FHWA CSS
The
Federal Highway Administration is committed to the advancement of CSS nationwide
as one of the objectives of its Vital Few Goal on Environmental Stewardship and
Streamlining. The objective is to improve the environmental quality of
transportation decision making by incorporating context sensitive solutions
principles in all aspects of planning and the project development process.
FHWA CSSContext Sensitive Solutions.orgThese core CSS principles apply to transportation
processes, outcomes, and decision-making: (1) Strive towards a shared
stakeholder vision to provide a basis for decisions; (2) Demonstrate a
comprehensive understanding of contexts; (3) Foster continuing communication and
collaboration to achieve consensus; (4) Exercise flexibility and creativity to
shape effective transportation solutions, while preserving and enhancing
community and natural environments.
Context Sensitive
SolutionsFHWA Flexibility in Highway
DesignA guide about designing highways that
incorporate community values and are safe, efficient, and effective. It is
written for highway engineers and project managers who want to learn more about
flexibility available to them when designing roads and illustrates successful
approaches used in other highway projects. The guide aims also at provoking
innovative thinking for fully considering the scenic, historic, aesthetic, and
other cultural values of communities, along with safety and mobility
needs.
FHWA
Flexibility in Highway DesignITE
Context Sensitive SolutionsThis Web site has
been developed to help practitioners with tools and information that are easily
available for download.
ITE Context
Sensitive SolutionsITE Context
Sensitive Solutions in Designing Major Urban Thoroughfares for Walkable
CommunitiesThis report advances the
successful use of context sensitive solutions (CSS) in the planning and design
of major urban thoroughfares for walkable communities. It provides guidance and
demonstrates for practitioners how CSS concepts and principles may be applied in
roadway improvement projects that are consistent with their physical
settings. 
ITE Context Sensitive Solutions
in Designing Major Urban Thoroughfares for Walkable CommunitiesBuilding Projects that Build
Communities Real partnerships start
with ongoing relationships of trust and collaboration. The concept of true
community partnerships is good in theory, but can be difficult to put into
practice - not only because of things such as local land use decisions which can
enhance or negatively impact the transportation system - but also because it
requires tremendous teamwork between agencies and organizations.
Building Projects that
Build CommunitiesAASHTO Center for
Environmental ExcellenceThis section
explains and defines context sensitive solutions (CSS), provides a brief history
of events, explains why CSS is important to transportation agencies, discusses
efforts to institutionalize CSS, and describes how CSS applies to all areas of
transportation program delivery.
AASHTO
Center for Environmental ExcellenceGeorgia DOT CSD Online ManualContext-Sensitive Design (CSD) is a process for achieving
design excellence by developing transportation solutions that require
continuous, collaborative communication and consensus between transportation
agencies, professionals, and any and all stakeholders. A common goal of CSD
projects is to develop a facility that is harmonious with the community, and
preserves aesthetics, history and the environmental resources, while integrating
these innovative approaches with traditional transportation goals for safety and
performance.
Georgia DOT CSD Online
ManualMinnesota CSSContext 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.
Minnesota CSS 