Evaluation of Safety, Design, and Operation of Shared-Use Paths

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• Corporate Creators:
  United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Research, Development, and Technology
• Corporate Contributors:
  United States. Federal Highway Administration
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Data collection
  • Design
  • Estimating
  • Level of service
  • Operations
  • Safety
  • Spreadsheets
  • Surveys
  • Traffic flow theory
  • Shared-use paths
  More +
• Publication/ Report Number:
  FHWA-HRT-05-139
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center ; United States. Federal Highway Administration
• Abstract:
  This TechBrief summarizes the final report of the same title (FHWA-HRT-05-137). Shared-use paths are paved, off-street travelways that serve bicyclists, pedestrians, and other nonmotorized modes of travel. The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) has developed a new method to estimate the level of service (LOS) on a shared-use path, using a team of researchers led by the North Carolina State University Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering. This TechBrief presents the project objectives and discusses the new theory of traffic flow on shared-use paths, coast-to-coast data collection, the survey of 105 trail users, the new LOS estimation procedure for shared-use paths, and the Shared-Use Path Level of Service (SUPLOS) calculator (a spreadsheet).
• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/35865/dot_35865_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 238.10 KB]
• Collection(s):
  Federal Highway Administration
• Main Document Checksum:
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