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

This webinar is open to the public and is designed to qualify for 6.0 PDHs for professional engineers, 6.0 HSW continuing education hours for licensed architects, and 6.0 HSW continuing education hours for landscape architects in all states that allow this learning method. Please refer to specific state rules to determine eligibility.

HalfMoon Education is an approved continuing education sponsor for engineers in Florida (Provider License No: CEA362), Indiana (License No. CE21700059), Maryland, New Jersey (Approval No. 24GP00049300) and North Carolina (S-0130). HalfMoon Education is deemed an approved continuing education sponsor for New York engineers, architects and landscape architects via its registration with the American Institute of Architects Continuing Education System (AIA/CES) and the Landscape Architecture Continuing Education System (LA/CES). Other states do not preapprove continuing education providers or courses.

The American Institute of Architects Continuing Education System has approved this course for 6.0 HSW LUs (Sponsor No. J885). Only full participation is reportable to the AIA/CES.

The Landscape Architecture Continuing Education System has approved this course for 6.0 HSW PDHs. Only full participation is reportable to the LA CES.

HalfMoon Education is an approved CM Provider with the American Planning Association. This course is registered for CM | 6.0 for Certified Planners.

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6.0 HSW LUs (AIA)
6.0 HSW PDHs (LA CES)

Speakers

Tom Bertulis, MS, PE, PTOE

TLC Engineers, LLC

Mr. 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).

AIA Info

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This learning program is registered with AIA/CES for continuing professional education. As such, it does not include content that may be deemed or construed to be an approval or endorsement by the AIA of any material of construction or any method or manner of handling, using, distributing, or dealing in any material or product. 

AIA continuing education credit has been reviewed and approved by AIA/CES. Learners must complete the entire learning program to receive continuing education credit. AIA continuing education Learning Units earned upon completion of this course will be reported to AIA/CES for AIA members. Certificates of Completion for both AIA members and non-AIA members are available upon request. 

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 

PrerequisitesFamiliarity with urban planning and design

Advance Preparation: None 

Program Level: Intermediate 

Course Expiration Date:  02/26/2027

Complaint Resolution Policy: 

Complaints regarding this course can be emailed to fchapman@halfmoonseminars.org or by calling (715) 835-5900. A HalfMoon Education representative will respond within 72 hours to resolve the complaint, which will include, but not limited to, access to another CE activity at no or reduced cost or a full or partial refund. Each instance will be resolved on a case-by-case situation. 

Webinar Price: $339.00

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