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Are you planning a significant new development (e.g., new housing, transit-oriented development, etc)? HTN provides technical assistance to local communities about safe walking and bicycling that can inform your planning of new development.
Recommended Links
Creating a Regulatory Blueprint for Healthy Community Design
A review of zoning reforms that can encourage safer, more
pedestrian-oriented and bicycle-friendly neighborhoods and retail districts.
Designing Transporatation Facilites for Bicycles and Pedestrians
This website contains policy guides for designing for bikes and pedestirans, as well as resources on designing complete streets, designing for bikes and pedestrians, bike and pedestrian trail design, examples of plans and policies from the state of Washington, and a section on bike and pedestrian safety.
Active Facts: Ramps & Channels to Link Bikes & Trains
Rail-based transit systems are increasingly attempting to accomodate bicyclists. Since train stations are often higher or lower than the streets, bicyclists have traditionally had to bounce their bikes up and down stairs or carry them over their shoulders. This guide shows ramps and channels can be included on stairs to help bicyclists access train stations.
Increasing Physical Activity through Community Design
Though written for public health professionals and livable community advocates, this guide can help anyone to understand how to create active community environments that create places for people to walk and bike. Extensive tips, ideas, and examples lead you through the process of making change.
Guide for the Development of Bicycle Facilities, 3rd Edition
This manual, published by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO), is used by many states for designing bikeways. In states where this manaul is used as their own, cities and towns are expected to use it as well.
Guide for the Planning, Design, and Operation of Pedestrian Facilities, 1st Edition
This manual, published by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO), is used across the nation for designing walkways.
