Leading new urbanist traffic engineers Rick Chellman,

Leading new urbanist traffic engineers Rick Chellman, Rick Hall, and Peter Swift are collaborating on what could be a groundbreaking manual on urban streets. The manual will provide a theoretical basis for new street types and standards in the urban tiers of the Transect, from neighborhood general to urban core. Planning strategies for implementing the street types will also be included. The manual will address a broader range of street issues than the Institute of Transportation Engineers’ Traditional Neighborhood Development Street Design Guidelines, written by Chellman and aimed only at new urban projects, and Walter Kulash’s Residential Streets, aimed only at thoroughfares with a residential character. The authors will meet several times in the coming months and are scheduled to have a draft ready by fall of 2002.