A new white paper, Evaluating the Economic Benefits of Nonmotorized Transportation examines potential methods for evaluating the economic benefits from nonmotorized transportation investments: commute cost savings for bicyclists and pedestrians, direct benefits to bicycle and tourism-related businesses, indirect economic benefits due to changing consumer behavior, and individual and societal cost savings associated with health and environmental benefits. This report reviews potential methods for analyzing these different economic benefits at the project, neighborhood, and larger community scale. Download the white paper here.
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FHWA Separated Bike Lane Planning And Design Guide
June 23, 2015 by
The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) recently released its Separated Bike Lane Planning and Design Guide, which you can download here. This guide is the result of two years of research into numerous modern protected bike lanes around the country, in consultation with a team of national experts. Among the many useful images and ideas in the 148-page document is a spectrum of comfortable bike lanes, starting with bike infrastructure that will be useful to the smallest number of people and continuing into the more broadly appealing categories. Download the .pdf here.
