Contact: Kaitlin Scott, Planning Associate I, Alta Alta is working with the City of Santa Monica to improve older adults’ mobility, safety, and health by helping them walk, bicycle, and take transit more often. In collaboration with the City of Santa Monica, Alta launched the Active Aging Pilot Program in…

Quite simply, safety is a full-time job, integrated into everything we do. And there is still so much more we want to help communities accomplish. So, we are hiring a National Roadway Safety Leader to expand our multidisciplinary safety team. …

By: Jean Crowther, Principal, Alta We’re officially living in a post-pandemic world, as the public health emergency response to COVID-19 ended last week. After nearly three years of adjusting to uncertainty, we’ve emerged with new urgency around climate change, an immediate flood of new federal funding like SS4A and SMART…

Alta will be joining the ITE Canada/CARSP 2023 Joint Conference, June 4–7, 2023 as a bronze sponsor. This event brings together two respected transportation organizations — the Canadian Association of Road Safety Professionals (CARSP) and the Canadian Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE Canada) — for a unique opportunity to make…

By: Kim Voros, GIS Manager, Alta Thanks to Alta’s lesser-known benefit: a 5-yearly international travel stipend for learning about walking and cycling abroad, I made a trip to the Dominican Republic in February, where I explored transportation on the island of Hispanola. …

Two landmark pieces of legislation, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and the Inflation Reduction Act, provide an unprecedented amount of new funding aimed at climate resilience and greenhouse gas reduction. Communities can — and should — leverage these new funding opportunities to build out trails as resilient infrastructure. “Trails…

By: Jessica Roberts and Cathy Cibor, Alta Alta’s on-staff behavior change experts Jessica Roberts and Cathy Cibor recently hosted a webinar all about traffic safety campaigns. Campaigns — if done right — can change road user behavior for the better. …

Happy World Landscape Architecture Month (WLAM) from Alta! This month, we’re taking time to recognize the role of landscape architecture in shaping healthy, resilient, and beautiful places for all, advocating for the profession, and inspiring the next generation of landscape architects. Landscape architects have interdisciplinary backgrounds and are qualified to…

Transportation is the largest contributor to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the US, and the time to act is now. How do we reduce emissions while simultaneously planning for people to thrive in a warming world? …