The NACTO Urban Bikeway Design Guide, Second Edition, is based on the experience of the best cycling cities in the world. Completely re-designed with an accessible, four-color layout, this second edition continues to build upon the fast-changing state of the practice at the local level. The designs in this book were developed by cities for cities, since unique urban streets require innovative solutions.
To create the Guide, the authors conducted an extensive worldwide literature search from design guidelines and real-life experience. They worked closely with a panel of urban bikeway planning professionals from NACTO member cities and from numerous other cities worldwide, as well as traffic engineers, planners, and academics with deep experience in urban bikeway applications. The Guide offers substantive guidance for cities seeking to improve bicycle transportation in places where competing demands for the use of the right-of-way present unique challenges.
First and foremost, the NACTO Urban Bikeway Design Guide, Second Edition will help practitioners make good decisions about urban bikeway design. The treatments outlined in this updated Guide are based on real-life experience in the world's most bicycle friendly cities and have been selected because of their utility in helping cities meet their goals related to bicycle transportation. Praised by Former Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood as an “extraordinary piece of work,a the Guide is an indispensable tool every planner must have for their daily transportation design work.
About Island Press
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Foreword
Introduction
Bike Lanes
Conventional Bike Lanes
Buffered Bike Lanes
Contra-Flow Bike Lanes
Left-Side Bike Lanes
Cycle Tracks
One-Way Protected Cycle Tracks
Raised Cycle Tracks
Two-Way Cycle Tracks
Intersections
Bike Boxes
Intersection Crossing Markings
Two-Stage Turn Queue Boxes
Median Refuge Island
Through Bike Lanes
Combined Bike Lane/Turn Lane
Cycle Track Intersection Approach
Signals
Bicycle Signal Heads
Signal Detection and Actuation
Active Warning Beacon for Bike Route at Unsignalized Intersection
Hybrid Beacon for Bike Route Crossing of Major Street
Signing and Marking
Colored Bike Facilities
Colored Pavement Material Guidance
Shared Lane Markings
Bike Route Wayfinding
Bicycle Boulevards
Route Planning
Signs and Pavement Markings
Speed Management
Volume Management
Minor Street Crossings
Major Street Crossings
Offset Intersections
Green Infrastructure
Resources
Notes
Design Guide Project Teams
References
Island Press Board of Directors
"A Must-read… Landscape architects, planners, and city officials should find this guide invaluable. Anyone who advocates for increasing bicycle infrastructure in our cities will find many useful tools for implementing best practice infrastructure."
