More Safety Communications Resources
A Nationwide Review of Pedestrian and Bicyclist Safety Education in Driver Education
Source: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)
Examines U.S. driver education and training courses to assess their focus on pedestrian, bicyclist, and micromobility road users.
Read More >Applying Diffusion of Innovation Theory to Intervention Development
Source: National Institute of Health
Research suggests that one of the most promising ways to reach and engage intended audiences is to work with people who exert social influence in the community to relay simple, practical, health protective information.
Read More >Source: Collaborative Sciences Center for Road Safety (CSCRS)
Offers strategies for reframing the narrative around traffic injuries in the media for transportation and public health professionals.
Read More >Using Health Behavior Theory and Relative Risk Information for Alternative Transportation
Source: Safe-D National UTC
Develops an intervention and education program to encourage alternative transportation options.
Read More >Source: National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO)
Summarizes key takeaways from the "When Numbers Talk" conference session.
Read More >Source: Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE)
Builds on equitable practices by presenting a foundational glossary resource for equity terms.
Read More >Communicating Safe Behavior Practices to Vulnerable Road Users
Source: Behavioral Traffic Safety Cooperative Research Program
Presents a toolkit to help practitioners communicate safe behavior practices to vulnerable road users.
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: AARP
Introduces a searchable map with information about hundreds of local projects aimed at improving communities.
Read More >New Traffic Safety Reporting Tool for Bicyclists and Pedestrians
Source: Greater Greater Washington
Introduces a tool to help record and report traffic incidents involving bicyclists and pedestrians.
Read More >Improving How Journalists Report Car Crashes with Bicyclists and Pedestrians
Source: Vision Zero Reporting
Offers a tool to help journalists report crashes involving bicyclists and pedestrians more accurately.
Read More >State Bicycle and Pedestrian Coordinator Key Contacts and Partners Worksheet
Source: Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center (PBIC)
Structured worksheet for Coordinators to fill in for quick references and contacts specific to their role and projects. Helps organize contact information.
Read More >Source: Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center (PBIC)
Template offers key language about the State Bicycle and Pedestrian Coordinator Position while allowing for modifications to reflect unique roles, responsibilities, and accomplishments. It can be tailored and updated as needed.
Read More >Seven Proven Steps to Improve Safety for Walking, Biking, Rolling, and More
Source: CityLab
Lists proven Safe Systems approach steps to increase safety for people walking, biking, and rolling rather than blaming victims: decrease speed limits; focus on design; rewrite the MUTCD; prioritize the most dangerous street; give cities a say; redesign large vehicles; and rethink enforcement.
Read More >Source: League of American Bicyclists
Reviews new research studying the economic benefits of bicycle infrastructure.
Read More >Source: Police
Describes multiple advantages of using bikes in public safety and announces the release of the International Police Mountain Bike Association Complete Guide to Public Safety Cycling, third edition.
Read More >Eight Reasons Your Community Should Invest in Bicycle and Pedestrian Infrastructure
Source: Short Elliot Hendrickson Inc.
Compiles descriptions of eight benefits of investing in bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure, including cost savings, increased public health and safety, economic development and more.
Read More >Only One Percent of Land in America’s 35 Largest Cities Is Walkable
Summarizes key statistics about walkability in cities and its multiple impacts via a 1:23 minute video.
Read More >Source: State Smart Transportation Initiative
Reports on a study that found millennials (those born between 1981 and 1996) prefer to drive about 8-9% less than Generation X and Baby Boomers.
Read More >Source: Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment)
Finds that trip distance, precipitation, and access are fundamental to mode choice and that personal e-scooters and e-bikes emit less CO2 than the transport modes they replace, while shared e-scooters and e-bikes emit more CO2 than the transport modes they replace.
Read More >Book: New Mobilities: Smart Planning for Emerging Transportation Technologies by Todd Litman
Source: Island Press
Examines and evaluates 12 emerging transportation modes and services, including: bike and carsharing, micromobilities, ridehailing and microtransit, public transit innovations, telework, autonomous and electric vehicles, air taxis, mobility prioritization, and logistics management.
Read More >Putting the Pieces Together: Addressing the Role of Behavioral Safety in the Safe System Approach
Source: Governors Highway Safety Association
Takes a comprehensive approach to include the role of behavioral safety and road user responsibility within a Safe System and includes recommendations showing how organizations and advocates can work together to prevent roadway deaths.
Read More >COVID Forced Redesigned Streets, Some Changes to Become Permanent
Source: Fast Company
Shares examples from cities that are permanently keeping street redesigns that were implemented during the early phases of the pandemic.
Read More >Source: Next City
Reviews a new documentary that explores why and how Boston, MA women ride after dark.
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 >Source: AARP
Showcases walkable spaces made possible by the AARP Community Challenge.
Read More >Source: National Institute for Transportation and Communities
Provides a history in illustrated comic book form of how we ended up with a car-centric built environment.
Read More >Source: Collaborative Sciences Center for Road Safety (CSCRS)
Recommends ways that transportation and public health professionals can improve reporting on road safety.
Read More >Source: FHWA Office of International Programs
Provides an overview of multimodal bike planning learned through binational collaboration with the Netherlands.
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 >Source: Transportation Research Board Transit Cooperative Research Program
Provides a broad overview of micromobility research and findings.
Read More >School Streets Toolkit: Transform Car-Centric School Streets into Safer Pedestrian-Centric Streets
Source: NYC DOT
Shares a practical step-by-step toolkit to develop, implement, and maintain school streets.
Read More >Source: (National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP)
Provides a memo of suggestions for transferring findings into practice, determining agencies that may lead this effort, and identifying how the findings can be assessed to determine the impacts.
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: USDOT
Addresses the national crisis in roadway fatalities and serious injuries.
Read More >Source: Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
Summer 2021 summary of research and resources from the FHWA Human Factors Team.
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PBIC is observing Pedestrian Safety Month by sharing resources, webinars, and other tools to help advance safety for people who walk, bike, and use other nonmotorized modes.
Read More >Good to Go? Assessing the Environmental Performance of New Mobility
Source: International Transport Forum
Examines the climate impact of personal and shared electric kick-scooters, bicycles, e-bikes, electric mopeds, as well as car-based ride-sharing services.
Read More >Source: Smart Growth America
Explores how land-use and transportation decisions are inextricably connected, and unpacks five strategies that can make a significant dent in the growth of emissions while building a more just and equitable society, including making safety the top priority for street design to encourage more walking, biking, and short trips.
Read More >Source: Safe Routes Partnership
Describes crucial opportunities to influence a region’s long-term commitment to active transportation and transit via the Regional Transportation Plan (RTP) planning process, and how to ensure that funding goes to specific biking, walking, and transit projects.
Read More >"Understanding Crashes and Safe Behaviors to Help Prevent Them" Video Series
Source: Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center (PBIC)
Portrays situations that lead to a crash between a driver and a pedestrian or bicyclist. The videos show the crash from each road user visual perspective, and offers behavioral tips for avoiding the crash.
Read More >Source: MN DOT
Demystifies common questions about appropriate facility selection and design to help practitioners confidently implement low-stress bicycle transportation networks.
Read More >Availability and Use of Pedestrian Infrastructure Data to Support Active Transportation Planning
Source: NCHRP
In March 2010, the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) released a policy statement supporting the development of fully integrated transportation networks. The policy is to “incorporate safe and convenient walking and bicycle facilities into transportation projects.”
Read More >Case Study: Pop-Up Mobility Paths & Open Streets due to COVID-19 Crisis
Source: Shared-Use Mobility Center
Provides examples from cities around the world that quickly responded to the pandemic by expanding bike networks, opening temporary bike lanes, among other initiatives.
Read More >Guide for Pedestrian and Bicyclist Safety at Alternative and Other Intersections and Interchanges
Source: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; Transportation Research Board
Provides specific guidance for four common alternative intersections and interchanges that may involve reversing traffic lanes from their traditional directions.
Read More >Source: State Smart Transportation Initiative
Demonstrates ways to apply accessibility metrics to decisions, such as transportation project selection and land use suitability analysis.
Read More >Source: Austroroads
Describes the Australasian Pedestrian Crossing Facility Selection Web Tool designed to help practitioners select the appropriate type of pedestrian crossing based on walkability, safety, and economic outcomes.
Read More >Women’s Needs and Expectations as Users of Bike Sharing Services
Source: Journal Sustainability
The paper investigates women's needs and expectations as users of Paris' VELIB bike-sharing service.
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