Complete Streets Partners are highly-skilled, well-respected private firms and companies helping communities across the country achieve on-the-ground change in their transportation network. They also support the adoption and implementation of complete streets policies through a donation to the National Complete Streets Coalition.
Platinum Partners
HNTB is an employee-owned infrastructure firm serving federal, state, municipal, military, and private clients with more than 4,000 professionals in 60 offices nationwide. With nearly a century of service, HNTB has the insight to understand the life cycle of infrastructure and has extensive experience designing multimodal systems that are safe for all users.
HNTB has many award-winning projects that help give people travel choices beyond the car. To improve the quality of bus service in the Kansas City, MO area, HNTB helped introduce the Metro Area Express (MAX) bus rapid transit system, providing fast, frequent and convenient service to several significant neighborhoods. Its distinctive stations are clearly marked and named, well-lit, and feature easy-to-understand route maps, neighborhood maps, and real-time transit information. HNTB was also the principal designer for the Bay Area Rapid Transit’s (BART) eight-mile San Francisco Airport extension line. HNTB’s scope included architectural and structural finishes, a parking structure, on-site civil design and off-site roadway improvements.
The Bob Kerry Pedestrian Bridge and Landing, spanning the Missouri River from Omaha, NE to Council Bluffs, IA, is an innovative, sustainable, and important connection between the cities. Built to enhance its natural surroundings, the design team incorporated specific protections for migratory birds and incorporated interactive sculptures that educate users about endangered Missouri River species. The bridge serves as a connector to trail systems on either side, providing access to more than 150 miles of trails for walkers, runners and bicyclists. Already exceeding usage projections by significant margins, the bridge is a signature landmark in the area.
Gold Partners
BikeLid Systems manufactures a structure called the BikeLid, designed for secure bicycle parking. Made from recycled materials for both its plastic and steel components, the structure enhances protection from weather conditions, theft, and vandalism by covering the bike entirely, exposing a small portion at the base for monitoring purposes. The structure is lightweight, easy to use, and a great way to demonstrate a city’s or company’s value of bicycling as a mode of transportation. Because of the product’s high visibility, the company expanded to an outdoor media company that administers their SPARK (Sponsored Bicycle Parking) program to supply secure bicycle parking, support services, and a share of sponsorship revenues to various locations. Many planners and city officials have commended the BikeLid product referencing its security, durability, and encouragement of bicycle use.
Designing Streets for Pedestrians and Bicyclists is a transportation planning and design firm that specializes transforming neighborhoods and communities into livable places by delivering bikeable and walkable streets. Their projects improve the public right-of-way of streets for bikers and walkers as users deserving the same access and level of safety that drivers enjoy. Their commitment to livable spaces is evidenced by their contribution to the development of various design and planning documents such as the Oregon Bicycle and Pedestrian Plan; the AASHTO Guide for the Development of Bicycle Facilities; the AASHTO Guide for the Development of Pedestrian Facilities; and the ITE/CNU Context Sensitive Design of Urban Thoroughfares.
Silver Partners
Alta Planning + Design is a planning, design, engineering, and landscape architecture firm that specializes in creating bicycle, pedestrian, greenway, and trail projects. Their experience ranges in rural, mountain, and desert settings to suburban and urban areas as they practice from nationwide offices. They take into account the historic and cultural aspects of the settings they work in and believe in an active public participation process to cater to that unique location and community.
Kimley-Horn and Associates is an engineering and land-planning firm that creates solutions for a wide range of disciplines including aviation, the environment, intelligent transportation systems, forensic engineering, landscape architecture, land planning, transit, transportation, roads and bridges, urban redevelopment, water resources, and wireless communications. With 60 offices nationwide and almost 2,000 employees, they offer comprehensive services that see a project through from the initial planning and design to the final stages of construction and operation. Recent projects include a road diet on US 1 through the City of Delray Beach, FL; a complete Spring Garden Street in Greensboro, NC; and work on Context Sensitive Solutions in Designing Major Urban Thoroughfares for Walkable Communities issued by ITE, CNU, FHWA, and EPA.
Toole Design Group, is one of the nation’s leading planning and design firms specializing in multi-modal transportation. Offices in Boston, Washington DC, and Seattle, develop creative yet practical solutions that move people more efficiently, while improving the quality of life of the community. Toole Design Group has experience in a range of multi-modal planning and design (http://www.tooledesign.com/services.html), including design guidelines, master plans, research, data collection, and safe routes to school. Recent projects include a pedestrian and bicycle neighborhood connectivity study in Chartlotte, NC; AASHTO’s Guide for the Development of Bicycle Facilities (2009 Edition); a bold, multi-modal Master Transportation Plan for Arlington County, VA; and a multi-modal safety improvement plan for an intersection in Washington, DC.
Vanasse Hangen Brustlin, Inc., based in Massachusetts, provides integrated transportation, land development, and environmental consulting services through 18 offices and 850 employees located throughout New England, New York, New Jersey, Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, and Florida. VHB has been involved in development of several Complete Streets policies, including the award winning Massachusetts Project Development and Design Guide and a thoughtful policy in Rockville, Maryland.
Bronze Partners
Beckett & Raeder, Inc. is a multidisciplinary firm working in landscape architecture, planning, engineering, and environmental services. Based in Ann Arbor, Michigan and Toledo, Ohio, BRIA provides exceptional and innovative professional service to a variety of municipal governments, state and federal agencies, institution and private sector clients. They have won numerous awards for projects across the midwest.
Fitzgerald & Halliday, Inc. works in the areas of transportation planning, environmental planning, public involvement, cultural/historical documentation, and community/site planning. Some projects they are currently working on include the Mohawk-Erie Multimodal Transportation Corridor Study and the Connecticut Statewide Bicycle & Pedestrian Plan Update.
Gresham, Smith and Partners is a practice-led business of architects, engineers, planners and designers focused on enhancing quality of life and sustainability within communities. They have recently completed a Complete Streets Study and Guidelines for the Knoxville Regional Transportation Planning Organization.
Kittelson & Associates provides comprehensive transportation planning, engineering, and research services with the goal of developing solutions that improve the performance of pedestrian, bicycle, highway, signal, and transit systems.
M·E Companies is an Ohio-based management and engineering firm that focuses on infrastructure. The “Super Street” design is a recent project for the Butler County Transportation Improvement District in Ohio that serves as an alternative to traditional street widening techniques and an improvement in the level of service.
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