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Minnesota’s Best Practices for Pedestrian/Bicycle Safety

The practices in this guide provide an overview of the current general state of the practice in Minnesota relating to the design and operation of pedestrian- and bicycle-related facilities. Each Best Practice provides the following information: Description and Definition—Information on the purpose and description of the strategy; Safety Characteristics—A summary of the safety benefits of the strategy and any related research or data; Proven, Tried, or Experimental—A summary of the strategy’s crash reductions based on FHWA’s Crash Modification Factor (CMF) Clearinghouse, FHWA’s Pedestrian CMF Toolbox, the NCHRP Report 500, and designation of each of the strategies as Proven Strategies (have been widely deployed and have been subject to properly designed evaluations that show them to be consistently effective), Tried Strategies (have been implemented in a number of locations where the results of the evaluations have not been fully evaluated or are inconsistent), or Experimental Strategies (ideas that have been suggested and at least one agency has considered sufficiently promising to try on a small scale in at least one location); Typical Characteristics of Candidate Locations—The appropriate use of the strategy based on roadway characteristics; Typical Costs—A summary of the typical costs for installation of the safety strategies and any applicable maintenance costs based on available past projects; Design Features—Information on the latest design of the safety strategy and the appropriate design criteria to be used during implementation; Best Practice—A short summary of the current best practice relating to the safety strategy; and Sources—Related resources and cited materials.