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TITLE:	Bicycling & Walking in the Nineties and Beyond: Applying Scandinavian Experience to America's Challenges
AUTHOR:	Brian F. Gilleran, Federal Highway Administration and Greg Pates, Minnesota Department of Transportation, for the Federal Highway Administration
NUMBER:	FHWA-PL-95-007
YEAR:	1994
FORMAT:	Booklet
LENGTH:	24 pages
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INTENDED AUDIENCE:	Pedestrian Program Coordinators, Traffic Engineers, Planners

DESCRIPTION: This project piggybacks on the collaboration between the Minnesota Department of Transportation and the Finnish National Road Administration to create a bicycle/pedestrian friendly city project in Hutchinson, Minnesota. Visits to Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Finland led to this review of innovative technologies, special physical facilities, and planning and operational practices. Each country is separately examined. Conclusions relating to pedestrians include the functional classification and network planning of pedestrian facilities, the creation of automobile-free zones within cities and towns, the pedestrian refuge island, the designation and construction of "bicycle/pedestrian-friendly" cities and towns, increasing the completeness and accuracy of accident reporting, and traffic calming schemes.

HOW TO GET:	Order from: The National Bicycle and Pedestrian Clearinghouse 1506 21st Street, NW Suite 210 Washington, DC 20036 Phone: 800 760-NBPC, or 202 463-8405 Fax: 202 463-6625
CROSS LISTINGS:	Scandinavia, walkability, traffic calming, planning, facilities