Urban Circulator Roundtable: Shaping Cities One Challenge at a Time AICP CM 1.5 An urban circulator roundtable? How appropriate! Hear speakers from around the country -- Austin; Atlanta; Minneapolis-St. Paul; Portland-- experienced in different disciplines of urban circulator implementation. Start with short presentations from each unique perspective, then focus on the challenges and issues associated with implementation -- outreach, financing, traffic, etc. -- and how each organization overcame these challenges. Moderator: Neil McFarlane, General Manager, TriMet, Portland, Oregon Paul Zebell, Project Manager, Bureau of Transportation, City of Portland, Oregon April Manlapaz, Transit Project Manager, AECOM, Minneapolis, Minnesota Derek Benedict, PE, Transportation Engineer, URS Corporation, Austin, Texas D.J. Baxter, Executive Director, Redevelopment Agency of Salt Lake City, Salt Lake City, Utah Jim Erkel, Attorney & Program Director, Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy, St. Paul, Minnesota Lisa Gordon, Chief Operating Officer, Atlanta Beltline, Inc., Atlanta, Georgia

1. Signalization Challenges of Urban circulators.
PAUL ZEBELL
CITY OF PORTLAND

7. Goals
Safety for all modes of travel
Preemption for emergency vehicles Priority for transit vehicles Accessibility for disabled users Reasonable maximum delays for all modes Maintaining some capacity for private vehicles

8. Tools
IMPROVED CONTROL SOFTWARE
MOVING TRANSIT BOARDING LOCATIONS
CHANGING OPERATING RULES
NON-STANDARD DETECTION SCHEMES

9. Train’s here

10. Serve the Bus

13. Distance
Time
Offset
• Cars travel through without stopping
Progression Speed: Faster for cars

14. Distance
Time
Offset
• Signal timing set for 19 mph • bicycle traffic travels through without stopping
Progression Speed: Slower for
Bikes