Advocacy Advance
Bicycle Boulevard Planning & Design (94pp)
Bicycle Parking Guidelines APBP (8pp)
Bike Lanes, On-Street Parking, and Business (38pp)
Cities for Cycling - NACTO Resources
A Citizens Guide to the NEPA (55pp) - A guide to the National Environmental Policy Act and Environmental Impact Statements.
Congress for New Urbanism - Project for Transportation Reform (links to several publications and presentations)
Cycling in the Netherlands (39pp)
Economic Benefits of Bicycling (13pp)
Green Lane Project - bike photos in public domain for use
Making Walking and Cycling Safer: Lessons from Europe (33pp)
Michelle Obama Childhood Obesity Report (124pp)
MUTCD (new 2009 edition)
The National Bicycling and Walking Study: 15–Year Status Report (24pp)
Neighborhood Navigators K-8 Course
Oregon Bicyclist Manual (16pp)
Oregon State Bike Map
Pedal Power: A Legal Guide for Oregon Bicyclists (200pp pdf) and articles about Oregon bike law. Ray Thomas and Swanson, Thomas & Coon have a robust set of legal resources for people who bike.
Pedestrian and Bicyclist Safety and Mobility in Europe (80pp)
Rivercrossing Alternate Modes Study (91pp)
Salem-Keizer Bike Maps, including a KML file for google earth (revised 2012)
Urban Bikeway Design Guide (NACTO)
Walking - Tom Vanderbilt's 4 Part Series on the Crisis in Walking
And an amazing set of before/after images of road diets and improved public spaces in New York City
An article, "America's Cities Are Still Too Afraid to Make Driving Unappealing" on why the carrots-alone approach won't work without also some stick.
The story of the crazy success and popularity of BC's carbon tax in The Atlantic.
Lessons from the Green Lanes: Evaluating Protected Bike Lanes in the U.S. (June 2014)
Vox has a great series "Biking in the 21st Century" and a stand-alone piece on "Building New Roads just Makes People Drive More." They also joined the bandwagon on the history of jaywalking! Also the general series on "transportation."
The Center for Disease Control says that for every person killed in a car crash, 8 are hospitalized, and 100 are treated in the emergency room. So if more than 30,000 a year are killed in car crashes, 2.5 million have to go to the emergency room each year. The costs are high.
AARP on Livability: Fact sheets on density, walking and biking, road diets, form-based code...very interesting!
Fivethirtyeight on "Why the Rules of the Road aren't Enough to Prevent People from Dying"
The Victoria Transport Policy Institute and LSE Cities: Analysis of Public Policies That Unintentionally Encourage and Subsidize Urban Sprawl. Here's Vox with commentary: "Suburban sprawl is stifling the US economy."
From Alta Planning and Transit Center, "Measures for Success: New Tools for Shaping Transportation Behavior." (July 2017)
A cluster of reports on road funding and auto subsidy:
- "Who Pays for Roads? How the 'User Pays' Myth Gets in the Way of Solutions to America's Transportation Problems" (USPIRG, May 2015)
- "Do Roads Pay for Themselves? Setting the Record Straight on Transportation Funding" (OSPIRG, January 2011)
- "Funding Challenges in Highway and Transit: A Federal-state-local Analysis" (Pew Charitable Trusts, February 2015)
- "Who Pays for Parking? How Federal Tax Subsidies Jam More Cars into Congested Cities, and How Cities can Reclaim their Streets" (TransitCenter, 2017)
NACTO's "Designing for All Ages and Abilities: Contextual Guidance for High Comfort Bicycle Facilities" and a new typology of people of all ages and abilities who might bike. (December 2017)
From TransitCenter, "All Transportation is Local: A Field Guide for City Leaders" (2017)
Places for Bikes took a study tour to the Netherlands and posted several useful pieces. The main post is "Get Ready for a week of Great Ideas" and they link in that to pieces on a suburb, on arterials, on mode shift and how important the transit+bike nexus is, on land use, and further reading. (2018)
