Pedestrian Planning & Design

Improving pedestrian safety and comfrot shoul be a goal for any forward-thinking community, giving people a chance to do business, re-create, and just explore the world around them - on foot.  Alta has been creating better access and walking routes for more than a decade, through the planning and design of streetscapes, Main Street Corridors, transit access, waterfronts, and parks.  As a start-to-finish resource, we can create a master plan for your pedestrian project.  We'll help analyze current conditions, assess needed improvements, identify funding resources and strategies, design and engineer pedestrian projects, coordinate public and agency involvement, and see the project through on details such as connectivity, ADA compliance, landscaping, and future project expansion.  

We are paricularly strong in integrating environmental concerns with our projects.  Our goal is for each project to improve the envrionment and make places better for generations to come.  We perform detailed environmental assessments to ensure that our projects respect the natural environment.  In addition, we emphasize green infrastructure, finding ways to build waht's needed while keeping it eco-friendly. 
   

Featured Projects

Santa Barbara (CA) Pedestrian Master Plan
The Pedestrian Master Plan seeks to bring the rest of the city up to the standards set in downtown, via intersection improvements, sidewalk completion, ADA compliance, landscaping and connectivity.
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Florence (OR) U.S. 101 Pedestrian Safety Study
Alta, working with CH2M Hill, ODOT and the City of Florence, completed a three-stage pedestrian safety analysis of U.S. 101 and prepared a study that examined specific areas for safety improvements.
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City of Berkeley (CA) Pedestrian Master Plan
The challenge of this project was producing recommendations that accurately target areas of need.
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Dubai Pedestrian Safety and Mobility Action Plan
Alta is leading an international team to develop a Pedestrian Safety and Mobility Action Plan.  Dubai's rapid growth in recent years has resulted in significant traffic increases and rising pedestrian road deaths.
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