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State Revenue Sources for Bike-Ped Projects
While many groups turn to the Federal government for funding opportunities for bicycling and pedestrian projects, there are in fact many states that also have their own revenue sources that can be used...
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TRB Releases Guide for Estimating Bicycling & Walking Project Costs
The Transportation Research Board (TRB) has released its National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 770: Estimating Bicycling and Walking for Planning and Project Development: A...
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Listing Details Bicycle Mode Share In 700 Cities, 40 Countries
The City Clock online magazine has published a list with what it calls “the most comprehensive lists of urban cycling mode share data ever prepared.” The table summarizes the percentage of total trips...
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Report Shows Ped Fatalities Are Higher In Low Income Neighborhoods
According to an August Governing article, “Many cities have made pedestrian safety a priority, but their efforts rarely focus on poorer areas, which have approximately double the fatality rates of...
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Resources for Developing Sustainable Communities
The Partnership for Sustainable Communities (PSC) has compiled a list of tools to help communities assess, plan, and design sustainable communities. These tools cover a broad range of topics, including...
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WALKABLE COMMUNITIES 4X MORE TAX REVENUE, 41% HIGHER GDP
During a panel presentation organized by the REALTOR® University Richard J. Rosenthal Center for Real Estate Studies, realtors learned that residential walkable communities generate four times the tax...
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Research Investigates Impacts of Safe Routes To School Programs
New research, The Impact of Safe Routes to School Programs on Walking and Biking, highlights findings from studies conducted in several states and cities that have examined walking or biking rates,...
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Adding New Road Capacity Doesn’t Improve Congestion
Decades of traffic data across the United States shows that adding new road capacity doesn’t actually improve congestion. The latest example of this is the widening of Los Angeles’ I-405 freeway, which...
View ArticleFHWA Separated Bike Lane Planning And Design Guide
The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) recently released its Separated Bike Lane Planning and Design Guide, which you can download here. This guide is the result of two years of research into...
View ArticleThe Economic Benefits of Nonmotorized Transportation
A new white paper, Evaluating the Economic Benefits of Nonmotorized Transportation examines potential methods for evaluating the economic benefits from nonmotorized transportation investments: commute...
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SURVEY: “SHARE THE ROAD” SIGNS INEFFECTIVE
Illustration by Calbike.org Researchers at North Carolina State University conducted an online survey, reported on the StreetsBlog website, that indicates that the commonly used “Share The Road” signs...
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PORTLAND, OREGON OPENS NEW MULTI-MODAL VEHICLE BRIDGE
On September 12th, 2015, Portland, OR opened Tilikum Crossing, the nation’s longest multi-modal vehicle bridge. The bridge serves pedestrians, cyclists, city buses, and light rail service. Private cars...
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ROAD DIETS ARTICLE FEATURED IN FHWA INNOVATOR MAGAZINE
The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Center for Accelerating Innovation has released a new issue of its bi-monthly Innovator newsletter which includes the article Boost Safety by Going On A Road...
View ArticleCASE STUDIES OF LEGAL PROBLEMS RELATED TO PEDESTRIAN FACILITIES
The Transportation Research Board (TRB) has released a report, Legal Research Digest 65, which covers Liability Aspects of Pedestrian Facilities. This publication is written for state and local...
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FHWA REVISED ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS FOR BIKE & PED PROJECTS
On October 1, 2015, the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) released its revised potential eligibility requirements for bicycle and pedestrian projects under Federal Transit, Federal Highway. and US...
View ArticleSTATES TEST TAXING DRIVERS’ TRAVEL RATHER THAN GAS
Several states are proposing pilot programs to figure out how they might charge motorists a fee for the miles they travel, rather than taxing the gasoline they consume. The I-95 Corridor Coalition,...
View ArticleREPORT RANKS WALKABLE URBAN PLACES IN 30 LARGEST US METROPOLITAN AREAS
Smart Growth America has released research, ”Foot Traffic Ahead 2016″ (http://bit.ly/28E4ShJ), looking at walkable urban development in the nation’s largest metro areas. The report examined 619...
View ArticleARTICLE INVESTIGATES THE ACCURACY OF BICYCLE COUNTS WITH PNEUMATIC TUBES
A recently published Transportation Research Record article describes findings and recommendations for how to minimize error for bicycle counting from tests by the Oregon DOT. This research studied...
View ArticleUSDOT NATIONAL TRANSIT MAP
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) in early September released the National Transit Map data, a geospatial database containing the information from 270...
View Article2016 BENCHMARKING REPORT: BICYCLING & WALKING IN THE US
The Alliance for Biking and Walking has collected and analyzed data on bicycling and walking in all 50 states, the 52 largest U.S. cities, and a select number of mid-sized cities to create its biennial...
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