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Pedestrian and Bicyclist Research at TRB
 The mission of the Transportation Research Board is to provide leadership in transportation innovation and progress through research and information exchange, conducted within a setting that is objective, interdisciplinary, and multimodal. This page highlights recently released TRB reports, meeting announcements, requests for proposals, and other announcements related to pedestrians and bicyclists. In addition, it includes links to selected pedestrian and bicyclist research-related activities taking place at the federal and state levels, and within the academic and international transportation communities. Finally, this page also highlights and provides links to TRB programs and activities, which are the source of most of TRB’s pedestrian and bicyclist-related research products. |
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What's New
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TRB Pedestrians and Bicyclists-Related Programs and Activities
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TRB Webinar: Roundabout Accessibility – What Designers Should Know About National Research and PolicyApril 7, 2014 TRB will conduct a webinar on May 28, 2014, from 1:00pm to 3:00pm ET that will cover accessibility challenges at roundabouts for pedestrians with vision disabilities. Webinar panelists will present a framework for evaluating accessibility at a complex intersection and discuss the impacts of site geometry and operational characteristics on the accessibility of the site for blind pedestrians. Par... |
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 Smart Growth and Economic Success: Strategies for Local GovernmentsApril 4, 2014 The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has released a report that reviews possible connections between smart growth strategies (which include building neighborhoods that are accessible by transit, bike, and foot) and the fiscal strength of local governments. |
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TOD StandardApril 4, 2014 The Institute for Transportation and Development Policy has released a report that outlines core principles of urban design, including those that create pedestrian and cycling networks and strong customer bases for public transportation. |
Sustainable Transport Newsletter: Winter 2014April 4, 2014 The Institute for Transportation and Development Policy has released the latest issue of its newsletter that highlights activities related to sustainable and equitable transport worldwide. |
Sustainable Transport: Opportunities and BarriersMarch 28, 2014 VTI, the Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute, has released a report that discusses survey results about factors that affect traveler ́s intentions to cycle and how to encourage reluctant riders to start cycling. This report is written in Swedish and contains a summary in English. |
National Trail Surfaces StudyMarch 28, 2014 The National Center on Accessibility at Indiana University-Bloomington has released a report that evaluates and compares the firmness and stability of different trail surface materials, as proposed by the US Access Board in its Notice of Proposed Rulemaking for Outdoor Developed Areas. |
 Pedestrian Forum - Winter 2014March 28, 2014 The latest edition of the Federal Highway Administration's (FHWA's) Pedestrian Forum Newsletter is now available. The newsletter highlights recent pedestrian safety activities related to engineering, enforcement, education, and emergency services that will help save lives. |
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Synthesis of Information Related to Transit Problems
TRB's Synthesis of Information Related to Transit Problems searches out and synthesizes useful knowledge from all available sources and prepares concise, documented reports on specific topics. Reports from this endeavor constitute an Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) report series, Synthesis of Transit Practice.
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Cooperative Research Programs
TRB's Cooperative Research Programs Division manages several cooperative research programs that frequently produces reports that have relevence to issues outside of the program's core focus areas.
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Technical Activities Standing Committees
TRB's Technical Activities Division provides a forum for transportation professionals in all modes and functions to identify research needs and to share information on research and issues of interest. The Division's staff of specialists in each mode and discipline work with a network of volunteers to carry out activities on behalf of TRB sponsors and the transportation community, including the TRB Annual Meeting, conferences and workshops, publications, visits to each state, and responses to inquiries. This network includes members and friends of over 200 standing committees, supplemented by designated TRB representatives in each state, over 150 universities, and 35 transit agencies. |
Research in Progress in this Subject Area
TRB's Research in Progress (RiP) Database now contains more than 11,900 current or recently completed transportation research projects. Most of the RiP records are projects funded by federal and state departments of transportation. University transportation research is also included. The RiP Database also serves as a clearinghouse of University Transportation Centers ongoing research.
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Research Needs in this Subject Area
An important function of TRB is to stimulate research that addresses concerns, issues, or problems facing the transportation community. In support of this function, TRB Technical Activities standing committees identify, develop, and disseminate research need statements (RNS) for use by practitioners, researchers, and others.
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Research Completed in this Subject Area
TRB's TRID is integrated database that combines the records from TRB's Transportation Research Information Services ( TRIS) Database and the OECD's Joint Transport Research Centre’s International Transport Research Documentation ( ITRD) Database. TRID provides access to over 900,000 records of transportation research worldwide. |
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