{"id":8604,"date":"2025-02-20T11:45:51","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T19:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/?p=8604"},"modified":"2025-02-20T14:36:11","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T22:36:11","slug":"thank-you-for-joining-our-design-innovations-in-active-transportation-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/thank-you-for-joining-our-design-innovations-in-active-transportation-course\/","title":{"rendered":"Thank you for joining our &#8220;Design Innovations in Active Transportation&#8221; course!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/our-design-innovations-in-active-transportation-course-was-a-huge-success\/dsc_0246\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8623\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8623\" src=\"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/DSC_0246.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/DSC_0246.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/DSC_0246-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/DSC_0246-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/DSC_0246-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/DSC_0246-1536x1020.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/DSC_0246-97x64.jpg 97w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On February 6, 2025, PacTrans WDI kicked off its first-ever <a href=\"https:\/\/actrans.omscatalog.uw.edu\/courses\/design-innovations-in-active-transportation---feb-2025\">Design Innovations in Active Transportation<\/a>\u00a0course, held from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM at the <a href=\"https:\/\/botanicgardens.uw.edu\/\">University of Washington Botanic Gardens<\/a> in Seattle, WA. Around 20 Region 10 transportation professionals, both in-person and online, attended the course despite the PNW winter storm conditions!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Design Innovations in Active Transportation&#8221; course was designed to provide an in-depth examination of how active transportation design philosophies and design guidance resources are applied in the design of real-life innovative active transportation facilities. Learning outcomes included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Participants learned how designers draw on active transportation design philosophies and how they use guidance documents to inform the design process.<\/li>\n<li>Participants learned how context informs design, including urban vs. rural settings, new-build vs. retrofits, and how they address the user experience.<\/li>\n<li>Participants explored how planners and designers are creating better walking and bike facilities through proper facility selection, addressing levels of stress, accessibility, and climate resilience.<\/li>\n<li>Participants investigated how designers navigate trade-offs by exploring real-world design examples.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The day also featured four experts from <a href=\"https:\/\/tooledesign.com\/\">Toole Design Group<\/a>, the nation&#8217;s leading planning, engineering, and landscape architecture firm specializing in active, multimodal transportation. Instructors listed below:<\/p>\n<table style=\"width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/wdiworks\/images\/people\/AmaliaLeightonCody-DESIGN.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" \/><\/td>\n<td>\n<h4>Amalia Leighton Cody, PE, AICP<\/h4>\n<p>Director of Engineering, Western U.S.<br \/>\nToole Design<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/wdiworks\/images\/people\/JakobWard-DESIGN.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" \/><\/td>\n<td>\n<h4>Jakob Ward, PE<\/h4>\n<p>Project Engineer II<br \/>\nToole Design<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/wdiworks\/images\/people\/KristenLohse-DESIGN.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" \/><\/td>\n<td>\n<h4>Kristen Lohse, ASLA<\/h4>\n<p>Principal Urban Designer, Trails and Wayfinding<br \/>\nToole Design<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/wdiworks\/images\/people\/DylanPassmore-DESIGN.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" \/><\/td>\n<td>\n<h4>Dylan Passmore, MScPl, P.Eng.<\/h4>\n<p>Principal Engineer<br \/>\nToole Design<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>If you have any questions about upcoming courses at <a href=\"https:\/\/pactranswdi.org\/\">PacTrans Workforce Development Institute (WDI)<\/a>, please visit <a href=\"https:\/\/pactranswdi.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pactranswdi.org<\/a> or email <a href=\"mailto:wdi-help@uw.edu?Subject=WDI%20Catalog%20course:\">wdi-help@uw.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On February 6, 2025, PacTrans WDI kicked off its first-ever Design Innovations in Active Transportation\u00a0course, held from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM at the University of Washington Botanic Gardens in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[120,69,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-courses","category-education-and-workforce-development","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8604"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8640,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8604\/revisions\/8640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}