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  • Safety of cycle tracks (1,149)
    "A study released in Copenhagen titled “Road safety and perceived risk of cycle facilities in Copenhagen”, is sometimes referenced by local Vehicular Cyclists as proof that cycling infrastructure poses a greater safety risk, though they typically avoid the paper’s conclusion which clearly advocates in favor of infrastructure. "

    The article goes on to "ask the experts" to clarify any confusion.
  • San Francisco State of Cycling Report (714)
    This first State of Cycling Report has been developed to provide a snapshot of cycling in San Francisco and to identify ways that the SFMTA can increase safe bicycling.
  • School Bicycling and Walking Policies to Encourage Safe Routes to School (1,051)
    Children across the US are back in school, and many communities are seeing the traffic jams that result from parents driving their children to schools. To help encourage more walking and bicycling, the Safe Routes to School National Partnership and the National Center for Safe Routes to School have released a jointly-developed resource, School Bicycling and Walking Policies: Addressing Policies that Hinder and Implementing Policies that Help. This tip sheet was developed in response to numerous requests from across the country.

    School policies that encourage and support bicycling and walking can substantially boost a Safe Routes to School (SRTS) program, both within individual schools and throughout the community. In contrast, a policy that discourages or prohibits bicycling or walking can stop a SRTS program in its tracks. The tip sheet provides simple steps explaining how to approach and overturn barrier policies that prohibit walking and/or bicycling to school, and encouraging supportive policies, which support and enable bicycling and walking to school programs.
  • Select Benchmark Reports for Maryland (901)
    The Highway Safety Office publishes 5-year County, Statewide, and Program Area tabulations (.PDF) of fatalities and injuries by route type, month, day of week, time of day, driver age, driver gender, driver safety equipment use, passenger age, passenger gender, passenger safety equipment use, pedestrian age, pedestrian gender, pedestrian location (e.g., shoulder, curb, sidewalk), and pedestrian movement (e.g., crossing at intersection, walking against traffic).

    Data definitions for summary reports are based on the codes Maryland law enforcement officers use when investigating motor vehicle crashes and are reported to the Maryland State Police Central Records Division. (The threshold for reporting includes only those crashes where a fatality or injury occurred, or if one or more vehicles involved are towed away.) Click here for an explanation of these data definitions.

    For Statewide Benchmark Reports:

    For District Benchmark Reports:

    For County Benchmark Reports:

    For Benchmark Reports by Program Area then by County:
  • SHA Bicycle Pedestrian Guidelines (763)
    Guidelines for placing and designing uniform roadway amenities for safe and efficient bicyclist and pedestrian travel.
  • State Report on Transportation (889)
    The State Report on Transportation (SRT) is prepared annually and distributed to the General Assembly, local elected officials, and interested citizens. It consists of two documents, the Maryland Transportation Plan (MTP) and the Consolidated Transportation Program (CTP). The MTP is the Department's long range vision for transportation in Maryland. It includes goals and policies that have been embraced by the Department to achieve the vision. The CTP presents the detailed listings and descriptions of the capital projects that are proposed for construction, or for development and evaluation during the next six-year period.

    Each year this report is developed in draft form and presented to every county and Baltimore City during the fall. Following distribution of the draft document, Maryland Department of Transportation representatives visit each county both to present and to receive comments on the plan and program, Following the tour, the SRT is prepared in final form for presentation to the General Assembly in January.
  • The Highway Safety Information System (HSIS) is a multi-State safety database that contains cras (1,129)
    Approximately 25 percent of nationwide pedestrian and bicycle fatal and injury accidents occur on rural highways. In contrast to urban highways, rural highways have certain characteristics that can be more hazardous to pedestrians and bicyclists, such as higher average vehicle speeds and a lack of sidewalk provisions. Limited research has been conducted on rural highways, where crash types have been defined with more detailed coding than exists on standard police forms and where crash data could be linked with roadway characteristics and traffic counts.

    The goals of this study were to examine the differences between pedestrian and bicycle crashes in urban and rural settings in North Carolina and to identify problem areas (specific crash types and crash locations) on rural highways that are of high priority for safety treatment and treatment development.
  • The Road…Less Traveled (887)
    December 16, 2008 — An analysis at the national, state, and metropolitan levels of changing driving patterns, measured by Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT) primarily between 1991 and 2008, reveals that:

    Driving, as measured by national VMT, began to plateau as far back as 2004 and dropped in 2007 for the first time since 1980. Per capita driving followed a similar pattern, with flat-lining growth after 2000 and falling rates since 2005. These recent declines in driving predated the steady hikes in gas prices during 2007 and 2008. Moreover, the recent drops in VMT (90 billion miles) and VMT per capita (388 miles) are the largest annualized drops since World War II.
  • Traffic STATS (823)
    TrafficSTATS (STAtistics on Travel Safety) is a joint venture between the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety (AAAFTS) and Carnegie Mellon University. The TrafficSTATS website provides users with an interactive tool to query information about multiple dimensions of traffic-safety risks.
    Calculations are made using information from two widely-used national databases, the Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) and the National Household Travel Survey (NHTS). Combining information from these two sources provides access to travel-risk calculations that go far beyond what can be found elsewhere (either online or in print). Users can explore the travel risks for millions of different combinations of transportation modes, demographic variables, and a host of other parameters. Users can also query selected information from the FARS and NHTS databases.
  • Trends and lessons emerge from review of Fort Collins bike, car crashes (867)

    Fort Collins officials say newly compiled and detailed statistics categorizing specific types of bike vs. car crashes reveal one overriding lesson: There’s room for all commuters to improve their behavior.

    “It’s clear looking at this data there is room for improvement for both motorists and bicyclists,” Fort Collins Traffic Engineer Joe Olson said. “Everyone has accountability for making everyone safe.”