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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.
The Surface Transportation Policy Project is a nationwide network of more than 800
organizations, including planners, community development organizations, and advocacy groups,
devoted to improving the nation’s transportation system.
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