PEDESTRIAN FACILITIES USERS GUIDE. PROVIDING SAFETY AND MOBILITY

This guide is intended to provide information on how to identify safety and mobility needs for pedestrians with the roadway right-of-way. Useful for engineers, planners, safety professionals and decision-makers, the guide covers such topics as: the Walking Environment including sidewalks, curb ramps, crosswalks, roadway lighting and pedestrian over and under passes; Roadway Design including bicycle lanes, roadway narrowing, reducing the number of lanes, one-way/two-way streets, right-turn slip lanes and raised medians; Intersections with roundabouts, T-intersections and median barriers; and Traffic Calming designs.

• Record URL:
  http://www.walkinginfo.org/pdf/peduserguide/peduserguide.pdf
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• Record URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/35637
• Supplemental Notes:
  • Full text is also available on FHWA CD-ROM, Safer Journey (FHWA-SA-00-009).
• Corporate Authors:

  University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

  Highway Safety Research Center
  Chapel Hill, NC  United States  27599

  Federal Highway Administration

  Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center, 6300 Georgetown Pike
  McLean, VA  United States  22101
• Authors:
  • Zegeer, C V
  • Seiderman, C
  • Lagerwey, P
  • Cynecki, M
  • Ronkin, M
  • Schneider, B
• Publication Date: 2002-3

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 162 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Crosswalks; Intersections; Lighting; Median barriers; Medians; Pedestrian movement; Pedestrian safety; Sidewalks; Speed control humps; Traffic calming
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00808432
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: FHWA-RD-01-102
• Files: NTL, TRIS, ATRI, USDOT
• Created Date: Mar 19 2002 12:00AM