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7/19/2002
Mean Streets 2000 - Resources

Resources

General Information

Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center http://www.walkinginfo.org 

National Safety Council Partnership for a Walkable America http://nsc.org/walkable.htm 

Walkable America Checklist http://nsc.org/walk/wkcheck.htm 

The Federal Highway Administration Bicycle and Pedestrian Program http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/environment/bikeped/index.htm 

The Federal Highway Administration’s Pedestrian Safety Roadshow http://www.ota.fhwa.dot.gov/walk/ 

The Federal Highway Administration Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Research Page http://www.tfhrc.gov/safety/pedbike/pedbike.htm 

The Federal Highway Administration’s Design Guidance for Accommodating Bicycle and Pedestrian Travel http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/environment/bikeped/Design.htm 

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov 

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s Pedestrians, Bicycles and Motorcycles Page http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/people/injury/pedbimot/ 

Fehr and Peers Associates, Inc. Traffic Calming website http://www.trafficcalming.org 

Institute of Transportation Engineers’ Traffic Calming for Communities http://www.ite.org/traffic/index.htm 

Advocacy Groups

America WALKs http://americawalks.org/ 

The National Center for Bicycling and Walking http://www.bikefed.org 

Walkable Communities, Inc. http://www.walkable.org 

Congress for the New Urbanism http://www.cnu.org 

Right of Way http://www.rightofway.org 

Urban Ecology http://www.urbanecology.org 

Transportation Alternatives http://www.transalt.org/ 

Professional Organizations

Association of Bicycle and Pedestrian Professionals http://www.apbp.org 

The Human Powered Transportation Committee of the Society for Civil Engineers http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/kbarrett/asce-hpt.htm 

The Institute for Transportation Engineers http://www.ite.org 

Other

International Walk to School Day http://www.iwalktoschool.org 

California’s Safe Routes to School Bill http://www.baypeds.org/saferoutes.html 

Transportation Alternatives in New York City, Safe Routes to School Program http://www.transalt.org/campaigns/school/index.html 

See Also

Scenic America, Getting It Right In the Right of Way: Citizen Participation in Context-Sensitive Highway Design, 2000. http://www.scenic.org  

Todd Litman, Robin Blair, Bill Demopoulos, Nils Eddy, Anne Fritzel, Danelle Laidlaw, Heath Maddox and Katherine Forster. Pedestrian and Bicycle Planning: A Guide to Best Practices. This report is available from the Victoria Transport Policy Institute at http://www.vtpi.org 

John Pucher and Lewis Dijkstra, "Making Walking and Cycling Safer: Lessons from Europe." This forthcoming report will be published in Transportation Quarterly, vol. 54, no. 3, Summer 2000.

 

Table of Contents

Executive Summary

Chapter One - America's Dangerous Streets

Chapter Two - The Dangers of Walking Less

Chapter Three - The Neglect of Pedestrian Safety

Chapter Four - Solutions for Safer Streets

Methodology

Endnotes

Resources

Appendix

 


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