Urban Highways Today and Tomorrow: Traffic Safety Transformations

CM credit hours for mobile workshops are awarded based on the planned dedicated instructional time. Adjustments to CM hours will not be made after the live event.

Tour 8 Mile, a surface-level highway built to serve Detroit in its automotive heyday. Learn about changing modal trends and how they informed the recent redesign of Woodward Avenue, as well as land use along major corridors. Tour intersections along 8 Mile, Livernois, and Woodward to understand how TOD design can improve safety, multimodal travel, and small business viability.

Learn about redlining in Detroit and how road placement and design reinforced land use patterns and divisions. Discuss current remediation measures and where they have succeeded and fallen short. Review the 2024 Road Safety Analysis report for 8 Mile and see problematic intersection designs in person.

Visit Livernois Avenue - a thriving small-business hub and home to the "Avenue of Fashion" - and Woodward Avenue, a major highway recently redesigned for TOD. Discuss Woodward's redesign project and the obstacles planners faced during public engagement and implementation. Learn about the legal, financial, and policy limitations that govern state highways, and how redesign projects must consider them.

Understand redesigns of urban surface-level highways that support transit, businesses, and safety. Examine the limitations imposed by state regulations and dive into the equity tradeoffs of different road designs.