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| #e.21732 | Wednesday 12:30PM to 1:30PM
October 10,
2012 | CM | 1.00 |
Complete Street Approach to Improving Mobility and Safety along Hylan BoulevardAECOM - Planning and DesignNew York, NY Free event MTA New York City Transit’s Director of Long Range Bus Planning and the AECOM Team’s Project Manager will conduct this presentation. The presentation describes the process that the Project Team utilized to develop and implement Select Bus Service (the branded name of Bus Rapid Transit in New York City) and complementary traffic flow and safety improvements along the Hylan Boulevard project corridor.
This training will achieve the following educational objectives:
• Explain how bus service considerations, traffic planning issues and pedestrian safety concerns were integrated into a comprehensive plan to improve mobility and safety.
• Describe how the public participation process was employed to guide the planning process.
• Explain how various priority bus service measures and infrastructure improvements, such as but not limited to the following, were deployed to address project objectives:
- Streamlined bus operations
- Bus lanes
- Optimized signal timing
- Transit Signal Priority
- Widened medians and left-turn lanes
- Enhanced bus stations
- Pedestrian refuge islands
- Pedestrian ramps and sidewalks
• Explain the development of a phased implementation plan.
• Describe lessons learned from varying perspectives, including: project management, service planning, concept design and implementation
In summary, the presentation will provide insight to: managing a complex project, the importance of working with diverse stakeholders to accommodate, if not embrace, competing views, and the value of a holistic approach to successfully implement sustainable transportation projects. Transportation planners, traffic and civil engineers involved with bus operations, roadway design, and safety should find this presentation informative and useful on similar projects.
Instructors: Richard Ravit AICP Richard Ravit is a Transportation Project Manager with more than 30 years experience, the past 24 of which while employed by AECOM. Richard’s project management experience includes Bus Rapid Transit; tolling; traffic engineering, ITS, airport program management and aviation security. He has successfully managed numerous transportation facility planning and design projects, feasibility studies, alternatives analyses, corridor studies, and construction partnering projects and has experience in transit planning and NEPA.
Most recently Richard managed the MTA New York City Transit’s Bus Rapid Transit project. As the prime consultant manager, he supervised a large, multidisciplinary team responsible for developing and evaluating design concepts and preparing traffic, parking and safety studies for priority bus corridors in the City of New York. In May 2012 the AECOM team completed the service planning and concept design of more than two miles of bus lanes, new bus stations, and other measures to improve traffic flow and pedestrian safety as part of the implementation of Select Bus Service along the 15-mile Hylan Boulevard corridor. Richard was also responsible for preparing the Categorical Exclusion for the Federal Transit Administration and for leading presentations to project stakeholders. S79 SBS commenced service on September 2 as the City’s fourth Select Bus Service corridor.
Richard has a BA in Transportation Planning from the State University of New York at Buffalo and an MS in Transportation Management from Polytechnic University. Richard is an AICP-Certified Transportation Planner.
Theodore Orosz AICP Ted Orosz was born and raised in New York City. While riding buses to school, he always wondered why bus service was so irregular.
After doing transportation planning work in Massachusetts and Minnesota, he returned to New York. He has done bus planning for the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority for over 25 years. Currently Mr. Orosz is responsible for Bus Rapid Transit Programs.
In 2008, Mr. Orosz participated in a World Bank Transport delegation to China. Since 2007 he has also been an Adjunct Lecturer in Public Transportation Planning in the Urban Planning Program at Hunter College in New York City.
Ted earned a BA at the State University of New York at Albany, and an MS at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Ted is an AICP-Certified Transportation Planner.
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