Urban Bikeway Design and Construction
Agenda
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Thursday, April 24, 2025
9:00 am – 4:00 pm CDT
Agenda:
Presented by Tom Bertulis, MS, PE, PTOE
Overview: Purposes and Principles of Urban Bikeway Design/Construction
- Understanding the user and operating environments
- Complying with codes/standards, ADA/PROWAG considerations, AASHTO Green Book, HCM, and the ITE Trip Generation Manual
- Recently updated guidelines and manuals
- MUTCD 11th Edition (2023)
- AASHTO Bicycle Facilities Guidelines (2024)
- NACTO Urban Bikeway Design Guide (2025)
- Other recently updated relevant guidelines
Safety and Bicycle Usage
- Bicycle usage and crash types
- Safety data and statistics
Bicycle Planning and Network Analysis
- Traditional methods
- Best practices
Roadway Facility Selection
- Bike lanes, separated bike lanes, bike paths, shared lanes
- The separated bike lane 4-step design process
- Designing separated bike lanes at transit stops
- AASHTO’s advisory shoulders/advisory bike lanes/ELRs
- Evaluating roadways/selecting facilities
Traffic Calming, Bike Boulevards/Neighborways/Neighborhood Greenways
- Vertical traffic calming vs horizontal traffic calming
- Designing traffic calming for emergency vehicles
- Designing calm residential streets and networks
Intersection Design
- Principles of intersection design
- Signals, protected intersections, and roundabouts
The Tactical Urbanism Revolution
- Background and understanding
- Application for North America
European Approaches to Bicycle Facility Design
- Comparing different European countries
- Shared space: uncertainty and intrigue
- Sustainable safety and vision zero
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Credits
Engineers
6.0 PDHs
Architects
6.0 HSW CE Hours
AIA - American Institute of Architects
6.0 HSW LUs
Landscape Architects
6.0 HSW CE Hours
LACES - Landscape Architecture Continuing Education System
6.0 HSW PDHs
APA/AICP - American Planning Association/American Institute of Certified Planners
6.0 CM
Continuing Education Information
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Speakers
Tom Bertulis, MS, PE, PTOE
TLC Engineers, LLCMr. Bertulis is a nationally and internationally known leader in designing for active transportation, complete streets, and traffic engineering. He has 25 years of active transportation planning and design experience in the private, public, academic, and nonprofit sectors. He is a licensed professional engineer (PE) and professional traffic operations engineer (PTOE) and he has both a bachelor’s and master’s degree in Civil Engineering.
Over the last 20 years, Mr. Bertulis has taught dozens of complete streets webinars and workshops in three languages in six countries around the world from Scotland to Mexico. He also co-taught a “Planning for Walking and Biking” class at the Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, for two and a half years.
Mr. Bertulis has led protected intersection designs, cycle track projects, road diet traffic analyses, complete street plans, and vision zero studies. He is a former board member for the Association for Pedestrian and Bicycle Professionals (APBP) and has been on the Bicycle Technical Committee (BTC) for the National Committee on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (NCUTCD) for the last seven years. He is also on the committees to review and update Part 7 on School Areas and Part 9 on Bicycles for the California Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (CA MUTCD).
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Course Title: Urban Bikeway Design and Construction
Delivery Method: Live Online
Course Description: This six-hour course teaches design professionals how to approach, plan, execute, and analyze pedestrian and bicycle transportation design and safety data. The course focuses on the purposes, design, development, application, and implementation of urban bikeways. It also focuses on the principles of cyclist signaling, roadway marking, and other bicycle functions to accommodate various bicycle types and ability differences.
Learning Objectives:
Learning Objective 1: Learners will be able to describe the purposes and principles of urban bikeway design and discuss code compliance and standards.
Learning Objective 2: Learners will be able to identify cycle tracks, bicycle boulevards, intersections, and multi-use trails and assess the data related to their usage and safety.
Learning Objective 3: Learners will be able to explore the importance of roadway marking for bicycles as well as bike signaling and the usage, statistics, and safety data involved with each.
Learning Objective 4: Learners will be able to explain manners in which to design for multiple abilities, uses and different bicycle types, taking into account the range of rider age and ability.
LUs: 6.0
LU Type: LU|HSWs
Prerequisites: Familiarity with urban planning and design
Advance Preparation: None
Program Level: Intermediate
Course Expiration Date: 02/26/2027
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