Supplemental class description for graduate course on Context Sensitive Solutions (CSS). Created for UTCM Report #08-14-03 "Making Mobility Improvements a Community Asset: Transportation Improvements Using Context-Sensitive Solutions"

1. CVEN 689 Context Sensitive Solutions in Transportation Planning,
Environmental Analysis and Design
Tu,/Th 8:00 – 9:15am
Course Description:
This course teaches students about the concept of context sensitive solutions (CSS) as applied to
planning, analyzing environmental impacts, and design of transportation facilities. It is
particularly oriented using CSS to make transportation projects more desirable to the community.
Students will learn and how to build consensus, make transportation facilities compatible and
supportive of transportation and other local objectives, the environment, and the surrounding
area. The course will focus on the concepts of CSS in a lecture, discussion, and reading format,
complimented with some exercises and a class project to illustrate specific principles involved in
the subject matter.

2. Former state highway route modified to support business district
revitalization, Culver Blvd., Culver City, CA
Pinellas, FL New York,

5. Visualization of preferred alternative (SDH&PT, FHWA, 1991)