More Countermeasures and Safety Effectiveness Examples
Help PBIC Build a New Cost Database for Active Transportation Projects
Source: Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center (PBIC)
Invites agencies and partners to contribute to a cost database to improve planning tools for walking, biking, and micromobility.
Read More >Source: Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center (PBIC)
Describes how quick-build projects in Winterville, NC, sought to improve pedestrian safety, particularly for schoolchildren.
Read More >Designing and Implementing Maintainable Pedestrian Safety Countermeasures
Source: Minnesota Department of Transportation
Identifies best practices for designing pedestrian safety countermeasures for year-round maintainability.
Read More >How Quick Builds Are Bringing Innovation to Safe Streets Implementation
Source: Transportation for America
Reports on the effectiveness of quick builds for making safety improvements.
Read More >Source: Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
Describes how separated bike lanes are making roads safer for bicyclists and impacts of these efforts in Richmond, VA.
Read More >Source: Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
Offers a special issue on "Equity in Transportation" as Spring 2023 issue.
Read More >Source: Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center (PBIC)
Describes how a quick-build project in Detroit, Michigan, improved safety for students walking to school by reducing the turning radius at a key crossing and adding community murals.
Read More >Improving Pedestrian Safety on Urban Arterials: Learning from Australasia- Summary Brief
Source: Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center
Shares a summary of key findings of the FHWA Global Benchmarking Program Improving Pedestrian Safety on Urban Arterials: Learning from Australasia project and how they may be applied to US policies and practices.
Read More >Improving Pedestrian Safety on Urban Arterials: Learning from Australasia- Conference Poster
Source: Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center
Shares, in poster form, findings from the FHWA Global Benchmarking Project "Improving Pedestrian Safety on Urban Arterials: Learning from Australasia" and how they may be applied to US policies and practices.
Read More >Source: Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center (PBIC) and Vision Zero for Youth
Details a quick-build walk/bike lane near a middle school in the City of Atlanta and offers insights that can inform other communities interested in using quick-build approaches to support community engagement and advance road safety.
Read More >Source: Toole Design
Describes via case studies three key principles for advancing a Safety Action Plan into a successful implementation
Read More >Source: StreetLight Data
Describes helpful ways to analyze new pedestrian safety metrics, including: top 20 cities ranked by highest amount of pedestrian activity; significant shifts in pedestrian travel patterns nationwide; how to pinpoint exposure hot spots; Orlando. FL analysis of downtown vs suburban; and results that show that higher crash volume does not necessarily indicate higher risk.
Read More >Source: Bloomberg CityLab
Suggests that requiring property owners to repair broken sidewalks when they sell could fix half of the broken walkways in Los Angeles, CA by 2034. Roughly 40% of 10,750 miles of sidewalk in Los Angeles are broken.
Read More >Facilities for Walking and Biking Can Increase Safety, but Intersections Still Lag
Source: State Smart Transportation Initiative
Reports on a study investigating correlation between pedestrian crashes and sidewalk gaps within the Central Florida region.
Read More >Boston, MA: Varied Reactions to COVID Spurred Bike Lane Construction
Source: The Boston Globe
Reports that since the pandemic began, many streets in Greater Boston have been transformed to accommodate safer biking and biking has increased in most Massachusetts municipalities by more than 25%. Local businesses, however, are concerned about loss of nearby parking and are pushing back.
Read More >Source: StreetLight Data
Provides a case study of how analysts use transportation data to identify the areas most needing safety improvements, and plan what to implement in specific locations.
Read More >Case Studies for FHWA Pedestrian and Bicycle Focus States and Cities
Source: Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
Highlights transportation agencies work at the Federal, State, and local levels to improve safety for pedestrians and bicyclists.
Read More >Source: Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
Summarizes case studies from nine different agencies and features projects that use a variety of pedestrian and bicycle safety countermeasures.
Read More >Source: Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center (PBIC)
A collection of all case studies developed by the Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center and the Association of Pedestrian and Bicycle Professionals (APBP).
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