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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
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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