Bicycle and Pedestrian Planning

This focus page contains resources for bicycle and pedestrian planning, and other non-motorized transportation modes, including guidelines and design standards, case studies and ideas for integrated planning, funding strategies, and other helpful tools.

• FHWA Bicycle & Pedestrian Program offers both Publications and Resources web links providing insight into the planning and decision process common to building an intermodal transportation system that focuses on accessibility and safety.
  
• FTA Bicycles and Transit webpage provides general information on planning and eligibility of bicycle facilities to promote access to transit stations by bicycle.
• Funding Information as identified in Federal surface transportation law provides tremendous flexibility to States and MPOs to fund bicycle and pedestrian improvements from a wide variety of programs.
• Bicycle and Pedestrian Transportation Planning Guidance This document offers technical guidance on meeting the Federal requirements for consideration and appropriate inclusion of bicycle and pedestrian elements in Statewide and MPO transportation plans and TIPs.
• United States Access Board is an independent Federal agency devoted to accessibility for people with disabilities and provides a publications website.
• Report to the U.S. Congress on the Outcomes of the Nonmotorized Transportation Pilot Program SAFETEA-LU Section 1807 (April 2012)
  
• Model Design Manual for Living Streets is a customizable design guide to help communities improve their transportation facilities for all users.
• The National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO) Urban Bikeway Design Guide provides cities with state-of-the-practice solutions that can help create complete streets that are safe and enjoyable for bicyclists.
• AASHTO's Guide for the Development of Bicycle Facilities, 4th Edition provides information on how to accommodate bicycle travel and operations in most riding environments. It is intended to present sound guidelines that result in facilities that meet the needs of bicyclists and other highway users.
• Click here to access a full list of Legislation, Regulations, and Guidance related to bicycle and pedestrian planning on the TPCB website.
• Recent publications on bicycle and pedestrian planning:
  • Congestion Management Process: A Guidebook
  • Transportation Planning Capacity Building - A Two Year Review: Federal Fiscal Years 2009-2010
To find existing publications and resources on bicycle and pedestrian planning or to add new ones, visit the TPCB Resource Index .

• Upcoming conferences and webinars related to bicycle and pedestrian planning:
  • Shared Use Mobility Summit
  To browse all existing events on the TPCB website or to add new ones, please visit the events calendar or the TPCB Resource Index.

• Recent peer events related to bicycle and pedestrian planning:
  • Best Practices in Bicycle Facilities Planning: Learning from the Chicago Experience
  • APTA Bus and Paratransit Conference
  • Completing the Streets for Transit
  Read other peer event reports.

• FHWA Bicycle & Pedestrian Program The Bicycle & Pedestrian Program of the Federal Highway Administration's Office of Human Environment promotes bicycle and pedestrian transportation use, safety, and accessibility.
• FHWA's Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety program which develops projects, programs, and materials for use in reducing pedestrian and bicyclist fatalities.
• Pedestrian and Bicycling Information Center The Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center (PBIC) is a national clearinghouse for information about health and safety, engineering, advocacy, education, enforcement, access, and mobility for pedestrians (including transit users), and bicyclists. The PBIC serves anyone interested in pedestrian and bicycle issues, including planners, engineers, private citizens, advocates, educators, police enforcement, and the health community.
• Association of Pedestrian and Bicycle Professionals promotes excellence in the professional discipline of pedestrian and bicycle transportation, including engineering, planning, landscape architecture, safety, and promotion.
• National Center for Safe Routes to School provides technical support and resources concerning the Federal Safe Routes to School Program.
• Designing Walkable Urban Thoroughfares: A Context Sensitive Approach, An ITE Recommended Practice
• The Transportation Research Board Bicycle Transportation Committee (ANF20) is concerned with all aspects of bicycling and bicyclists, and criteria for bicycle facilities to assure that the bicycle rider has safe, convenient and efficient travel.
• The Transportation Research Board Pedestrian Committee (ANF10) is concerned with research on pedestrians and pedestrian facilities that will provide safe, comfortable, and efficient walking environments along sidewalks, along and across roadways, and connecting to other modes of transportation.
• The National Center for Bicycling & Walking (NCBW) is a resident program at Project for Public Spaces, Inc. NCBW was establishing in 1977, as the Bicycle Federation of America, Inc. NCBW's mission is to create bicycle-friendly and walkable communities.
• League of American Bicyclists promotes bicycling for fun, fitness, and transportation and works through advocacy and education for a bicycle-friendly America.
• America Walks is a national coalition of local advocacy groups dedicated to promoting walkable communities.
• American Trails is a national advocacy organization working for the common interests of all trail users and offers an extensive resource library.
• United States Access Board is an independent Federal agency devoted to accessibility for people with disabilities.
• Walkscore.com is a website that rates the walkability of neighborhoods.
• Active Living Research is a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation which supports and shares research on environmental and policy strategies that can promote daily physical activity for children and families across the United States.