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Alta combines guidance found in more traditional resources with local standards and academic researchs to create a single visually-rich document that can be used to lead the design of bicycle and pedestrian facilities. Amigos de los Rios is a grassroots organization known for its work in designing sustainable open spaces and enhancing community life. They assist with the initiative by providing input on the physical project and promoting initiative related activities to community members. With an intention to be climate positive, the team used environmentally resilient materials and green infrastructure throughout the design. Growth allows Alta’s employees to achieve new career opportunities they never would have had before, while the firm is able to deliver more sustainable projects than ever before. Trilon is looking forward to continuing to scale Alta’s impact, mission and vision even further by investing in the business’s continued growth, in the same way it scales the impact of all partner firms.
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Mobility hubs can also be a first, low cost phase for testing mobility options and iterative placemaking and investment. Good intersection design has progressed rapidly in recent years with features that make them safer and more comfortable for bicyclists and pedestrians.
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The latest version of this hands-on workshop includes key updates featured in the upcoming 3rd Edition of the NACTO Urban Bikeway Design Guide. Participants will engage with leading practitioners who specialize in bike intersection design, work with peers to problem-solve challenging intersections, and apply their new skills to streets like theirs. So, sharpen your pencils and bring your straight edge for a hands-on design experience, applying techniques such as checking a turn radius or calculating a signal phase, and roll away with the skills to make your city’s bikeway intersections safe and inviting for people of all ages and abilities.
Understanding Demand
The old Penny Furniture building is humming with vibrant pin-up sessions, conversations, and collaboration, leading to high-quality design. Hubs range from simple co-location of several modes (e.g. bus stop, private shuttle stop, bike share station, and bicycle racks) to larger districts where land uses, infrastructure and mobility options (existing and emerging) are strategically planned together. The elements of sidewalk design include transportation, “outdoor living room” amenities and utilities. But with the rise in urban living and transportation technology advances, sidewalks are performing more like a land use. Reaching every corner of a state can be difficult using traditional means of public engagement.
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Trilon’s key focus areas include transportation, water, utilities, environment, and community infrastructure. A key to successful statewide planning is a data-driven approach to route prioritization combined with public engagement and stakeholder feedback. This process helps to identify corridors that should be prioritized for investment to help State Departments of Transportation use their resources most prudently. Commonly when working with states, they may not have the data they need to make these informed decisions.
This integrated design approach provides a seamless transition from plan to implementation, turning community visions into reality. Trilon Group was formed with a vision to build the next Top 20 infrastructure services firm in North America by bringing together some of the nation’s best infrastructure consulting firms. Key focus areas include Transportation, Water, Utilities, Environment and Community Infrastructure.
The FHWA Small Town and Rural Multimodal Networks Design Guide (authored by Alta) helps state, county, and small town transportation officials meets these needs. Understanding the types of users and their design needs can help to establish more effective policies to accommodate bicyclists and pedestrians. Incorporating safety into statewide planning is of high importance to effectively reduce the number, rate, and severity of bicycle and pedestrian involved collisions. The safety of bicyclists and pedestrians is improved by moderating automobile speeds and providing greater protection from faster moving traffic. A comprehensive approach addressing system design as well as behavior of all types of road users is required to make meaningful strides in safety.
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Trilon will support Alta’s strategic expansion through capital and resource support that will ensure ongoing innovation, employee growth and continued quality service for clients. Alta will lead the national strategy for Active Mobility and Sustainability across Trilon, and be a critical part of the national Transportation strategy. As part of this strategic partnership, Alta’s Board of Directors has named Brett Hondorp as Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Trilon continues to build a comprehensive, high-quality family of complementary infrastructure consulting businesses across the nation and remains focused on delivering innovative and sustainable infrastructure solutions. Trilon partners with like-minded infrastructure consulting firms across the nation and aims to accelerate their growth through investment in talent, technology, and targeted M&A.
Our Vision
Alta was founded in 1996 when cities and communities were calling for safer streets for people walking and bicycling as the non-motorized transportation movement developed in the United States. Alta pioneered the field of active transportation, evolving their planning and design work into a visionary global practice that empowers people to live active, healthy lives and gets them to where they need to go. With 200 staff located across the US and Canada, Alta is dedicated to connecting people to places by working across disciplines and scale to address social justice, safety, and environmental resilience. Alta Planning + Design is an active transportation company dedicated to creating active, healthy communities through planning, landscape architecture, engineering, and education/encouragement programs. Alta was founded in 1996 when cities and communities were calling for safer streets for people walking and bicycling as the non-motorized transportation movement developed into a profession in the United States. We pioneered the field of active transportation, evolving our planning and design work into a visionary global practice that empowers people to live active, healthy lives and gets them to where they need to go.
Concrete strategies emphasizing safety in roadway design and speed management, addressing unsafe behavior, and seeking a deeper understanding of collision causes and occurrences will contribute to a safer, more inviting walking and bicycling environment. UrbanTrans is a woman-owned and operated transportation planning and behavior change firm, specializing in transportation demand management (TDM) and the delivery of commuting programs. They work on projects throughout the continent and have offices in Atlanta, Denver, Los Angeles, and Toronto. Since 2000, UrbanTrans has been at the forefront of TDM, leading with a mission to create sustainable environments and advance innovative transportation solutions through a people-first approach that ensures impactful results at every scale.
Alta has found success using online input maps to source feedback from all corners of the states where we work. These tools are fully customized and mobile optimized so that people can provide input on the go. For New Mexico’s Rio Grande Trail Master Plan, Alta developed a virtual open house that attracted nearly 1,000 participants over a 4-week window of time. The graphically-rich and engaging format brings the model of an open house meeting to every region of the state.
Statewide planning and recommendations should be grounded in design guidelines to ensure successfully securing funding and implementation. In 2014, Alta moved to the heart of downtown, into the historical 1907 Penny Furniture building. In 1966, the building was abandoned and languished until it was purchased and renovated in 2007.
UrbanTrans is a TDM specialty firm founded in 2000 with offices in Atlanta, Denver, Los Angeles, and Toronto. UrbanTrans works on plans, policies, and programs that integrate TDM into mobility strategy and implementation, active transportation, and the larger multimodal transportation network. They consult with public agencies, developers, special-purpose districts, non-profits, metropolitan planning organizations, employers, and transportation management associations (TMAs). However, extreme heat and traffic safety are two key barriers to walking, biking and taking transit. Alta developed a conceptual plan intended to mitigate the threats of extreme heat, called the Urban Heat Island Effect, and other climate change impacts in the neighborhood of Canoga Park, Los Angeles.
When Alta engineers review a planner’s concept, they often suggest making it more innovative. The Alta engineering team is not out to crush planners’ and designers’ dreams, but sometimes to suggest how the project can go further outside the box. We evaluate roadways for all users, with a focus on functional operation and safety, and work with each community to determine appropriate trade-offs. Trilon Group launched in January 2022 and is backed by Alpine Investors, a people-driven private equity firm committed to building enduring businesses. Alta is Trilon’s seventh investment with previous investments including MSG, RKA, CPH, Waggoner Engineering, DRMP and ESI Consultants. This new area of demand management pays special attention to sidewalks given increasing demand with growth in urban living , walkable communities and pick-up and drop-off areas for ridehailing like Uber and Lyft.
A short-term and long-term vision for gaining the best of what new mobility and transportation technology have to offer can drive policy change and spur innovation and real-world applications for the benefit of everyone in the state. In the California State Bicycle and Pedestrian Plan, Alta focused on social equity, and laid out possible performance measures for investing resources in communities that are most dependent on active transportation and transit. El Monte’s vision is to “foster policy change that supports the development of healthy, active environments for all community residents. Facilitated by Alta, this practical training combines the power of time (signals) and space (geometric solutions) for tricky bikeway intersections. Learn how to get people on bikes and micromobility devices safely through an intersection using innovative best practices and easy-to-implement standards-based alternatives.
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