traffic on adjacent streets. Portland has public outreach and performance measure plans for both “traffic neutral” and “non-traffic-neutral” projects. The examples presented here will focus on the traffic neutral process and performance measures.

This program has been approved for .2 CEUs or 2 PDHs.

Learning Objectives - After attending this program, participants will be better able to:

- Identify potential Road Diet benefits, feasibility factors and design considerations.

- Describe methods of identifying, comparing, and selecting Road Diet candidates.

- Identify and apply feasibility determination factors and performance measures.

Categories:

Transportation

Carla P. Anderson P.E.

State Traffic Engineer, Kansas Department of Transportation, Topeka, KS

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