Caltrans - "Understanding Bicycle Transportation"

Dan Gutierrez, Veteran Cycling Advocate and Traffic Cycling Educator, leads a seminar for Planners, Engineers, Landscape Architects, as well as Municipal staff and Community activists, all involved in transportation planning, project development, project management, programming, landscape architecture, construction, traffic operations and maintenance. The purpose was of the seminar was to increase their knowledge and skills in the following areas:
1. California and Federal goals, policies, regulations, and laws that address bicycle transportation.
2. The role of the bicycle mode in the overall transportation system.
3. The basic rights and responsibilities of bicyclists;
4. Bicyclist needs and expectations as users of transportation facilities;
5. Safety, mobility and access issues; bicyclist travel behaviors that maximize safety and mobility;
6. Maintaining bicyclist safety, mobility and access through work zones.
7. Applying basic transportation planning, traffic operations, design, and maintenance principles and best practices to maximize bicyclist safety, mobility and access and support the Department's "Complete Streets" policy.

Learning objective:

At the end of the course, attendees are able to more fully understand and apply guidance found in the Highway Design Manual, Project Development Procedures Manual, California Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices, and other Caltrans guidance documents, and implement the Department's "Complete Streets" policy.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Caltrans
• Bicycles
• Transportation
• Integrated Cycling