Specific pedestrian and bicycle transportation encouragement strategies are discussed, and guidelines provided for incorporating non-motorized travel promotion into TDM programs. This guide covers all aspects of pedestrian and bicycle planning. It is intended for policy makers, planners and advocates who want the best current information on ways to make their communities better places for walking and cycling. It provides basic information on various planning and design concepts, and offers extensive references to help implement them. It describes general nonmotorized planning practices, how to measure and predict nonmotorized travel, how to evaluate and prioritize projects, and how to implement various programs that support nonmotorized transportation.
Extensive appendices provide more detailed information on planning, design and evaluation.
This report demonstrates that bicyclists and pedestrians pay more per mile of travel then drivers. This is inequitable, especially since bicycling and walking provide basic mobility. Traffic Calming Benefits, Costs and Equity Impacts PDF Format Word 97 Format HTML Format Traffic calming is the popular name for road design strategies that reduce vehicle speeds and volumes. These include narrowing streets, introducing horizontal alignment shifts, increasing stops, applying contrasting and textured road surfaces, and increasing the presence of bicyclists and pedestrians along roadways. This paper describes a framework for evaluating traffic calming programs, taking into account benefits, costs and equity impacts.