Publications
The list of publications found on this page has been compiled to help provide quick access to valuable references. Here you will find links to publications that provide insight into the planning and decision process common to building a connected, multimodal transportation system that focuses on accessibility and safety.
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Measuring Multimodal Network Connectivity Pilot Grant Program Final Report
This report summarizes projects awarded through the FHWA Multimodal Network Connectivity Pilot Program. Eight communities received small grants to pilot concepts outlined in the FHWA Guidebook for Measuring Multimodal Network Connectivity. Grantees analyzed their walking and bicycling facility networks in different community contexts, and the report focuses on common themes and lessons learned.
Strategies for Accelerating Multimodal Project Delivery
This guidebook identifies specific strategies and techniques for accelerating multimodal project delivery. It highlights proven techniques that agencies are using to get high quality results, and opportunities to address barriers or delays in the project delivery process.
- Separated Bike Lanes on Higher Speed Roadways: A Toolkit and Guide
- Accessible Shared Streets: Notable Practices and Considerations for Accommodating Pedestrians with Vision Disabilities
This document reviews notable practices and considerations for accommodating pedestrians with vision disabilities on shared streets. It focuses on streets where pedestrians, bicyclists, and motor vehicles may mix in the same space.
- Achieving Multimodal Networks: Applying Design Flexibility and Reducing Conflicts
This resource highlights ways to apply design flexibility, while focusing on reducing multimodal conflicts and achieving connected networks.
- Active Transportation Funding and Finance Toolkit
This Toolkit highlights innovative strategies for implementing active transportation projects, such as value capture, bond financing, Federal funding options, local planning assistance grants, and other effective methods to accelerate delivery of pedestrian and bicycle projects.
- Bicycle Facilities and the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD)
Guidance on bicycle-related signs, markings, signals, and other treatments and identifies their status.
- Bike Network Mapping Idea Book
This resource highlights ways that communities have mapped their existing and proposed bicycle networks.
- Bicycle Network Planning & Facility Design Approaches in the Netherlands and the United States
This FHWA Global Benchmarking Program report explores similarities and differences in approaches to bicycle network planning and facility design.
- Bikeway Selection Guide
This document outlines a process for identifying the desired bikeway type and assessing and refining potential options based on real-world conditions and decision-making factors. This process is intended to accelerate the delivery of high-quality multimodal projects that improve safety for everyone and meet the transportation needs of people of all ages and abilities.
- Case Studies in Delivering Safe, Comfortable and Connected Pedestrian and Bicycle Networks
An overview of pedestrian and bicycle network principles and highlights examples from communities across the country.
- Case Studies in Realizing Co-Benefits of Multimodal Roadway Design and Gray and Green Infrastructure
This report provides information to encourage agencies interested in making improvements to their pedestrian and bicycle networks that also provide green infrastructure and resiliency benefits.
- City of Richmond: Bicycle and Pedestrian Network Improvement Study
This report provides a detailed set of infrastructure improvement recommendations to enhance bicycle and pedestrian access to and from seven future Bus Rapid Transit stations along a 7.6-mile corridor in Richmond, Virginia.
- Coding Nonmotorized Station Location Information in the 2016 Traffic Monitoring Guide Format
This guide helps users to understand how the Traffic Monitoring Guide (TMG) format describes the information that should be collected when counting multimodal users, as well as how to format that information correctly.
- Crosswalk Marking Selection Guide
This guide synthesizes existing research and guidance on the safety, cost, and effectiveness
of crosswalk marking patterns and makes recommendations for crosswalk marking
selection and application.
- Delivering Safe, Comfortable, and Connected Pedestrian and Bicycle Networks: A Review of International Practices
This study identifies noteworthy and innovative international designs, treatments, and other practices that have potential to improve bicycle and pedestrian safety and access and increase walking and bicycling in the United States.
- Guidebook for Developing Pedestrian and Bicycle Performance Measures
This guidebook helps communities develop performance measures that can fully integrate pedestrian and bicycle planning in ongoing performance management activities.
- Guidebook for Measuring Multimodal Network Connectivity
This resource focuses on measuring pedestrian and bicycle network connectivity and incorporating connectivity analysis into the transportation planning process.
- Incorporating On-Road Bicycle Networks into Resurfacing Projects
This workbook provides recommendations for how roadway agencies can integrate bicycle facilities into their resurfacing program.
- Incorporating Qualitative Data in the Planning Process: Improving Project Delivery and Outcomes
This report highlights emerging tools, techniques, and resources for gathering qualitative public and stakeholder input to inform the planning process, improve project outcomes, and contribute to streamlining project delivery.
- Pedestrian and Bicyclist Road Safety Assessments - Summary Report
An overview of the approaches taken and the outcomes of walk/bike safety assessment in every State.
- Rails-with-Trails Best Practices and Lessons Learned (May 2021)
FHWA and the Federal Railroad Administration updated the 2002 Rails-with-Trails: Lessons Learned report. It describes effective practices to plan, design, construct, operate, and maintain rails-with-trails facilities.
- Separated Bike Lane Planning and Design Guide
This report describes safety research and provides planning and design recommendations for separated bike lanes.
- Small Town and Rural Multimodal Networks
This guide is a design resource and idea book to help small towns and rural communities support safe, accessible, comfortable, and active travel for people of all ages and abilities.
- Strategic Agenda for Pedestrian and Bicycle Transportation
The 2016-2021 Strategic Agenda for Pedestrian and Bicycle Transportation builds on 25 years of progress toward increasing walking and biking safety and activity throughout the United States.
- Strategies for Accelerating Multimodal Project Delivery
This guidebook identifies specific strategies and techniques for accelerating multimodal project delivery, with a priority on opportunities to efficiently and effectively build out connected multimodal networks in concert with major highway, intersection, and bridge projects. It includes standalone pedestrian and bicycle projects, retrofits in built environments, fixed and flexible route transit and intermodal projects, and as part on ongoing maintenance activities. It highlights proven techniques that agencies are using to get high quality results, and opportunities to address barriers or delays in the project delivery process.
- The Benefits of Highway Cap Parks: A Report to Congress
Highway cap parks are public parks that have been built above highways on top of highway caps, and these parks can provide a range of benefits to local communities.
- Electric Bicycles (E-Bikes) FHWA webpage with links to a literature review and case studies.
- The Future of E-Bikes on Public Lands Research Study
This study analyzes the impacts of e-bikes on public lands by synthesizing the existing knowledge base and conducting outreach to public lands managers to identify priorities and opportunities for research.
- Trails as Resilient Infrastructure
This guidebook demonstrates how trails are part of resilient transportation infrastructure, how trails can be planned and designed to be resilient and sustainable, and how trails have a role in emergency planning and response.
- Tribal Development of Trails and Other Dedicated Pedestrian and Bicycle Infrastructure
This white paper provides information and resources for Tribes, Tribal trails and active transportation advocates, and other agencies on the health and economic benefits of trails, funding opportunities, partnership opportunities, and resources for trail planning. It highlights examples of successful trail plans and projects implemented by Tribes and their partners.
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