Community neighborhood development provides an overview for planners and designers of design concepts to promote safety and efficiency in the design of facilities in and around community areas.
General principles, design principles, and design processes are discussed to facilitate community development. Definitions of community roadway systems are provided to show the differences in roadway types. Links and nodes are also defined.
On-street parking, pedestrian crossings, access management, one-way streets, and intersections are described in detail as they relate to the design of the community neighborhood development.
Community neighborhood development consists of designers balancing the needs of traffic, commercial areas, public areas, and residential areas. Traffic volume, trip characteristics, speed and level of service, and other factors in the functional classification system relate to the mobility of motor vehicles must be integrated with the needs of bicyclists or pedestrians and consider the context of land use of the surrounding environment.
Specific design principles and processes must be considered in community neighborhood development to promote safe and effective movement of all thoroughfare users in the community. They must provide mobility for users, create a safe street for users, accommodate efficient movement of goods, promote access for emergency services, transit, waste management, and delivery trucks, and provide access to properties.
The community roadway system is defined from high speed, low access to low speed, greater access. Definitions of the roadway types are provided to distinguish the differences between the functions of the roadway types. Parking and pedestrian crossings are discussed as they must be built into the community roadway system.
The use of one-way streets is covered to identify how they can strategically be used in community neighborhood design to attain safer and move controlled travel.
The different types of intersections are defined as they relate to traffic control in an ever-increasing usage of a roadway system.
This course should provide an engineer with techniques for the planning and design of community neighborhood developments.
• General Principles
• Design Principles
• Design Process
• Community Roadway System
• Links and Nodes
• On-Street Parking
• Pedestrian Crossing
• Access Management
• One-Way Streets
• Intersections
There are no special prerequisites for this course.
