In September 2005, at MDOT's request, a consultant conducted a review of CSS guides and articles, resulting in the reviews and summaries linked below.

• Flexibility in Highway Design, Federal Highway Administration
• Guide for Achieving Flexibility in Highway Design, American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials
• A Guide To Best Practices For Achieving Context Sensitive Solutions, National Cooperative Highway ResearchProgram Report 480
• When Main Street is a State Highway, Blending Function, Beauty and Identity, Handbook for Communities and Designers, Maryland Department of Transportation State Highway Administration
• Flexible Design of New Jersey’s Main Streets, Rutgers University and New Jersey Department of Transportation
• Saving Historic Roads: Design and Policy Guidelines, Marriott, Paul Daniel, National Trust for Historic Preservation
• The Freeway in the City: Principles of Planning and Design, Rapuano, Michael, Lawrence Halprin, et al.,US Government Printing Office
• Transportation & Land Use Innovations: When you can’t pave your way out of congestion, Ewing, Reid, Florida Department of Community Affairs.
• Bridges: Aesthetics and Design, Leonhardt, Fritz, The MIT Press
• Aesthetic Guidelines for Bridge Design, Minnesota Department of Transportation, Office of Bridges and Structures
• Aesthetic Bridges Users Guide, Maryland Department of Transportation, State Highway Administration, Office of Bridge Development
• Guide for the Development of Bicycle Facilities, American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO)
• Practical Highway Esthetics, American Society of Civil Engineers
• Ecology of Greenways: Design and Function of Linear Conservation Areas, Smith, Daniel S., and Paul Cawood Hellmund, eds., University of Minnesota Press
• Road Ecology: Science and Solutions, Forman, R.T., D. Sperling, et al., Island Press