Bike and Pedestrian Projects

Meaningful Measurements of Mobility: Metrics for Equitable Transportation Planning (March, 2025)

The UC Berkley Othering and Belonging Institute's report, "Meaningful Measurements of Mobility: Metrics for Equitable Transportation Planning" provides insights into what equitable transportation means in practice and how it can be measured. It provides "a discussion about operationalizing equity in transportation planning, an inventory and critical discussion of commonly used transportation equity metrics, and recommendations for more effective and meaningful equity frameworks and metrics in transportation planning."

From Policy to Practice: A Guide to Measuring Complete Streets Progress (Smart Growth America, 2023)

What happens after your community passes a Complete Streets policy? How do you know if you are achieving your community’s vision? How can you be sure you are making progress in an efficient and equitable way? These are common and important questions for practitioners implementing one of the over 1,700 Complete Streets policies across the U.S. This report helps tackle these questions by showing how local agencies can effectively measure their Complete Streets work and what advocates should look for to hold them accountable.

Proven Safety Countermeasures in Rural Communities (FHWA, 2024)

The guide highlights a subset of the PSCs, with direct application in rural areas, including considerations, crash reduction effectiveness, case studies, and other resources.  The guide also features a Desktop Reference table of PSCs that may be considered in rural communities and compares Safe System Roadway design hierarchy alignment, relative cost, unpaved road applicability, relative crash reduction, and typical service life.

Traffic Calming Guide: A Compendium of Strategies (Caltrans, 2024)

The Traffic Calming Guide aims to build self-enforcing roadways that guide road users to travel at a safe speed, especially through conflict points. It provides guidance to those who implement traffic calming strategies to help achieve goals set forth by communities and agencies. 

Countermeasures That Work: A Highway Safety Countermeasure Guide For State Highway Safety Offices Eleventh Edition (NHTSA, 2023)

Countermeasures That Work is intended to be a reference guide for State Highway Safety Offices to help select effective, science-based traffic safety countermeasures to address highway safety problem areas in their States. 

Setting Speed Limits for Health and Safety (League of American Bicyclists, 2023)

This mini-report on setting speed limits shows the current framework for speed limit policies through a review of state laws that set speed limits. It is designed to help inform conversations on how lowering speed limits can help save lives and encourage physically active modes of transportation, such as walking and biking. Readers can use the information provided to identify opportunities that may exist to lower speed limits to ones that are safer for all roadway users.

Safe System Strategies for Bicyclists and Pedestrians Toolkit

The Toolkit provides a starting point for anyone looking to plan a bikeable and walkable community. It lists potential community improvements that can help create a safer community with the Safe System Approach. 

Low-Speed Zone Guide (WRI, 2021)

A Capital Region Guide to Community Quick-Builds for Complete Streets (CRCOG, 2020)

Curb extensions. Bus lanes. Pedestrian plazas. Protected bikeways. These are just a few of the projects communities large and small are implementing with the Quick-Build methodology. At a time of increased competition for funding transportation improvements, the low cost and iterative nature of Quick-Build projects are increasingly popular because they accelerate project delivery, provide a platform for experiential public engagement, and instigate a paradigm shift toward safer, more complete streets.

Quick-Build Guide: How to Build Safer Streets Quickly and Affordably (California Bicycle Coalition, 2020)

The California Bicycle Coalition (CalBike) and Alta Planning + Design are excited to share this Quick-Build Guide for quickly and inexpensively creating safe spaces on our streets for people to travel by bike, on foot, on a scooter, by skateboard, or by any other low-impact, low-cost mode of transportation. Making these options available right away is key to our equitable recovery from the economic collapse caused by the pandemic and our ongoing resilience in the face of climate change.

AARP The Pop-Up Placemaking Tool Kit (AARP, 2019)

This tool kit stems from Team Better Block’s on-the-ground experience and lessons learned, yet it is not a prescription for how a demonstration or change must be implemented. Community leaders, organizations and residents are encouraged to use this publication and Team Better Block’s pop-up recipe catalog (see page 23) as a starting point.

Getting to the Curb (SF Vision Zero Coalition, 2019)

Every city has different engineering practices, and every street has different characteristics and needs. Therefore, this guide doesn’t offer strict design guidelines, but rather larger considerations and specific design features that solve some of the challenges that cycle tracks pose for pedestrians.

Pedestrian Safety Countermeasures Toolbox (Caltrans, 2019)

This document provides a set of tools for improving pedestrian safety on the State Highway System. It was designed to be used to address issues identified during traffic safety investigations conducted while evaluating high collision concentration locations and systemic safety locations. However, these tools may be used more generally to improve pedestrian safety.

Small Town and Rural Multimodal Networks (FHWA, 2016)

This document is intended to be a resource for transportation practitioners in small towns and rural communities. It applies existing national design guidelines in a rural setting and highlights small town and rural case studies. It addresses challenges specific to rural areas, recognizes how many rural roadways are operating today, and focuses on opportunities to make incremental improvements despite the geographic, fiscal, and other challenges that many rural communities face.

Urban Bikeway Design Guide (NACTO, 2014)

The purpose of the NACTO Urban Bikeway Design Guide (part of the Cities for Cycling initiative) is to provide cities with state-of-the-practice solutions that can help create complete streets that are safe and enjoyable for bicyclists.

Guide for the Development of Bicycle Facilities 4th Edition (AASHTO, 2012)

Local, state, and federal agencies are responding to the increased use of bicycles by implementing a wide variety of bicycle-related projects and programs. This interest in bicycle transportation calls for an understanding of bicycles, bicyclists, and bicycle facilities. This guide addresses these issues and clarifies the elements needed to make bicycling a more safe, comfortable, and convenient mode of transportation.

Guide for the Preparation of Traffic Impact Studies (Caltrans, 2002)

Caltrans desires to provide a safe and efficient State transportation system for the citizens of California pursuant to various Sections of the California Streets and Highway Code. This is done in partnership with local and regional agencies through procedures established by the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and other land use planning processes. The intent of this guide is to provide a starting point and a consistent basis in which Caltrans evaluates traffic impacts to State highway facilities. The applicability of this guide for local streets and roads (non-State highways) is at the discretion of the effected jurisdiction.

Community Bikeability Checklist (SCAG)

Some communities are more bikeable than others: how does yours rate? Read over the questions in this checklist and then take a ride in your community, perhaps to the local shops, to visit a friend, or even to work. See if you can get where you want to go by bicycle, even if you are just riding around the neighborhood to get some exercise.

Guide for the Development of Bicycle Facilities, 5th Edition (AASHTO)

The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials “Guide for the Development of Bicycle Facilities, 5th Edition” provides information on the planning, design, and operation of bikeways along streets, roads, and highways, as well as on off-street paths in urban, suburban, and rural settings.