Comment:
Overview of research, specifications, and best practices when planning and designing shared streets focusing on the use of tactile walking surface indicators and detectable edges.

Last Updated (Year): 2017

Year Produced: 2017

Abstract:

This document reviews notable practices and considerations for accommodating pedestrians with vision disabilities on shared streets. It focuses on streets where pedestrians, bicyclists, and motor vehicles are intended to mix in the same space. The guide includes a description of shared streets, an overview of vision disabilities and the strategies people with vision disabilities use to navigate in the public right of way. It discusses the specific challenges pedestrians with vision disabilities face when navigating shared streets. It provides an overview of relevant U.S. guidance, a toolbox of strategies for designing shared streets that improve accessibility for pedestrians with vision disabilities, and ideas on how accessibility for pedestrians with vision disabilities can be addressed in the planning and design process. It provides information from case studies of completed shared streets in the United States that highlight accessibility features and lessons learned, as well as a bibliography that includes sources specifically referenced in the body of the guide and other sources that inspired the guide content and may be useful for shared street designers.

For:Walking

The E's:Engineering, Education

Ped Bike Activity:

• Planning
• Design
• Community Engagement

Ped Bike Topic:

• Surfaces
• Safety
• Policy
• Planning
• Maintenance
• Facility Design
• Education
• Design
• Data Collection
• Community Action
• Built environment
• Accessibility

Facility Type:Sidewalks, Shared Path, Shared Lane, Detection, Crosswalk

Road Constraints:Multi Lane

Urban Context:Urban

Resource Type:

• Guidance

Link to Content Source:

Accessible Shared Streets: Notable Practices and Considerations for Accommodati…