Traffic professionals are exploring innovative intersection designs to determine if they can successfully accommodate multimodal transportation by reducing conflicts between moving vehicles and vulnerable road users or by lowering the impact force (reducing the vehicle speed and changing the collision angle in the event of a collision).

The objective of this Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) project was to investigate the operational and safety improvements of innovative intersection retrofitting designs that benefit pedestrians and bicyclists while maintaining a reasonable service to motor vehicles. The project included summarizing previous research efforts, developing three design types, identifying potential study sites (both before-after and comparison-existing pairs), and collecting operational behaviors of the users.

Recommended citation: Federal Highway Administration, Safety Evaluations of Innovative Intersection Designs for Pedestrians and Bicyclists (Washington, DC: 2023) https://doi.org/10.21949/1521976.