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August 12, 2015

Cover of Access Across America, 2014Access Across America: Walking 2014 is a study published by the University of Minnesota Center of Transportation Studies that estimates the accessibility of walking to jobs in the 50 most populous metropolitan areas in the U.S.

August 6, 2015

U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration

 Federal Highway Administration Road Diet Case Studies

July 28, 2015

May 7, 2015

May 5, 2015

Grand Boulevard Initiative is a collaboration of 19 cities, counties, local and regional agencies dedicated to the revitalization of the El Camino Real Corridor. The Task Force facilitates planning for revitalizing 43 miles of El Camino Real and its surrounding communities. This effort to improve the El Camino Real Corridor includes leading businesses, non-profit agencies, neighborhoods and community advocates.

April 15, 2015

 A GUIDE FOR PRACTITIONERSNew strategies for transportation require new measurements of success.

April 2, 2015

On February 23, 2015, at the Active Living Research 2015 Annual Conference(link is external) in San Diego, California, SafeTREC presented a poster session on the "Economic Benefits of Bicycle and Pedestrian Safety Investments Around Transit," based on research conducted from 2011 to 2014.

March 30, 2015

March 27, 2015

In the Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2464 (link is external) are 18 papers that address a range of pedestrian issues, including: a safety performance study of shared pedestrian and vehicle space; impacts of alternative yield sign placement on pedestrian safety;

March 20, 2015

The U.S. Bicycle Route System (USBRS)(link is external) is a developing network of officially numbered interstate bicycle routes that connect America’s cities, suburbs, and rural areas. To date, 8,043 miles of U.S.

March 5, 2015

The California Transportation Plan 2040 (CTP 2040(link is external))  is a statewide policy plan designed to meet California's future transportation needs and to support achieving a statewide reduction in greenhouse gas emissions 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050.

March 4, 2015

March 3, 2015

The Transportation Research Board recently published the report “Improving Transit Integration Among Multiple Providers, Volume I: Transit Integration Manual," which presents a set of guidelines to help transit agencies evaluate, plan, and implement transit services in areas with multiple providers.  
The manual has three key chapters:

January 26, 2015

The Transportation Research Board's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 797: Guidebook on Pedestrian and Bicycle Volume Data Collection has just been published. The book describes methods and technologies for counting pedestrians and bicyclists, offers guidance on developing a non-motorized count program, gives suggestions on selecting appropriate counting methods and technologies, and provides examples of how organizations have used non-motorized count data to better fulfill their missions.

September 11, 2014

The Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition (LACBC)(link is external) is a countywide bicycle advocacy organization that has been in existence since 1998. It engages in advocacy throughout the City and County of Los Angeles. 

The Solano Transportation Authority(link is external) serves the transportation needs of the County of Solano and the eight cities located in the county.

August 13, 2014

This is the first edition of the Traffic Monitoring Guide to include information on monitoring pedestrians, bicyclists, and other non-motorized road and trail users. Even though both of these modes preceded the automobile, the monitoring of non-motorized traffic has not been systematic or widespread in the U.S. and, even today, is not nearly as comprehensive as motorized traffic monitoring.

April 24, 2014

This document released in April 2014 by the City of Oakland is a comprehensive, detailed look at a proposed Complete Streets implementation for a large section of Telegraph Avenue.