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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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TRB Pedestrians and Bicyclists-Related Programs and Activities
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Traffic Safety Trends: State Legislative Action 2013March 7, 2014 The National Conference of State Legislatures has released a summary of states’ legislative action of occupant protection, distracted driving, driver licensing, impaired driving, aggressive driving, speed limits, motorcycle helmets, automated enforcement, school bus safety, and pedestrian and bicycle safety. |
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Bicycle-Friendly Cities: The Relevance of Urban Form and InfrastructureMarch 7, 2014 VTI, the Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute, has released a report that explains how urban form and the design of the transportation system can explain a population’s rates of cycling. This report is written in Swedish and contains a summary in English. |
Pedestrians’ Valuations of FootpathsMarch 7, 2014 VTI, the Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute, has released a report that considers how cost-benefit analyses can explain the extent to which different improvements in the walking environment can affect people’s decisions to walk on certain routes. This report is written in Swedish and contains a summary in English. |
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Pedestrian Traffic Fatalities by StateMarch 7, 2014 The Governors Highway Safety Association has released a report that compares pedestrian fatalities by state, and considers reasons for the fatalities as well as ways to increase safety. |
 Bicycles 2013: Planning, Design, Operations, and InfrastructureMarch 2, 2014 TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2387 consists of 17 papers that explore bicycle-specific traffic signals; automated collection of cyclist data; the role of the bicycle in the limitation of transportation poverty in the Netherlands; passing events in mixed bicycle traffic; driver and cyclist education materials; and station-level forecastin... |
Comprehensive Study to Reduce Pedestrian Crashes in Florida February 21, 2014 The Florida Department of Transportation has released a report that explores pedestrian safety on Florida’s state roads by identifying crash patterns and contributing factors, and then proposing potential countermeasures to reduce pedestrian crashes. |
A Very Brief History of Why Americans Hate Their CommutesFebruary 5, 2014 As part of its “The Future of Transportation” series, Atlantic Cities has published a short paper on the history of America’s commuting habits by Dr. Martin Wachs. According to Dr. Wachs, a former Chairman of the TRB Executive Committee and the 2002 recipient of TRB's W.N. Carey Distinguished Service Award, the evolution of our commuting habits reflects broader social change affecting... |
 Critical Issues in Transportation: 2013February 1, 2014 TRB’s Executive Committee periodically identifies a set of critical issues in transportation to focus attention on their likely impact on the nation’s economy and quality of life. The discussion of the critical issues identified in this document is intended to facilitate debate and to encourage research leading to their resolution. Previous editions of Critical Issues in Transportation have hig... |
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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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