Empowering Designers to Build Better Bikeways

Explore Our Upcoming Virtual Classes

Join us to enhance your bikeway design knowledge.

Explore Dutch experience in advisory lanes, and visit some advisory lanes in the US.

Accelerate understanding in innovative bikeway design principles and practices.

Learn about hot-off-the-press updated guidelines and standards for effective design.

Earn Certification Maintenance (CM) credits and Professional Development Hours (PDH) for AICP, PE, PTOE, PLA, and more!

Bikeway Design Webinar

Webinar Date: Thursday April 24, 2025

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blue and white striped round textile

Webinar Start Time: 7am PT / 10am ET

Webinar End Time: 2pm PT / 5pm ET

AGENDA

Presented by Tom Bertulis, MS, PE, PTOE

The Fast & The Curious:

Accelerating Understanding in Bikeway Design

  • Understanding the user and operating environments

  • Complying with traditional design standards and guidance as well as the historical evolution of design guidance

  • Recently updated guidelines and manuals

    • MUTCD 11th Edition (2023)

    • AASHTO Bicycle Facilities Guidelines (2024)

    • NACTO Urban Bikeway Design Guide (2025)

    • Other recently updated relevant guideline

Bicycle Planning and Network Analysis

  • Traditional methods

  • Best practices

Roadway Facility Selection

  • Bike lanes, separated bike lanes, shared lanes: So many choices, it's un-wheel!​

  • The separated bike lane 4-step design process: No training wheels required

    • Establish Directional and Width Criteria

    • Select Forms of Separation

    • Midblock Considerations

    • Intersection Design

      • Principles of intersection Design

      • Roundabouts, signals, and protected intersections

  • Designing separated bike lanes at transit stops: Sharing the sandbox

  • AASHTO’s advisory shoulders/ advisory lanes/ELRs: The Cutting Edge

  • Evaluating roadways/selecting facilities: Picking the right path

Traffic Calming, Bike Boulevards/ Neighborways/ Neighborhood Greenways

  • Vertical traffic calming vs horizontal traffic calming

  • Designing traffic calming for emergency vehicles

  • Designing calm residential streets and networks

The Tactical Urbanism Revolution

  • Background and understanding

  • Application for North America

European Approaches to Bicycle Facility Design

  • European comparison: From Amsterdam to Zurich, learning from the pros

  • Shared space: uncertainty and intrigue on our streets

  • Sustainable Safety and Vision Zero: the latest safety research

Empowering Engineers Through Education

TLC Engineers LLC offers innovative virtual classes to enhance understanding in bikeway design, planning, and engineering, drawing from global experiences to foster professional growth.

60+

100+

Miles of bikeways, road diets, pedestrian-friendly corridors, and traffic-calmed roadways designed.

Presentations at bikeway design courses, webinars, and conferences.

Virtual Classes Offered

Enhance your knowledge with our expert-led virtual classes in April 2025.

Advisory Lanes

Learn from European experience in our engaging virtual class on advisory lanes this April 16th, through APBP.

Bikeway Design

Join us for insights on bikeway design, presented by Tom Bertulis, on April 24, 2025 through HalfMoon Education.

Webinar Attendance

Earn 6.0 PDHs for professional engineers and architects.

See below for PDHs
Certification

Includes attendance certificate upon completion and quiz success.

PDH Credit
Group Access

Discounted rates for group sign-ups.

Inquire for pricing

Credits / PDHs

Professional Engineers (PE)
6.0 PDHs

Professional Traffic Operation Engineers (PTOE)
6.0 PDHs

Architects
6.0 HSW CE Hours

AIA - American Institute of Architects
6.0 HSW LUs

Landscape Architects
6.0 HSW CE Hours

LACES - Landscape Architecture Continuing Education System
6.0 HSW PDHs

APA/AICP - American Planning Association/American Institute of Certified Planners
6.0 CM

Continuing Education Information

These webinars are open to the public and is designed to qualify for 6.0 PDHs for professional engineers and PTOEs, 6.0 HSW continuing education hours for licensed architects, and 6.0 HSW continuing education hours for landscape architects in all states that allow this learning method, for the bikeway design course and 1.0 PDH for the advisory lane webinar.

"Join our class, bust some myths."

Tom teaching a bikeway design course