

CTS hosted the Flexible Design for 21st Century Challenges: Balancing Competing Objectives and Optimizing Return on Investments Forum on February 23-24, 2009. Sponsored by Mn/DOT, the forum was held to “jump start” and tailor a concerted Minnesota initiative to apply greater and more consistent flexibility in transportation planning, design development, and operations statewide. The forum focused on improving the understanding of opportunities to apply greater design flexibility, how to use design flexibility to increase the return on transportation investments, and institutional challenges that need to be addressed to be more successful. An action plan for implementation will be developed based on discussions from the forum.
The 2005 Midwest Regions CSD&S Workshop: Overcoming Roadblocks to Project Excellence is scheduled for August 24–26, 2005, at the Radisson Plaza Hotel in downtown Minneapolis.
Context Sensitive Design for Local Governments is a special one-day workshop for engineers, managers, planners, landscape architects and other local government professionals who are involved in transportation project development. Go to the Local Government Workshop page for more info.
The Executive Summary document provides a succinct view of the issues explored in the May 2000 Context Sensitive Design workshop, and can serve as a good introduction to CSD principles and design practices.
The Workshop Participant Manual, containing all materials used in the workshops, is available for viewing and download in PDF format. This document reflects the workshops presented in St. Paul, MN, in 2001.
The manual has been divided into sections for easy access; sections containing electronic presentations have large file sizes and will take a long time to download without a high-speed Internet connection.