safer people, safer streets, and safer policies at usdot--dan goodman

SAFER PEOPLE, SAFER

STREETS, AND SAFER

POLICIES AT U.S.DOT Pro Walk/Pro Bike/Pro Place

September 2014

Dan Goodman

Federal Highway Administration, U.S.DOT

Pedestrian and Bicycle Focus Areas

Connected

Networks

Equity and

Ladders of

Opportunity

Safety

Data and

Performance

Measures

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• Working with the states/cities to assist them with developing pedestrian safety action plans.

• Offering free technical assistance and training on how to design for pedestrians and how to develop a pedestrian safety action plan.

Pedestrian Safety Focus States and Cities

5 National Bike Summit | March 5, 2014

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Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Activities

Recently Released or Underway

• Road Diet Guide

• New version of BIKESAFE

• Final report on the Nonmotorized Transportation Pilot Program

• Bicycle Safer Journey educational video for children

• Revised version of the Highway Design Handbook for Older Drivers and Pedestrians

• Evaluation of Pedestrian and Bicycle Engineering Countermeasures

To Be Initiated Fall 2014

Multimodal Conflict Points

• Identify safety improvements in

locations where modes come together

• Improve pedestrian and bicycle access

to transit

• Incorporate latest research on proven

crash countermeasures and align with/

support other ongoing and planned

safety initiatives

Road Safety for Transit Patrons Initiative

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USDOT and USDOJ Joint Technical Assistance on the

Title II ADA Requirements to Provide Curb Ramps

through Resurfacing Application of Technical Assistance

• This is a single Federal policy that

identifies specific pavement treatments

that are alterations

• Alterations require the installation of

curb ramps

• Maintenance applications do not

require curb ramps

at the time of the improvement

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Federal-Aid Highway Program Funding for Pedestrian

and Bicycle Facilities

• Bicycle and pedestrian projects

are eligible for all Federal-aid

highway program funding

categories.

• In Fiscal Year (FY) 2013,

bicycle and pedestrian funding

was $676.2 million (from all

Federal-aid funding sources).

• As of Sept 3, the FY 2014 total

is $590.5 million.

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Anticipated to be Proposed in the NPA

(2016/2017 Edition of the MUTCD)

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Signing

• Bicycle Intersection Lane Control Signs

• Back-In Parking Signs

• Two-Stage Turn Queue Box Signs

• Bicycle Signal Sign

• Turning Vehicles Yield to Bicycles Sign

• Signing for Bicycle Bypasses and Jughandles

• Bicycle Movement Prohibition Signs

• Bike route signs (e.g. State or Local Bicycle Route Markers; Interstate Bikeway Route Markers; Non-Numbered Bikeway Route Markers

Markings

• Extensions of Bicycle Lanes

through Intersections

• Buffered Bicycle Lanes

• Counter-flow Bicycle Lanes

• Shared Lane Markings

• Two-Stage Turn Queue Boxes

• Separated Bikeways (Cycle Tracks)

• Bicycle Boulevards

• Pavement Marking Route Markers.

Interim Approval for the Optional Use of Bicycle

Signal Faces (IA-16)

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Design Flexibility

• Bicycle and Pedestrian

Facility Design

Flexibility Memorandum

• Questions & Answers

about Design Flexibility

for Pedestrian and

Bicycle Facilities

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Pedestrian and Bicycle Networks

Interconnected pedestrian and/or bicycle transportation facilities that allow people of all ages and abilities to safely and conveniently get where they want to go.

Principles • Cohesion

• Directness

• Accessibility

• Alternatives

• Safety and Security

• Comfort

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Pedestrian and Bicycle Network Activities

Underway

• Practitioner’s Guide to

Statewide Pedestrian and

Bicycle Planning

• Synthesis of National Design

Guidelines and Gap Analysis

To Be Initiated Fall 2014

• Action-Oriented Workbook on

Building On-Road Bicycle

Networks through Routine

Resurfacing Programs

• Flexibility in Pedestrian and

Bicycle Facility Design

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Pedestrian and Bicycle Data and

Performance Measures Activities

Underway

• Pedestrian and Bicycle Updates to the

Traffic Monitoring Guide (TMG) and the

Traffic Monitoring Analysis System

(TMAS)

• Nonmotorized Toolkit

• White papers on bicycle/pedestrian

forecasting methods and crowd-

sourcing using social media and GIS

Planned

Pedestrian and Bicycle Performance

Measures • Comprehensive synthesis of pedestrian and

bicycle performance measures

• Organize measures into categories useful to

practitioners (e.g. operations, safety, user

experience, network completion, investment

evaluation, etc.)

• Provide framework and context for

performance measure discussions at the

local, regional, state, and national level

Other • University Transportation Center Convening

• Data jam

• TRB workshop

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Equity and Ladders of Opportunity

Activities

The Administration is dedicated to

enhancing opportunity for all

Americans by investing in

transportation projects that:

• Better connect communities to centers

of employment, education, and services

(including for non-drivers)

• Hold promise to stimulate long-term job

growth, especially in economically

distressed areas

Ladders of Opportunity was included

as a Planning Emphasis Area (PEA)

for FY-2015

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Projects Underway

• Environmental Justice (EJ)

Guidebook

• White paper on equity and

bike/ped

Research Agenda

• Pedestrian and bicycle performance

measures

• Multimodal conflict points

• Flexibility in pedestrian and bicycle

facility design

• International benchmarking

• Capturing bike network opportunities

through resurfacing programs

Strategic

Agenda for

Pedestrian and

Bicycle

Transportation

- Data

- Research

- Training

- Design

guidelines

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Other Related Efforts

• Every Day Counts (EDC) III

• Access to opportunities – TIGER 6

• Performance based practical design

• Performance measures

• Accelerated project delivery

• Federal surface transportation law

relating to planning requirements

• Lifecycle cost and asset

management

• Sustainability

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Other Resources

• FHWA’s Human Environment

weekly email digest

• Livability Tools

• FHWA’s Health and Transportation

webpage

• FHWA Livable Communities

Discussion Board

• Location Affordability Portal

• Place Fit Community

Characteristics Database

• Sustainable Highways Tool

(INVEST)

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Other Resources

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Contact Information

Dan Goodman

Office of Human Environment, FHWA

Phone (202) 366-9064

daniel.goodman@dot.gov

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For more information

http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/environment/bicycle_pedestrian/

http://safety.fhwa.dot.gov/ped_bike/

http://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/

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