Purpose
The purpose of the Urban Street Symposium is to stimulate improvements in suburban/urban street design practices. It will provide a forum to:
- Compare and discuss alternative street design practices.
- Document better street designs.
- Transfer urban street research findings to state agencies and to local governments.
Hosts
Transportation Research Board (TRB) Committee on:
- Performance Effects of Geometric Design (AKD10)
- and its predecessor committees:
- Operational Effects of Geometrics (AHB65)
- Geometric Design (AFB10)
7th Urban Street Symposium
The next edition of the Urban Street Symposium is tentatively scheduled for 2027 in a to-be-determined city in the United States. More information will be released as the conference is planned.
6th Urban Street Symposium
- The most recent edition of the Urban Street Symposium series, the 6th Urban Street Symposium, took place in conjunction with the 6th International Symposium on Highway Geometric Design (ISHGD).
- Originally scheduled for the summer of 2020, COVID-related restrictions made it necessary to reschedule the Symposium, which was held June 26-29, 2022, in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
- The 6th Symposium was organized and co-sponsored by:
- Transportation Research Board (TRB)
- Committee on Performance Effects of Geometric Design (AKD10)
- Committee on Roundabouts and other Intersection Design and Control Strategies (AKD80)
- Committee on Access Management (ACP60)
- Arcadis
- Association Infra Design
- Transportation Research Board (TRB)
- The scope of the Symposium included topics related to either geometric design research or practice. Within this scope, sessions on the meeting program were based on topics such as: urban street design; freeways and interchanges; intersection design, control, and operations; access management; accommodating all users; effects of automated/connected vehicles on design; and work zone design.
5th Urban Street Symposium
- The previous edition of the series, the 5th Urban Street Symposium, took place in Raleigh, North Carolina on May 21-24, 2017.
- For details on the technical program and other events related to the 5th Urban Street Symposium, see: http://www.urbanstreet.info/5th-urban-street-symposium/.
- Many thanks to our partners, the North Carolina Section of ITE (NCSITE), for hosting the 5th Urban Street Symposium.