CNU 2012 Transportation Summit registration open

Registration is now open for CNU’s 2012 Transportation Summit. The summit will be held September 9-10 in Long Beach, California, immediately preceding the Pro-Walk/Pro-Bike Conference.

Transportation Summits are working meetings where CNU’s multidisciplinary network of designers, planners, engineers, and other experts in the field of New Urbanism gather to create new standards and advance the practice of new urbanist street design. Previous meetings have initiated projects such as Highways-to-Boulevards, the development of the CNU/ITE Designing Walkable Urban Thoroughfares manual, the creation of the Sustainable Street Network Principles, and the Emergency Response and Street Design Initiative.

The 2012 CNU Transportation Summit is an opportunity to directly challenge the dysfunctional Functional Classification System. The summit will have a unique format, wherein groups will work together to confront the limitations of the Functional Classification System and strategize to implement new urbanist street design techniques that go “Beyond Mobility.”

Over the day-and-a-half meeting, these working groups will collaborate to define the barriers of implementation, discuss methods of reform and lay out an immediate work plan for the next year. Working groups will include: Transit Networks, Highways-to-Boulevards, Transportation Modeling Reform, Regional Policy and Alternatives to Functional Classification Reform, Transportation Reform Research Agenda, Street Vitality Index and Bikeway Networks.

And as the summit will immediately precede the Pro-Walk/Pro-Bike conference (www.bikewalk.org,) it will focus on the exchange of ideas between new urbanists and bicycle and pedestrian planners.

For further information, including links to registration, please visit www.cnu.org/transportation2012.