PBIC Messenger
The PBIC Messenger is the free quarterly eNewsletter from the Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center. The PBIC Messenger features latest news, resources, webinars, upcoming events, and more. Subscribe to receive the next issue.
Current Issue:
- Dutch Reduce Default Speed Limit Nationwide
- Cruise to Offer Driverless Passenger Service in San Francisco, CA
- ICYMI: Health and Transportation Webinar Series Materials
- Evaluation of Aesthetically Treated Crosswalks
- Applications for Safe Routes to Parks Grants Due Dec. 18
Past Issues:
- Ten Actions Needed by Developers Before Deployment of Automated Driving Systems Around Schools
- New Guidance for Conducting Pedestrian and Bicyclist Road Safety Audits
- FTA Announces $6.2 Million for Transit Planning in Communities Nationwide
- NHTSA Releases 2020 Pedestrian Safety Month Playbook and Holds Webinar
- New Injury Reporting Codes for Micromobility Modes
- Safe Steps to the School Bus Stop
- US Department of Interior Rulemaking on E-Bikes Finalized
- Comment Now: Revised Policies for E-Bike Use in National Forests
- "Shifting Streets" COVID-19 Mobility Dataset
- PBIC Health and Transportation Webinar Series
- Shared Micromobility in the U.S.: 2019
- NHTSA and FHWA Launch First National Pedestrian Safety Month
- Walk to School Day October 7: Registration Now Open
- Walk to School Day 2020
- City Limits: Setting Safe Speed Limits on Urban Streets
- Designing Streets for Kids
- Back to School Student Active Transportation Guidance and Resources
- PBIC: Toward a Shared Understanding of Pedestrian Safety: An Exploration of Context, Patterns, and Impacts
- PBIC and National Center for Safe Routes to School: Planning Considerations for Walking and Rolling to School in Fall 2020
- PBIC: Safety-Based Prioritization for Youth Pedestrian Travel Planning: Applying Systemic Pedestrian Safety Analysis to Youth Travel
- USDOT Summit on Pedestrian Safety
- FHWA: Safe Transportation for Every Pedestrian
- Update on FHWA Bikeway Selection Guide
- Free Assistance Still Available for Scalable Risk Assessment Methodology
- New Resources on Transportation and Public Health
- Considerations for Deploying Automated Driving Systems Around Schools
- What Makes a "Biking" School? How Some Schools Have Pulled Ahead in Cycling Rates
- NHTSA Early Estimate of 2019 Vehicle Traffic Fatalities
- FHWA Publishes TPM/PBPP Implementation Workshop Interim Report
- PBIC CenterLines Partnership
- PBIC Walking and Biking While Social Distancing Dataset
- COVID-19 Resources and Tracking for Walking and Biking
- National Highway Institute Bicycle Facility Design Training Course
- Submit Comments for Federal Rulemaking on E-Bikes
- PBIC Researchers Contribute to Two TRB Award-Winning Papers
- New Info Briefs Focus on Vision Zero for Youth
- New Studies use 2017 National Household Travel Survey to Analyze Trends in Walking and Biking
- City of Fremont Receives Vision Zero for Youth USA Leadership Award
- Help Researchers Locate Signage and Bike Lanes to Assess Safety Performance
- New Micromobility Resources Provide Overview and Document Applied Practices
- New University Course Materials Focus on Pedestrian and Bicyclist Topics
- New Info Briefs on Student and Youth Travel Data
- NTSB Meets to Adopt Findings and Recommendations of Recent Report
- 2018 Fatal Motor Vehicle Crashes Overview
- New PBIC Automated Vehicles University Course Modules
- New PBIC and PeopleForBikes Info Brief on Connectivity Measures to Evaluate and Build Bicycle Networks
- Walk to School Day
- NHTSA Early Estimate of 2018 Vehicle Traffic Fatalities
- U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works: America's Transportation Infrastructure Act
- Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center Launches New Website with New Data Resource Tool
- Communities Across the United States Celebrate Bike to School Day, Focus on Health and Safety
- Darren Buck Joins Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) as New Pedestrian and Bicycle Program Coordinator
- Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA) Report on Pedestrian Traffic Fatalities by State
- National Transportation Safety Board's Testimony on Every Life Counts: Improving the Safety of Our Nation's Roadways
- National Safety Council: 2019 Road to Zero (RTZ) Safe Systems Innovation Grants
- Recently Published Article Takes a New Look at Bicycle Crash Types
- Rails to Trails Conservancy Unveils Great American Rail-Trail
- Summaries of Pedestrian and Bicycle Research and Program Activities from US Department of Transportation (USDOT)
- New Guidance for Bicycle Facility Selection from the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
- Data Visualizations for Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS)
- Learn How to Develop Scalable Risk Values and Assess Exposure to Risk
- Upcoming Webinars from PBIC
- Dangerous by Design 2019
- Speeding Away from Zero: Rethinking a Forgotten Traffic Safety Challenge
- TRB Best Paper Awards Granted to Pedestrian and Bicycle Topics
- Research Reconstructs Pedestrian Fatalities by Replacing Drivers with Automated Vehicles
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