Additional Resources
Several reference materials exist that illustrate the need for bicycle safety and how communities have been designed to ensure safety. Facts & Figures exist that clearly illustrate the safety problems that exist across our nation. Good Practices provides examples of how our communities can be safer. In this section you can learn how good practices can be actually implemented. This may be of interest to planners, engineers, landscape architects, and other designers to review for an overview of safe bicycle planning and design guidelines.
- Case Study No. 1: Reasons Why Bicycling & Walking are not Being Used More Extensively as Travel Modes - FHWA - [PDF, 1.27MB]
- Transportation-Related Land Use Strategies to Minimize Motor Vehicle Emissions: An Indirect Source Research Study - California Air Resources Board - [PDF, 329KB] - The report suggests community-level performance goals that can reasonably be attained in urban, suburban and rural/exurban communities by implementing packages of transportation-related land use strategies in coordination with a multimodal transportation system.
- Roadway Delineation Practices Handbook - FHWA - [PDF, 5.73MB] - was developed to assist design, traffic, and maintenance engineering personnel in making determinations about roadway delineation systems, including the appropriate system for a given situation, when a system has reached the end of its useful life, and how to maintain a quality delineation system. It may also be valuable to consulting engineers, educators, and others.
- Bicycle and Pedestrian Related Publications and Reports Produced by USDOT - USDOT - [PDF, 158KB]
- Share the Road - STPP/BFA - [HTML, PDF 461KB] - This report is about making the case on public health, economic, and environmental grouds for a fair share of funding to make America bicycle friendly.
Slide Shows
- Planning and Designing Bicycle Facilities - [PDF, 14.3MB]
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