Bicycle-Pedestrian
Key Issues and Strategies
- Modal Split
- Increase pedestrian and bicycle mode usage per federal goals
- Evaluation of bicycle and pedestrian counts
- Modal Safety
- Decrease rate of pedestrian- and bicycle- related crashes per federal goals
- Enforcement – monitor bicycle and pedestrian crash statistics
- Public Information and Education
- Public preference surveys
- Public preference surveys
- Network Expansion and Development
- Context-sensitive design guidelines for pedestrian
- Pedestrian traffic light policy and practice
- Connectivity of sidewalks and crosswalks
- Consistent design guidelines means regional uniformity
- Define and indentify regional corridors
- Connectivity to origins and destinations
- Address barrier elimination of both the natural and built
- What does it mean to be a “walkable community” and how is it achieved? What approaches should communities consider to create priority areas?
- Integrate GIS tools
- Integrating Land Use and Transportation
- Transit-oriented development that leads to transportation choice (density, trip length, land use, and modal equality )
- Adopt ContextSensitive Design & Complete Streets Policy
- Improving Public Health
- “Free Range Kids” a new health initiative of KDHE (“No Child Left Inside,” kids outdoor Bill of Rights)
- Safe Routes to School, including school sitting
- Promote “Walking School Bus" program
- Climate Change
- Energy independence as it relates to fuel cost and national security
- Energy independence as it relates to fuel cost and national security
- Economic impacts of bicycle-pedestrian, cost/benefit analysis
- Special Populations
- Elderly
- Youth
- Low Income
- Funding Priorities
- Increasing investments in bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure
- Performance-based measures tied to goals
- Mode-neutral funding process
- Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) project review process that considers impact on pedestrian and bicycle mobility, safety, public health and the environment
- Public support/commitment
- Regional emphasis for Transportation Enhancements and Congestion Mitigation-Air Quality projects
- Funding mechanisms
Learn more about the Bicycle-Pedestrian Advisory Committee.
