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Context Sensitive DesignThe FHWA fully supports the concepts and principles that make-up Flexibility in Highway Design, now commonly referred to as "Context Sensitive Design" (CSD). The Office of Human Environment, in cooperation with the Office of Infrastructure, provides support for CSD in the following areas:
CSD provides community benefits as it seeks to:
CSD is a collaborative approach to developing and redesigning transportation facilities that fit into their physical and human environment while preserving the aesthetic, historic, community, and natural environmental values. CSD contributes to community, safety, and mobility. In 1998, FHWA encouraged and fiscally supported five pilot states in their participation in the CSD process. The states are:
These states have gathered their state planners, engineers, architects, consultants, and program administrators, to provide internal training and sensitization to their DOT staffs and partners. They have developed workplans for internal training and are at varying stages in their efforts to develop outreach training activities for the remaining states in their AASHTO region. For more details and a summary of the status of the pilot efforts view the CSD website at the FHWA Eastern Resources Center. Also see "A Hallmark of Context-Sensitive Design" by Steve Moler - An article in "Public Roads" Magazine, May/June, 2002 on the reconstruction of U.S. 93 through Montana's Flathead Indian Reservation. Headquarters ContactsBarbara Bauer Harold Peaks R. Keith Moore If you have comments or suggestions about this web site or its content, fill out our feedback form. |