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Impacts of Active Transportation Network Gaps

项目名称：	Impacts of Active Transportation Network Gaps
摘要：	The objective of this research is to understand the causes and impacts of gaps in the urban and rural active transportation network exist, including gaps in the United States Bicycle Route System (USBRS). It should also examine what designs and/or policies have been used to address the difference between various active transportation users to include pedestrian, bicyclists, e-bikes, and personal conveyance users (“Personal conveyances” are defined by NHTSA as roller skates, inline skates, skateboards, baby strollers, scooters, toy wagons, motorized skateboards, motorized toy cars, Segway-style devices, motorized and non-motorized wheelchairs, and scooters for those with disabilities). With a clear understanding of the cause of these gaps and how they impact communities, the research should identify organizations that are undertaking efforts to reduce gaps, those that are completing their urban and/or rural networks (including the USBRS), and what barriers remain. The research should identify which actions organizations took to eliminate the gaps and explain the impact of closing them. This may be accomplished by researching past and current statistics to determine a community’s economic and social impacts. These impacts should be summarized in a report that includes economic, health, and social impacts cities and/or states have experienced by developing complete active transportation networks, the performance indicators used, and the results. Possible performance indicators could include congestion reduction, roadway costs saving, road safety savings, user savings, parking cost reduction, reduction in air pollution and greenhouse gasses, retail sales, workplace benefits, tourism, property values, and employment levels. The research results can be presented in a manual that contains the statistical analysis of the impacts from a complete active transportation network, case studies which contains guidelines, tools and/or processes cities and states have used to identify and reduce barriers in active transportation networks that serves pedestrians, bicyclists, and personal conveyance users. This research will help transportation organizations to better plan and prioritize the effective use of limited resources to incorporate active transportation systems. Without completed active transportation networks the “Vision Zero” goal may never be realized. Bicycle and pedestrian fatalities may continue to increase without connected networks. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) 2019 Pedestrian and Bicycle Traffic Safety Facts reported pedestrian fatalities in 2008 as 4414, or 12% of traffic fatalities, increasing in 2017 to 5977, or 16% of traffic fatalities. Bicyclists fatalities in 2008 was 718, or 1.9%, increasing in 2017 to 783, or 2.1% of traffic fatalities, with personal conveyances accounting for 151 fatalities in 2017, or .4% of traffic fatalities. The public will benefit in that it will be provided a complete and efficient active transportation network that can be safely used. The research can assist cities and states to determine if expending resources to develop an effective network increases bicycle usage and its impact on tourism, employment, congestion, air quality, and health. State DOT executive management, policy makers, transportation planners, designers and communication specialists will likely use this research to plan for and communicate the impacts of establishing connected active transportation networks that do not have economic, social or infrastructure barriers. State DOT’s can use the research to evaluate their active transportation networks, determine barriers, and prioritize short- and long-term improvement goals that would provide the best impact to the community. Conferences, webinars and updating current plans can be used to support implementation. Brochures and training webinars and material on steps to review current active transportation networks and establish procedures to communicate the impacts of reducing gaps.
状态：	Proposed
资金：	450000
资助组织：	National Cooperative Highway Research Program<==>American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO)<==>Federal Highway Administration
项目负责人：	Hartell, Ann M
开始时间：	20210324
主题领域：	Operations and Traffic Management；Pedestrians and Bicyclists