Context Sensitive Solutions

Context sensitive solutions (CSS) is a collaborative, interdisciplinary approach that involves all stakeholders in providing a transportation facility that fits its setting. It is an approach that leads to preserving and enhancing scenic, aesthetic, historic, community, and environmental resources, while improving or maintaining safety, mobility, and infrastructure conditions.

MnDOT's CSS E-Learning Program

MnDOT offers an interactive hour-long online learning module about CSS. A full session takes 60 to 80 minutes to complete and includes:

What CSS is and isn't
Why integration of CSS is important as a business model
What approaches and principles need to be integrated
What agency and customer benefits can be expected
What principles are most important for attaining specific benefits
How CSS can be integrated into your daily work
Options for how you can measure CSS effectiveness
A stop in each MnDOT district to learn about an award-winning CSS case study

View MnDOT's CSS E-Learning Program

For CSS questions and assistance contact:

Scott Bradley, FASLA
Director of Context Sensitive Solutions
Minnesota Dept. of Transportation
Office of Environmental Stewardship
395 John Ireland Blvd. - MailStop 686
St. Paul, MN 55155-1899
(Office) 651-366-3302
(Cell) 651-334-8045
scott.bradley@state.mn.us