Impact Analysis of Bicycle Safety Laws

Details

• Creators:
  Jackson, S ; Retting, R ; Miller, S.
• Corporate Creators:
  United States. Department of Transportation. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Office of Behavioral Safety Research
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Cyclists
  • Bicycle safety
  • Evaluation and assessment
  • Bicycling
  • Traffic law enforcement
  • Policy
  • Impact
  • Traffic models
  • Bicycles
  • Generalized linear mixed models
  More +
• Publication/ Report Number:
  DOT HS 813 123
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.21949/1526019
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Contracting Officer:
  Esteban-Muir, Ruth
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. Department of Transportation. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
• Abstract:
  Bicycling is increasingly popular, economical, environmentally friendly, and has cardiovascular benefits. Many States have enacted bicycle traffic safety improvement laws such as safe passing, promote safer practices among bicyclists such as mandatory helmet use, or treat bicyclists as a separate class of road user, as with the Idaho Stop law. The Impact Analysis of Bicycle Safety Laws documented a study of six laws (safe passing, mandatory helmet use, bicycling under the influence, where-to-ride, sidewalk riding, and the Idaho stop) to determine if States and communities should create separate laws to govern bicyclists, and if bicyclist-specific traffic safety laws protect them from motor vehicle crash injuries and fatalities.
• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  DTNH2216D00018, Task Order 693JJ918F000225
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/57149/dot_57149_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.51 MB]
• Collection(s):
  NHTSA - Behavioral Safety Research
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:3f3f9b70963232f8c6855719b50a986d6c11cb3dc7410ba80f277c64109bd166