Active transportation infrastructure projects are physical improvements to roadways and neighborhoods that support walking, bicycling, and rolling.
Active transportation infrastructure includes bike lanes, multi-use paths, sidewalks, crosswalks, signage, signals, traffic calming and other features that provide places for people to safely walk, bicycle, skate, scoot, and roll for transportation or recreation. Infrastructure also includes the elements make the trip comfortable and feasible, like secure bicycle parking, human-scale lighting, and shade.
Quick-Build projects are interim capital infrastructure projects. More information and resources for Quick-Build projects can be found here.
Walk and bike audits are great tools to gather information about street conditions, engage community members, and inform planning and traffic safety projects. More information and resources for walk and bike audits can be found here.
Resources
General
A ‘living document’ that will be continually updated to reflect adopted Caltrans’ guidance and new elements appropriate for use of the State Highway system.
DIB-94 represents the latest significant step in the implementation of that policy and meets a critical need by providing new flexibility in the design of context-sensitive facilities that serve travelers of all ages and abilities. DIB-94 is to be used in conjunction with the Complete Streets Decision Document (CSDD) when making decisions to maximize the use of the public
right of way to achieve sustainable and equitable mobility.
The Design Resource Index identifies the specific location of information in key national design manuals for various pedestrian and bicycle design treatments. The Design Resource Index will help practitioners quickly access the right resources and should reduce the amount of time it takes to search through multiple design guides to find the information they need.
This document talks about the special importance of State Highways that are functioning as community main streets. “People-centered” main streets are those that are sustained in ways that elevate the needs of people who use main street. They are fostered with an understanding that supporting travel of all modes is essential, and that main streets are also community places that people value. The intent of “Main Street” is to inspire discussions that lead to collaboration, creative problem-solving, and a shared vision.
FHWA’s Proven Safety Countermeasures initiative (PSCi) is a collection of 28 countermeasures and strategies effective in reducing roadway fatalities and serious injuries on our Nation’s highways. Transportation agencies are strongly encouraged to consider widespread implementation of PSCs to accelerate the achievement of local, State, and National safety goals. These strategies are designed for all road users and all kinds of roads—from rural to urban, from high-volume freeways to less traveled two-lane State and county roads, from signalized crossings to horizontal curves, and everything in between. Each countermeasure addresses at least one safety focus area – speed management, intersections, roadway departures, or pedestrians/bicyclists – while others are crosscutting strategies that address multiple safety focus areas.
The Safe System Roadway Design Hierarchy characterizes engineering and infrastructure-based countermeasures and strategies relative to their alignment with the Safe System Approach.
A guide prepared for Caltrans for use on the California State highway system. The traffic calming measures discussed in this guide can be implemented separately or be used in conjunction with other calming measures.
Bicycle
Bicycle parking is a critical strategy for promoting bicycling for transportation and recreation. Convenient, easily used, and secure bicycle parking encourages people to replace some of their car trips with bicycle trips and helps legitimize cycling as a transportation mode by providing parking opportunities equal to motorized modes. APBP encourages communities and professionals to use this document to make informed decisions about planning excellent spaces and facilities for people to park bicycles.
The NACTO Bike Share Station Siting Guide provides high-level guidance on physical bike share station siting types and principles. It highlights best practices in station siting from around the United States and provides guidance on bike share station typologies and principles, providing examples of a variety of siting types and photos and technical drawings to show how bike share stations can be situated in the streetscape.
This document is a resource to help transportation practitioners consider and make informed decisions about tradeoffs relating to the selection of bikeway types. This report highlights linkages between the bikeway selection process and the transportation planning process. This guide presents these factors and considerations in a practical process-oriented way. It draws on research where available and emphasizes engineering judgment, design flexibility, documentation, and experimentation.
A memorandum providing supplemental guidance on the evaluation and selection of bikeway facility types using the FHWA Bikeway Selection Guide published in February 2019.
This guidance—developed by practitioners from cities across North America—builds on NACTO’s Urban Bikeway Design Guide and sets an All Ages & Abilities criteria for selecting and implementing bike facilities. Building bicycle infrastructure that meets this criteria is an essential strategy for cities seeking to improve traffic safety, reduce congestion, improve air quality and public health, provide better and more equitable access to jobs and opportunities, and bolster local economies.
The purpose of the NACTO Urban Bikeway Design Guide (part of the Cities for Cycling initiative) is to provide cities with state-of-the-practice solutions that can help create complete streets that are safe and enjoyable for bicyclists. The NACTO Urban Bikeway Design Guide is based on the experience of the best cycling cities in the world. The designs in this document were developed by cities for cities, since unique urban streets require innovative solutions.
Pedestrian
This document provides a set of tools for improving pedestrian safety on the State Highway System.
