There are thousands of research reports on all aspects of safe, healthy, equitable, and cost effective streets for all. Here are a few of our favorites.
- Jeff Tumlin – “Sex, Neuroscien
ce and Walkable Urbanism” Hour-long YouTube of Nelson-Nygaard Principal about happiness, public health, and new research on safe healthy streets. January 2013. - Using Health Impact Assessments to Evaluate Bicycle and Pedestrian Plans. Laura Wagner, Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center. January 2013.
- Mineta Report 11-19: Low-Stress Bicycling and Network Connectivity Maaza C. Mekuria, Peter G. Furth, Hilary Nixon. May 2012.
- Urban Street Design Guidelines. NACTO 2012.
- Measuring the Street: New Metrics for 21st Century Streets. Metrics NYCDOT uses to evaluate street projects, and illustrates how measuring results can show progress toward safe, sustainable, livable and economically competitive streets. New York City DOT 2012.
- Seattle Bicycle Report Card. Compares Seattle with Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Chicago, Washington DC and New York City including best practices in those other cities. Cascade Bicycle Club 2012.
- Introduction to Multimodal Transportation Planning. Basic principles of multi-modal planning and evaluation. Todd Litman, Victoria Transport Policy Institute 2012.
- Pedestrian and Bicyclist Level of Service on Roadway Segments Søren Underlien Jensen. Danish Road Directorate Level of Traffic Stress Report 2010.
- Livable Streets Where People Live Denver Igarta. Policy Lessons on Broadening the Civic Role of Residential Streets from Munich, Rotterdam, Copenhagen, and Malmö 2012.
- Averting Bikelash Through Grassroots Engineering: Seattle Neighborhood Greenways Story. Presentation by Eli Goldberg & Robin Randels at Vancouver BC VeloCity 2012 (hi-res pptx w annotated notes here.)
- Alliance for Bicycling and Walking produced the 2012 Benchmarking Report that ranks American cities and states on bicycling and walking levels, safety, funding, and other factors.
- NACTO Cities for Cycling. September, 2012
- Integration of Bicycling and Walking Facilities into the Infrastructure of Urban Communities Mineta Transportation Institute. Feb, 2012.
- Cycling in Cities. Current research reports from UBC, Vancouver. 2012.
- Vision Zero: How Safer Streets in New York City Can Save More Than 100 Lives a Year. 1. An Unacceptable Number of Traffic Fatalities; 2. The Causes of Crashes—Unsafe Speed and the Culture of Acceptance; 3. Proven Policies That Save Lives; 4. Building Consensus, Momentum for Change. Transportation Alternatives 2011.
- Increasing Bicycling for Transportation: The Role of Cyclist Type and Infrastructure. Jennifer Dill 2011.
- Beyond the Backlash: Equity and Participation in Bicycle Planning 2011.
- Copenhagen, City of Cyclists Bicycle Account 2010.
- Increasing Active Living among people with mobility disabilities Solutions for addressing the built environment for mid-life and older adults with mobility disabilities so that they can maintain their health and independence.
- IPBI initiative for bicycle & pedestrian innovation recent student and faculty research reports from Portland State University.
- Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center Library collection of sample pedestrian and bicycle plans and planning tools, design guidelines, research and safety studies, pedestrian and bicyclist articles and white papers, case studies, and links to presentations, videos, and other web resources.
- Dan Burden, head of the Walkable and Livable Communities Institute, has written extensively on Complete Streets and pedestrian safety including American Needs Complete Streets 2011.
- Cycling in Cities. TransLink Vancouver. Careful analysis of general population mode choice, perception, market segmentation research and factors to consider in encouragement programs 2007.
- Designing Healthy Communities is a 4-hour PBS series, hosted by Richard Jackson, MD, MPH, that looks at the impact our built environment has on key public health indices – obesity, diabetes, heart disease, asthma, cancer and depression. Dr. Jackson connects bad community design with burgeoning health costs, then analyzes and illustrates what citizens are doing about this urgent crisis by looking upstream for innovative solutions.
- Elly Blue writes about bicycles and gender, and bicycles and local economy in her Taking the Lane blog. Blue also has a great series of articles about the bicycle economy in Grist online.
- Jay Walljasper writes about community and the commons in many magazines including Shareable.net and in books including The Great Neighborhood Book.
- Mia Birk, principle at Alta Transportation and Design, has written a blog series based on her Joyride: Pedaling Toward a Healthier Planet.
- Multi-Modal Quality of Service Project. Basic ideas of “comfort” “quality” and level of service applied to active transportation and transit as opposed to vehicles only. Florida DOT 2001.
- Roger Geller is Portland’s Bicycle Coordinator. He wrote the classic Four Types of Cyclists that differentiates people into rider types: Strong and Fearless (1%), Enthused & Confident (7%), No Way No How (33%), Interested But Concerned (60%).
- Some of the most inspiring and thoughtful work on great streets for walking and biking around the world is being documented on StreetFilms.
