Guidebook for Developing Pedestrian and Bicycle Performance Measures

FHWA-HEP-16-037

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March 2016

1. AGENCY USE ONLY	2. REPORT DATE March 2016		3. REPORT TYPE AND DATES Final Report
4. TITLE AND SUBTITLE Guidebook for Developing Pedestrian and Bicycle Performance Measures		5. PROJECT ID NUMBER
6. AUTHOR(S): Conor Semler, Adam Vest, Karla Kingsley, Susan Mah, Wayne Kittelson, Carl Sundstrom, Kristen Brookshire		5. PROJECT ID NUMBER
7. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION NAME AND ADDRESS UNC Highway Safety Research Center, 730 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Suite 300, Campus Box 3430, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3430 Kittelson & Associates, Inc. \| 610 SW Alder St, Suite 700, Portland, Oregon 97205		8. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION REPORT NO.
9. SPONSORING AGENCY NAME AND ADDRESS U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration Office of Human Environment 1200 New Jersey Ave. SE Washington, D.C.		10. SPONSORING/MONITORING AGENCY REPORT NUMBER FHWA-HEP-16-037
11. SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES
12a. DISTRIBUTION/AVAILABILITY STATEMENT This document is available to the public on the FHWA website at: http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/environment/bicycle_pedestrian		12b. DISTRIBUTION CODE
13. ABSTRACT: This guidebook is intended to help communities develop performance measures that can fully integrate pedestrian and bicycle planning in ongoing performance management activities. It highlights a broad range of ways that walking and bicycling investments, activity, and impacts can be measured and documents how these measures relate to goals identified in a community's planning process. It discusses how the measures can be tracked and what data are required, while also identifying examples of communities that are currently using the respective measures in their planning process. This report highlights resources for developing measures to facilitate high quality performance based planning.
14. SUBJECT TERMS Pedestrian, bicycle, bike, performance measures, active transportation, nonmotorized		15. NUMBER OF PAGES 100
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17. SECURITY CLASSIFICATION (of this report) Unclassified	18. SECURITY CLASSIFICATION (of this page) Unclassified	19. SECURITY CLASSIFICATION OF ABSTRACT Unclassified	20. LIMITATION OF ABSTRACT

Notice

This document is disseminated under the sponsorship of the U.S. Department of Transportation in the interest of information exchange. This document was prepared for the Federal Highway Administration by the University of North Carolina (UNC) Highway Safety Research Center and Kittelson & Associates, Inc. The U.S. Government assumes no liability for the use of the information contained in this document.

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The contents of this report reflect the views of the authors, who are responsible for the facts and accuracy of the data presented herein.

The report does not constitute a standard, specification, or regulation. It does not create or confer any rights for or on any person or operate to bind the public.

Images in the report are intended to serve as examples of the range of real world existing conditions; they are not limited to best practices or approved designs or behaviors and in some cases may reflect conditions that are not recommended.

Acknowledgements

The Guide was prepared for the Federal Highway Administration (Task Order DTFH61-11-D-0035/5002) by the University of North Carolina (UNC) Highway Safety Research Center and Kittelson & Associates, Inc.

FHWA Project Managers

Dan Goodman | Federal Highway Administration
Christopher Douwes | Federal Highway Administration

FHWA Pedestrian and Bicycle Work Group

The Pedestrian and Bicycle Work Group includes representatives from the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), Federal Transit Administration (FTA), National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), and the Office of the Secretary (OST).

Consultant Team

Kittelson & Associates, Inc. | Conor Semler, Adam Vest, Karla Kingsley, Susan Mah, Wayne Kittelson
UNC Highway Safety Research Center | Carl Sundstrom, Kristen Brookshire

Technical Work Group

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