DeWayne Carver

DeWayne has over 20 years of experience in land use and transportation planning, including transportation demand management, transit, traffic analysis, real estate development, roadway design, and urban design. His passion is bettering communities through context-based design, helping bridge the gap between land use and transportation to build better, safer, smarter streets. DeWayne has worked alongside top New Urbanist firms to create walkable street designs for cities, towns, and villages. He also managed production of the Florida Department of Transportation’s (FDOT) Roadway Design Manual, so he knows streets as well as highways. DeWayne is the former FDOT State Bicycle/Pedestrian Coordinator and former FDOT Complete Streets Program Manager. In those roles, he helped introduce context-based design to FDOT and then helped lead the department’s transition to context classification for complete streets. He has experience teaching and instructing and enjoys the challenge of explaining new concepts (as well as “translating” between planning and engineering languages.)   DeWayne has a master of regional planning degree from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and a bachelor of arts in urban studies from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.  DeWayne enjoys bicycle commuting and competes in local and regional fencing competitions to stay fit. He is also an amateur astronomer and serves on the board of the Tallahassee Astronomical Society. DeWayne is a recipient of the Nolen Award for Contributions to New Urbanism in Florida and the Congress of New Urbanism Groves Award for Contributions to Form-Based Coding.