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Cities of all sizes are increasingly interested in bicycle transportation and are pursuing a new range of infrastructure from protected bike lanes to bikeshare systems. There are many excellent street design manuals that provide good reference material, technical specifications, and case study information for local professionals to use. Yet, it is also difficult for many cities to retrofit streets for bicycle transportation because such decisions are inherently political, including outcomes based on public input on street projects. Despite the political nature of street retrofit decisions, most design guides are generally targeted only toward transportation professionals, often get too detailed and thus overwhelming to broader audiences, and sometimes focus on the hypothetical street re-design rather than evidence from completed projects. In 2014, a research team at the University of Oregon released Rethinking Streets: An Evidence Based Guide to 25 Street Transformations to provide guidance to the full range of community stakeholders usually engaged in street projects: engineers, planners, politicians, urban designers, and the general public. At TRB 2019, the authors would like to debut the second iteration - Rethinking Streets for Bikes – a free, publicly available, multi-stakeholder, visually accessible guide of high quality, completed, bicycle transportation projects from across the U.S. (expected release date: December 2018). Bicycle transportation system changes are being adopted all across the country, but local officials have few documented guidebooks to help them think about how to retrofit streets for people on bikes based on completed projects using best practices. Rethinking Streets for Bikes fills this gap.

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ANF20 Standing Committee on Bicycle Transportation.

19-00172

English

14p

2019

Transportation Research Board 98th Annual Meeting

Digital/other

Figures; Maps; References (16)

Bicycle lanes; Bicycling; Highway design; Infrastructure; Retrofitting; Streetscape

Rethinking Streets for Bikes

Design; Highways; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Safety and Human Factors

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2019 Paper #19-00172

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Dec 7 2018 9:38AM