Planning and Design Guidance
- Accommodating Pedestrians in Work Zones - [HTML, PDF 294KB] - Pedestrians in work zones present special safety and mobility concerns. Providing safe, convenient passage to all pedestrians must be addressed in the planning, design, and operation of work zones. This brochure provides some helpful guidelines that can be used to accommodate pedestrians in work zones.
- Creating Walkable Communities: A guide for local governments - MARC - [PDF, 1.87MB] - This report is designed to serve as a tool for local governments and concerned citizens in the Kansas City region. It presents guidelines, suggestions, and techniques on how to make communities more walkable and pedestrian-friendly.
- Design and Safety of Pedestrian Facilities - ITE - [PDF, 40MB] - Discusses guidelines for the design and safety of pedestrian facilities to provide safe and efficient opportunities for people to walk near streets and highways.
- Design Guidance - [HTML, PDF 99KB] - Accommodating Bicycle and Pedestrian Travel: A Recommended Approach is a policy statement adopted by the United States Department of Transportation. USDOT hopes that public agencies, professional associations, advocacy groups, and others adopt this approach as a way of committing themselves to integrating bicycling and walking into the transportation mainstream.
- Designing Sidewalks and Trails for Access Part I of II: Review of Existing Guidelines and Practices - ADA - [HTML, PDF 1.7MB] - The report presents a number of factors that affect the accessibility of sidewalks and trails in the United States. The history of accessibility legislation and an overview of current accessibility laws are provided. The travel characteristics of people with disabilities, children, and older adults are analysed in relation to their use of sidewalks and trails.Current design practices used in the design of sidewalks and trails are described and analysed in terms of accessibility, engineering, and construction.
- FHWA/FTA Interim Technical Guidance for Bike/Ped Planning at the State and MPO Levels - [HTML, PDF 35KB] - covers planning for bicycle transportation facilities and pedestrian walkways regardless of facility type ranging from on-road treatments to separate off-road facilities.
- Guide Available for Conducting Study of Problem Intersection - [PDF, 3.34MB] - The National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) recently published a guide to the engineering study of intersections experiencing operational problems. The guide is titled, Evaluating Intersection Improvements: An Engineering Study Guide, NCHRP Report 457. It describes a process for evaluating the operational effectiveness of various intersection improvements. It also shows how capacity analysis and traffic simulation models can be used to assess the operational impacts of those improvements. Use of this guide, particularly by junior traffic engineers, should enhance the decision-making process and reduce inappropriate installations of traffic control signals. The report was developed for NCHRP by the Texas Transportation Institute.
- Improving Conditions for Bicycling & Walking - FHWA - [PDF, 6.13MB] - This "best practices" report provides information on some outstanding pedestrian and bicycle projects that have been recognized for increasing walking and bicycling and improving user safety in communities across the Unites States.
- Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices 2003
- Pedestrian Design Treatments - WSDOT - [PDF, 220KB]
- Pedestrian Facilities Guidebook - WSDOT - [PDF, 11.6MB] - The primary focus of this guidebook is to encourage good planning, design, and engineering practices related to pedestrian facilities. The guidebook also addresses maintenance, and operational aspects related to pedestrian facilities.
- Pedestrian Safety Implementation Plan for Reducing Pedestrian/Vehicle Collisions - [PDF, 907KB]
- Planning and Designing Pedestrian Facilities - [PDF, 12MB]
- Roadway Delineation Practices Handbook - FHWA - [PDF, 5.73KB] - was developed to assist design, traffic, and maintenance engineering personnel in making determinations about roadway delineation systems, including the appropriate system for a given situation, when a system has reached the end of its useful life, and how to maintain a quality delineation system.
- Safety of Driveways in Close Proximity to Each Other - Texas Transportation Institute - [PDF, 1.37MB] - Preliminary guidelines were developed for minimum spacing of driveways on high speed roadways. The guidelines address safety concerns related to ran-off-the-road accidents.
- Selecting Pedestrian Safety Improvements - The Crash Group/General Countermeasure Matrix identifies potential solutions for use by safety practitioners. This matrix is particularly helpful as a resource of potential engineering countermeasures, which may be implemented at a location to address a particular pedestrian crash type.
- Selection of Pedestrian-Related Improvements: Draft Guidelines - [PDF, 11MB]
- Supplementary Design Guide - for Bicycle and Pedestrian Projects
- Survey of Traffic Circulation and Safety at School Sites - ITE - [PDF, 248KB] - Presents responses from a survey of planning and engineering practices related to traffic safety and circulation at elementary and middle schools.
- Transportation Planning Handbook: Chapter 16 - Bicycle and Pedestrian Facilities - ITE - [PDF, 59KB]
- Transportation Planning Handbook: Chapter 2 - Transportation and Security - ITE - [PDF, 96KB]
- Zone Guide for Pedestrian Safety Shows How to Make Systematic Improvements
This guide describes what zoning is and explains how to design and use pedestrian safety zones to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of pedestrian safety programs. The guide also provides a brief description of a recent pedestrian safety study that made successful use of the pedestrian safety zone process.
State and Local Plans/Guidelines
- Case Study: Current Planning Guidelines and Design Standards Being Used by State and Local Agencies - FHWA - [PDF, 1.71MB]
- Implementing Pedestrian Improvements at the Local Level (Draft Version) - FHWA - [PDF, 2.53MB]
- NJ DOT's Planning and Design Guidelines - NJ DOT - [HTML, PDF 2.95MB]
- Oregon Bicycle and Pedestrian Plan - OR DOT - [HTML, PDF 1.39KB]
- Guidelines for Bicycle and Pedestrian Facilities in Texas - Texas Transportation Institute - [PDF, 3MB] - An overview of the process for planning various types of bicycle and pedestrian projects is provided. The design techniques that can be used to accomodate bicycles on existing and new roadways are summarized. The design features associated with separate bicycle paths, multi-use trails, and pedestrian walkways are also presented.
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