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REFERENCE DOCUMENTS

Federal Highway Administration
Traffic Calming Measures
(PDF)
(June 14, 2002)

Federal Highway Administration
A Review of Pedestrian Safety Research in the United States and Abroad
(January 2004)

Pennsylvania Department of Transportation
Pennsylvania's Traffic Calming Handbook
(PDF) (January 2001)

Castellone, J. Anthony and Hasan, Muhammed M.
Neighborhood Traffic Management - Dade County, Florida's Street Closure Experience
, ITE Journal, January 1988

McCourt, Ransford S.
Survey of Neighborhood Traffic Management Performance and Results

Ewing, Reid and Kooshian, Charles
Traffic Calming Measures: What, Why, Where, How
.

Ewing, Reid and Kooshian, Charles
U.S. Experience with Traffic Calming, ITE Journal, August 1997

Federal Highway Administration
Roundabouts - An Informational Guide June 2000

LINKS TO OTHER USEFUL SITES

Traffic Calming

www.ite.org/traffic/index.html
Institute of Transportation Engineers web site on traffic calming

http://www.cambridgema.gov/cdd/et/tc/index.html
City of Cambridge web site.  Contains information on their traffic calming programs.

http://www.portlandonline.com/transportation/index.cfm?c=40512
Portland, Oregon's Traffic Calming program

www.enhancements.org/trb%5C1538-005.pdf
Field Evaluation of Fluorescent Strong Yellow-Green (SYG) Pedestrian Warning Signs, from the National Transportation Enhancements Clearinghouse (www.enhancements.org)

www.ecs.umass.edu/baystate_roads/technotes/35_stopping_sight_distance.pdf
Stopping Sight Distance
Baystate Roads Program Local Technical Assistance Program (Tech Note #35 - 2004)

Alternative Transportation

Harvard School of Public Health publication
Pushing the Design Boundaries: Walk, Bicycle, In-line Skate & Jog
Design Innovations for the Built Environment
by Anne Lusk, PH.D. and Jonathan Harris
November 2005

www.mbta.com
Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority

www.bicyclinginfo.org and www.walkinginfo.org
Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center

www.walkboston.org
WalkBoston

www.saferoutestoschools.org
Safe Routes to Schools program

www.walkable.org
Walkable Communities, Inc.

safety.fhwa.dot.gov/fourthlevel/ped.htm
Federal Highway Administration page on pedestrian safety

www.massbike.org
Massachusetts Bicycle Coalition

www.cityofboston.gov/transportation/roadhog.asp
City of Boston brochure on sharing the road, directed to motorists

www.cityofboston.gov/transportation/roadwarrior.asp
City of Boston brochure on sharing the road, directed to cyclists

www.enhancements.org
National Transportation Enhancements Clearinghouse, a joint project of the Federal Highway Administration and Rails-to-Trails conservancy.

Transportation Planning

transtoolkit.mapc.org/Parking/AccessPages/Topic_areas.htm
Boston Metropolitan Area Planning Council's Sustainable Transportation Parking Toolkit

www.state.ma.us/mhd/business.htm
Mass Highway web site, including a few traffic volume counts

www.ctps.org
Central Transportation Planning Staff. (the Boston area metropolitan planning organization)

mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov
Web site for the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices.

OTHER REFERENCE MATERIAL

Kay, Jane Holtz Asphalt Nation - How the Automobile Took Over America, and How We Can Take It Back, Crown Publishers, 1997 (available at Robbins Library)