Caltrans District 4 will be hosting a series of community workshops to discuss proposed priority bicycle improvements for the Bay Area! Attend one of the following workshops or webinar to provide your input on how to help create a more connected, comfortable, and safer bicycle network for the Bay Area and in your local community.
Do you live or ride a bicycle in Oakland? If so, Oakland’s Department of Transportation (OakDOT) currently seeks input from East Bay residents on the latest draft plan of Let’s Bike Oakland. To inform the community planning process, The Bike Plan Team collaborated with key Oakland-based community partners (East Oakland Collective, Outdoor Afro, Bike4Life, Cycles of Change, and The Scraper Bike Team) to reach Oakland residents where they live, work...
Stay up to date with the latest road safety trends and best practices in active transportation with webinars happening in March 2019!
This month, learn about methods to improve the safety for people walking and rolling for transportation with webinars from the Federal Highway Safety Administration (FHWA), the U.S. Department of Transportation, America Walks, the Association of Pedestrian and Bicycle Professionals, and Portland State University’s Transportation Research and Education Center.
In communities throughout California, there is a call to make our streets safer for people of all ages and abilities, no matter how they are traveling, whether that is by car, walking, biking or riding a bus. In 2016, 16 pedestrians died every day in traffic collisions, averaging a pedestrian every 1.5 hours. Bicycle fatalities increased by 8.1% from 136 fatalities in 2015 to 147 fatalities in 2016. How might we rethink this focus and design with safety in mind for all modes of travel?
The Active Transportation Resource Center (ATRC), along with Caltrans, is hosting two trainings next month intended to guide practitioners in the planning and design of bicycle routes along roadways in California. These free, day-long introductory courses are designed for architects, planners, engineers from local, regional and state agencies to “explore the tools used to assess and evaluate the suitability of a transportation route and facilitate its use by all types of cyclists.” Larry Moore, a retired Caltrans engineer, will teach both courses....
The second annual PlacesForBikes conference is coming up and will take place in Indianapolis, Indiana this year from May 1-3. This is a great opportunity to join hundreds of leaders and thinkers to focus together on how to build and support better and safer bicycle infrastructure!
Topics at the conference will include:
planning complete bike networks building more equitable communities...
The National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO) has released a new guide, Designing for All Ages and Abilities: Contextual Guidance for High-Comfort Bicycle Facilities that will help cities determine what types of bike infrastructure help in achieving the goal to build bike networks that are safe and comfortable for riders of all ages and abilities.
TRB’s recently published Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2587 consists of 17 papers that explore issues related to bicycles and motorcycles, including:
Learning from Insurance Data: Injuries to Other Road Users in Motorcyclist At-Fault Crashes Modeling the Speed...
