More Community Engagement Resources
Source: Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
Resources that showcase how to use virtual tools to enhance public involvement in transportation planning and projects.
Read More >Source: Maptionnaire
Offers a citizen engagement eBook guide to reach broader demographics and establish ongoing dialog with residents and stakeholders.
Read More >Source: Design Justice Network
Provides a set of principles that help rethink design processes so that they center on people who are too often marginalized by design.
Read More >Transportation Planning Capacity Building Program Public Involvement
Source: Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and Federal Transit Administration (FTA)
Provides resources about public engagement in transportation planning.
Read More >AARP Bike Audit Tool Kit: A Self-Service Guide to Assessing a Community’s Bikeability
Source: AARP and League of American Bicyclists
Announces a new guide and worksheets to assess and improve bicyclist safety and accessibility.
Read More >Source: AARP
Announces the updated AARP Livability Index with current community data and enhanced functions.
Read More >Power Mapping 101: How Communities Can Make Connections and Improve Park Access
Source: Safe Routes Partnership
Provides a guide to developing a community power map as a visual tool to build connections and improve park access.
Read More >Source: Smart Growth America
Notes how US transportation approaches disproportionately harm low-income and communities of color.
Read More >Source: Smart Growth America
Provides a comprehensive toolkit and resources for effecting change at both the state and local levels.
Read More >Scale and Sustainability: Highlights of the Streets for Kids 2023 Projects
Source: Global Designing Cities Initiative
Showcases Streets for Kids projects and their impact on street design.
Read More >Pedestrian Fatalities in Indian Country: Responding to a Crisis
Source: America Walks
Offers strategic recommendations for improving tribal pedestrian safety.
Read More >Source: Smart Growth America
Explains the need for a Complete Streets approach in small towns.
Read More >Source: AARP
Introduces a searchable map with information about hundreds of local projects aimed at improving communities.
Read More >Source: Bloomberg Cities Network
Describes a new approach to public meetings to better include underrepresented voices.
Read More >Source: Open Streets Project
Provides a comprehensive guide for starting an Open Streets program.
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Offers information and resources for State Bicycle and Pedestrian Coordinators.
Read More >Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety in Bus Rapid Transit and High-Priority Bus Corridors
Source: TCRP Synthesis, NASEM
Explores pedestrian and bike safety in areas that implemented Bus Rapid Transit (BRT).
Read More >Source: Transportation Research Board
Offers a four-part series on equity.
Read More >Source: Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE)
Compiles basic residential sidewalk details.
Read More >Source: Transport Reviews
Reviews published studies of pedestrian route choice to identify 105 factors and categorizes them by pedestrian sociodemographic and built environment factors and trip characteristics to identify research gaps.
Read More >Source: Momentum Mag
Reports on the introduction of a new Urban Mobility Framework to modernize mobility and transportation and advance the move toward sustainable modes of transportation.
Read More >Source: AASHTO
Provides guidance on pedestrian facilities along streets and highways and identifies effective measures for accommodating pedestrians in public rights-of-way as well as appropriate methods for accommodating them on a variety of roadway and facility types.
Read More >Traffic Signal Control Strategies for Pedestrians and Bicyclists
Source: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Provides a guide to tools, performance measures, and policy information to help agencies design and operate signalized intersections.
Read More >Promising Practices for Meaningful Public Involvement in Transportation Decision-Making
Source: USDOT
Offers ways for practitioners to effectively engage community members.
Read More >Source: Transportation for America
Offers three tips for engaging with newly elected officials on transportation projects.
Read More >Placemaking: What if We Built Our Cities Around Places Guide
Source: Project for Public Spaces
Offers an updated guide describing placemaking, its benefits, the principles underlying the process, and tips on how to start placemaking projects.
Read More >Chicago, IL & IL DOT Agree to Streamline Safety Improvements
Source: Illinois.gov
Reports on a new Memorandum of Understanding between Illinois and Chicago DOTs.
Read More >NCHRP Report 552: Guidelines for Analysis of Investments in Bicycle Facilities White Paper
Describes a planning tool (no longer supported) based on several research projects that can be used to estimate the costs and benefits of bicycle facilities.
Read More >NCHRP Report 552: Translating Demand and Benefits Research into Guidelines
Source: National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP)
Provides calculations used to estimate costs of, demand for, and economic benefits of new bicycle facilities.
Read More >NCHRP Report 552: Guidelines for Analysis of Investments in Bicycle Facilities
Source: National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP)
Provides information on the benefits and costs of bicycle facility projects to help decisionmakers develop modal options and offer transportation choices.
Read More >Source: Behavioral Traffic Safety Cooperative Research Program (BTSCRP)
Seeks to advance multimodal road safety by identifying safety risks emerging from the growing use of e-scooters and developing comprehensive guidance, tools, policy options, and educational materials to mitigate those risks.
Read More >Source: USDOT
Addresses the national crisis in roadway fatalities and serious injuries.
Read More >Vision Zero for Youth Demonstration Project, Philadelphia, PA, 2019-2021
Source: Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center and Toole Design
Summarizes a combination of “Vision Zero for Youth” approaches with a focus on systemic pedestrian safety analysis that reinforces the City’s commitment to youth road safety to gain an understanding of replicable strategies and tools for other cities to use.
Read More >Transport Access Manual: A Guide for Measuring Connection between People and Places
Source: The Committee for the Transport Access Manual
Provides a guide for quantifying and evaluating access to understand how to measure the performance of transport and land use configurations.
Read More >Source: Conveyal
Describes a tool to quantify access to opportunities and progress toward equitable transportation systems, particularly public transit and active modes of transportation. Its routing software is published under a permissive open-source license to promote transparency and reproducibility.
Read More >Source: The Untokening
Outline recommendations for mobility justice that are rooted in the liberation of historically marginalized communities.
Read More >Source: BlackSpace
Offers inclusive process guidance with a focus on centering Black voices into planning processes.
Read More >Source: Populus
Provides an overview of current best practices for curb and mobility management in cities, with a focus on new policies, pricing models for access to city infrastructure, and data requirements for effectively managing the public right of way.
Read More >Source: UNICEF & Child Health Initiative
Describes 10 key actions for school reopening plans to help manage the risks posed by COVID-19 and help ensure the safest, healthiest journeys to school possible for children of different ages and abilities living in different contexts.
Read More >Source: Journal of Preventative Medicine
Examines relationships between active transportation behavior and three indices of social capital (community participation, sense of community, and sociopolitical control) via a representative survey of Wisconsin adults.
Read More >Source: Transportation Research Board
State departments of transportation (DOTs) conduct planning and administer funding programs for the implementation of pedestrian and bicycle projects.
Read More >Source: Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Shares preliminary observations of responses to changing demands on public space and the need for social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Read More >Source: Tribal Transportation Safety Management System Steering Committee
Summarizes transportation safety issues for Native American and Alaska Native populations and provides analysis of Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) fatality reports in Tribal areas.
Read More >COVID-19 Resources and Community Tracking for Walking and Bicycling
Source: Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center
The COVID-19 pandemic is calling for communities to take immediate action and provide safe spaces and access for walking, biking, and taking transit. There are several groups and researchers tracking these efforts based on crowdsourced information. Organizations that support community efforts are developing resource hubs for more information.
Read More >Source: Vision Zero for Youth
Info brief focuses on how events, such as Walk or Bike to School Day, can serve as powerful catalysts for improving safety and building a healthy community for everyone.
Read More >The Benefits of Slowing Down Traffic Starting Where Children Walk and Bike
Source: Vision Zero for Youth
Info brief describes lessons learned on addressing speed through roadway design and operations changes that benefit youth walkers and bicyclists.
Read More >Source: Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center (PBIC)
Info Brief on new infrastructure education, public outreach, and popular practices.
Read More >Strategies for Engaging Community: Developing Better Relationships Through Bike Share
Source: NACTO and Better Bike Share Partnership
Offers engagement tools to help bike share operators develop programming for communities.
Read More >Source: Traffic Injury Research Foundation (TIRF)
Provides an overview of theory-informed road safety campaigns, along with example evaluations of campaigns related to drunk and distracted driving, seatbelt use, speeding, and bicyclists and pedestrians.
Read More >Source: Vision Zero Network
Offers principles behind Vision Zero to provide a foundation for policymaking and planning.
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