BICYCLE TRANSPORTATION. IN: HANDBOOK OF TRANSPORTATION ENGINEERING

Abstract

This chapter describes how the bicycle is a flexible mode of transportation that can be used for a variety of trips within the intermodal transportation system and by a wide range of people. Creative designs have been required in many cases to retrofit our auto-dominated road system to promote and encourage bicycling. However, over the last decade strong progress has been made throughout the United States in order to reintroduce well-engineered bicycle transportation facilities into cities, towns, and rural areas. A wide range of guidance is available for designers who may not be cyclists or bicycle facility designers in order to ensure safe, appropriate, and consistent bicycle routes, signs, and operations can continue to spread throughout the country.