{"id":2238,"date":"2025-01-08T16:38:45","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T23:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/aztrans\/?p=2238"},"modified":"2025-01-08T16:38:45","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T23:38:45","slug":"prioritizing-bicyclist-safety-and-mobility-which-guidance-do-i-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/aztrans\/prioritizing-bicyclist-safety-and-mobility-which-guidance-do-i-use\/","title":{"rendered":"Prioritizing Bicyclist Safety and Mobility: Which Guidance Do I Use?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sponsor: USDOT, through PSR9 UTC<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>PI: Edward Smaglik<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Co-PI: Brendan Russo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Historically bicyclists may have been an afterthought and expected to share space<br \/>\nwith motor vehicles, however, this is outdated attitude is giving way to new approaches found in<br \/>\nvarious bicycle infrastructure design guidance documents. This study used a multi-staged<br \/>\napproach to investigate the usage of these guides by state and local agencies. A literature<br \/>\nreview synthesized literature and published guides on bicycle infrastructure design and was<br \/>\nfollowed by a survey of bicycle \/ pedestrian coordinators to gather information from practitioners<br \/>\nabout their use of these design guides. Data collected were analyzed to identify trends,<br \/>\nrelationships, and gaps in the knowledge about bicycle infrastructure design guidance. From<br \/>\nthis, it was found that the two federally published guidance documents (the Manual on Uniform<br \/>\nTraffic Control Devices (MUTCD) and the Guide for the Development of Bicycle Facilities<\/p>\n<p>(GDBF)) were the most frequently utilized by these survey respondents and were noted to be<br \/>\nheld as the standard for bicyclist infrastructure planning and design by some, however they are<br \/>\nsparsely updated and tend not to align with contemporary community expectations. Additionally,<br \/>\nstates tended to rely on the MUTCD and GDBF while cities utilized a larger variety of guidance<br \/>\ndocuments such as those published by NACTO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sponsor: USDOT, through PSR9 UTC PI: Edward Smaglik Co-PI: Brendan Russo Historically bicyclists may have been an afterthought and expected to share space with motor vehicles, however, this is outdated attitude is giving way to new approaches found in various bicycle infrastructure design guidance documents. This study used a multi-staged approach to investigate the usage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2839,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-az_trans","category-past-research","category-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/aztrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/aztrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/aztrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/aztrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2839"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/aztrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/aztrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2239,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/aztrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238\/revisions\/2239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/aztrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/aztrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/aztrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}