Context Sensitive Solutions

A sidewalk with a sculpture on it next to a street with a truck driving down it

Context sensitive solutions (CSS) is a collaborative, interdisciplinary approach that balances the interests of various stakeholders in providing a transportation facility that fits its setting. It is an approach that leads to preserving and enhancing scenic, aesthetic, historic, community, and environmental resources, while improving or maintaining safety, mobility, and infrastructure conditions.

Guidance

Context Sensitive Solutions Guide

Design Resources

Design Manuals and Guidance Documents
Work Zone Safety and Mobility Toolbox
AASHTO Highway Safety Manual
FHWA Bicycle and Pedestrian Program

Planning Resources

Public Involvement Stormwater Program Toolkit for Growing Communities FHWA Context Sensitive Solutions in Transportation Planning

Additional Information

AASHTO Center for Environmental Excellence
Federal Highway Administration Context Sensitive Solutions
United States Access Board

Contacts

Doug McBroom, Statewide Planning & Modal Operations
Tom Martin, Environmental Services

Engineering/Preconstruction:

Megan Cail, Ryan Dahlke