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EXPERTISE
Transportation &
Mobility
Advancing local, regional, and state transportation goals in the face of complex
decision-making and planning challenges.
CDR’s deep experience with built environment projects includes a longstanding focus on transportation systems and the organizations that run them. We build consensus between groups, outline clear plans for design and implementation, and incorporate partner and community priorities into the process and its outcomes. We guide communities through ever-evolving technological and policy-related questions, and we introduce those affecting a change to those affected by the change. This may involve designing and facilitating workshops to select bus lane configurations, strategizing and implementing public involvement processes to understand a community’s sentiment towards expanded bike/ped routes, and interviewing transit leaders to identify agencywide priorities and draft action plans.
Our team works across travel modes to strengthen fixed-route as well as demand-responsive transportation systems: passenger rail, light rail transit (LRT), bus rapid transit (BRT), paratransit, intercity bus, micromobility, sidewalks, aviation, and other networks, including multi-modal streets and highways. In a holistic approach to public right-of-way, our interdisciplinary team unites expertise from across our practice areas to incorporate insights into stormwater infrastructure, land use, economic development, habitat connectivity, placemaking, and more.
Public Transit & Rail
Public transit is central to many individuals’ and families’ mobility and is a critical catalyst for economic activity, community connectedness, and climate goals. We support the prioritization, planning, and delivery of transit services and projects at local and regional levels, helping to improve service planning and delivery across modes.
Active Transportation
CDR helps state and local governments expand safer, more accessible networks of bicycle and pedestrian facilities. Often the subject of complex community sentiment, early-stage planning efforts and on-the-ground construction projects benefit from CDR’s consensus-building expertise. Furthermore, our team helps communities identify priorities in the wake of changing federal funding programs.
Emerging Mobility
Public transit is central to many individuals’ and families’ mobility and is a critical catalyst for economic activity, community connectedness, and climate goals. We support the prioritization, planning, and delivery of transit services and projects at local and regional levels, helping to improve service planning and delivery across modes.
Context-Sensitive Solutions
Since 2016, CDR has implemented the Colorado Department of Transportation’s (CDOT) Context Sensitive Solutions process in mountain towns near the Interstate 70 corridor, supporting communities in identifying and addressing the economic, environmental, and quality-of-life impacts to their communities that arise from this infrastructure.
NEPA & Pre-NEPA
The National Environment Policy Act (NEPA) has dictated expectations for transportation planning and construction projects for decades. CDR guides collaborative processes required for alternatives evaluation and Planning and Environmental Linkage (PEL) studies through NEPA and pre-NEPA work, helping a wide range of partners and community representatives shape outcomes and preferred alternatives.
Examples
Explore some of our recent Transportation & Mobility work.
