FHWA Resource Center
SAFETY & DESIGN TEAM
Solutions
Context Sensitive Solutions
Safety and Design Technical Services Team
PRODUCTS & SERVICES
In view of FHWA's Vital Few Goal for Environmental Streamlining and the related objective of incorporating Context Sensitive Solutions (CSS) as the standard way of doing business, the Resource Center (RC) has begun an ambitious effort to educate and motivate our partners and customers to help them realize that goal.
Context Sensitive Solutions (CSS) - also known as Context Sensitive Design - is a collaborative, interdisciplinary approach to a transportation projects. CSS involves stakeholders in the development of a transportation facility that equally addresses safety, mobility, and the preservation of scenic, aesthetic, historic, and environmental resources and community values. Implementation of the CSS process will deliver benefits to an agency that include effective and timely decisions, gaining public trust and support, building positive relationships with resource agencies, delivering safe and financially feasible project solutions, and improving the overall project delivery process.
The CSS 4 CSS program is an outreach, education, and awareness initiative whose primary goal is to help transportation professionals and stakeholders achieve excellence by including the CSS approach from project planning through construction and beyond.
Every project and every customer is unique. The technical assistance and technology deployment solutions must recognize that uniqueness. The mission of the Safety and Design Technical Service Team (TST) is to develop custom solutions for our customers.
Transportation professionals seeking CSS training or assistance with project requiring Context Sensitive Solutions may contact the Resource Center Safety & Design TST.
Caption: Scenic photo of two cars driving along a curve on a two-lane road.
Workshops, Seminars and Courses
CSS 4 CSS: Context Sensitive Solutions for Context Sensitive Solutions
Briefing (Less than 2 hrs), Seminar (3 to 5 hrs), Workshop (6 to 8 hrs)
This course will provide participants with tools and techniques to effectively deliver timely and successful transportation projects. This course can be customized for specific audiences.
For more information contact:
Keith Harrison, Safety Engineer
San Francisco, CA
(415) 744-2657
keith.harrison@dot.gov
SAFETY AND DESIGN TECHNICAL SERVICES TEAM
Patrick Hasson, Team Leader
(708) 283-3595, patrick.hasson@dot.gov
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