Planning for Safety & Vulnerable Street Users

Jake Gutekunst, Associate Project Manager, Kimley-Horn Jake has 7 years of experience working in design and planning for transportation systems and mobility solutions from Kimley-Horn's Austin office. His experience includes municipal, county, state, and private development work. Jake's projects are focused on development of long-range mobility plans, CIP development, funding … Read More

Jake Gutekunst, Associate Project Manager, Kimley-Horn Jake has 7 years of experience working in design and planning for transportation systems and mobility solutions from Kimley-Horn's Austin office. His experience includes municipal, county, state, and private development work. Jake's projects are focused on development of long-range mobility plans, CIP development, funding for programs and CIPs, program and policy development, design standards and criteria, and traffic engineering support for cities across central Texas. He served as the Deputy Project Manager on the overhaul of Austin's Transportation Criteria Manual, the first major update in over 20 years to the city's transportation design standards. Read Less

Cole Kitten, Division Manager, City of Austin Cole Kitten is a Division Manager with the Austin Transportation Department’s Systems Development Division lived in Austin for nearly 20 years. He has been employed with the City of Austin for over 15 years and has worked his way up from an entry … Read More

Cole Kitten, Division Manager, City of Austin Cole Kitten is a Division Manager with the Austin Transportation Department’s Systems Development Division lived in Austin for nearly 20 years. He has been employed with the City of Austin for over 15 years and has worked his way up from an entry level planner to oversee long-range planning projects within his Division and manages the City's Complete Streets Program. Cole holds a BA in Urban Studies with a minor in Architecture from the University of Texas at Austin. Read Less

Danielle Morin, Project Coordinator, City of Austin Danielle Morin is a Project Coordinator with the Austin Transportation Department’s Systems Development Division and has called Austin her home for over a decade. She has been employed with the City of Austin for over 7 years; during her tenure with the City … Read More

Danielle Morin, Project Coordinator, City of Austin Danielle Morin is a Project Coordinator with the Austin Transportation Department’s Systems Development Division and has called Austin her home for over a decade. She has been employed with the City of Austin for over 7 years; during her tenure with the City she has been involved with development and land use review, transportation analysis, land development code initiatives, the Austin Strategic Mobility Plan, the Transportation Criteria Manual rewrite, right-of-way management, and has been instrumental in crafting various transportation-related policies and ordinances. Danielle is accredited with the Congress of New Urbanism and holds a BA in Geography with an emphasis in Urban and Regional Planning from Texas State University, where she will also be completing her Master’s in Public Administration in December of 2021. Read Less