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
    
    
• 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
    
    
• 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.