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This is the fifth biennial Benchmarking Project which began in 2003. Researchers analyzed data from the 50 States and from 50 large and 18 small and midsized U.S. cities to document trends in bicycling and walking. This report uses case studies from around the U.S. to illustrate efforts taken to support bicycling and walking. This 2016 edition has been reformatted from previous editions.
Provides context on pedestrian safety issues, crash patterns and contributing factors, and resulting impacts that may help orient readers from diverse sectors—including advocates, roadway owners and operators, legislators and law makers, real estate developers, businesses and private industries, public health practitioners, researchers, educators, enforcement officers, and others—to identify shared concerns and opportunities to make a difference.
This implementation manual is intended for local governments who want to make improvements to existing conditions that affect bicycling. Thirteen of the most typical situations or factors that impact bicycle use are considered. For each situation or factor the manual provides (as appropriate) a problem overview, a solution overview, implementation strategies, objectives, resource requirements, subtasks, a schedule, specifications, and references.
To accommodate the varying age and abilities of all users, a connected bike network should offer bicyclists multiple, safe routes and support comfortable and efficient everyday travel. This is the ideal in connectivity and comfort for all users, yet seldom experienced in the U.S. where street-by-street improvements often lead to abrupt bicycle facility endings. This seems to be shifting, however, as some of the country’s leading cities on bike infrastructure are taking efforts to link individual projects into complete, connected multimodal networks.
This implementation manual is intended for local governments who want to make improvements to existing conditions that affect bicycling. Thirteen of the most typical situations or factors that impact bicycle use are considered. For each situation or factor the manual provides (as appropriate) a problem overview, a solution overview, implementation strategies, objectives, resource requirements, subtasks, a schedule, specifications, and references.
A classic Road Diet converts an existing four-lane undivided roadway segment to a three-lane segment consisting of two through lanes and a center two-way left turn lane (TWLTL). A Road Diet improves safety by including a protected left-turn lane for mid-block left-turning motorists, reducing crossing distance for pedestrians, and reducing travel speeds that decrease crash severity. Additionally, the Road Diet provides an opportunity to allocate excess roadway width to other purposes, including bicycle lanes, on-street parking, or transit stops.
This manual provides a compendium of best practices to help transportation professionals improve pedestrian and bicycle safety and access to transit, including information on evaluating, planning for, and implementing improvements to pedestrian and bicycle access to transit. In addition to covering key concepts such as access sheds, connected networks, and station area comfort, safety, and legibility, the manual covers needs specific to pedestrians, such as complete sidewalks and safe, convenient crossings, and to bicyclists, such as bicycle parking and on-transit accommodations.
This document contains a series of Issue Briefs on various intersection safety-related topics. This is the Second Edition of these briefs. The target audience for the Issue Briefs consists of traffic engineers and transportation and safety professionals. Many products have developed over the past two years that will help practitioners evaluate causes of intersection crashes and potential solutions. The Issue Briefs provide practitioners with a substantial number of references and resources for subsequent review and consideration.
TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 674: Crossing Solutions at Roundabouts and Channelized Turn Lanes for Pedestrians with Vision Disabilities explores information related to establishing safe crossings at roundabouts and channelized turn lanes for pedestrians with vision disabilities.
This is a reference for practicing transportation professionals involved with the administrative, technical and legal aspects of transportation planning. It is a must for anyone in the governmental, consulting and educational fields working with the planning of the transportation infrastructure. Written by 22 highly respected authors in the field of transportation, and reviewed by leading transportation professionals, the new edition breaks chapters down into three categories: basic understanding, application contexts and strategy-specific planning.