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Street Design and Traffic Calming
Federal Highway Administration
Pedestrians and Bicycle Safety Research Program
HSR-20
6300 Georgetown Pike
McLean, VA 22101
Web Site: www.tfhrc.gov

Websites Related to Traffic Calming and Street Design

Surface Transportation Policy Project
www.transact.org

Transportation for Livable Communities
www.tlcnetwork.org

www.its.leeds.ac.uk/primavera/p_calming.html
www.kittelson.com/other/othrmenu.html
www.netaccess.on.ca/~jacobson/ calming.html

Pedestrian Plans
www.wfa.com/pedplan (Massachusetts draft 1996)

 

Accessible Sidewalks
US Access Board
1331 F Street, NW
Suite 1000
Washington, DC 20004-1111
Phone: (800) 872-2253; (800) 993-2822 (TTY)
Web Site: www.access-board.gov

Safer, More Attractive Neighborhoods
National Crime Prevention Council
1700 K Street, NW
Second Floor
Washington, DC 20006-3817
Phone: (202) 466-6272
Web Site: www.ncpc.org

National Arbor Day Foundation
100 Arbor Avenue
Nebraska City, NE 68410
Phone: (402) 474-5655
Web Site: www.arborday.org

Partnership for a Walkable America
National Safety Council
1121 Spring Lake Drive
Itasca, IL 60143-3201
Phone: (630) 285-1121
Web Site: www.nsc.org

Pedestrian Safety
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
Traffic Safety Programs
400 Seventh Street, SW
Washington, DC 20590
Phone: (202) 366-0910
Web Site: www.nhtsa.dot.gov


National SAFE KIDS Campaign
1301 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Suite 1000
Washington, DC 20004-1707
Phone: (202) 662-0600
Web Site: www.safekids.org


Safest Route to School Program
Contact Local AAA Club
(ask for publications: # 3201, # 3212, # 3213, and # 3320)


Prevention Magazine's Walking Club
33 East Minor Street
Emmaus, PA 18098


Shape Up America!
6707 Democracy Boulevard
Suite 306
Bethesda, MD 20817
Web Site: www.shapeup.org


Walk a Child to School Program
Walking Magazine
9-11 Harcourt Street
Boston, MA 02116
Phone: (800) 266-3312
                                                                    

 

Organizations

AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety
www.aaafts.org/

  • research reports, some on pedestrian issues
  • catalog of videotapes and brochures
  • links to other sites and organizations

Alternative Transportation Centre
www.sustainability.com/best

American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials/AASHTO
www.aashto.org/

American Planning Association/APA
www.planning.org

American Public Works Association/APWA
www.pubworks.org

American Society of Civil Engineers/ASCE
www.asce.org

ASCE Urban Transportation Division, Education Committee
transnet.ce.gatech.edu/tread/

  • links to academic/continuing education planning and transportation engineering programs
  • textbooks, publishers, periodicals, libraries and software lists and links
  • industry calendar

American Society of Landscape Architects/ASLA
http://www.asla.org

American Traffic Safety Services Association
www.atssa.com

  • calendar of industry events
  • networking forums, including Clearinghouse About Traffic Safety
  • legislative updates
  • research resources
  • publications
  • industry data

American Volksport Association
www.teleport.com/~walking/

Bicycle Federation of America
www.bikefed.org/

  • taking on the Boulder Pedestrian Conference (September 1997)

Coalition for Alternative Transportation
www.carfree.org

Environmental Defense Fund
www.edf.org

  • list of "Pedestrian and Traffic Friendly" consultants
  • publications

GO Boulder Homepage
bcn.boulder.co.us/tr ansportation/go-boulder/static/broch4.htm

Institute of Transportation Engineers
www.ite.org

Insurance Institute for Highway Safety
www.hwysafety.org

  • pedestrian injury statistics

The Intelligent Transportation Systems Program
Princeton University
dragon.princeton.edu/~dhb/

  • general transportation resources
  • conferences and calls for papers
  • listing of transportation organizations
  • highway, transit, rail, and air system information

The Intersection
www.web.apc.org/~detour

  • a car-free website in Toronto
  • good links to urban planning sites

Partnership for a Walkable America
www.nsc.org/walkable.htm

 

Tri-State Transportation Campaign
www.tstc.org/tstc/

WALK Austin
www.io.com/~snm/walk.html

Vermont Bicycle and Pedestrian Association
www.together.net

Government Agencies

Bureau of Transportation Statistics
www.bts.gov/

  • library, with extensive listing of bicycle and pedestrian documents
  • communications center, library and archives
  • listserv
  • links

Federal Highway Administration/FHWA
www.fhwa.dot.gov

  • bikeped staff are in Federal Aid Programs/Intermodal and Statewide Programs
  • Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Research projects including the Crash-Type Manual

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
www.nhtsa.dot.gov

North Central Texas Council of Governments/Department of Environmental Resources/BikePed homepage
www.nctcog.dst.tx.us/envir/bike ped/bphome.html

Tallahassee (FL) Bicycle and Pedestrian Program
www.state.fl.us/citytlh/public_w orks/bikeped.html

United States Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board (the Access Board)
www.access-board.gov

  • ADA Accessibility Guidelines
  • training schedule
  • publications
  • links to other Federal agencies with accessibility mandates

US Department of Transportation/USDOT
www.dot.gov

  • good links

Washington State DOT pedestrian newsletter
www.wsdot.wa.gov/communications/ express

  • click on "Archive", then "Best Foot Forward"
  • research summaries

Educational/Academic Organizations

Northwestern University Traffic Institute
www.nwu.edu/traffic/ti1.htm

  • academic and continuing education programs
  • publications
  • consulting and research

Transportation Research Board/TRB
www.nas.edu/trb/

  • links to >1000 transportation-related websites
  • other resources include calendar, publications, programs

University of North Carolina Highway Safety Research Center
www.unc.edu/depts/hsrc/peds.html

  • research
  • FHWA pedestrian contracts

Consultants and Individuals

W-Trans (Whitlock & Weinberger Transportation, Inc.)
sweinberger@w-trans.com

  • traffic engineering consulting for livable communities
  • pedestrian facilities design, planning, safety and advocacy
  • neighborhood and downtown traffic management plans

John Williams, Tracy-Williams Consulting
www.bikeplan.com

  • planning consultants, Missoula, MT

Geraint Jennings
user.itl.net/~geraint/

  • from UK's Jersey Island, an "artist, teacher, green, and general all-around good egg" with an interest in bike/ped issues
  • good connections to British resources

David Engwicht
www.slonet.org/~canderso/dec.html

  • UK consultant in neighbourhood traffic reduction

-- see also Environmental Defense Fund under 'Organizations' for list of consultants
-- see also Dan Burden: dburden@aol.com

Listservs

www.flora.ottawa.on.ca/pednet/
pednet@flora.ottawa.on.ca
(e-mail listserv)

  • a Canadian site with a pedestrian advocacy mission
  • lots of technical and personal discussion of pedestrian issues
  • see archives for monthly subject areas (Oct/Nov'96 on curb ramps, raised crossings)
  • maintains a listing of pedestrian advocacy organizations
  • e-mail: pednet-request@europa.com ("subscribe pednet" in message)
  • also an alternative and non-motorized transportation listserv; to subscribe, send the message "subscribe" to alt-transp-request@flora.ottowa.on.ca (do not include any other text in the message; ignore the subject line)

Foreign

UK: Department of Transportation Press Notices
www.coi.gov.uk/coi/depts/GDT/GDT. html

  • UK DOT currently developing a walking strategy, so there's much in the news
    www.open.gov.uk/dot/walk/walk.htm
  • discussion document on strategy for walking (January 1997)

UK: An Encyclopedia of Social Inventions
www.vol.it/mirror/worldt rans/GIB/BOV/BV-423.HTML

  • a good ideas list that includes some pedestrian concerns under transport

Sweden: Lund University Traffic Planning and Engineering Library
www.tft.lth.se/

  • mailing lists
  • on-line journals

Other

Perils for Pedestrians cable TV series
www.pedestrian.org

ASCE Human-Powered Transportation (HPT) Committee
ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/kbarrett/asce-hpt.htm

EPA and STPP are collaborating on Internet workshops for advocacy organizations via the Transportation Action Network (TransAct), an on-line system that can connect and host organizational webpages. For more information, contact Sonia JuBar at 202/939-3389 (V); sjubar@transact.org (E-M).

The Urban Transportation Monitor (drathbon@ix.netcom.com) publishes a transportation guide to the web for purchase ($50)

Association of Pedestrian and Bicycle Professionals
apbp@erols.com

BikeMap
www.bikemap.com

  • bike-friendly transit systems
  • links

Dan Burden/Walkable Communities, Inc.
Dburden@aol.com

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