The FHWA has released a study identifying designs, treatments, and practices from 11 countries that show significant potential to improve bicycle and pedestrian safety and access, as well as increase rates of walking and bicycling nationwide.
Delivering Safe, Comfortable, and Connected Pedestrian and Bicycle Networks: A Review of International Practices is a Global Benchmarking Program Report that breaks down its findings along six thematic areas, with the first four covering infrastructure and the other two focusing on innovations:
Delivering Safe, Comfortable, and Connected Pedestrian and Bicycle Networks: A Review of International Practices is a Global Benchmarking Program Report that breaks down its findings along six thematic areas, with the first four covering infrastructure and the other two focusing on innovations:
- Network infrastructure
- Limited auto traffic areas
- Signalization, traffic control, and intelligent transport systems
- Policy change
- Criteria or methods for prioritizing improvements
- Goals and network performance measures
The study emphasizes that consideration for bicycle and pedestrian access must play a greater role in project and decision criteria, and lists which treatments and practices it analyzed have the most potential to help improve bicycle and pedestrian network safety, comfort, and connectivity in the U.S., if implemented well. It recommends additional study and actions to better understand, test, and refine the most promising designs and practices for use by U.S. jurisdictions.